I ran out this morning to pick up some diaper pins from a grandma on freecycle. She used them for her son! How sweet that she gave them to me. Her kids are using disposables. She showed me how to use them. Esther gave me a set on Tues and I tried to use them but couldn't figure it out/ was too scared of sticking Virgil ( Read more... )

Interesting day. Virgil fell asleep just as we got to lessons. He nursed back to sleep as we got in the water. He just wouldn't wake up, even w/ his feet in the water. He finally nursed/slept enough that I could unlatch him and he looked around and was quiet but happy ( Read more... )

WE WIN!!! For 14? (what age is 9th grade?) years the CA Flanagan cousins' have held the smallest baby record with a healthy 5th percentile body weight. Did we hit 3? Oh no, we aren't even on the chart ( Read more... )

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The kids are in bed - not anywhere near asleep. So there will be a goodly number of trips up the stairs yet. The ped is reading just under 16,000 steps or just under 8 miles ( Read more... )

Apparently, being sick burns calories. Specifically carbs. Despite eating way too many carbs (and hence calories) the past few days my weight has been dropping much quicker than it had been ( Read more... )

A nice suprise was sprung on me this am. Donna insisted on checking my weight (No suprise there - I monitor that. It went up over the 2 week break and has been coming back down over the last 3 days.) and body fat %. Since Oct. I have lost 0.8% which is really quite a bit. 4% more and I will be back in the category of fit. Its nice to have ( Read more... )