Weightloss Wednesday

Ok, beware of the shocker I'm about to tell ya....I've fallen off the wagon completely.  Complete shocker I know! HA. I've been on and off a diet for as long as I can remember and anytime something stressful happens I turn to food. This stage in my life is definitely one stress after another it seems. I worry constantly about my kids, my hubby, money, family, etc etc etc
A few weeks ago I went to my regular, annual girly doctor for a checkup. Well, she found a lump in my breast. She sent me up to her ultrasound person in the office. She saw a mass so I was scheduled for a diagnostic ultrasound at a specialist. Of course, it wasn't able to be scheduled for about 6 days so I was stressed for a while waiting. I went and the radiologist did the u/s and said everything was normal. I'm not sure what the dr felt or their u/s lady saw, but they are thinking it was just a cyst or swollen lymph node. However, after that, I have yet to get back up on the wagon. We have a ton of birthday parties coming up and I have a girls weekend trip planned so I"m going to wait and enjoy them and then get back on.

Emmersyn at 18 months

 It is so hard to believe that Emmersyn is already a year and a half! It seems like forever ago and yesterday all at once! Emmersyn has quite the personality. She LOVES to climb anything and will often be found on the table, climbing over the fence at the stairs, swinging from my oven door, or climbing from the dishwasher onto the cabinets. To say she is full of energy is an understatement and we are constantly having to keep our eye on her!

She LOVES to laugh and do funny things. Her new favorite thing to do is climb in Brennen's swing and make faces at herself in the mirror above it. Emmersyn is definitely 100% a mommy's girl. She is ok with Matt as long as I'm not around. Once she sees me, I am the only one that'll do. However, she has to have her daddy put her to bed...crazy girl!

Emmersyn LOVES to be outside. She loves to run and run. She loves to watch the cars go by when we sit on my porch. She loves to slide and swing. I think she would live outside if I let her and LOVES to go to my moms because my mom will just let her run all over the backyard (she has an acre and half).

Emmersyn LOVES her brother and sister. Sometimes I'm afraid she is going to smother Brennen with her "hugs", but they both smile and laugh. She loves to wrestle with Teagan and is quite the strong little monster! I am pretty sure she will be a good athlete because she is both strong and fearless. She wants so bad to keep up with the big kids when we go out with Teagan's friends.  She is not much of a sitter and doesn't like to go on car rides too much unless it's close to nap time. She is much too busy to sit still.

At 18 months Emmersyn:

• wears a size 4 diaper and will sit on the potty (although she won't actually go pee pee yet)
• wears a size 12-18mn in clothes depending on the stretch and style
• wears a size 5 shoe and LOVES shoes
• takes 2 naps during the day (about 1-1.5hrs each)
• sleeps from 8:30pm-6am, although since April it's more like 5:30 and then will come in mommy's bed til 6-6:30
• STILL drinks from a bottle at night, but a sippy during the day. (She climbed over her crib when I took the bottle away at night and broke her tooth)
• has 12 teeth and 4 more coming in
• does NOT like her hair fixed, but loves to have it brushed. If she has a bow in it, she'll rip it out before we leave the house
• has dark brown hair and big blue eyes
• only says 'momma', 'dada', and 'bubba'
• can point to every part of her body when asked
• can follow commands such as go get ____, or put that in the sink

I am so blessed to have such amazing kids. I know I complain (a LOT) about lack of sleep, but I love being a mom and think my kids are great!

Father's Day 2013

Sunday was a day to celebrate dads and that is what we did! I got up with Emmersyn and let Matt sleep in. He didn't really sleep as late as I would have, but considering he normally is up at 3:30, 7:30 was sleeping in for him.  We decided to go get breakfast so I got all the kids dressed and fixed their hair and out we went for the day. The breakfast place we were going to try was closed down so we ended up with Denny's. Not bad, but not really what I had in mind.
After breakfast we headed up to the rehab hospital to see his step-dad and mom. We got him a book with all of Brennen's six month pictures.  They were doing a brunch thing there too, but we didn't stay. The kids were ready for a nap by that time so we let them sleep and headed up to Edinburgh to shop and spend some family time. I got a new double stroller and the babies did pretty good. After spending too much money and getting everything we had wanted to get, we headed back home. We stopped for dinner and to feed Brennen in Seymour at Chili's. It isn't as good as the Chili's here, but it was still a nice dinner (and as a plus, it meant no cooking or dishes for me!).
I know the past year has been crazy for Matt, but he is handling 3 kids under 5 really good. He doesn't get to go out as much as he wants and I haven't been able to get a "real" job like we had planned, but we are taking it in stride and enjoying the days as much as we can and I can't picture life without him by my side!

CHEEEEEEESE!

I was trying to get a good picture of all the kids and of course Emmersyn has a new "cheese" face she has to show when I hold up any camera so this is as good as it gets! She is ate up! But I'm laughing just looking at the picture so I guess it works! Love my kids!

My sailor boy

I found this little outfit at Old Navy and knew Matt would love it for Brennen. Matt was in the Navy right after high school and I know he secretly hopes that his boy will join too...however, I don't want to think of him being old enough so this is as close to a sailor as I can picture him!

Off the blog wagon

I'm so off the blogging thing right now. I can't find time to sleep much less blog about not sleeping. It's such a bad cycle right now in my house. I FINALLY have Brennen sleeping 6-8hrs straight at night and now Emmersyn is up every few hours. I'm not sure what is going on with her really, but wish whatever it was would go away. I'm dead tired of being up multiple times through the night, then working and taking care of kids while  I'm half beat.
Thankfully, this is the last week of T-ball so maybe that'll free up a bit more time in my life...not really sure it will though since the games are only an hour, but it's worth the try. Teagan has really liked playing with her friends and hitting the ball, but she is not going to be my ball player. She is more interested in throwing her hat and grass than she is in actually throwing the ball. HA. My mom said that's typical in T-ball so i really just let her go and have fun.
Hoping to keep up the blogs as I like to get my thoughts out, but I know I'm way behind! Hoping to go take a short power nap to hold me over til bedtime (ps, it's 9 AM right now). We'll see how that works!

Weightloss Wednesday (a day early)

Because I'm extra busy this week with multiple doctor appointments, meetings, new management at work to kiss butt with, and just the everyday household work, I decided to post this early!

I'm still doing well on the diet. I have had a lot more trouble staying on my calorie count the past week, but overall I know I have to allow for some wiggle room...even if it is my thighs that wiggle! HA.

The first week and a half (9 days really) I lost 11 pounds. I felt great with eating mostly salads and fruit/veggies. The second week I lost 3, but it was hard. I had a few days I was extra tired and just hungry for sweets. Anyone that knows me KNOWS how much I LOVE sweets! Add in a few dinners with friends and a few more cheat items, and I was happy with the 3 pound loss.

i think I need some more motivation. I'm hoping to kick start it again, but honestly, I hate the slow pace of losing weight. Somehow I just want to lose all the weight in one week and work on maintenance, but I know that won't happen!

favorite 6 mn picture

I took Brennen to get his 6 month pictures a week or so ago and I love the way they turned out! I was only going to try this new place so I could take all the kids next month for all their pictures, but I loved the pictures so much I spent more than $100 on just Brennen! Whoops! 

This is definitely my favorite. The photographer did a great job at posing him and doing a ton of different things. I was totally shocked at the quality of the pictures since it is a relatively cheap place to get pictures! I can't believe how big he looks, but this definitely catches his personality and mischievous smile behind the hat! I also love the way his toes curl in on one foot and flex on the other...typical Brennen behavior right now!