The Y, healthy foods, and pregnancy update

by Meghan // January 11, 2012 // Comments off

Today was my first day back at the Y since I was about 9 months p,regnant with lexie! It was great to be back. I went to Yoga, and oh how I have missed it! I feel so much better afterward. Lexie did great in the kids room, she was a bit anxious at first, but there was no crying when I walked away. They said she played the entire time. She also schooled the ladies on the difference between red and orange bowling pins. I wasn’t aware she knew the difference between red and orange … Evidentally she does. She definitely knows blue!

After yoga we went to walmart, the first thing she did was point out the blue on the glass door, then immediately started asking for “boobies,” so off to the produce we went! She ate blue berries the whole time and I got a few things we needed. We were in and out in 35 minutes- someone give me an Amen! That is record timing! But I spent $120, somehow. Groceries are so dang expensive, healthy ones are anyway. I left with 4 pints of blueberries, 6 4packs of organic Greek blueberry yogurt, strawberries, apples, cutie oranges, milk, cream cheese, canned peas, granola thins, bread, kashi pita crisps and hummus. Mmm I love hummus, my mother in law made this great recipe, and I really need to get it from her- it’s red pepper hummus, two kinds of olives, tomatoes and cucumbers. Mmmm sooo good! And healthy! Speaking of healthy, for dinner last night, my daughter ate half a grilled burger patty, and an entire can of green beans. I cooked them with a bullion cube and some onion flakes- she literally ate the whole can. She just kept signing for more! I can’t complain .. That’s for sure!

What’s your family’s favorite healthy, go to snack?

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I have had a lot of friends and family asking how I feel, etc during my pregnancy. Im only 6wk3d today. I get headaches from time to time, get super sleepy during the day, and want lots of red meat. I’m having a lot of cramping, just mild cramps, which is common but I don’t remember having this much last time. Also, yesterday I woke up with my back killing me. I don’t know if it’s the progesterone making all the soft tissue relax, so my muscles are more tender ? Or whats going on. But it hurts on either side of my spine. I’m learning already poor lexie will have to do more walking than she already does. The cat lays on my tummy though. So she is like a built in heating pad, that’s very nice! (since you’re not supposed to use heating pads during pregnancy). Overall I feel good, not too many symptoms. Which makes me worry a bit. I hate waiting for the first dr visit! It’s so hard .. Just not knowing if everything is going ok in there, that the baby is still growing, etc. It’s so common for women to miscarry and not know it until the first ultrasound, at 12 weeks. But if that’s all you think about you’ll go crazy- so I try not to. Just keep us in your prayers that everything is good! I did go back and read during my last preg the exhaustion kicked in around 7 weeks and the heartburn at 11. So I still have that to look forward to.

Speaking Vcabulary

by Meghan // September 28, 2011 // Comments off

Lexie, while I would consider her a baby genius, is your average one year old. She is constantly trying to repeat new words and understand what you are saying. She has a LOT of words in her vocabulary, all of which she uses constantly. I thought I would write a list of all these words. Next year when I write a new list it will be fun to compare how much she has learned!

I will explain some of the od ones. These are not in the order that she has learned them, they are just written randomly:

pig

piggie

cat

kitty cat

house

pole (we have two poles in the carport that she likes)

rock

cake

daddy

mama

mia

papa

that

hello (only while talking on her phone)

truck

sit

ball

juice

shoes

book

eat (and signs)

milk (and signs)

more (mostly signs)

thank you (will repeat and sometimes will sign)

bunny

duck

quack

cow

moo

baaa (for what a “sheep says”)

baby

belly

eye

booty

poop (lol … yea)

meow

stitch

woof

raaar (for what a “lion says”)

oo ah ah (for what a “monkey says”)

vicki (a teacher at school)

step

sock

cup

zebra (new one)
clock
work (Daddy is at work)
uh oh!

I am sure I will think of a few I have missed, and I will make an update. But I mean that is really a lot of words, and doesn’t include the ones she will randomly repeat but doesn’t use in her every day language. I’m only a little proud.

Yay For Being a Stay at Home Mommy (for the summer)!

by Meghan // May 9, 2011 // Comments off

Well, we are home-on a M O N D A Y!!!! It is the best Mother’s Day gift ever! We are going to make some more baby foods this afternoon-I think we will do apples and bananas today and see how those go. We are going to try cinnamon, too! Very exciting.

Lexie is doing wonderfully on her new routine! She gets up about 6:30 (usually because she is poopy) and then we play until 7:00, which is when she eats. AND (this is BIG!) We think she is SIGNING “MILK!!!” When she wakes up and snuggles she immediately starts doing the sign for milk; I was mistaking it for her wave “Hi” that she does. But no-we are pretty sure it is milk. WOO HOO I knew we had a genius baby 😉 So anyways, she eats at 7:00am, plays in her pack n play for 30+ minutes while I do some chores and get things ready for the day. When she gets tired of the pack n play, we play on the floor and have mommy/baby time. Then about 9:30am she goes down for a nap, which lasts until about 11:00am. Then she wakes up and eats again, plays for while, goes down for a nap between 100-1:30pm, and wakes about 3:00. Then she eats and we begin again! Finally at 6:00pm she has dinner and is asleep by 7:00pm. Then Daddy and I have the rest of the evening to do whatever we need to get done-eat dinner, chores outside or inside that we didn’t get finished. We could not ask for a better, sweeter baby! (well, maybe the next 2 or 3 could be just as sweet?) I am thinking we will have 3 kids.. unless the first 3 aren’t boys then we will probably have 4. =)

Lexie has always been a happy baby, but there were many days when she was so cranky. SHE WAS TIRED. At school she could not nap well, once she woke up at the end of a sleep cycle, they got her up. So she sometimes had a 45 minute nap. This usually rolled over to our weekends together too, because she was not used to getting good rest and only knew to wake up. NOW, she is taking 1.5-2 hour naps twice a day. We have dropped the 3rd nap all together, because she is no longer exhausted in the afternoons! It is amazing how much better we all feel when we get rest!

I went to Bryant Saturday afternoon and picked up Lexie a “like new” activity table-she loves it! I have to hot glue some drawer liner to the bottom of the legs so it doesn’t slide around on her (with hard floors it could get pretty dangerous). We went to our friends’ Bo and Jessica’s house and they had one for their little boy; I’d been wanting to get Lexie one and after seeing her play on their’s it was a definite-she needed one! =) Here are some pics of her playing on it.

Next I want to get her a baby swing for the yard. Fun fun!

Today, my friend Whitney and I are taking the kids to Arkadelphia to get our caps and gowns and then to the park. =) I cannot believe we graduate in 4 days. It is just surreal.. I still don’t think it has hit and I am fairly certain Friday will involve tears of joy.