I've been home with the boys going on 3 years. In that time, I've always kept the toilet seat up during the day and tried to put it down after school. It's an easy habit for me to remember, I really don't mind putting it down. We're an equal household~3 boys, 3 girls, so really we shouldn't worry about this should we? Yes we should! The boys are slobs, plain and simple. They are lucky to make it to the bathroom and when the do, their aim is not always the best. To top it off, they rarely put the seat UP!! This means that I am always watching the bathroom first to make sure the toilet is flushed, second to make sure the toilet seat is clean and dry. These little boys are not putting the seat up. I'm not fighting it right now cause frankly, I'm just glad they're making it to the toilet and I don't have to clean up messing throughout the house.
So what's next? Habit forming. How do I get these boys to go to the bathroom without me pestering them. Then, how do I get them to put the seat up before taking care of business. It's a work in progress.
Today, I met with my territory manager for Weight Watchers. She is fairly new to our territory, but not to Weight Watchers. She's been around for a long time, just not around Milwaukee, closer to Green Bay. She's been meeting with all of the WW staff in both of her territories just to touch base and see how we are doing and what our goals are. I was pleased with our short chat and remotivated to get to a healthy BMI. She encouraged me to see the doctor to make sure my goal is still appropriate. I've been lifting more and working out regularly so I know my body composition has definitely changed since the last time I went to the doctor close to 4 years ago. It's time.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
1st Day of School
The first day of school was today. It's always an exciting, nervous, frightening, stomach turning experience no matter how old you are. My kids are now entering 5th grade, 2nd grade, 5K and even the little guy is going to school everyday 3K. They were extremely excited to get all their new supplies to school last night and to get their outfits ready for this morning. No one woke up too early, I had to wake the 2nd grader up and we were on our way.
I'm worried about the little guy going to school as he's still not totally understandable. He speaks a lot, but drops the first sound of the word before spitting the rest of the word out. If we don't understand him, he shows us. I was also worried that he wouldn't want to let me go this morning. He was a champ! Hopped in line, held my hand, walked up the steps, into school and into the classroom. He showed me his hook for his backpack, pointed out his chair to sit on and ran off to play. I think I was more scared for him than he was for himself. He's gone to the gym daycare for almost a year and hasn't had a problem saying goodbye, so I'm not sure what I was worried about.
Reminds me of going to a Weight Watchers meeting for the first time. Excited to conquer a new challenge, frightened to be a failure, nervous to not live up to our own standards, and the stomach is a bit full from stuffing in one "last supper."
Everything went fine for the kiddos. Benjamin ran from his line to find me after school. I was relieved to see he had fun and a good day. The rest of the clan soon joined and our first journey of the school year was complete. I tried to get the obligatory first day pictures, but Alex, my 5Ker did not cooperate too well. Will try to post sometime with all my free time now.
I'm worried about the little guy going to school as he's still not totally understandable. He speaks a lot, but drops the first sound of the word before spitting the rest of the word out. If we don't understand him, he shows us. I was also worried that he wouldn't want to let me go this morning. He was a champ! Hopped in line, held my hand, walked up the steps, into school and into the classroom. He showed me his hook for his backpack, pointed out his chair to sit on and ran off to play. I think I was more scared for him than he was for himself. He's gone to the gym daycare for almost a year and hasn't had a problem saying goodbye, so I'm not sure what I was worried about.
Reminds me of going to a Weight Watchers meeting for the first time. Excited to conquer a new challenge, frightened to be a failure, nervous to not live up to our own standards, and the stomach is a bit full from stuffing in one "last supper."
Everything went fine for the kiddos. Benjamin ran from his line to find me after school. I was relieved to see he had fun and a good day. The rest of the clan soon joined and our first journey of the school year was complete. I tried to get the obligatory first day pictures, but Alex, my 5Ker did not cooperate too well. Will try to post sometime with all my free time now.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
I Wanna Learn Too
My kids are too cute for their own good sometimes. Yesterday, I didn't make it to the gym as Benjamin had a fever and my oldest, Elizabeth was still sleeping at 9:00. I usually hit the 9:00 spin class, which is now totally awesome because we got brand new bikes, but I stayed home and rode the elliptical as the little guy took a nap in the afternoon.
Today, as we woke up, Caryn declared to everyone, "We have to go to the WAC because Daddy skipped his class yesterday, he CAN'T skip another one!"
Cracked me up! I am glad that she's looking out for me and making sure I'm getting my daily exercise done.
On another note: Alex has taken off, full steam ahead, no more stopping him on his bike. In fact, he's been waking up early to ride. Today, it was 7:00 when he wanted to hit the pavement. Since Alex has been having a good time riding, Caryn has decided that it is her time to ride a two-wheeler as well. Her bike was a bit too big for her last summer and really it has sat in the basement most of this summer. Sunday night we hauled it back out and by Monday afternoon, she was cruising. Still having problems getting started by herself, but cruising and stopping on her own.
We went shoe shopping today, along with a new outfit for everyone for the first day of school next week. It was an expensive day!
Today, as we woke up, Caryn declared to everyone, "We have to go to the WAC because Daddy skipped his class yesterday, he CAN'T skip another one!"
Cracked me up! I am glad that she's looking out for me and making sure I'm getting my daily exercise done.
On another note: Alex has taken off, full steam ahead, no more stopping him on his bike. In fact, he's been waking up early to ride. Today, it was 7:00 when he wanted to hit the pavement. Since Alex has been having a good time riding, Caryn has decided that it is her time to ride a two-wheeler as well. Her bike was a bit too big for her last summer and really it has sat in the basement most of this summer. Sunday night we hauled it back out and by Monday afternoon, she was cruising. Still having problems getting started by herself, but cruising and stopping on her own.
We went shoe shopping today, along with a new outfit for everyone for the first day of school next week. It was an expensive day!
Friday, August 12, 2011
Milestones
Our computer finally is back home and ready for action. Our five year old is also ready for action. He gets things fixated in his little head and will not let go of them until they are resolved. The first quest this summer was to get a library card. He practiced writing his first and last name for at least two weeks before our trip to Disney World. As soon as we got home, his first stop was the library to get his own library card. The second quest has been to get his bunk bed set up. I have not done that yet as I had it set up about this time last year and he ended up in our bed for a week straight before I took the bunk beds back down. So, I hesistate to make that wish come true, but I continue to hear about it everyday! The last quest was to learn how to ride his bike with no training wheels. Again, I put this one off until after our trip to Disney World, but once we got back I took the training wheels off. He tried a few times, but was frightened to fall. I refused to put the training wheels back on, so it sat for a week or two. Today, he decided once again to hop on. He did it! Rode up and down our block with pride! Still needs to practice the starting, but he's got the stopping down. Soon he'll be a pro. He's already stated that he's ready to ride to the park.
Our family was out of commission last week. The flu hit a different kid each day from Tuesday thru Friday and our poor Caryn had flu symptoms the week before so we thought she was the one that started it all, she ended it too!
That's it for now, we're headed to the State Fair tomorrow. The big sellers this year include a bacon wrapped hotdog, deep fried butter, deep fried beer and our traditional cream puffs. We set a World Record yesterday by baking a 125 pound cream puff. 15.5 gallons of cream! Unfortunately, it was warm outside and after it was prepared and the record recorded, the cream puff in inedible because it was in the warm sun too long. Poor planning!
Our family was out of commission last week. The flu hit a different kid each day from Tuesday thru Friday and our poor Caryn had flu symptoms the week before so we thought she was the one that started it all, she ended it too!
That's it for now, we're headed to the State Fair tomorrow. The big sellers this year include a bacon wrapped hotdog, deep fried butter, deep fried beer and our traditional cream puffs. We set a World Record yesterday by baking a 125 pound cream puff. 15.5 gallons of cream! Unfortunately, it was warm outside and after it was prepared and the record recorded, the cream puff in inedible because it was in the warm sun too long. Poor planning!
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