mommy weight

trying really hard not to feel discouraged. two weeks ago, i re-instituted a 15 min morning work out on the elliptical. i weighed myself this morning and found myself 3 pounds heavier. grrrr. did i mention i also walk up the 3 flights of stairs in the parking garage? and that i've also been trying to eat/snack less and get more veggies in? why did i re-institute this? because i'm so overweight that my pregnancy aches and pains have not dissipated. i still struggle with occasional sciatic pain and have a hard time walking, going up stairs, sometimes even getting off the couch. not only do those simple things now suck, the worse part is i can't keep up with nissa as well as i should. i was tempted to give up this morning, but stuck to it for no other reason than the elliptical time is a great morning wake up. i won't let this beat me, but man, is it tempting. gotta find new ways to work in exercise. changing my eating habits is tricky, given the constant nursing munchies, but i'm going to keep an eye on that too. i'm too young to have this much discomfort from being overweight.

She wont admit it any more, but one day nissa put her seashell to her ear and was talking. I was informed she was talking to her mermaid friend on her shell phone. Hilarious.

productive, but a long way to go

so the last three mornings have been delightfully productive, taking multitasking to a whole new level. after nursing ani and putting her back to bed, i set myself up to pump, grab my ipad and head for the eliptical. i work out for about 15 minutes, check email and pump a stand by bottle for adam. i don't know that he's ever needed it, but i'd hate to not do it one day and that be the day he needs it. besides, it's always good to keep up production. not that i'm lacking in any way. . . i've already taken over a full shelf in the big freezer for milk storage. it struck me just the other day that i am storing up, stock piling even, bodily fluids. eewww. but for a good cause. when my life is hectic beyond belief and i feel very useless, at the end of the day i can be confident in the fact that i am helping my little girl be strong and healthy in a way only i can do for her. just when i think nissa is mostly fine with being a big sister and more or less content with how we've been taking time to play with and pay attention to her, acting out rears its ugly head. the crayons have become a tool of destruction, affecting ani's bottle, nissa's magna doodle, the slide, even the couch. the couch really sent me over the edge, combined with the fact that adam couldn't witness the offense due to his color blindness. grrr. i hope this is a short phase, because i don't think i have the patience to deal with this kind of behavior effectively. other than that, nissa has been such a great big sister; always helping out and starting to appreciate ani more as she becomes less of a baby and a lot more interactive. I took a fun video of them last night and posted it on flickr. it's hard to hear ani's laughs, but she is laughing right along with Nissa. Ani gets the biggest smile when Nissa is in the room and can't take her eyes off of her! It's great to watch. Ani is a happy baby, just like Nissa was, so it makes being a mom pretty easy and I couldn't be more grateful.

You dont have to be camping to be a happy camper

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