Trying to win a contest!!

I entered the Mary Lou’s Weigh Platform Giveaway!
Check out Roni’s Weight Loss Blog for more information.

Oh what a night....

So the one night Steven decides to sleep well my neighbor (who was probably drunk) bangs on my door at 4 am wanting to see my husband. I'm like "He's not home he works the midnight shift remember" (they work at the same place!) Then he starts going on about how I don't understand and he almost lost his life and he totaled his car (I checked it out this morning and its pretty bad) and tells me I need to take him to work in the morning when I pick up Michael. I'm like "I don't pick Michael up he drives his bike." He's says "I've gotta have a ride to work..." I told him "Sorry I have church." and closed the door, because at this point I'm completely unnerved at having been awakened by him at 4 am because he screwed up. So then I spend the next hour in bed *not* sleeping because I have a hard time being home alone at night without Michael and now this kid (I say kid even though he's like 5-6 years older than us) has added to my stress. So I didn't get any sleep last night. I did pray a lot last night though. It really helped me calm down and not end up totally awake the rest of the night. I'd say in all I got about 5 hours last night? Michael is gonna be so mad when he gets home. And yet another reason Michael and I don't like to drink!

I'm a bad little blogger.

I'm horrible at keep up on this thing. I don't know that anyone reads it, but I'm gonna work on being better about it. It's just nice to have a venue to let all my thoughts out and its always nice to be able to go back and remember things.

Let's see.

Steven- almost 7 months old, 20lbs and 26 inches tall. He's still breastfeeding happily and has had a few tastes of solid food :) He has 8 teeth already that tend to cause us some issues, but we're still going strong!! He's starting to become mobile, but still has about a week or two before he really gets the crawling thing down. He can sit up unassisted for small periods of time, but much prefers rolling around on the ground. I can hardly believe how much he's grown!!

Austin- 2.5 years, 34 lbs and 36 inches tall (half of my height!!) He is growing and learning so fast I can hardly keep up. He's now sleeping in his big boy bed at night!! I can't believe he is so close to 3 already!!

Michael- He finished the Corrections Academy and is back on midnights. Its nice having space although Steven is having trouble adjusting his sleep to daddy not being in bed. He takes his certification test on the 28 and then will be a fully certified CO :) I'm very proud of him. We've also taken on the joy and responsibility of taking over the Youth program at our church! We're just taking things as God sends them our way!!

Me- I've lost 50lbs since February. I'm back to my prepregnancy weight! I'm very close to my goal!

Its been awhile.

Well here I am! Steven is 4.5 months old now and nursing like a fiend :) Austin is 2 and growing and learning soo much everyday. Michael just turned 22 and is going through the Dept. of Corrections Academy right now for his certification. He's top in his class :) As for me my birthday is August 1st (22 :D) and right now I'm working on learning the ins and outs of couponing and trying to lose weight. I'm doing well at both! I don't even know how much I've saved, but a good guess is I've seen at least a 40% reduction in my grocery bill. As for the weight...I ended my pregnancy with Steven at 258lbs and I'm down to 222 as of today :) So thats 36lbs in almost 5 months. My next weight goal is to be under 200 by Jan. 1st. At the rate I'm going I'll make it there :)

Chuggin' along

I'm 37 weeks 4 days today and I don't think this kiddo is coming out anytime soon. I'm fine with that except I wish I physically felt better so that I could go do something! Anything really! I'm trying to make it through a few loads of laundry and the dishes.

I'm getting some kind of cold so thats icky and no fun....definitely don't want a little one coming into a house full of overzealous germies!

I need to find something that Austin will eat. I make him things constantly (I even let him pick things out!) and then I make them and he doesn't eat but two bites (or none on occasion) I don't know what to do to get him to eat more *sigh* Hopefully I'll find something today so I don't feel like the horrible mommy who is unknowingly starving her kid through no fault of her own!

Home sweet Home

Barring any unforseen problems (and God willing there will be no more!) January 1 we move into our own place. Its a decent sized 2/1 apartment across the street from my parents house. The landlords are a lovely Christian couple who are just as sweet as pie

I've been so worried and stressed because I do NOT want to give birth in my parents house. Their water is too hard for me to have a waterbirth and the house itself just isn't the best environment for me to want to birth in (think cramped house with lots of knicknack junk in boxes and 20 years of smoke deposits on the wall....yuck) I love my parents, but I'm ready to begin nesting !

She's a brick.....HOUSE

That's exactly how I feel right now! I'm 28 weeks and feeling sooo huge! This little guy is much more active than I remember Austin being. I had a few braxton hicks contractions last night that twinged of pain. Not something I'm wanting this early, but oh well :) I'm trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I have this month and next month and then I'll be in my due date month!! Not too long to go.