Sick

On Monday I took Baby to an indoor playground which I normally hate doing because of all the germs but we needed to kill some time.

After being there for some time a mom gets on a call with a doctor and starts telling the doctor her kids symptoms. The one child who was the "sickest" had been playing with Baby and some other kids for a while.

It took everything in me not to wanna yell at this woman. Why in the world are you out with sick children at a playground? Are people really that dumb? I mean no offense but I never take my child out while he is sick cause I would feel horrible if he got other kids sick. Clearly some parents don't care but you better believe next time I will not keep my mouth shut when I am in that same situation cause it sucks being woken up at 2:30am by being puked on and then noticing your child is on fire.

Now I am having to miss work to take care of my sick baby. Thank goodness my brother is pretty amazing and will go work for me.

Week 1, Day 2

My second day into my training for the 5k in March is done.

I am shocked at how good I feel.

Funny thing is I always heard how important shoes were and I always buy the "cute" sneakers. This time around Jon told me not to look at how cute but how comfortable. That was hard to do but I truly did pick the most comfortable shoes. My feet do not hurt nor do my shins hurt. That has never happened. I am super happy with my choice in shoes even though they are not "cute".

Train ride

Yesterday after work I was ready for bed which is no bueno since it was just Baby and I till about 8:30.

Since sleeping was not an option I decided to take Baby to McDonalds for an early dinner an for him to play there. We stayed for over an hour and then he was pretty ton with that so I was now left with nothing else but to go home which I didn't want to do. So....I looked up what time the next train was coming by and had just enough time to go home shower put some warm clothes on the both of us and make it to the train station.

We went down to Salt Lake City And met up with Jon. We had a blast walking around even though it was freezing. It was so pretty walking around the Gateway. Baby had a blast directing us where to go.

We walked back to the train station instead of taking TRAX. That was scary even for me who is from Philly, ha.

All in all we had an amazing night and I loved spending the evening with my 2 favorite men.

Week 1, Day 1

Oh my gosh does it feel good to run!

Today I did my Week 1, Day 1 of a "couch to 5k" program and it went better than expected. I haven't ran in so many years I thought I wasn't going to be able to finish the workout but I did.

I am so proud of myself! Can you tell?

So I will be doing the 5k in March and then I am now signed up to do a 36 mile bike ride in June so whether I want to or not I need to get in shape.

Weird

My child is so weird.

No, really he is.

At least when it comes to eating.

I am now giving him 2 pediasures a day one in the morning one at night. That makes me feel good because I know he is getting the essentials his body needs to grow. Since I started doing this I haven't been stressing as much about him eating and somehow he now is more hungry all the time. He now asks for food every 3 hours.

However he is still super picky so he will only eat a few things.

Here is where my child is weird. He loves bananas (or bubanas as he calls them) peanut butter, milk and chocolate. This morning after breakfast he said he was hungry so I figured I will put all those things together and make a thick milkshake that we can eat as ice cream. I thought I would be the coolest mom ever. I made it and it turned out yummy but after he helped me make it he looked at it and said "that is yucky, ewwy" I asked him to try it and that was enough for him to throw a tantrum.

I am now so confused. He helped me make it and he loves all those things and some how all together is yucky. So after that he asked me to make him another snack. After an hour of trying to get him to eat/drink the milkshake I made him some cut up bananas with peanut butter and he ate them right up with a glass of milk. What in the world? I hope one day I can understand my baby with his eating ways.

Running

I refuse to join a gym or pay a personal trainer both get too expensive for what our budget is but I still need to get some exercise back in my life.

I am back to my pre-marriage weight but things don't look the same. Specially my tummy and bummy area. I am sure any mommy can relate.

I ran for about a year and that's when my body was in the best shape. So I am starting to think that this is what I need to start doing again to get to good shape. Plus Jon offered to buy me some running shoes and clothes to start and that if I really like it he will buy me even more clothes, haha.

I am going to sign up for a 5k in March so then I have something to train for. We will see how this goes but I hope by posting it online I have to follow through with it.

Sunday

Whatever bug I had on Saturday must have been a 24 hour bug or something cause by yesterday afternoon I felt totally fine. Well until later at night and then my headache came back but i just took some NyQuil and was out quick.

I must have sounded pretty bad Saturday night though cause my mom came over on Sunday to help me out by cleaning and cooking for me. She made me chicken soup which was yummm. My brother also came over to help with Baby.

I was so grateful for their help because I was able to get tons of rest which I really think helped.

Sickness

That's what I felt like yesterday!

I woke up at my normal 6 o'clock hour and I could not get out of bed so I changed my alarm for 7:30am. When the alarm went off I woke up and felt like I had gone out the night before and danced all night. To add to it I felt like TI had a hangover. Worse feeling ever. So my whole body hurt, I have a massive headache and was completely nauseous.

I thought it couldn't get worse...but it did. I must have had a high deer cause I was shaking nonstop for about 2 hours straight. During those 2 hours I sweat more than I probably have my whole life. To make things better Jon had work so I was left to handle Baby.

A miracle happened though cause this boy was amazing yesterday. He gave me no problems and just did whatever I asked of him. He lived off of gold fish and Quaker rice cakes and watched all his favorite movies all day as I went in and out of consciousness.

Honestly I felt horrible and I haven't felt like that in years.

I am hoping for a better day today.

Last night

Well after having a good morning for the most part we came back home and Baby took a nap. After nap time it was back to his way or the highway. Honestly what has gotten into this child? I am so confused since this hasn't really happened before so in the last few days I don't even know what to do.

I had work last night so I left for work soon after his nap and Jon took over. When I get home he seemed to be ok for about 10 minutes after that he wanted Jon to play catch with him but he wanted Jon to lay a certain way and catch the ball a certain way too and when Jon said no that he would catch it from where he was at that was more than reason to lose it. He kept on trying to give more orders to everyone in the house.

I decided shortly after that that it was time to start quiet time in bed to get him to calm down. Thankfully he went to the room all on his own. After that the rest of the night went smoothly and within the hour he was asleep.

I truly do love my precious angel. I think we have probably been so spoiled by him being so good that when he starts acting out a little bit I panic.

Well today is a new day and a new chance to have a fantastic day.

Movies

Last night was a hard night to say the least. Baby was having a super hard time and I failed as a mother. After talking to my sweet and wonderful mother-in-law late last night I felt re-energized for today and was determined to make today a good day. Baby thrives on a schedule and I have known this for a long time but when you become a working mom it's hard to keep to a schedule specially when my days are all different.

Last night I decided that I will start every day the same exact way t the same exact time. I will also make sure I am spending one on one time with Baby on a regular without there being any distractions. Anyways I will also try some other things in hope of avoiding conflict.

This morning went smoothly with the new schedule and we had no melt downs which was something new. Baby had been asking us to take him to the movies to see the chipmunks so we decided today was a good day since I don't have work till late. He had a ball at the movies.

It's been a good day!