September 2008

Hey! Get your toothbrush out of your butt!

If you’re preggos and/or nursing and have not discovered the wonderful treats called Bellybars, well than go discover them. It holds all the same nutritional value as your prenatal vitamin, but they tastes WAY better and wont make you want to choke or vomit. You can actually rationalize the 175 calories better than “well the baby’s hungry.” The only problem is how are you going to rationalize it when you’ve stopped nursing and you still want it.

So Seporah will be 3 Dec 30th. This means she will be done with nursery and moving up into primary. She will be the VERY youngest child there due to her birthday. Most children who go to primary are potty trained, the teachers like it that way. However this whole potty training thing, not going so hot. She takes off the diaper and the shorts, she sits on the potty, she reads the potty books, uses the toilet paper, flushes the potty, washes her hands and helps get dressed. But is there any poo-poos or pee-pees in the potty? No, nada, zip, zero. In 12 months, she has pooed on the potty once because Dad saw she was going to go and put her on it and that totally freaked her out. I don’t think she has a clue what’s going on. We (almost entirely Steven) did intense potty training last week without any results, except huge temper tantrums about having to sit on the potty AGAIN.

So I thought I’d try it Sarah S.’s way. This way you need a doll that pottys in a toy potty. Off to Walmart, holy crap, a peeing and pooping doll cost $67?!?!?! And you have to buy the dolly food for it to work, dolly food refills costing $6 each. I was like stop me before I have a heart attack. No, not spending that kind of money on a doll, craig’s list, darn, nothing there. So back to square one.

I had heard people say it took them 2 years to potty train a kid and I didn’t understand why. Now I do, potty training not so much fun. I guess I’m glad I use cloth diapers, because my kid still poops like crazy and disposables cost way too much for me to continue to be buying them. I still change 12 diapers a day (and when they both get sick with diarrhea watch out, it gets up to 30 or more). I swear I deserve a medal for that (Steven too) or at least a merit badge. www.mamameritbadges.com (ha, are these not the greatest!)
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Seriously though, I really think she’s going to primary in diapers, I wonder if that will be an issue? I mean I’ve taught sunbeams on more than one occasion and I’ve never had a kid in diapers. I’m wondering if they won’t let her go. If they’ll just keep her in nursery. Any thoughts?

So if Felicity wasn’t placed right on my tummy directly after birth I might wonder if there was a mix up in the hospital, she seems to have all the recessive genes. Red hair being the most obvious, but she’s also definitely left handed. Not only that, but she has big ears. Plus Steven, Seporah and me were all very calm babies, Felicity was/is something else. I suppose we’ll still keep her, but sometimes I’m just like dang kid, where did you come from?

When one child has a melt down in the store while you are trying to buy finger paints for both of them to play with, the other will also melt down. They’ll scream on the ride home without the finger paints since you left the store without buying them and then when you put them in bed for quiet/calm down time, they’ll see who can scream louder. It’s great. It’s like an object in motion stays in motion, a child screaming stays screaming.

And I keep on forgetting this, but when you leave the cart with all the stuff in it, carrying 60 lbs of screaming children gets really heavy after about 100 feet. Just forget about making the screaming toddler walk, she doesn’t care about the onlookers or anything else for that matter.

I went to the Doctor’s office today.  The Weight is in:

I am 268 lbs..  So I have to w 245 by January 18th.  Russ and Steven might be able to make it?  Just curious.

            Jas

So today Steven picked me up from another long day at work (12 hour shifts btw are actually 12 1/2 hours). We went to Costco because I’d ordered some stuff for work. As we walked in, I smelled their pizza and I was like I so know what we’re having for dinner. It’s the kind of pizza where you break out from just looking at it. And when you actually consume it, the grease oozes out through your pores. I usually don’t get all yeah for pizza, but today, it was good.

I keep on having all these ideas to write posts about and I start them and then they are REALLY boring, I mean not funny at all. And so I just delete them so you don’t have to go wow, Märia’s really stretching here. Consequently I haven’t been posting much and you don’t know the inner workings of my slightly monotonous life (wake up, change diapers, feed kids, go to sleep, wake up, go to work, come home, go to sleep). I try to make it sound interesting and I mean anyone can make their life sound interesting with a little imagination. So here I go again:

Steven has had a bike for about a year and a half, he rides it everywhere and takes the girls along for rides, either one at a time in the bike seat or both in the bike trailer. We’ve been saying forever that I need one so we can go on family bike rides. Well I finally got one last week, I was more than a little nervous when I got a baby bike seat on the back. Please realize the last time I was on a bike was when I was 15 years old and found myself scraped up in a ditch. Everything has turned out ok though, no one’s died or even got any owies (well if you don’t count my sore legs).

Seporah thinks bike riding is a blast, except for the helmet part, but has come to accept the fact if she wants to go “weee” down the hill she must wear it. Felicity on the other hand is my little pansy and starts griping as soon as she sees the helmets or bikes.

In other news, all of us did a 5k on Saturday, our time being 33:44, almost a minute better than my last 5k. Go Jason, btw, on the marathon goal. I’m still working on the 5ks, they are so kicking my butt, but I’m doing them. There’s a 10 mile on Thanksgiving that I’m gonna go for, let’s see how dead I am after that one.

Well everyone,  It’s been awhile since I’ve talked to you.  I feel like I owe you an update, but that is the problem with why I don’t post.  I sit down to write what has happened in the last 5 months,  get three paragraphs in, and decide it’s time to go work on homework or take a nap. So I am going to try and tell you what is going on NOW, and in the near future.  I am very disapointed in myself:

I haven’t done anything creative in months.  I read like 14 webcomics daily.. I think to myself.  I could do this.. if I had any talent whatsoever.   I am very  disapointed, I wanted to spend this semester doing more writing… I wanted to spend this whole year really exploring the edges of my talent. 

I have gained nearly 30 lbs since getting married and leaving the marine corps.  I am REALLY out of shape, and can’t seem to run from here to there without collapsing.  (quote from “a few good men”.)  None of my old Larges fit me..  and once again.. it KILLS ME to run.. something I used to love doing. 

I have come to only one conclusion with my self hatred in these regards.  I am confessing to each and every one of you, and extending an invitation as well.  I am DONE with this.   I have a resolution, and I have a determination, and a goal in mind.  (yes I have all 3).   They are as follows:

           1.  I am going to run the Arizona Rock & Roll Marathon on January 18, 2009.I am going to run 4 miles a day until I can do so without walking,  then I am going to do it until I like doing it.   Then I am going to run 6 miles a day as well.   (at least 5 days a week) 

           2.  I am inviting Russ, Steven, or pretty much anyone else I’m related to (who thinks they can do it) to come join me.  I will host you in my home, and I will pay your way in ((but you have to get yourself to San Diego or Yuma, for me to pick you up :-(     ))

           3.  I am going to lose 20 lbs before the marathon.  I do not know my exact weight right now.. but you will be informed soon, as I track my weight progress.

           4.  I am going to be giving up video games for the entire month of November.  I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month.   This is going to be a major challenge, and I’m told that most won’t finish,  I am going to try and beat the odds.   I invite Steven, or anyone else who desires to join me, and we will read each other’s books after we are done.

I can feel you all cheering me on already :-),  I just hope some of you will cheer me on… while WE are doing it.  *cough* Steven *cough*  Russell *cough*

 Let me know by Nov the 15th (I think)  Then the price goes up.   

  Thank you all,  and Russ I’m sorry for not getting back to all your comments.  I always told myself that I would do it later.. but later never got here.