mandalei

I have lost 10 lbs as of today.

This is just to say

That Jack has peed

in his

potty.  At his

request.

It must be time to post again, ha.  And what a month it’s been!  starting on New Year’s Day, Jack threw up in his crib and that about sums up what we’ve been doing lately.

Seriously, though, it’s been a rough couple of months for us, with the illnesses a-coming like, well, like the plagues of Egypt.  We have a play group we go to on Tuesdays, and since Thanksgiving, we’ve been been able to go *twice* because every other time we’ve had a cold or something.  This last week, Jack and I both got slammed with some stomach bug, which had us throwing up and otherwise in the bathroom for 24 hours, and then since Friday we’ve both been incapacitated… intestinally, shall we say.  it suuuuuuucks!

In Honesty news, before the stomach bug hit, I had lost 7.5 lbs in 4 weeks.  not bad!  Then I stalled out and hadn’t lost anything in 2 weeks (although when I had the stomach flu, I lost 3.5 lbs between Wednesday and Thursday morning).  I have been eating about 300 calories fewer than my daily allotment of calories and exercising every day which is supposed to bring it down even further, so it’s very discouraging.  Oh well, I guess maybe i’m building muscle or something.

I got a faboo camera for Christmas, which I love with a deep and passionate feeling.  And I need to upload some pics of the things I have been working on and actually post them, sheesh.  I always feel like I am not getting anything accomplished, but then I look back and see just how much I have finished up in little projects and it’s not as bad as all that. Things I’m currently working on:

• a knitted scarf
• Jack’s geometric quilt
• Mike and Melissa’s wedding quilt
• Libuse’s quilt (planning stages only–the first one I had worked on was when I was pregnant and I think the painting-while-pregnant rule applies here as well: never choose color schemes for painting your house while pregnant!  I hated the color combos in that quilt once Jack was delivered.)
• learning how to knit socks (to be started once the scarf above is finished)

Also, I think if Jack could, he’d have a poster of Rachel Coleman from “Signing Times” hanging on the wall above his bed.  Since we’ve been sick, we’ve been watching hella lots of “Signing Times” and the kid can’t get enough.  I don’t blame him, really, she seems like the kind of person I’d like to hang out with. Sometimes I think I want to go back to school to become proficient in ASL.  It’s a fascinating language, and hey, something to add to the Latin, Greek, and French.