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Monday, I decided it was time. Time to stop being lazy. Stop playing computer games and watching TV.  It was time to start exercising.  Since I haven't done an actual "work-out" since high school (HOLY COW - 8 years ago), I needed to start small.  My theory is any movement will be an improvement. So I powered up our Wii, put in the Wii Fit disc, and then realized the wii remotes haven't been charged in a long time and the Wii Balance board's batteries were dead.  I nearly said "oh well, this must be a sign... right?" but I didn't. I plugged in the wii remotes, and went on a mission to find batteries.  Replaced them and grabbed a remote in hopes it could last for the mere 20 minutes I planned on doing anything.  I erased my old character and started over.  I got on there and got my starting weight.  Which I really don't want to say out loud because its a huge number.  But I will, I'll say it here. I'll say it because now only 3 days later I have hope that I can stick to it, and eat healthy-ish, and continue to lose weight.  
Monday, I weighed 178lbs.  I have weighed 178lbs since 3 months after having Keira. Granted when I was pregnant with her at the end I was just over 200lbs.  But through the holidays, I managed to stay at the same weight... which is impressive to me, because I love the holiday food and fill myself to the gills!
So Tuesday, I got on that silly balance board and got my weight = 176lbs.
Wha? I lost 2 lbs in ONE day? Is that possible? Is that healthy? It can't be - It just can't be.
Today, I got on it again (yes 3 days in a row - and I plan to do it everyday at least Monday through Friday)... my weight = 173 lbs.  SERIOUSLY?! 
3 days and I've lost 5lbs. 
Well then - lets keep our fingers crossed that this keeps up, because my goal is to be down to 150 lbs.  I don't have a time-line.  I would just like to be down to that at least at some point. And stay around that. I think technically for my height I shouldn't weigh over 120 lbs.  But realistically? I'd be ridiculously tiny at 120 lbs. And its just an unrealistic goal, unless I completely change my diet - and I think that is nuts. Food makes me happy. Cooking it, Eating it, Sharing Recipes, Grocery Shopping - these things make me happy! So if I have to sacrifice a few pounds to make myself happy and not suffer through eating gross foods - I'll do it! Dropping Pepsi as it is, for me, is pretty impossible. Seems silly to make everyone around me suffer through my crabbiness, and make myself suffer. I still want to cut down to 1 a day - which I am close. I'm at about 1 and 1/2. I also need to make a conscious effort to drink more water, and maybe a glass of OJ a day.  I'm officially drinking a big glass (12oz-ish) of milk a day... That's a big deal for me, I have NEVER been a milk drinker. 
Time for lunch now - and I really have no idea what to make.  Maybe tuna salad... or turkey salad... or turkey sandwich. Hmmmmm.... oh boy - and what to make for dinner tonight! Dilemmas!

Runny Noses, Sneezes and Coughs Oh My!

What a long night of listening to that poor lil girl cough all night. :(
So all day I'm chasing her around trying to wipe her drippy nose, and I left the tissue box within her reach - Whoops!  I catch her emptying the box one tissue at a time. So I manage to take all the tissues away from her and the box and let her take one last tissue to keep.  I put them back in the box and the box up high and when I turned around she put the tissue up to her nose and blew into it! Cutest darn thing I've seen in a while, well until a couple hours later when she started using the dining room table as a tunnel - that was darn cute too :D

1 year and a few days

This little girl is a lady of few words... "dada" and "daga" (aka doggie) is pretty much it.  She makes a "da da" noise that kinda sorta sounds like "cra ca" (Cracker), and this morning once and ONLY once she said "wa wa" for water.  She is silly and laughs at everything and thinks when you say "YAY" it means lets clap! As I type she is sorting out all her colored rings from the rest of her toys... I wonder if this is the first sign of her being an organizational freak like me... time will tell.

Day 368ish...

...but who's counting?
I wanted to start this over a year ago, but never got around to it.
So I figured, better late than never, right?
I will have to do a lot of back-tracking and whatnot but I hope to keep as much of my terrible memory right here to look back on all the little details.

Sunday, February 14th, 2010: My 'lil Keira turned 1 whole year old. It is so hard to imagine how life was before she came into our world.

Today we had her 12 month doctor appointment with her new doctor.
She is not as chunky as I had thought! She is a mere 22lbs 12 oz, 75th percentile! Her head circumference is a whole other story miss 93rd percentile! and she is 40th percentile for height. Of course I can't remember the actual #'s... maybe at her 15 month appointment I can ask so I can come back her and edit this out! That is, by the way, one thing I miss from her first doctor's office. They would send me on my way with the printout or her numbers and the graph showing where she is percentile-wise. Those who know me, know I like stuff like that. But I suppose everything takes getting adjusted to. I will adapt.

Lastly, I have a list of things I'd like to do in the next year or so.
1. Take Keira to a tots class of some sort
2. Join a mom's group. I think it is time to get Keira acquainted with new children besides her cousins.
3. Take a few Wilton's cake decorating classes.
4. Learn how to knit (take a class if need be)
5. Have someone teach me how to sew - maybe invest in a cheap sewing machine?
6. Get off the computer more so I can do all these hobbies I'd like to have!
7. Return to cooking from scratch more. I really enjoy cooking, its just really hard to do it with Keira crying at me feet - I swear she eats more crackers while I'm cooking just to keep her happy!

That's it - I think that is a doable list
11pm now g'night