The reason I ask

The reason I asked about back talk is, obviously, because we've been struggling with it here lately. However, it seems that we are doing what most of you are doing- redirecting with appropriate words and time outs. I'm hoping that we get through soon. Very soon!

An Advice post

So, share with me your expertise. What do you do when your child back talks? Does it work?

Do you use soap?
Time outs?
Send her to her room?
Hot sauce?
Spankings?

I'm listening intently to what you have to say.

Put on your sunday best

Proud momma!

Its amazing how proud you can feel as a mother. Even when what your child does is developmentally appropriate. They don't even have to be "above average" or "ahead".

Baby I rolled over twice today. I felt so proud that I called up my husband and shouted at him "Isaac just rolled over!" Then I proceeded to describe to him, step by step, what Isaac was doing as he rolled over again.

I know, I know. I should be a little less dramatic. I mean, I've seen two other babies roll over before. This is old hat. Except its still JUST as exciting as when I watched my first baby do it almost 5 years ago.

But, I do promise to refrain from posting a video of him rolling over. Well, I'll try not to. :)

Testing. Trying to blog from my cell phone.

weight loss woes

I did pretty well with I's pregnancy in terms of weight gain. It made it really nice when most of the weight fell off those first few weeks. The last few weeks, however, I've been stuck at 6lbs above my pre-pregnancy weight.

So, this past week I started keeping track of everything I ate. In fact, I was semi-limiting myself. (not full scale into my weight watchers points yet, but I was definitely scaling back.)

So, how much weight did I lose?

nothing.

nada.

zero.

zilch.

Want to know the worst part? When I was eating whatever I wanted, I didn't gain any either. Maybe I should just stick to that plan!