Dishes and Springtime
April 28th, 2013 by KellyJoeHey there, I’m actually updating like a pro and you should be impressed by this. I finally got my life a bit more organized by completely cleaning out my omnifocus (which is a app on my ipad that tells me things that I need to get done in a certain day) and I think thats going to be really helpful for me on actually updating my blogs more than once a month so look forward to that. I had a crazy revelation yesterday that there is only two weeks left until the 5k and I am kind of freaking out for reasons I don’t even know. I’m not to where I wanted to be on jogging but if you look back to how I was this time last year I am SO much better. I’ve finally started keeping track of my inches and admitted to myself that there’s probably not much of a chance of me losing weight. In ten days time I’ve lost 4 inches around my waist, half an inch around my hips, and (and I keep thinking this has to be wrong cause it is such a HUGE difference) 12 freaking inches around my thigh. WHAT! So as you imagine even though my stamina is not what I want it to be I’m pretty impressed with those numbers. I honestly wish I would have started keeping track of my inches right after Al was born cause I know I’ve lost a ton of them and that would be awesome to look back and be like ah, yeah I am good at this exercise thing. I’ll have to start sharing some of the exercises that have been working for me but for now, I’m just going to leave it at this.
So we’ve started up more on sensory games and I’m starting to feel like I’m breaking out of my slump on them. I had a ton of dishes to do the other day cause I’m a lazy turd and I figured maybe Al would like to try to do some (pretend ones that is). I filled up his little container with warm water and a little bit of soap and gave him a paper towel. Turns out he’s not big into the idea of doing dishes. He likes the idea of covering the kitchen in water a lot better.
I’m really excited about the fact that its getting warm enough to do outside play. It was hot enough the other day that I took him out in his swimsuit and let him play with bubbles and the hose. He really liked it and I think its going to be a pretty great day in our house when we finally get a swimming pool.
Unfortunately with the temperature change also came what looked to be a heat rash. It didn’t seem to bother him much but I still gave him a few oatmeal baths. I figured that would be a good way to do some sensory play and Al decided that would be a good way to practice his primal screaming.
Other than that, we have the sticky bubbles again so that should be fun. I really want to get a bubble photo shoot done of him this spring cause I think it would be ridiculous cute. We made our own bubbles yesterday with water, corn syrup, and dish soap. They weren’t too impressive yesterday but seemed to work better this morning. I put more corn syrup into them to see if that will help them to be less pop-able so we’ll have to keep trying those out this week.
My book challenge is still going good. I’m STILL reading count of Monte Cristo (but I expect to finish it this week) so we’re still using the Lemony Snicket books as filler. I’m on 8 right now and I have to say for childrens books they’re really great. I’m not sure I’ll tackle another large book for at least a month so my brain can recover.
Other than that, I have nothing else to report so I guess we’ll see ya next week.