Swimming

Catherine loves to swim now! She would go in the water before, but generally had a death grip on who ever was holding her. Well now she loves the water and will float around on her own. Check it out!

Cottage Pictures

Sorry for the delay. I got sick and really haven’t done a lot of anything in over a week!

Without further ado, here are the pictures of the cottage.

Having a cold at the cottage in July sucks!

Well I guess working nights and not sleeping really caught up with me. We headed up to the cottage yesterday morning and I started to get a really stuffed up nose. I blew my nose all day and by bedtime I was beyond congested. I slept like crap because I couldn’t breath. First thing when we were up fed and dressed Catherine, Jeff and I headed to the drug store for meds. Although I still feel like I have a cold I can breath through my nose again and the sinus pressure is much better. I was also able to have two good naps, which were very much appreciated. While I was napping Jeff took Catherine in to the water and she actually seemed to enjoy herself. Hopefully we can get in the water again before we leave tomorrow, so I can enjoy it with her.

Will post some pictures later!

40 lbs down, 14 lbs to go!

I am officially down 40 lbs! I'm so excited. I have two more pounds to lose to get to my pre-pregnancy weight and 14 lbs to get to my wedding weight. Also, my percentage of weight lost is 20.5% since I started. Here's to hoping the last 10 or so pounds come off as well as the last 20 lbs have!!

Today is a good day!

Although I am sad that Tiger is gone, I am having a really good day. At work we are doing a weight loss challenge. Since I am trying to lose weight anyway I decided to join. Since starting on June 11, 2010 I have lose 4.6 lbs! This last week I lost 3 of those lbs. My percentage of weight lost is 2.8%, not bad in 3 weeks! I am so happy that I am making good progress and hope to soon be at my pre-pregnancy weight and then start heading towards my wedding weight. I hope to acheive both by the end of the summer.

Rest in Peace Tiger :(

Today we had to say goodbye to a member of our family. Tiger was a wonderful cat and we were able to love him for 7 years. He will be truly missed by us all, especially Tobey.

 

Cuddling with Catherine before she was born:

Hanging with his best friend Tobey:

Jeff’s Father’s Day Present

So since Jeff decided that he wanted to buy tools and a ladder for Father’s Day, I decided that Catherine and I would do a craft for him.

This is what we did:

Here is what it looks like in the frame we got:

And with the card we made:

 

Look what I’ve been making!

I’ve been busy sewing up a storm!

I decided that paying $30 plus for a sleep sack was ridiculous and that I was going to make my own. Little did I know it wasn’t quite as easy as it looks.

I bought the material well over a month ago and started working on it that night.

I ran in to a few road blocks and gave up. Well Jeff has been nagging me lately that the sleep sack’s we have for Catherine that aren’t fleece are way too small. So again today I pulled the material out to give it another go.

I know have two of them finished and the last is all marked out it just needs to be put and sewn.

Here is one of them finished!

Please shoot me if I ever have twins!

I was a busy girl last night at work. I had two little babies, both about 1 month old. At the beginning of the night I was excited, I would get to snuggle some newborns and feed them and then they would sleep, repeat. That’s not at all what happened.

If one wasn’t crying, the other one was and they were often both crying at the same time. Since they were in the same room if I didn’t get the crying one out ASAP, the other would be up and crying. It made for a very long, tiring and frustrating night.

I always though it would be nice to have twins (mostly being able to get two kids with one pregnancy, since we all know I suck at being pregnant!). Now I have a totally different opinion. All you twin moms are my hero’s!

God help us if we ever do have twins or more!

Long Time No Blog

Ok, I’m back. It’s been far too long and I should really keep this updated. So I’m going to try to do better.

Catherine turned a year old on February 13 and I went back to work the very next day, so life have been a little bit busy.

       

 

I have also been exercising and eating more healthy in hopes to lose some of the baby weight. I am about 4 lbs away from my pre-pregnancy weight and 16 lbs from my ultimate goal (wedding weight). I feel much better about myself and life in general.

I will leave you with a family picture that a photog friend of mine took.

 

Sorry!

Sorry I have been delinquent on posting here lately. So I am going to post a few messages to get back to where we are now.

Win a Free Organic Hotslings

I know there aren't many mommies with young ones on here, but just in case. If you go to this Blog and leave leave a comment on the post listing the three products from their store that you like, you may win a free organic hotslings.

GOOD LUCK!!

Week at the cottage

My grammy, Catherine and I are at the cottage for the week. The weather has been great and we have gone for long walks two to three times each day. Grammy is going home on Saturday and Jeff and his parents will be coming up Saturday to relax and enjoy Labour Day weekend up here. When were up here I so wish that we lived up here, but the I think we would miss our families too much if we did.

Here are some pictures so far:






































And a link to a video of her jumping in the jolly jumper:
Video

Cottage Weekend

Catherine and I ventured to Jacquie and Rob's family cottage this weekend for the cottage bash. I was worried that it wouldn't go well, but it went great!! It was about a 5 hour drive and we stopped once going there and coming home and Catherine did great in the car in between stops. She also slept really well at the cottage. Her morning naps were a bit shorter, but the afternoons ones were good and she slept really well at night. In fact she slept though us being rather loud on Saturday night while we were play cards in the cottage, that's amazing since the cottage is small and the wall don't go up to the roof and the doors to the rooms are curtains.

Here are some pictures from the weekend, I will post more once Jacquie posts her's on facebook!!

Growth Spurt

Well I think Catherine has gone through another growth spurt. The 0-3 month clothes that were just fitting are too small now and we only have a few 3-6 months clothes, leaving us with not many sleepers that fit her. I guess until I can get her some more I will be doing laundry more often. I hate when this happens because often she goes from the clothes fitting to the next night them being way too small.

Solids

Since we started Catherine on solids a few weeks ago, she can't seem to get enough. She is eating two meals a day now (breakfast and dinner) and so far she has had rice cereal, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, pears and plums. She will even tolerate sitting in her bumbo chair, which typically she hates, to eat her food!! I can't wait to start giving her more stuff and mixing foods, but for now I am just trying to add something new ever three days and get a feel of what she really likes and go from there.

That's it for now!!

Little Miss Muffet

Catherine and I spent the weekend alone because Jeff, his parents and my family were all away. Friday night we went to my Grammy's to have dinner with her husband and it was really night. Last night we went in to Toronto to friends of ours for a house party, but the rest of the time it was just Catherine and I. So needless to say the house is spotless clean and Catherine got lots of cuddles this weekend. Especially today as she was in a horrible mood and wanted to be held all day. Little did I know that it was because she was constipated. I finally realized what was wrong when she was laying on the ground where she normally plays grunting. So she got plums for dinner to get things moving and move they did. All I have to say is wow solids use changes the consistency of baby poo. Once she was all done, she had her bath and finally went down for her first nap of the day at 6:30 pm. She slept until 8 pm, ate and played with her dad and was back done by 9 pm. Poor little miss muffet, at least she is back to her old self again!!

She also tried pears for the first time yesterday morning and loved them right away!!