Post Baby Weight Loss

Let's just talk about this for a second.  You know those people who have a baby and walk out of the hospital not looking like it, or those people who have a baby and a weeks later you can't tell.  Yeah, I'm not one of those people, I hate those people (not really, just ticks me off!)

I never lost all my weight from having my first baby, mostly because I was lazy.  After I had my second I was just "fat" sorry if you don't like that word, but its the truth and it was the one thing that got me moving!  I had a series of events that happened that made me disgusted with myself, they are much too humiliating for me to post on here, but they were totally enough to get me moving!  So, as you know form this blog I started running!  I also stopped eating sugar.  Like hard core, no sugar if it was listed in the first 3 ingredients on a label!  I lost 20lbs, I still had quite a bit to go though!  I sat at that weight for quite some time despite training for a half marathon that had me burning enough calories to lose 2lbs a week and still nothing!  SUPER frustrating.  I however wasn't really watching what I was eating.  So, I enlisted the help of my new friend! We had just started to get to be friends and she was perfect for me because I was still getting to know her and didn't want to have to tell her I ate crap!  She is super honest on her blog about her weight loss, so she was perfect for me!  I lost 22 more lbs!  This brought me back to almost where I was after having my first baby!  (almost) Unfortunately, I had gained weight before having him so I still needed at least 20 more lbs before I wanted to have another baby. 

God had other plans. You know that phrase, we plan, God laughs. Yeah that was us!  We all know I got pregnant with the twins far faster than we were hoping!  Surprise!  No more losing that last 20lbs. I was determined not to go crazy and gain 80lbs for these kids and did what I thought was great and only gained 50 (which put me lighter than I was when I had baby #2) I lost 30 right away after they were born, which was amazing, but that was the holiday season and I did not feel like dieting again, so I gained 10lbs back.  Dumb! 

So here were are again. I started running again at 6 weeks 2 days, but didn't start strictly with the food until 3mos. Its been SUPER  slow. I've only lost 7lbs but I know I'll get there!  Its gonna be a lot of work!!! To get there I have had to workout 6 days a week and really watch what I eat!  Which stinks! 

So, that's enough of the babble!  I hear babies crying!  And I need to go run with my friend! 

All you baby poppers who lose that weight right away with no effort.  Count yourselves blessed and eat a donut for us ;)

6 Months

In all honestly, they are almost 7 months, but these pictures were taken on their 6 mo birthday!  Half a year already!  It is going WAY fast!!  For me the days are LONG but the time is flying!  Love these sweet faces!!

Love his chunk!!

Happy most of the time!!

Its rough cutting teeth!

Something about this picture I just love!

Caleb: 19# 1oz 27 2/3" Long (75%)
He is a super sweet boy! He's one of those, when he's good he's very very good and when he's bad he's horrid, kind of boys!  But most of the time he is just super precious and I just want to eat him up! He's pretty close to sitting up and is getting up on all 4's and rocking back and forth!  We'll have a crawler soon!  He is army crawling in the right direction. This picture is when he just moved backwards!

He cut his bottom two teeth and the beginning of the month so he has just been a drool monster ( as you can see in the pic above!) He is eating food finally! Neither he nor his sister were interested for a while and that was super frustrating!  But he loves it now!  He had his first ear infection this last month and it took two rounds of antibiotics to get rid of it!  Poor kid!  He's had a rough month! 

Emmerson 14# 2oz 26 1/4" (10%)

She's our tiny little bug!  Such a happy happy girl!  She also got 2 teeth this month and did it without any fanfare, all the sudden they were there!  She's arming crawling ALL OVER THE PLACE! Getting into everything and loves to try to get peoples shoes!  Seriously, she can be surrounded by toys and she will bypass them all and go for the shoe's nearest!  She's a riot!   She has no interest in food!  She literally spits every time I put it in her mouth!  Sigh. Right now she is sick for the first time, fever, stuffy nose and very irritable!  Poor little girl.  They both had shots yesterday. That is the last time I let them get shots while already not feeling good.  She cried for a good 1.5 hours yesterday afternoon!  Fun!

Lucky, Sassy, Sissy

Whatever you call her she is one special little chick!! 

We had such a great day!  Every time I asked her what kind of party she wanted she just said a pink party! So that was a pretty easy theme to pull off! 

We even asked everyone who came to wear pink!

A picnic with family and a few friends was the perfect way to celebrate this 3 year old!

L with her BFF who was still a little weary of all the party hoopla. She warmed up :)

Brother Sister love!

Present opening!

Love her face in this one!  She was SOOO excited

Pinata!!

Cupcakes!

This is probably my favorite pic of the day!!

And water guns!

 What could be a better way to celebrate!! We love our sassy girl!