Food - It begins.

6/8 (aka Day One ish...)

1/2 cinnamon raisin bagel with light cream cheese

coffee

2 baked chicken strips and the rest of Wren's mac-n-cheese from the night before ~ 1C

pita chips and hummus (about a serving's worth)

large handful of chocolate yogurt covered raisins

homemade chicken parmesan (no parm tho) with spaghetti and tomato sauce

1 Shiner Bock

4 bites of Atti's grilled cheese sandwich

few bites of strawberries, raspberries and cantaloupe

- Not much in the way of exercise. I wanted to walk but it was 100 degrees. Ew.

6/9:

3/4 Amy's Organic breakfast burrito

6 bites of Atti's pancake at school

coffee

2 Hershey kisses

Lean Cuisine (really wanted the cheeseburger in the freezer, but I refrained)

almost a pound of really incredible strawberries

Weather Records

I'm not quite sure why weather records seem to follow me. We had the record number of 100+ degrees days in Austin. Record snowfall this winter, record rainfall this spring and apparently now record heat for northwest Ohio. See this article. Can I pretty please get a little break? We just survived a butt-load of snow and torrential downpours of rain.. sun and 80 degrees would really be appreciated. Especially before we head down to NOLA for what I'm sure is going to be a record year of something. (Fingers crossed that it is NOT hurricanes!)

Accountability

Eeeek. Now that the "nursing diet" is slowed to pretty much a halt --- and I'm a few years older than I was last time I found myself in this situation, I've had a sad realization. I can no longer eat the way I have been over the past several years and maintain my girly figure. :) After Atticus was born, I lost the baby weight and an additional 10-15 pounds. That was AWESOME. So, my goal is to now return to said weight and fit back into the new fancy clothes I purchased when I was at said weight.

In order to do this - I need to hold myself accountable for what I eat and how much I exercise. What better way to do this than to announce to my family and friends (who really don't care) my daily diary. I actually should just keep a diary/log -- but since this handy dandy blog already exists, I'm going to start here. Exciting for you all I know.

So -- here goes. I'll let you know tomorrow how it went today. Does that make any sense? Oy. Here's to fitting back into the clothes I purchased in NYC...

How Sweet.

This morning Atticus told me that he liked Wren. I told him that was a very sweet thing to say. I then asked him why he liked his sister. His response? "She's pretty."

It's moments like these that make you forget/dismiss all the frustration from the hour previous...

Yummmm!

Greg took Atti this morning for donuts. :-) Atti had a bite from each one (and then some)!!

Construction Themed Party

So, I think we are going to have a birthday party for Atticus. I wasn't sure if I really wanted to do one -- I don't really know very many of the parents from his school, and the parents at music class aren't the most "open"... but Atti's now of the age where I think he'd really really like the party. One of the girl's in his class had a birthday a couple days ago and the mom brought cupcakes in for the class at school. All evening long, Atticus was singing Happy Birthday to Alissa....

I asked him what kind of cake he'd like for his birthday and he said, no joke, a "backhoe cake". I think this all stems from the backhoe that's still parked across the street -- but in any event, the kid does love his construction equipment. A friend from law school recently threw a pretty rocking construction party for her 3 year old son. I'm not quite as Martha handy as she is --but I think I can take some of her ideas, plus those that I've found online and create a pretty cool party. Instead of lots of activities (I'll plan a few) I think our piece de resistance will be a bounce house. :) We have a fabulously flat back yard and the weather here, while hot, won't be call the fire department hot.... so, that's the tentative plan. I'm putting it out there so I can be held accountable.

Check out this blog post where the parents really did create a backhoe birthday cake! I also like the faux pinata idea. Cute stuff!

What's With Me and the Birds?

I failed to inform the blogosphere about the two, yes two, birds we had in the chimney/fireplace this weekend. The landlords really need to do something to the top of the chimney - but that's a different discussion. The result was that there were two birds in the fireplace when Atticus and I came down for breakfast over the weekend. Blah, blah... the landlord was over at the house and while Wren was napping and Atticus was distracted in the basement with Greg, Ray helped "free" the birds. Eeeeek! We were expecting one, and found two - and apparently uninjured as they began to fly around the living room. I let out a small scream and managed to fling open the sliding glass door in the kitchen. One little bird flew out and Ray caught the other one and gave it a gentle toss out the door (it took flight).

Then today, my dear SIL drops by with some medicine for little Peanut and there is another little bird half hopping half fluttering about in the front yard. I'm praying it didn't whack into the window and become injured... or that it hasn't falled from a tree, or broken something... I'm not quite sure what to do if that's the case!!

So - our bird tally for our time in Perrysburg stands at one dead, two alive but trapped in a chimney and possibly two injured. Good grief!