Starting over

Week 3 and 4 Update:

               Everything was going great. Walked 6 days, and was feeling great. I was even seeing the scale finally move down. That went down hill real fast. Woke up Sunday with throat pain, so first thing that morning went and got some medicine and vitamin C to drink, I had a busy week ahead of me and being sick was the last thing I needed.
     Within a few hours, just throat pain turned into chills, body ache and hot flashes. I slept the entire day, all I did was get up to nurse Mason and Danny took care of the boys. Monday came and I was feeling just as bad even ended up having a fever, which I've not had in forever. It hurt so bad to swallow that I did not eat much for the two days and lost 4 lbs. That was probably the only plus side.
        I really wanted to feel better by Wednesday because Danny was having his no more babies surgery and would be knocked out from the drugs. So on Tuesday I did a walk in clinic and they tested for strep and it was negative, they told me it was probably nasal drip into my throat causing the pain. I ended up sucking it up because its a week later today and it still hurts to swallow, not as bad but still irritating. The only highlight to my week was going to Texas for 4 days, which was a total surprise to my mom, wish I felt better but still had fun. One week flew by because I was sick and I did ZERO walking.
        It depressing how fast your progress goes out the window. I could not walk today because my poor dogs got fleas and took them to the vet and have been cleaning my house around the clock to keep the fleas from getting nasty in the house. Only thing left to do is mow the yard and get pest control out here.  Hope to get my butt back on the track soon.

Skinny where are you?

Week Two to getting healthy, in shape and SKINNY.

 

 I keep thinking about biggest loser show and how amazing it must feel at the end of the season. Wish it was the of the season already for me.

 

The week started off great, got up early and we were at the track by 8:00. Our pace is still at a hour, which I think is great since we seem to have a few stops to adjust the kiddos. However Monday  afternoon the weather got bad and continued through Tuesday was not able to get out. Monday ended up being a day where lots of prayer was needed. About one hour north of me Moore Oklahoma got hit with a F5 Tornado.

 

 

 

 

It happen so fast, still praying for everyone who was apart of this horrible Storm.

 

Wednesday:  Up early, hit the track and since I missed a workout on Tuesday I did zumba after walking the track. I realized today that I did not use excuses like before because my son had a doctor appointment at 9:30 and this to be before meant that was all I had to do that day. This time I made sure I was up and got the track done early, then straight to the doctor and soon after make the 10:30 zumba class. I felt accomplished for sure.

 

My little booger is 12lbs now, growing up so fast.

 

 

He took a bottle for the first time this week and Daddy was able to feed him.

 

 

Thursday: Woke up with a very intense migraine. I still got up and got dressed, even got mason ready but started feeling worse by the minute and ended going to the ER to get a IV of medicine to help. Migraines is something I got sense I was in high school, but sometimes they are really bad and nothing helps but the cocktail IV they whip up. Missed another walk.

 

Friday: Woke up refreshed and ready to go. My hubby has a four day weekend so he joined me in the walk and took Aiden to the park while Mason and I did zumba. I feel that getting two forms of workouts in one day makes up for my missed day. I afraid I'm going to start slacking because I did something to my knee and its kicking my butt. I have a doctors appointment next week so going to try and tough it out until then.

 

 

How yummy does this salad look? 

 

 

Salad with pineapple. strawberries, mandarin oranges, and this particular one had creamy poppy seed dressing and the noodles since I ran out of pecans. SO GOOD!!!

 

This week we also redid a jeep for Aiden. What do you think?

 

 

 

 

Aiden thinks it's cool.

 

 

Thanks for reading about my little world, Have a beautiful day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st week doing the 3 mile track.

My main goal for 2013 is to become fit. I signed up for a color run 5k in October. This is my first run ever and I want to run it not walk.

So I'm going to share my journey .

The week of May 13th I walked a total of 15 miles. Even though it was walking it's something I'm very proud of. A friend and I even threw in a hour and a half Zumba class one night, it kicked our butts.
   
Slowly I'm trying to work on what I'm eating,why not lose weight at the same time. The first thing I've done is givin up soda. Even though I  gave up soda before and lasted almost 2 years my pregnancy had strong cravings so I'd started again. Once the caffeine headaches are over it's not so hard.

The new thing I'm trying are salads, I've always had salad but have covered it with ranch and it's such a heavy dressing I thought I'd try something new. The salad from Panera Bread and Atlanta Bread are really good and much lighter. So I went online and found the recipes. They are so yummy. My favorite part of the salads are the strawberries and the mandarin oranges.

Now that my first week is over I lost 3 pounds. However on Friday I caved in and had a burger from Sonic and I'm back up one, crazy how fast that happens. I'm really happy to have a friend walk with me it gives me more motivation, and when my husband walks with me he pushes me to work harder, I'm very grateful.

Baby Mason

March 17, 2013

It was an early morning for me, woke up at 4:00 am to contractions. I waited it out for a little while and then finally started to keep track of them, since I had just seen the Dr. and was told that I was still not dilating, I was sure it was going to be another false alarm. I was just trying to wait until my water broke but the pain was getting stronger, so I woke everyone up. Daddy and I went in around 11:30ish just to be sure I was not dilating. We were seen right away, the hospital was empty since it was a Sunday. The doctor came in and said I was 6 cm dilated and they were going to admit me. I was happy and scared all at the same time.

 I made it clear that I wanted an epidural, I had one with your brother and just wanted things to be familiar, this to me is less scary. The Dr. did an ultrasound and saw some black around you and wanted to make sure it was not stool so they said for your safety that they would break my water before the epidural. I was all about your safety. I made it clear that I delivered your brother in 4 hours and was told that was fast so I could possibly be quick with you as well. They brought me and your dad into our room that we would deliver and stay in for the next few days. The nurses came in and started the IV, which took a little longer since I was not very hydrated. The fluids finally in, the Dr. comes in and breaks my water. All is well with you and now we wait for the epidural. The doctor and nurses leave and I’m breathing through contractions.

Honestly I thought I was doing amazing for the pain...pain I did not feel with Aiden, Little did I know. Very fast the pain went from a 5 to a 10. I was shocked!!! I was telling your dad I'm not going to get the epidural in time, and just like that I started to yell, scream, cry, hum; everything I could think of to try and help but nothing did. Nurse came in to check fluids and she could tell by the way I was acting that something was up and checked you. Sure enough you were ready and I started pushing and could not stop. This all happened very fast. 21 minutes after the doctor broke my water you were here. Beautiful and healthy, I cried from happiness and relief. Your dad was also overwhelmed and had happy tears.  An hour after getting into the hospital you were here and your dad and I were both happy and surprised. Your dad held you for the first two hours while the doctors were fixing me up, I was in and out of sleep but you did not seem to mind. Once I help you my heart skipped a beat. You are just perfect. You looked just like your brother, you could be twins, but soon enough you showed your own little personality. You breastfed like a champ, and things just fell into place. We had to stay in the hospital for two nights and 3 days. Aiden and Oma were very excited when we were finally home.  Your brother took to you well and fit his role as a big brother great. I love you and am excited and blessed to have you. Looking forward to watching you and your brother grow.

38 weeks

Almost time... I'm still nervous but I'm done being uncomfortable and ready to complete our family. I'm so excited to see Mason. This time around since Danny was home we did not get a 3D ultrasound, so we are anxious to see what and who he looks like. Aiden is a clone of his dad I would not be surprised if Mason was as well. 

Aiden was born at 38 weeks and my water broke on its own so I've been extra anxious this week hoping for the same. Except its totally oppisite, seems I have to work a little harder to help Mason along.  Hope that I have good news at our Dr appointment.

This past week may have been rough because of pain and lack of of sleep but my mom is here and she is a huge help. I love having her here. Its nice to have someone other then a 2 year old to talk to during the day. I am very grateful to have her and Aiden adores her.

Here are some pictures of the week.
Did some painting, played in his new mini sandbox, jumped and decorated the trampoline, blew bubbles,we even decorated for spring/ Easter. 

Crafts with Aiden

 

Trying to keep busy with Aiden and hate being glued to the TV and when it's ugly outside it's easy for us to snuggle on the couch and watch SpongeBob all day long.

It has been my goal to at least do something new and craft once a day since Aiden could play in his room and be one of the Avengers all day as long as I am in there playing right along. The crafts is nice and NEW. The dollar store was my friend this week and look forward to the Fun activities this week.

Monday:

We started this week with water color paint. The cute paint was from the dollar store, and just got a regular coloring book and some paper.

 

 

 

 

I joined in the painting fun.

 

 

Here is what we did the past week .

 

 

Magic Milk Colors

Found this on Pinterst of course from this awesome blog

Kids in the Kitchen

She has such great ideas for things to do with boys.

What you need:

Shallow Dish

Milk

Food coloring

Toothpick

Dish Soap

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noodle Art

Can't go wrong with noodle art, and it's so easy. I drew the heart with glue and the A and Aiden places the noodles, then I let put the glue on a separate paper himself and put the noodles however he liked.

 

 

Shapes and sticker fun. I got this idea from this photo on Pinterest.

 

 

 

Found on Diapers to Dipliomas

I actually want to make this for Aiden since it's something we could do over and over again, but since I did not have the supplies just yet I improvised.

I used a large piece of paper that came with a package, cute out the shapes and drew the shapes on the paper. Aiden loves glue so he glued the shapes to the right pictures and then once he was done I gave him tons of stickers from the never ending pile of scrapbook stickers I have. He truly enjoyed and took him some time.

 

 

 

 

I LOVE YOU ART

Scrapbooking paper

Cut out heart and arrow and taped to paper

Bingo dobber

Red Paint

 

Yogurt Pops

 

 

Found this fun and healthy snack on pinterst. Very easy to make, check it out at Kitchen Fun with my 3 Boys Blog. Aiden loved them and think I'll be making more fun shapes for him in the future.  Thinking maybe with a little green food coloring  and the shape of a four leaf clover for next month?

 

 

 

Any cute Valentines crafts you want to share?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

34 Weeks..... Am I ready??

Time is going by extra fast now and even though I feel ready for this pregnancy to be over it's because I want to be able to control my body again, but being ready to actually physically take care of two boys is something I don't think I'm ready for.

When I was pregnant with Aiden I was ready for his arrival as best I could be, pretty sure I was over prepared. This time not so much.

I still need to get baby soap, diapers, wipes, burp cloths, bags for the diaper genie, a diaper bag, nursing cover, moby wrap and feel like I'm forgetting tons but can't think of what. I'm sure all with be just fine but the anxious nesting need this, do this feeling is overwhelming.

Even though my belly is smaller this pregnancy, my body aches was more. Kudos to moms who have more than 2 kids while pregnant, some days I have no idea how I survived, a 2 year old keeps you on your toes that’s for sure.

I have been on pinterest and finding super cute baby boy things, and thought i'd share.

 

 

How cute is that onsie??