House update

The couple who have been waiting for their money contacted our realtor and think they will receive (I guess this is correct) their money Sept 20, so we're hoping that on or around that day we will get an offer.  Crossing our fingers, again, as few people have looked at our house in the last month.

What were they thinking?

Seriously.

Point 1:  Why do the cartoon channels: PBS, Disney, Nick Jr--whoever play the same episodes more than one time in a week (or a month for that matter).  It's enough to drive a parent to the edge of reason

Point 2:  In Diego this week (at least twice) the iguanas sang a hybernating song.  The lyrics were: "Winter winter time to sleep all my dreams my hole will keep..."  This seems a bit perverse to me.  It makes Scott giggle. 
On a high note, since tonight was the second time seeing this show--C knew that iguanas hybernate in winter.

Point 3: In unrelated craziness, we went to the baseball game tonight.  I waited in line for over 30 minutes for concessions.  How is this possible.  It was ridiculous. 

Point 4:  What was I thinking?  Ate way too much Chinese food for lunch today even though knew I was going to ball park tonight and would want concessions.  Ay carumba!  Will have to work extra hard this week to move scale.

This Weekend: part 1

Friday night: high school football game.

He loved it.  He kept saying, "Go football"  I kept telling him this isn't a generally accepted cheer, but he should say something like, "Good tackle,"  "Go Wildcats," or "Go team."  He decided he could say all of these and still use his standby. 

He loved the marching band as well.  We last 1 quarter and half time basically--too close to bedtime.  He sat on Scott's lap most of the time, which was a miracle.  It was super windy, so he wanted his hood up to protect his ears. 

This morning we headed to the Peoria Zoo--we have a membership w/our local reciprocating zoo, so it was free.  It was great.  They had an amazing Africa exhibit.  The animals had lots of room for a zoo, and in the Africa exhibit you could see the animals from 360 degree views above on these bridges.  Super cool. 

His favorite this morning: the camel--both real and fake.  We had to go for a second look.

He really enjoyed the lions as well.  You could see them from above a little lookout, and through 2 plexiglass windows (large).  The male lion loved to hang out at the windows.  The female lion liked to "attack" the male to try to get him to play--lots of fun to watch.  C was not scared--miracle.  When they ran toward the glass it gave me pause.

Enjoying the gift shop.

Surprisingly he loved the tigers this morning.  They were really lazy, but moving around enough to keep his interest--and more importantly no roaring.  They were beautiful, and you could really see them.  They kept yawning for us--giant mouth and teeth.   So much fun to see them so up close. 

In other matter: what the heck happened to the weather.  We were wearing jeans and jackets this morning.  Cool snap!  It was great for viewing the zoo. 

Next on the horizon: a little church fair in the neighborhood and a minor league baseball game tomorrow.  Then we clean and start packing for the trip.

Stop. Nike time!

I thought it was really funny that we all have a pair of Nikes, so I had to line em up and take a picture. 

Scott got his 2 weeks ago while we were in St. Louis for crosstraining.  He liked the Nikes over Adidas and Under Armour.  Two days later he tore his ACL.  Lots of use so far, obviously. When C saw Scott's he said--match, daddy.  He was very excited.   I got my cross trainers last week--total coincidence they are Nikes, too.  I tried on like 5 brands.  I've used them almost every day.  Colin has had his since last Christmas (thanks to Gma and Gpa), and he finally grew into them this summer.  He's sad mine don't match, but it's funny that they are all Nikes.

I never realized how different cross trainers are from runnning shoes--I love them.  I use them for all work outs except running and riding my bike (bike shoes).  I had always had to use my running shoes (often times my older pair) for working out, but I exclusively wear my running shoes for running.  It makes a big difference.  I love the cross trainers' wide base for jumping exercises.  You have so much more balance for lunges and squats as well.  Very happy w/my purchase.

My crazy 2 year old

C has been hilarious lately

New sayings:

"This is my favorite song"  about B-I-N-G-O and I've Been Working on the RR

"It's nice out here" when we go outside or "It's nice in the car" when we eat a snack in the back of our car at a park

"Come on, Mommy.  Let's PLAY!" or change the word play for eat, play catch, run, eat ice cream, paint, whatever. 

Adding please to the front of sentences (and he says it like pu-leeeze.)

"This leg hurts b/c I fell on ...mumble, mumble"  (i think he says this b/c Scott hurt his knee)

"...take the owy off" (he thinks cuts/scrapes are taken off like a band-aid)

Things he loves:
feeding his piggy bank (we have been feeding Mr. Piggy pennies before nap)
ice cream (Still)
sweets of any kind
baked beans
boop-ing (he says Boop, and pokes your nose, more like touches)
he likes to tickle, and he's getting good at it
looking at ducks and geese at the park, and trying to sound like them..Honk, honk!

Things he's scared of
tigers (still)
sea lion (yep, just added yesterday)  evidently the noise it makes and the tricks and eating is really frightening.
the milk truck (looks like a bull sort of) in his monster truck book
fox (in Jemima Puddle Duck book)
cow (in a book)
tractors in the movie Cars
ow-eys

Basically he's afraid of a lot of things, and you never can anticipate what's going to scare the bejeezus out of him.  Scott had to purposely scare him w/a dinosaur roar at Toys R Us last week to get him to leave.  Mean, I know!  It got results though.

Picture Time

Probably last time at spray park

Playing the part of a beached whale

sometimes it's so hard to get a pic of this kid from the front.

trip to the zoo w/some buds.  the other little girl was taking there picture.  i couldn't believe that C stood there for 2-3 whole minutes to get his pic taken.

Weight loss update

As you all know, about a month ago I was told to lose some weight.  I've been working my butt off for the last 3.5 weeks.  I've lost 5 lbs.  I was hoping for more, but I'm not sure that was realistic.  I set my goal as 10 lbs in 6 weeks, but I'm guessing it will take about 8 weeks to this at the rate I'm going.  It's requiring A LOT of work for very slow results.  A friend gave me a great analogy though about weight loss being like trying to get a heavy rock rolling. 

I've worked out 6 days a week (almost an hour or more a day), and I've really cut back on my calories: 1 soda in this entire time, very few, small desserts (but I have splurged to keep from insanity), mostly water to drink, and major portion control. 

I'm trying to not be discouraged by how slow it's going w/how much work I'm doing.  Metabolism evidently hates me. 

But 5 lbs of the 15-25 I need to lose is gone.  I'm giving myself a pretty big window to be happy in.  I'll be happy when I lose the 15, but will keep working for that last 10 to be at my optimum weight.