...but promise to post pics from our vacation as soon as we get unpacked and figure out where the heck we put the camera...
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
90 days
So my good friend who we stayed with in Banff looks amazing- she has dropped probably 60 pounds in about 10 months- she is really pretty and now she is ti--ny.
I talked to her a lot about how she achieved her goal and it was, all at the same time, really simple and really really hard. She cut it down to about 1300 calories a day and she cut the Diet Cokes back to one a day.
So for the next 90 days, I am going to see if I can do what she did- just really restrict calories and drink water instead of my precious. Don't know if it is possible mostly because I am a total caffeine fiend and don't know if 1300 calories is going to cut it while I am training for the marathon.
But we'll see...and it is just for 90 days.
I talked to her a lot about how she achieved her goal and it was, all at the same time, really simple and really really hard. She cut it down to about 1300 calories a day and she cut the Diet Cokes back to one a day.
So for the next 90 days, I am going to see if I can do what she did- just really restrict calories and drink water instead of my precious. Don't know if it is possible mostly because I am a total caffeine fiend and don't know if 1300 calories is going to cut it while I am training for the marathon.
But we'll see...and it is just for 90 days.
Friday, September 10, 2010
19 Months!!!!!
My little Vake-pumpkin - you are 19 months old! I cannot believe it.
What are you up to these days?You are a VERY active little boy. You don't sit still at all now!
You are constantly moving, running, getting into things. You love to roughhouse with your father and your Uncle Neil.
You are talking more and more and more. You say new words all the time and you always have a lot to say. You've memorized phrases from your books like "True Story" that you love to say. You're getting a pretty extensive vocabulary and you love to have conversations- you ask, "Who's that?" a lot. When other people in a conversation laugh, you try to laugh along to participate.
You love animals - especially dogs. You also love babies and everyone between the ages of newborn and five years old gets called a "baby."
You have started to be very picky about food and just refuse to eat most things. I'm sure it's a stage because you have always loved food.
You recently got your molars and that didn't seem to bother you. You weigh somewhere between 35 and 40 pounds and you are at least 36 inches tall. You wear a size 8-8.5 shoe. You are wearing mostly 3t and 4t clothes but all your pajamas are 5ts.
What are you up to these days?You are a VERY active little boy. You don't sit still at all now!
You are constantly moving, running, getting into things. You love to roughhouse with your father and your Uncle Neil.
You are talking more and more and more. You say new words all the time and you always have a lot to say. You've memorized phrases from your books like "True Story" that you love to say. You're getting a pretty extensive vocabulary and you love to have conversations- you ask, "Who's that?" a lot. When other people in a conversation laugh, you try to laugh along to participate.
You love animals - especially dogs. You also love babies and everyone between the ages of newborn and five years old gets called a "baby."
You have started to be very picky about food and just refuse to eat most things. I'm sure it's a stage because you have always loved food.
You recently got your molars and that didn't seem to bother you. You weigh somewhere between 35 and 40 pounds and you are at least 36 inches tall. You wear a size 8-8.5 shoe. You are wearing mostly 3t and 4t clothes but all your pajamas are 5ts.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY SABRA!!!
To the best lady and Grandmary that I know!!!
You are the bomb.com and I am so happy that you belong to us!!!!
I am so glad I came to this party.
You are the bomb.com and I am so happy that you belong to us!!!!
I am so glad I came to this party.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Airline Trip to Calgary
So many of you will remember my disastrous wild ride with Baby Vake that I took last year when Vake was about 4 months old. It culminated in his screaming for four hours and the pediatric dermatologist who was stuck next to us in first class getting blind drunk to ease the pain of being the person on the plane next to us. You will probably also remember that I was SO cocky on the Richmond to Charlotte leg because baby V was perfect on that route.
Cue the remix extended party version of our travel adventures. Vake was fine to Chicago. He was getting tired before we got on the plane to Calgary and once we boarded he LOST HIS MIND. Fortunately, he only screamed for about 30 minutes before he fell asleep on the floor of the plane.
People, it was terrible. Truly terrible. The lady sitting one seat ahead of us got upgraded to get away from us. And after we got off the flight (and I had apologized to everyone about 53 times) and had gotten looks of disgust/sympathy, the way that the customs line worked, I had to pass the people who hated us three times. The first time, a lady said to her husband, "Oh honey, that's the baby who screamed until he passed out."
BUT CANADA is BEAUTIFUL. And Neil, Liz and Erico are all saying that now burglars are going to break in. So if you are a burglar and you read my blog, please don't forget about the killer yellow labs living in the basement. Seriously, both Stilly and Judge can get pretty snarky!!!!
Cue the remix extended party version of our travel adventures. Vake was fine to Chicago. He was getting tired before we got on the plane to Calgary and once we boarded he LOST HIS MIND. Fortunately, he only screamed for about 30 minutes before he fell asleep on the floor of the plane.
People, it was terrible. Truly terrible. The lady sitting one seat ahead of us got upgraded to get away from us. And after we got off the flight (and I had apologized to everyone about 53 times) and had gotten looks of disgust/sympathy, the way that the customs line worked, I had to pass the people who hated us three times. The first time, a lady said to her husband, "Oh honey, that's the baby who screamed until he passed out."
BUT CANADA is BEAUTIFUL. And Neil, Liz and Erico are all saying that now burglars are going to break in. So if you are a burglar and you read my blog, please don't forget about the killer yellow labs living in the basement. Seriously, both Stilly and Judge can get pretty snarky!!!!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Good News, Bad News, Good News
Good News: I worked out one of my juries that was supposed to go the Tuesday I got back from vacation.
Bad News: Finally got back to Weight Watchers- up 10 (that's right, count them, ten) pounds since I gave it a break in June. Aargh.
Good News: VACATION STARTS SATURDAY!!!!
Bad News: Finally got back to Weight Watchers- up 10 (that's right, count them, ten) pounds since I gave it a break in June. Aargh.
Good News: VACATION STARTS SATURDAY!!!!
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