Thursday, July 20, 2006

Detoxing after the folks have been for a visit

I haven't been to WW since I got back from Vic because something was happening every Wed morning so I never made the meetings. I am definitely needing some help and support after 2 weeks with mum around here.

Of course I helped her demolish our bodyweight in chocolate and sundry and my size 26 stuff is getting snug again. I am too afraid to stand on the scales because I just know I will have put the best part of my 10kgs lost, back on again. Now that mum has gone I have drunk all my water and am back to eating normal portions of healthy food so I just need to increase the exercise. I want to get back to the gym here again. I just need to get my house in order. (excuse I know)

After living here for the past 3 months I was not happy with the way things were arranged here so yesterday when I got back from the airport I put Josh in the portacot so he wasn't underfoot and I dismantled the spare bed and the cot and swapped rooms. Josh is now down our end of the house and the spare room is at the front. It means that Josh isn't woken early with the sun on the front room plus he isn't woken by the kids playing in the street and the only place in the house we can get mobile reception is the front of the house so we were always talking on the phone at the front of the house. I am sleeping a lot better knowing that if there was a fire in the house that my children are close to me that I could get them out. How paranoid is that?

Plus now that I am no longer breastfeeding I can get fair dinkum about it all with no fear of supply problems. I have been trying Josh at various times of the day and he still won't have a bar of me. Last night he bit me deliberately twice.

On a happier note Josh does this cute little thing where he scrunches his nose up and kinda snuffles in and out thru his nose. It has become a joke where I can do it to him and he does it back to me. So gorgeous. He now has 2 bottom teeth and 4 top teeth and has started babbling, he says mum mum and bub bub as of a few days ago. My baby is growing up.

Nathan is just my little star at the moment. His speech is becoming more and more grown up, he pronounces his words so particularly now and will attempt to copy the correct announciation when I show him how.

We got an egg tray on tuesday and filled it with dirt and planted carrot, broccoli, spring onion, silverbeet, lettuce and roma tomato seeds. He loves his little garden. Oh and his latest funny is to fart and then point at you and say "You did it" and flat out deny that it was him.