Friday Thoughts

It has been a while since I have done my friday thoughts. No pre-thought here so we will see what comes out!

I really need a haircut! The last time I got my hair done was omg i just checked my calendar could be since April 1st!!! Yikes!!! Last time i got it done i just had it trimmed b/c i wanted to grow it out. I also had highlights added for the first time in a long time. Well now my hair is shaggy and light (it gets lighter in the summer) So now i am debating if i am going to die it back darker and how much to cut. I wanted to grow it out but i am loosing my patience about it. But i know if i cut it i will wish it was longer. Either way in needs at least an inch off b/c the ends are nasty! I need to just make the appt already and just do what i feel like doing that day!

I am totally excited for next weekend. Iz is goign up north with DH's parents for the WHOLE weekend without us!!!!!!!!!!!! I think this is a first ever that she has been gone a whole weekend while we remained at home. It is the weekend of the big art fair/festival in our town and i am totally excited. Friday i took the day off and so did DH so we can head to teh beer tent in the afternoon to see our neighbors band play. A whole lot of friends will be there too. I am so looking forward to it. I nkow Iz will have fun with Grandma and grandpa too since she loves the cabin. 1 more week!!!

We really need to try to get more focused on potty training, i just find it so hard since I work tues/wed/friday to be consistant. And I could do it on the weekend (like i am thinking about trying this weekend) but then we have to stay home all weekend and that is no fun! Urgh, i wish they would just potty train themselves. I am so jealous of my friends/blogger pals that have been so successful in the last couple weeks getting their girls potty trained. I am so overwhelmed

The other thing we need to get rid of in our house is the binky. Izzy still uses a binky when she sleeps and I know she shouldn't, but i haven't wanted to deal with the wrath of izzy for a few days after we take it away. I know i just need to do it and be done with it but so far I have whimped out

I love Trader Joe's! There isn't one super close to me but there is one on my way to pick up iz from my moms. It is a cool store and i love trying their cheap wine but my favorites of late are their marinated Mahi Mahi and Ahi Tuna steaks. They come frozen already marinated. All i do is thaw them and DH grills them , the are SOOOO yummy and not bad for you. I love quick easy meals. I tired an asparagus risoto that i bought from there also and it was really yummy too and you just put itin a pan with a couple tablespoons of water and cook for 6 mins. Yummo!

I need to do more playdates with Iz. Yesterday we had one and then a bonus playtime with the neighbor who came over while we cooked dinner and I just love watchign her play with other kids.Now a lot of hte time she is doing her own thing but other times she engages. Her playdate Brooke said yesterday as i was wheeling kids back to Brookes from the beach "i love my friend Izzy" so sweet!!! If Iz isn't going to have a sibling I need to make playdates a priority!

Well enough rambling, i suppose i should get back to work

Off the wagon with no motivation

I have so Totally fallen of my heathly eating, working out routine! I have not been to the gym in over a month, and have not worked out at all even outside other than walks with Iz into town. I have been eating and drinking WAY too much junk and the worst part is , i can't seem to stop myself.

It is amazing that I have not been packing back on the pounds, i am up 1 or 2 but I think that is about it. But I feel HUGE!!!

I really really really need to get back at it. I feel so much better when I am more active! I have been a little down lately, and I honestly think it is because I am not working out. So what is stopping me? Good question...excuses, excuses excuses!!!!

There is a 5k coming up next Sunday the 9th and I have had two friends ask me to do it with them. They have never done one before, but both are working out regularly. The one runs regularily. I feel obligated to do it with them but know that I will be the last to cross the finish line. URGH I guess I need to just shut up and start moving again!!!

It never ceases to amaze me how fast you lose your working out stamina and how long it takes to get it back.....so unfair.

Well I am going to recommitt to get moving the next week and half to attempt to be ready for this 5k. If it is nice outside when I get home, Izzy and I will be going for a walk/jog....pray i don't die!!!

On a total side note, i am a total nervous wreck about an upcoming dr appt on monday, i am not ready to share yet why i am so nervous but please hope/pray that i am over reacting and there is nothing going on. After a bit of googling I am hopeful that it isn't anything to be too concerned with but i will be happy when the appointment is over on monday!

***Update, i am proud to say I actually went home and went for a walk/jog (mostly walking) with izzy...hey it is a start.

2.5 Years Old, I can't believe it

Well my sweet girl, you are officially 2.5 years old!!! I can't even believe it. I missed doing your update by a few days but still wanted to capture what you are doing at 2.5 years old!

You are getting more and more independant every day and we are hearing more and more "I do it myself" Like getting in your high chair or car seat to name a few.

You are very demanding in mommy's car about what you would like to listen too. We have a few cd's and then mommy's ipod that have all sorts of toddler tunes. From just about when we get in the car you are telling me what you want to listen to. You often want to listen to the same songs over and over. When we get to one you don't like that day you are very quick to say "no like this one, or skip!"

You love to jump! You have mastered jumping with two feet and do it all the time. Sometimes just for fun or like yesterday when you said you were being a bunny.

You are still peeing on the potty when you want to which is great, but mommy really hopes to see an improvement in your potty using in the next couple weeks.

Your speech patterns have changed a lot in the last few weeks. You are using more and more complete sentences and saying multiple sentences together.

You love your blankies and they will always fix whatever ails you. As you say "blankies make it all better" You must have your blankies to sleep with and with you a good part of the time. You are not a fan when they need to be washed. But when I do wash them, you tell me for days that Blankies are all fresh and clean.

You are so affectionate lately. If i had been gone the night before or whatever the next day you will give me big hugs and say "you came back!" You are also telling me you love me more and more which melts mommy and daddy's hearts. You will say it unprompted or if I say I love you, you say "I love you too mommy" SOOOO sweet

I love seeing you grow and change everyday and love your happy spirit. You are almost always in a great mood! I love you big girl!!!

Random Ramblings Tuesday Edition

well I have missed my last few friday random ramblings and I am in a blogging mood so why not tuesday?

I succesfully did my second 5K on Saturday. Considering I really hadn't been training or doing much running at all since my foot injury (i fell off the workout wagon and was having trouble getting back on) I think I did ok. The course was quite hilly, so that was a bit tough but I still beat my previous time by 2 minutes! I was happy with that. Totally different experience than the first race, many more runners and there were tons of supports and even bands along the route! I am thinking about doing one more in Early August with a friend who has never done one before. Although I think she runs more than me so I am sure she will beat me! I still have yet do complete one without having to walk...ultimately that is my goal...to be able to do the whole 3 miles without walking...

This weekend we are heading to Wisconsin to visit some of my friends from my previous job. I have not been there in almost a year, and Izzy adn Chris haven't seen any of these people in 2 years! I am kinda nervous actually because I hope we still have stuff in common even though I don't work there anymore. This has been the longest I have been not working there. I honestly don't really miss it. I miss the people but do not really miss the job. Maybe I miss the "prestige or importance" of hte job a little and I miss the travel I got to do to other countries, but Izzy is my priority right now and I wouldn't have it any other way

Speaking of work, I am trying to get more motivated and out of my comfort zone a little by doing more marketing for my company. It is my dad's business, a sales trainign business and we are in desperate need of more marketing and I am spear heading the e-marketing part of it. I am excited but a little overwhelmed too...but I am kinda enjoying figuring things out as I go. I just have to keep pushing myself because no one is pushing me really. I also have to gear up for the boring data entry part of getting our database going..it will suck to set up but once I have it set up it should be easy to maintain

My period was about 4 days late this cycle and of course i could not stop my thoughts of possibly beign pg. I obviously wasn't but couldn't help but daydream a little about what would have been if I was...I wonder if these feelings will ever go away?

I need to start looking at daycare/preschool options for Izzy in the fall adn I am totally dreading it!! While the situation we have now is fine, i feel like she needs more stimulation hence looking at other options. because she doesn't turn 3 until end of January she really doesn't qualify for preschool yet so i will probably look into a daycare setting 2x a week and then let my mom still have one day. I know I shoudl do this for her development but I am not looking forward to the process.

I feel like the summer is flying by so fast I really wish I could slow it down! The next couple weeks will be busy so that isn't going to help slow things down at all.

I could keep goign but need to get back to work. Stay tuned for hopefully some awesome pictures in the next couple days, we are having family pictures taken tomorrow night by a friend who is an AWESOME photographer. I can't wait!!

Potty Training

I don't know if I am the only one or not, but I find potty training so overwhelming!!! I haven't pushed Izzy really at all because most people I had talked to said when they are ready you will know and it will make it soooo much easier if they are ready. And for the longest time she really had no interest.

So the last couple of weeks Izzy has been peeing on the potty when she wants too! I had bought a potty seat that fits on teh regular potty a while ago but she never really used it. Well my mom had a stand alone potty chair at her house and shockingly she used it when she was at my mom's....so my mom had an extra in her basement from when my neices potty trained so I took it home and put it in the half bath on our main floor. Sure enough she will use it. Sometimes when I ask if she wants to go, she says no thank you! Othertimes she will do it. And a couple of times she has actually told me she had to go. She will not poop on the potty though, she is very adament about that!

So do I take a long weekend, buy some underwear and push the issue or do I just leave it casual for now? Part of me for selfish reasons wants to leave it casual for a while because lets be honest...diapers are pretty convientent for the parents! We have a trip coming up next weekend, going to Wisconsin by car so I don't want to do it before then b/c then it will take us forever to get to wisconsin we will have to stop all teh time to see if she has to go potty! See selfish...is this bad of me. I am thinking that I will buy the underwear and let her try them out in the next couple of weeks and go from there...i would be really nice to have her potty trained by the end of the summer.....

Any great tips or words of advice from the mom's out there that come across my blog?