riding for 2: May 2008

Sorry folks, no new pictures to post. Flat broke and dead batteries in the camera. I'll buy some on Friday. :)

Post-Partum Woes Update

I know that not everyone can hop on a bike and ride 20 miles, so I understand that I have not lost all of my fitness level. However, it is so much harder with all this extra weight and my lost endurance that it has really been a challenge to get out there and do it. I rode once last week, and so far zip this week but it is only Monday. I was hoping to get a long ride in over the weekend but didn't.

I lost 10 pounds last month so that is encouraging. If I could do that every month for the next 4 I would be ecstatic! Of course, I know how it is and know the loss will slow down :( but even if I can do 5 a month that would be great. I have managed to fit into a couple of my non-maternity pants but they are also my fat pants so it's not all that exciting. 8\

My hair has started to fall out again. I wish I could say that my pregnancy hair, what with all the vitamin taking and not shedding, was fabulous but really, it sucked. I think the extra hair weighed it down. Maybe once it starts to fall out again I'll like it once more.

This is one thing I'm a little puzzled about. Every morning when I get up, my feet hurt. As in I step very, very carefully until they "wake up." WTF? Is this post-pregnancy, overweight for the first time in my life or just old age?

Bathtub Woes Update

Whatever it was, I think it's gone! I bleached several times, and did hydrogen peroxide once and it seems to be staying gone this time. I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. I'm going to keep bleach on hand just in case but for now, it seems baths are once again part of my night-time ritual.

Kaia Update

Should I have put this one first? Nah. I wanted to make you read about MY woes first. :)

Kaia had her first fever last week. She had her 4 month shots and this time got a fever. It was sad. :( She just didn't feel good. Neither did I. Thought I had a UTI but I peed in a cup for the doc on Friday and everything was fine. I still had pain on Saturday but now it's gone. Who knows.

Seems the munchkin hasn'st been eating enough lately. Her rapid weight gain seems to have halted. We think it's partly from the new routine and first week at daycare but she was only 10 pounds and was around that same weight when we went to get her ears checked a couple of weeks ago. We aren't worried but were surprised. I had guessed her at 12 and Cory guessed 11.

She is cooing all the time now, god it's cute. We keep trying to capture it on video and I swear, the kid just stops doing whatever it is the minute the camera is out! She has started to roll onto her side too. Her head control is good... she is doing almost everything she should be doing at this age, though still not really grasping things or batting at toys. Everyone tells us what a good baby she is, and how good her temperament is. We feel so lucky to have her.

Work Update

I officially start the 32 hour work week this week. I'm a little worried about us financially, but we're going to give it a shot!

Day 1 of daycare pretty much blew. I felt "OK" most of the day. I stayed there with her until 11, called at 2 and visited around 3. She was doing fine, they said she was a really good baby. But when we picked her up, she seemed sad. :( No big smiles for us like she had when we dropped her off. I think there is so much going on in the infant room, for obvious reasons, that she just didn't sleep much and was exhausted. Which, to us, looked like sadness.

She finally perked up around 10 p.m. so we felt a little better. Cory was playing Metallica on the laptop, and she started smiling. We tried to redo it on video but she wouldn't repeat it, ala the singing frog. Anyhoo, we'll see how today goes. For all 3 of us.