Christmas 2010.....

Date night at the Movies and Dinner

A lot has happened since my last post! Christmas came and went. I wanted to say thank you so much to family and friends for their generous and wonderful presents for the kids!!!! They have loved everything! Noah often doesn't know what to play with since he has so many new choices but he loves them all.

It was the first year that Noah understood more about Santa. We left out cookies and milk for the first time. He seemed to not quite understand...but maybe he did. He had no problem opening presents this year. He loved it!

some of the funny things he is telling me:

Whenever I scold him and or the dog and even ask Grace to please sit up, he says "Don't say that mama." It is amusing. It is because if he tells me to "Get out" which he often does, I say "Don't say that to mama, Noah." Whenever he wants you to go away, he says "Get out." not loud or anything but he just says it. What a stinker.

Grace had her 6 month checkup yesterday. She did good! She has now tried pears, carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, bananas, prunes, apples. She still likes everything but sweet peas and green beans! She was 17 lbs. 15 ozs. Big girl! She was 76th percentile in Weight, 67th percentile in height and 58th percentile for her head circumference. All good numbers! Above average! Her is her pic of us waiting in the exam room.

Well, today is NY Eve. We will just be staying home to ring in the New Year. Be safe and Happy New Year everyone! We had our date night last night thanks to my mom who stayed with us a couple days.

Sounds from the living room....

I was feeding Grace in the kitchen and Noah was playing on my phone....an app that has Christmas carols and he was singing Jingle Bells along with it. :) so cute. :)

I went in to get him this morning and I always want to smother him with kisses when I set him on the changing table. I said "Let me kiss you!" Then he said "noooo" but then he said "Fine." All morning when I want to go over and kiss him he says, "Fine."

Last night was day 5 of the "cry it out method" in getting Grace to sleep through the night. She didn't cry last night! woohoo! I am still on that internal clock I guess because I was wide awake at 3 AM unfortunately.

I might have to put this off

Okay I guess I picked the WORST time to start my diet. I think I will have to start again after the New Year. My good friend, Jessica, sent home a box of Christmas goodies including one of my favorites - peppermint bark! and our neighbors brought us a Christmas box of brownies, peanut butter cookies and my favorite, white chocolate macadamia. AHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Just tried to give Grace a bottle of formula again. She refused again, so not sure I'm going to be able to stop breastfeeding yet. I've been sneaking in a little formula in some of her breastmilk bottles but I guess just plain formula isn't going to cut it. We'll see, I'll keep trying.......

My new challenge.....

I have finally given in and started counting my daily pts again for Weight Watchers.....I have done the program in the past and when sticking to it, I have ALWAYS lost the weight. Post-baby, things are just so hectic that I was convinced I would lose all the weight simply by breastfeeding. Well, I have lost all my "Grace weight" but not my "Noah weight". When I got pregnant with Grace, I was still 12 lbs heavier than I wanted and was before any children. So I started last Wednesday......Remarkably I lost almost 4 lbs already. I am also doing the workout program/game "Get Fit with Mel B" at lunchtime when they are napping. Maybe one day I will have the time to get back to running which I really started to love. Wish me luck on this journey! In general, I want to feel good about myself again.

This week, Grace tried sweet peas and pears. She didn't love the sweet peas but gobbled up the pears! Now, she is back to some sweet potatoes, which she really likes. Noah's new favorite phrase is "I love it!" He tells me when he sees the inflatables in the neighborhood. Then he says "I love the reindeer! I love the snowman!" He's so cute. His vocabulary has really picked up. Pretty much, he is speaking in complete sentences and thankfully, has started speaking in the first person. Potty training still hasn't taken off. Read to leave it alone for a while so we have. Today, he told me he wanted to sit on the toilet, so he did but nothing. He just seems scared to actually go on it. We've started telling him that Santa is coming this week...not sure he really understands but it will be the first year we will put out cookies and milk. :) Santa is going to be good to him!

John's kid Christmas photo

Mine was in 1981. I think his is 1980ish.