9 month update!

Happy 9 months to my sweet baby Logan! Only 3 more months until he turns 1 year old! Time is going by so fast. I just wish I could push a "slow" button to slow down this time that he's so small.


Here are his monthly pictures/stats:

Newborn, 6lbs 9oz - 19 1/2 inches long.

1 month old, 7lbs 10oz - 21 inches long.

2 months old, 9lbs 15oz - 22 1/2 inches long.

3 months old, 11lbs 6oz - 24 inches long.

4 months old, 13lbs 3oz - 25 inches long.

5 months old, 14lbs 7oz - 26 1/2 inches long.

6 months old, 15lbs - 26 1/2 inches long.

7 months old, 15lbs 14oz - 27 inches long.

8 months old, 16lbs 2oz - 27 inches long.

9 months old, 17lbs 4oz - 28 1/3 inches long.

At 9 months Logan:

• hates getting his picture taken. Every time we bring out a camera he looks away/starts crying.
• loves crawling around and getting into EVERYTHING!
• feeding himself foods like; cheese, spaghetti, Puffs, and Mum Mums. I'm still a little scared to give him bigger finger foods because I don't want him to choke!
• sleeps 10-12 hours during the night (without waking up once).
• loves walking with his walker, he is still trying to learn how to turn it.
• still rides in his infant car seat, but we have ordered a big boy one and it's on it's way!
• waves bye bye - but somehow can't wave hi?
• claps his hands!
• plays chase and peek-a-boo :)

I have his 1st birthday stuff all ordered. I still need to make a trip to Party City to get the rest of the stuff, but I'm looking forward to celebrating! That day is going to be so much fun, I'm more excited about it than he is! :)

Can't stick to it.

My 1st week of losing weight was amazing - probably too amazing. I gained the next week, and then the week after that - and probably so on. I haven't weighed myself for at least 2-3 weeks now. I feel like I just can't stay on track if I'm not signed up through Weight Watchers. I really hate being overweight. I need to make the phone call and try to sign up again. I just hate going to the meetings in the evenings. I'd much rather go in the mornings like I used to. But now with my start time at 9:00am there is no meeting right before that.

Logan is going to be 9 months old tomorrow. I just can't believe it! He's such a good baby and he's becoming so smart!

I don't really have anything else to blog about. Just feeling kinda blah...

Yep...

I'm not going to weigh myself today. I ate terrible this week and I know the number can't be good! I'm going to try hard this week to do better.

It's so very hard when there's bad food in the house. My weaknesses this week have been: sharp white cheese with crackers, ice cream, and Lays potato chips. Ugh! It's like I can't get enough of them. I also went out to eat twice and didn't make healthy choices.

I'm at work right now and I'm missing Logan so much :( its hard, especially because I get to spend so much time with him on the weekend - monday just sucks! So I'm blogging on my phone, so my grammar probably isn't the best :) my lunch break is almost over only 2ish more hours of work!!!

What I expected.

I weighed in this morning and I expected it...a small gain.

I thought it would be fun and different to actually start taking pics of the scale :) That way each week I can see how it changed!

Monday January 23rd, 2012

Last week I think I was 172.9 - so I'm only up 0.8 of a single pound. I'd say that's pretty good for what I ate on last Monday. I didn't even mention how I've been baking. It's all from my wonderful new cook book though "Eat What You Love." I baked some PB chocolate chip cookies and also some raisin oatmeal bars. Yum!

We are supposed to go out to dinner tonight with Misbah, she wants to take me somewhere for my Birthday :) I chose to go to The Rock! I love that place! They have the best pizza, yummmmy. I've already decided that I'm just going to eat half of my personal sized pizza and take the rest home. I usually never eat my left overs - James gets them :)

It's Monday and I'm not wanting to go to work...I'd much rather stay home and play with Logan. I hope this week goes by fast!

He Crawls!

Logan has finally started crawling! It almost makes me sad knowing how fast he is growing up. The other night I was feeding him his bottle, we were just starting at each other and I almost started crying! I can't believe how much I love him. I don't even think words can explain it...maybe it's a "Mommy" thing.

I love how excited he gets when I walk into the room and he sees me.
I love how when we are playing on the floor he will come cuddle me and then go back to playing, and he keeps doing that. Like he wants to make sure I'm not going to get up and leave.
I love how we snuggle right before he goes down for a nap or bedtime.
I love after I give him a bath and I'm drying him off he looks into my eyes like "Thanks for the bath, Mommy."

James and I went out to eat on Monday at Sweet Tomatoes. It was really yummy. I ate way too much! I had a salad, a cup of cheese broccoli soup, a baked potato with sour cream and cheese, a small dish of mac and cheese, some blue jello, apple cobbler, and a little tiny dark chocolate frozen yogurt ice cream cone. WOW! I don't think my weight is going to be down tomorrow. It might even be up a little bit. I also have NOT been working out :( I just can't find the energy to do it...I really want to, but I don't. Other than Monday I have been eating good and drinking lots of water. I don't expect a loss tomorrow but that's okay because I still can't believe how much I lost last week. That makes up for this week!

Seriously?

I weighed myself this morning and I almost fell off the scale I was so shocked!

Last week: 179.1
This week: 172.9

I lost 6.2lbs!

WHAT?!? I even weighed myself twice to make sure it was for certain. I've never lost that much - even when I was doing Weight Watchers. Now, I am kinda county points/tracking. I use my P+ calculator to make sure nothing I'm eating is crazy high in points. I only worked out on Monday last week. I don't expect much of anything next Monday.

So I reached my first goal - losing 5-10lbs before Valentine's Day! I'm still going to shoot for 10lbs before then. I have 4 more weigh ins before V-day so as long as I lose 1lb per week I'll meet that goal :)

I can't wait to be out of the 170's and on my way into the 160's! Yeee-haw!

Our Future Bundle...

I've been thinking about our next baby lately. Maybe it's because so many people I know right now are pregnant! I don't want Logan and the next little one to be too far apart. 3 years max is ideal. I was thinking that we'd start trying sometime next year, maybe January-March we can start trying and see what happens. I'd like to have a 2013 baby, that way they are only 2 years apart. But if it takes longer that's fine :)

I was thinking about doing a Very Hungry Caterpillar theme for Logan's 1st birthday party! I think it would be super cute and fun. Sarah is going to come over tomorrow and help me brainstorm some ideas. 4 months is going to go by so fast, and I want to make sure everything turns out just right!

Some family friends (The Guynes) offered to let us throw his party at their house. That way both my dad and mom/Dave could attend and not feel weird. Where if we have it at my dad's house (where we live) my mom/Dave will 100% not come. I'd like to include them in his 1st birthday. I think it's something really special. At first my mom said we could just take Logan out to dinner and celebrate with them, but that's not as fun as a birthday party! I'm sure my mom/Dave will still feel a little weird, but things are probably going to be weird. My mom and dad haven't talked for awhile now. Even when I was in the hospital having Logan my dad and mom made sure that they weren't there at the same time. It's hard for me, and still makes me sad. I wish we could go on family vacations like we did with James' parents.

I'm going to weigh in tomorrow morning. It's my 1st weigh in this time around. I'm hoping I can stick to it. Now that it's the new year and May seems SO close...I really would like to look better for his party.

It snowed a little bit today. Less than an inch, but it was pretty and it always puts me in a good mood. But then when it stops I get sad and I want it to snow some more! I took Logan out in the snow for like 2 minutes, just long enough to take a couple pictures. The snow was really coming down and I didn't want him getting too cold!

"What is this cold stuff?"

Fun in the snow!

And just because he's cute...