weighing less than 200 pounds on the doctor’s scales, fully clothed and wearing boots.
Yep, that’s pretty much it. That’s like the best present, ever.
This little girl…
…is now 6 months old. I don’t know how that happened. She has her 6-month well-baby visit on Wednesday where she’s getting all.the.shots. I’ll update everyone on Juliet’s Operation: Gain Some Baby Weight after that appointment.
There’s a ONE in front of my weight! I’ll be happy to never see that pesky two in front of my weight, ever again.
Now that I’m firmly into my weight loss, I’m going to throw working out back into the mix. My sister and I are going to some simple workouts during lunch on the days when I’m in the office. And hopefully I won’t be too busy to throw in some workouts on the days that I’m home w Juliet.
Things are about to get a whole lot busier around here since little miss has now mastered rolling front to back and back to front. Sitting up unassisted is right around the corner and crawling won’t be too far behind! I guess I’ll be losing some more weight by chasing after my baby!
I’m so excited for the Oscars this year! Especially since I now have third person playing for the Vines team! It’s no secret that I take the Oscars quite seriously. I play in a contest with my Aunts and their friends (and now some family too!) and every year we switch off who goes to who’s house. Last year I headed up to Pittsburgh. This year they’re headed here!
That’s right. Juliet is totally playing this year. Originally I thought she might be old enough to line up some puffs or Cheerios and whichever one she went for first would be her pick.
However, she is not yet old enough for hand to mouth feeding. So I got creative. She is fascinated by the toys hanging from her playmat. I noticed that she never goes after them full force, but will always swat at them. So I decided that for each category, I would give her 30 seconds and count how many times she swatted at the toys. If she doesn’t swat at any, then her pick is the first listed. Same goes for if she swats more times than the category has nominees. Understand?
Here she is working on the Best Supporting Actor category:
Today she’s picked the first five categories. So far she’s picked a lock AND an upset. Unfortunately she’s also picked 3 doozies.
If I’m being honest, the first time I stepped o n the scale this morning it read 200.6! I should have rejoiced and gone on my merry way. Unfortunately, I like to get the same number at least twice before I can believe it. Five weigh-ins later and my weight continued to read 201.4 and I never saw 200.6 again. Sadface. Maybe next week.
Still, losing 1.8 pounds this past week is pretty awesome. Especially since I didn’t work out at all. I began to feel some discomfort in my upper left leg and was worried about another blood clot. A few days rest proved that it was a strained muscle. Which is good b/c I ended up having to cancel my appointments to get my leg checked out b/c last week was crazy!
I’m going to try to do some low impact workouts this week. I’m mostly upset about my midsection so I’ve got a few different workouts earmarked that will focus on helping out with my belly.
Just so happy to be five months old today! This picture was taken a mere 2 hours ago and we’ve already had to change her outfit. Never underestimate the power of a five-month-old’s spit-up!
This kiddo now weighs in at a whopping 10 pounds, 11 ounces. She officially weighs more than her cousin did when she was born!
Solids have been a success! well, for the most part. She’s had
rice cereal
apples
peaches
bananas
carrots
green beans
sweet potatoes
peas
So far she’s IN LOVE with bananas. So much so hat I actually have started to just puree up a banana every morning for her morning snack! She can take or leave all of the other foods but if you feed her bananas? She happily gulps down every spoonful!
She’s rolling over like a champ. I wish I had video of this, but she refuses to do it when the camera is on.
She’s also starting to notice her toys and this is awesome. And super cute!
I’m back at work and it’s honestly not too bad at all. Mondays and Fridays in the office actually feel a bit like a vacation since I’m not doing two jobs at once. My Dadd is having a blast keeping her on those days and I think she likes it too!
I just cannot believe five months have passed since she was born. We visited the ICN yesterday and her nurses and doctors couldn’t believe how big she was! She’s officially been out of the hospital longer than she was in the hospital! It seems like just yesterday we were there and now I’m finding it harder to remember what it was like! I never want to forget that experience, but I’m totally ok with the fuzzy memory.
