Gabby stats

Gabby had her 6 month appt. on Monday and she's doing great.

Weight: 16 lb 1 oz
Heigh: 25 inches

She still seems like a little peanut to me, but she really is growing a lot lately. She's getting longer for sure. She's trying so hard to crawl and gets really frustrated when she can't do it. She can get up on all fours and rock back and forth, and even scoot backwards. But she can't figure out the crawling part yet and then she gets upset with herself. She's so much fun, I just love her to pieces!

My butt has left the building!

I went to my weight watchers meeting and was down another 2.8 lbs! Which puts me at my goal. Almost 25 lbs total. yay me!

My Weight Chart:

My butt...

is leaving the building! Well, part of it anyway. Back in September I joined Weight Watchers. I decided before I had Gabby that I was not going to keep those extra 10 lbs on like I did with Will. I was determined this time. So when Gabby was 5 weeks old (that seems so long ago!) I joined Weight Watchers. My goal was to lose 25 lbs. At first it was slow going. I'd lose a pound one week, .2 lbs the next, gain a pound the next. But I think my body was holding onto the weight since I was breast feeding. After about 2 months it really started to come off. I started going to the gym and decided to do the Couch to 5K program, which is a training program that helps you build up to running a 5K.

I'm proud to say that since I started in September I have lost 22 lbs! I only have 2.6 to go to reach my goal. My reward to myself is to go get a cute new hair style for my new body :) I've been working out 3 times a week (as has Neil, who has lost 15 lbs in 5 weeks!). Last night I went to the gym and ran for 32 minutes, which was three miles. I'm singing up for 5k races and really feel like this time I'm going to keep it off.

I'm wearing clothes I haven't fit into for a long time and a lot of my old clothes I had to get rid of. Right when I started WW I bought a nice new pair of pants. I bought them tight on purpose knowing I was going to lose weight. But now they fall off of me! Literally. I have to get them altered because they are so big on me. It's a great feeling :)

Bitter sweet milestones

I've been struggling lately with Gabby going to daycare, me working, her growing up, you name it. I think I'm having a harder time than with Will because this time I know it's the end. No more newborn phase, she's growing up. And it really hit home hard this weekend when, at 6 months, she decided to wean :( We tried for weeks to get her to take a bottle and finally, after trying 7 different ones, found one she liked. Well, I guess she liked it too much because she now only wants the bottle. I struggled with whether I should continue to feed in the morning and night, but she was not really wanting to do that either, so in the end I decided it was time to wean. It's been hard, both emotionally and physically. I'm in a lot of pain. Going cold turkey is not something I recommend! So many times I've wanted to just start feeing her again as I second guess myself. But I haven't.

Today she was suppose to start daycare which makes this all the more difficult. I had everything ready for her, her diapers, wipes, bottles. I made a ton of food for her yesterday and was emotionally ready to go. But then Vicki called today sick so Neil is staying home with both kids today. So I guess I have to prepare myself for tomorrow all over again.