One down five to go

Steven and I have started off the new year with a bang also known as a diet. We are doing a six week diet program that our friend Chris is using for the boot camp weight loss program he runs.

Today is the first day of week two and boy am I glad. For this program we eat the same thing every day all week, so here is what we have been eating for a week now:

Meal one: 3 hard boiled eggs (with out the yoke), 2 pieces of Canadian bacon

Meal two: 1 cup cottage cheese and 1/2 cup pineapple chunks

Meal three: romaine lettuce one serving of canned chicken (There are six serving in one of those little cans so it ends up being about 2 tbsp) one medium cucumber and 2 TBSP of vinaigrette dressing.

Meal four: a grape fruit and a sugar free jello cup

Meal five: 4oz ground turkey steamed yellow squash and broccoli and 1/2 cup kidney beans

We don't get to add salt or any other flavors and we drink a gallon of water a day. I ended up throwing up twice last week, I couldn't handle the eggs.

But this week we get oatmeal with fruit and nuts, celery with peanut butter we have chicken and kiwi for a meal and strawberrys, apples and yogurt and fish with sugar snap peas for dinner. I am so excited to eat foods that are regularly part my diet.

Now I have to tell you Steven and I are doing the diet a little different then Chris. We start our week on a Thursday so we have 3 days to follow the program then on Sundays we give ourselves a little break. We make a normal Sunday dinner of meat and veggies but no breads, for breakfast we eat a hot cereal, then we add in two fruits throughout the day. Also all we can drink is water. Then we continue our week Monday through Wednesday and start with a new menu on Thursday. We also have decided that lime juice is allowed on vegetables and on the last day of our week we give ourselves a little something extra, yesterday it was a slice of cheese with dinner. Now I would like you to imagine how amazing cheese tastes after a week of bland food, it was divine.

2009

The reason I have a blog is so I have one more thing to be behind in!

2009
Move to Stillwater: Check
Birthdays: Check, Check
Elliot's first step: check
3rd Anniversary: Check
Trip to CA, NC, UT,and ID:Check, Check, Check, Check
See Wicked: Check
Nest for 3 months:Check
Birthday: Check (literally)
Trick or Treating with Elliot the elephant: Check
1 million trips to Moore to spend time with my Fam: Check
Made 6 pies for Thanksgiving: Check
Birthday: Check
Christmas: Check
New Years: Check

2010
BREATH

Update

We blessed Malcolm on Sunday, it was perfect. We were able to have a lot of family in town which meant a lot to us.

Malcolm is still on a Vampire sleeping Schedule.

Elliot is starting to get sick. I am not very excited about this.

Steven only has three and a half weeks left in the semester. We are looking forward to some family time.

I went strawberry blond!

Please don't judge me

I have always understood that something that comes with a new baby is zero sleep. New babies eat every two to three hours that means someone in the house has to be awake for each of these feedings. In most cases this responsibility falls on mom (she is the food after all).

I have been very surprised at how well my body has adjusted to being awake every few hours. With Elliot I had a hard time but this time around I seem to be alert, and for the most part pleasant. Somewhere around my eight month of pregnancy Steven and I stopped getting tired we thought it was our bodies ways of prepping us for the sleepless nights to come. I was grateful to my body but that gratitude has worn off.

My body is now used to staying up past midnight without getting tierd so I make it to bed around one. Then I am up three or four times during the night to feed Malcolm, Elliot wakes up at least once a night for an hour or two, and it always seems to be when Malcolm is asleep. Please don't read this wrong, I am not comlaining I am explaining.

I feel rested I get the sleep that I need the problem is I am getting that sleep at the wrong time.
When my alarm goes off at 9:15 (I know this sounds late to some of you but I am not a morning person) I cannot seem to get myself up, Malcolm has calmed Stevens side of the bed and Elliot is playing in his room. I turn off the alarm and sleep till somewhere around eleven or even sometimes noon.

What I want is for my body to get tiered around nine or ten like it used too so I can get myself up and have a day with my boys that doesn't start with Breakfast at one and staying in our pajamas till three.

I have great kids the fact that Elliot will play in his room every morning for hours on end without complaining is a blessing. Steven is a great help through the night with Elliot and Malcolm even though he cant sleep in. I really do have it good and after two weeks I cant expect our routine to be prefect. I just hate how lazy I feel when I caunt get out of bed.

So we had a baby

Malcolm Simon Hopkins was born on Tuesday the 13th of October. He was 8 pounds and half an ounce and 20 inches long. Malcolm came into our lives somewhere around 2:54pm with the darkest hair we have seen. He has been awesome to have around. He is pretty chill which is a bigger blessing then you can believe because Elliot has moved into the next phase of his life the Terrible Twos. I was worried how Elliot would handle the new baby but they have gotten along great. For the most part they ignore each other, every now and then Elliot will give Malcolm a hug or a pat and then be on his way forgetting that there is a baby in the house.




Yesterday we had our first family adventure out. We went to a pumpkin patch and picked out our Halloween pumpkin. Elliot thought the pumpkins were balls so every time he got a hold of one tried to bounce it. It was nice to spend some time outside and to have Steven with us it made for a great day.

Q and A

Q:How do you know it is time to eat a bowl of Reese's puffs?

A:When the Macaroni and Cheese you made for lunch is all over the carpet!

Q:How do you know it is time to vacuum your carpet?

A:When after you pick up all the macaroni noodles off the ground, what was supposed to be your lunch is now hairier then your head!

Bubbles

The weather this week has been amazing we have turned off the air and opened all the windows. Every now and then you can smell Fall. I am so excited because Fall is my favorite everything. Its my favorite color, my favorite smell, my favorite time of year. Everything is better in the fall.I am so excited that is just around the corner.

Since it was so nice, on Monday Elliot and I decided to blow some bubbles. I didn't get very many pictures of bubbles because I was the official bubble blower and I couldn't blow bubbles and hold the camera at the same time. So here are some pictures, enjoy!