Thursday, May 10, 2012

Weeks vs Months

Miss A is 12 weeks old as of two days ago.  Some might think, that means she is 3 months too.  But some months have more than 4 weeks so I guess she really isn't - yet.  Her 1-month birthday was a day after 4 weeks and each month the gap is bigger.  So she will not be 3 months until next week.
Who cares?
I don't know.  Maybe no one, but everyone asks how old she is.  I answer in weeks still, but I think I'm hitting the point where saying "about X months" is going to be easier for everyone.

Okay, that topic was much shorter and more lame than I expected.  So now I'll just have to ad-lib about something else.  What else did I used to talk about on here?  Food!  Yes.  That's a hot topic.

 A has an intolerance for milk that we discovered when she was 2 weeks old.  It took another 4 weeks to figure out soy was also an issue.  Now I'm not eating either think since I'm nursing.  I'm getting used to it.  I'm also constantly surprised that every time I whine about it, there's someone in the group that had the same issue.  So I feel like a wuss because even though I likely did not know them then, I'm sure they whined less.  But whining is my shtick, so I don't feel too bad.
What I feel bad about is that I went from a somewhat healthy vegetarian to the kind that does not eat much of anything good - just junk and lots of carbs.  I felt so deprived that I would eat anything I found to be soy and dairy free.  Usually that was chips or cookies . . . not vegetables which I'm pretty sure are also devoid of both.  I'm getting better though.  Having the scale plateau post-baby gave me a wake-up call.  I don't have a ton of time for working out so I had better get my diet in better order.  Swim suit season is approaching and I still can't fit into most of my non-maternity clothes.  This is a problem considering they are mainly fall & winter items.  I have 2 pairs of shorts (maternity) and one non-mat pair of capris and that's it.  Quite frankly I just do not want to buy new clothes!  I want to wear MY clothes.  It's hard to find shorts that aren't Daisy Dukes or Bermudas and clearly I was able to scrape together a wardrobe of "normal" length shorts over the seasons and I don't want to abandon them.

Thrilling blog entry here.  Makes you glad I'm back, I'm sure.  But time flies when training a 12-week old to nap in her crib.  After a whopping 20 minutes she's awake AGAIN.  I rocked her for at least half an hour after she woke up last time and now she has not napped as long as she fought me.  I would have been tearing my hair out by now with J.  The second one IS easier in some regards in that I know better to sweat the small stuff - like this.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

2012

Uh.  It's been over a year!  And what a year it's been.  .  .  finished P90x, vacationed in USVIs, my toddler became a preschooler, and now we have a 12-week old baby girl.

I've been wanting to come back here for awhile now, but time is never on my side it seems.  I want to use this as a record for A as I did with J.  And sometimes I like writing about random things.

So here I am, breaking the dry spell here.  I'll be back.  Soon.  Likely I'll have a new look and who knows maybe a new name.  I wonder how many times I've changed the look and the name!?!?

Come back and visit.  I promise (I think) to be back too.