Day One...

Day one went pretty well.  I was able to get a 20 min run in at 4.2 speed and then completed Jillian's 30 day shred afterward.   I had Mark next to me the entire time laughing and pointing but I completed it!  I had to take a few second break during the jumping jacks but I know if I keep this up those jumping jacks will get easier and easier.  I followed my weight watcher points and decided to try to drink half of my body weight in water.  Well I did pretty well with my points...only went one over and I drank 50 of the 75 oz of water.  It was a start :).   I decided since I'm going to blog about this that I'm going to put it all out there and measure my body.  I'll update half way through and then again at the end.   Here it goes (keep in mind I just had two babies :)   Chest 39....Waist 34....Hips 42....Thigh 20....Arm 11.5.  Off to bed....the alarm is set for 5:30 so I can start day 2!

Jillian against Megan...30 days

Tomorrow I will start Jillians 30 day shred.  I plan on following my weight watchers points and completing her 30 day shred along with some running to prepare for the upcoming shamrock shuffle.  Today I'm starting at 149 pounds.  She claims that you can lose up to 20 pounds in the 30 days so I'm going to give it my best shot.  I will measure my body and also check for inches lost as well as blog about what Im eating.  By doing this I'm hopeful that I will stick to this plan!!

The two year old...

What is it about a two year old that makes you feel like you are living with a mentally ill person?!  I swear one minute he's happy and full of kisses and then next minute I turned the doorknob the wrong way and he's melted down onto the floor.  I try to reason with him....nope it only turns into a battle.  I yell and he escalates even further.  I swear there are moments when I wonder what happened to my sweet little boy.  He must do everything himself, at the exact moment he wants to do it and the exact way he wants to do it.  If those things do not occur it is a battle!  The scary part is that I sometimes find myself tiptoeing around his craziness!!!  The even scarier part?  I have to repeat this in two years...with two two year olds :).

Easter Bunny Blues

I had high hopes this morning that we would go and see the Easter bunny and that Mark would actually be happy about it.  Nope!  It was a traumatic event and even with promises of lollipops he still wasn't budging.  He clung onto me like he was being sent to his death.  I suppose I knew that it was going to happen but one can hope :) 

And then there were three....

Being pregnant with twins is hard!  I feel like any complaints that I had while pregnant with Mark were soooo ridiculous!  As time goes on I'm amazed at how my body is changing and adapting to growing two people.  As I continue to grow and change so does our house!  The many projects that are going on have kept us busy all weekend.  The basement seems like a never ending project that we are so anxious to have done we can barely stand it!  We moved Marks changing table into the nursery today and got him a toy bin for his soon to be "big boy room."  It seemed so strange moving it out of his room and realizing that he is no longer a baby.  We still have much of the nursery to complete and the guest room needs painting and furniture it piled up.  It all seems like so much with the babies coming but I know in good time everything will find it's place and we will be ready.  Well, as ready as we can be with a 2 year old and newborn twins :) 

And we're down to one...

So today we officially switched to one nap.  We have been going on and off with the two naps for a few weeks now.  Some days he has seemed like he still needed it and other days it was just a complete fight.   After a late nap, bedtime was becoming a struggle and last night he was up in the middle of the night which NEVER happens anymore.  So today we pushed through the late afternoon and he was a bit cranky but nothing we couldn't handle and bedtime was a breeze!!  There was absolutely no crying and he was sleeping in minutes!  Hopefully that was the beginning of getting us on a great schedule.  It will be nice to have the extra time in the afternoons now and not have to race back home for naptime.

Finding my place

It has occurred to me that finding out who you are as a mom is a tough thing to do.  I was so consumed by Mark being an infant for the past year that it never really was an issue for me.  I was focused on his every need and on breastfeeding.  Now that he is officially a toddler...which I still have a hard time believing that he could be...I have started to look at myself again and think who are you?  It's amazing how much time and energy we put into our children and many times we lose sight of ourselves and what we need for our own self fulfillment.  I have always been a person who has kept myself really busy.  Whether is was in high school, college or in my career.  Everyone who knows me well knows that I take on a million things and somehow manage to get to them all.  I thrive on it.  Now that Mark is a year old and the breastfeeding has stopped I find myself having a lot of extra time.  I have started to consider what this means for me.  As a person who is constantly busy this is a difficult place for me to be in....