Is it the weekend yet?

What a day!! Dominic didn't want to nap (& I'm sure I inadvertently facilitated some of it as I walked into his room twice just as he was settling down...UGH!) and we had plans to go to the Children's Museum today. Had we not had maids coming to clean our house...we would have stayed home. Had he been a little older where I could explain that "if you don't nap, you don't get to do fun things"...we would have stayed home. But, alas, I needed to get out, he needed to get out & neither of us had ever been to the children's museum. And so we went. And boy was it FUN!! Phoenix has some great places for kiddos & this is definitely one of them. D had sooo much fun crawling around in their 3 & under room. Riding tricycles through the "carwash" (with mommy's help). Walking through the noodle forest. It was definitely worth the $9.00 this visit. However, for future visits I am going to try very hard to get my hands on the ever elusive Culture Pass from the library :0).
Anyway, that's not what I really wanted to write about... I started this blog several weeks ago to help myself be accountable for losing this stubborn baby weight. And I have actually been pretty good about getting up and going to yoga or doing a class at the gym, etc. I haven't focused a ton on food because generally I eat pretty well, although I'm sure I need to tweak my diet. But boot camp is rapidly approaching and I am rapidly talking myself out of it :( I really need to do it but I can think of so many excuses why NOT to do it. One being that D is still waking up early in the a.m. and how do I hand him off awake to my sleeping hubby?? Well, I am putting D through sleeping boot camp right now in hopes of getting him to sleep until at least 6, but preferable 6:30-7.  Another excuse is that I will just suck. I am so out of shape & not athletic that I know this class will kick my ass (isn't that really what I'm paying the big bucks for) and do I really want to get up at 5 a.m. to get my ass kicked?? So here I sit on my butt knowing that I need to get up the courage, sign up, & go to boot camp. But I am scared and it is so much safer in my snuggly bed. Sigh. At the end of the day I want my somewhat flat belly back & I really want to fit in my old clothes. I would really like to look decent in a bathing suit especially since we have a beach house....boot camp here I come.

Day 1 of Bye bye baby fat

So this is it...10 months post baby and I am back on the workout bandwagon. Am so tired of all my cute clothes not looking good on me & my back has been killing me :( I'm sure it doesnt help that I am carrying around a 20 lb. little beast! So anyway, I went to the gym tonight (finally) and left D in the nursery (almost heartwrenching if I hadn't wanted to work out so bad) and proceeded to take all of my frustrations out ona poor elliptical. Aaaah. It felt so good. We have a one month free membership at an amazing gym and I fully intend on taking advantage of it!!
Next phase of "bye bye baby fat" involves tackling eating. This is so incredibly hard because I love to eat. Especially sweet things. I didn't really pay too much attention to what I stuck in my mouth today, but I did pretty well until I put D to bed. I had an "Amazing meal" shake for breakfast, a salad for lunch. Dinner started off as a turkey panini from Sauce, but I still felt hungry so I ate a leftover piece of pizza (gross) and 2 (yes, 2) popsicles. My hope this that writing things out here will help me with my eating because I feel gross remembering the nastiness that I put in my body & I really don't want to do that again.
All in all it was a good day. Hubby left town for the weekend,so it is just me & D!! We have a jam packed day tomorrow and I'm gonna try to squeeze in a walk in the a.m.or p.m. Food will be a problem tomorrow I'm sure since I am attending a vegan bake sale hosted by a girl who makes the most amazing soaps & lotions (http://www.strawberryhedgehog.com/).
Sooo tired. Off to bed.

What a day....

So I woke up today in a grumpy mood....which was exacerbated when I went into D's room to get him and his diaper had leaked (ugh!) and then my husband informed me that I needed to take D with me to the gym because he needed to get work stuff done. Which meant, of course, that I had to run around like a mad chicken getting me, D and, D's diaper bag ready to leave the house approximately 5 minutes ago. Not to mention that D has NEVER been away from me in his 10+ months of life in a nursery situation & I was going to be dumping him off in a mad rush AND making stranger feed him breakfast. All in the name of an early morning yoga workout (i.e. my sanity). Needless to say...we got to the Village (the gym) and of course the nursery didn't open for 20 more minutes and of course I had totally forgotton that you need to make a reservation...insert deep calming breath here.
We arrived home, ate breakfast, and hung out while I decided what to do: 1. Be a good mom & get D down for a nap, ultimately skipping yoga 2. Be a bad mom & keep him awake, take him back to the gym, and  dump him in the nursery so I could be a good Yogi. P.S. working out means that I had to cancel the library program that I had signed us up for. In the meantime, D has a GIANT poop that somehow managed to to get out of his diaper, on our wood floors, and on him. We promptly went into the bathroom where I hosed him down in the tub. After a wrestling match to get new diaper on, I decided he was tired (as was I) and he needed a nap. Indeed he was, he fell asleep with almost no fuss which is highly unusual for my son. I decided to call off yoga, let him sleep & hopefully he would be awake for the library. By the way, I spent his whole nap sweeping and mopping. I had to clean up his poop, why not get all the mopping over with at once??
Did I mention that we are beginning to introduce D to the potty?? It's so early you might say. I say "Ha". Here are the reasons: First, being the eco-friendly, "green" mama that I am what could be more eco-friendly than no diapers? Second, it is seriously WWF in my house at diaper changing time. My amazing pediatrician showed me a restraining technique that my headstrong son HATES. He throws a temper tantrum and acts like you are torturing him. So, I either have a baby who is flipping over or flipping out. Nobody wins. Third, my lovely friend has her son (who is 1 month older than D, as in going to be 1year this month) almost potty trained! She lent me this book, Diaper Free Before 3 by Jill Lekovic M.D., and it is amazing. Has D peed or pooed on the potty yet? No, but not for lack of me trying. He actually peed three times today outside of his diaper: once on the bathroom floor 30 seconds after he crawled off the potty, once on our hardwood floors, and once 5 minutes later onn our rug. Unfortunately he is getting to the point where he starts whining when I pick him up & run him into the bathroom (I'm hoping this is due to tiredness). Oh well, we'll get it soon... I hope.
Anyway, D is napping now and I have a million things to do...sigh.