Walking and Playgroup

This will be another pictureless post. I'm sorry for so many of these this week that have no pictures.

Anyways, you all know that I started walking almost 2 weeks ago. Well, I love to walk mostly in the early evening hours because the sun is going down and it is much cooler, but I hate to walk alone with Piper at that time because we worry Josh almost to the point of sickness. Well, as of this past Monday Piper and I no longer have to walk by ourselves in the evening. A facebook friend and I have hooked up together for evening walks with our kids in tow. It is so much fun having a friend to walk with. Sometimes her friend Natisha and her daughter Kendel walk with us. Last night Kelly and I did 6 miles......that puts my week to 23.5 miles now. I'm really hoping to break my goal of 30 miles for the week. I'm not dieting or anything like that and I can already see a HUGE improvement on my waistline.

Okay, on to another note......Piper and I went to our first playgroup yesterday at Kelly's house. There were 5 moms and 12 kids.....WOW! Can we say CRAZY!!! Piper just kept checking everybody out and tried to get into everything while we were there. She even managed to take about a 40 minute nap amongst all of the chaos and excitement. She is the one who started the whole naptime yesterday. We can't wait to go to another one. I'm so excited to FINALLY be making some mommy friends that live within walking distance of my house.

I swear I'm going to have to get another pair of running shoes before summer is up because of all the miles I'm packing into my current ones......(thanks mom).

That's all.

Workout Update

Well, to update on the workout......last week Piper and I did a total of 18 miles from Wednesday until Saturday. It is only monday and we are already starting the week off right....10.5 miles done so we are one third on our way to this week's goal of 30 miles.

Tonight Piper and I joined two other moms for our evening walk, my friend Kelly and her son Ezrah and her friend Natisha and her daughter Kinley. It was alot of fun to walk with 2 other moms instead of just going by myself. I've also joined Kelly's playgroup and the best part is that all of the girls live in Lincoln or close by so I don't have to go far for my first time this Thursday. I'm so excited!!!!!

Right now Josh and I are enjoying Piper laughing hysterically at me for no reason. She is such a funny girl. Today she has learned how to wave hi and we are still working on how to wave bye-bye.

Working out and getting fit

Well, this will be a picture less post. Last Summer when I was 7 months pregnant I taught two dance camps to Lincoln Jr. High and High school pom squads. I get to again teach the Jr. High, but this time they will be taking my dances to competition. I am not in very good physical shape to keep up with 20 14 and 15 year olds so as of 4 days ago I started my new workout plan. I've done several over the years......you know what I'm talking about, ordering them off of the tv or internet also along with doing fad diets. Well, having a baby has put alot into perspective for me. There is no such thing as dieting it's just a lifestyle change that you have to be committed to.

For me that entails no meat or tomatoes and to cut out cokes and super sweets as much as possible. Along with this I am trying to maintain powerwalking/jogging with Piper 2-6 miles every day. I also found a great hip hop basic workout video at Walmart for $10 that is part of a 10 minute solution series. I do 2 workouts every other day along with the walking. I love this plan that I've created because lifting weights is not my thing. On the plus side of the dvds Piper will watch me and jump like crazy in her jumperoo so she's getting some great exercise too. I am hoping that by the end of 3 more weeks I will be in the best shape of my life for the long term. I miss teaching dance and I really want to get back into doing it so I gave myself 4 weeks total.

This plan for me is not to lose weight, but to tone up and get in shape. I don't care how much I weigh or what size my clothes are. Most women are so afraid or ashamed to say what size they are or how much they weigh......well I am not one of those women. I weigh 161 pounds and I wear a size 12 in most brands. I used to be 140 and wear a size 4/6. I will never be that size again because having a baby has really changed my body and I'm proud to be of a larger size. Too many women get so caught up with what the world says that we should look like......well I'm not part of that group anymore. I am now going without makeup most days and I'm growing my hair out to it's natural color....GREY!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's all for now......

6 Month Madness

Well, Piper has now reached the ripe age of 6 months. Let me first start off by saying "WOW, time sure does fly when you're having fun!". I can't believe that she's already 6 months old. It seems just like yesterday that she was just born. I can truely say that motherhoold really suits me. I look good covered in greenbeans....HAHAHAHA! Well, Piper loves to eat Barley cereal in the morning, greenbeans for lunch, and greenbeans for dinner. That is all the girl ever wants to eat. I have to mix EVERYTHING with greenbeans just to get a little bit of a variety in her diet. She's so funny because she wants things done her way and she knows that I will ablige her. She even crawls her own way.....she gets up on all 4s and then nose dives and continues to do so until she reaches her destination. She would just much rather get up and walk there or dance to her point of interest. I've had a couple of rough nights the past 2 weeks where she will wake up from sudden intense teething pain that I have to comfort her by snuggling up together. The past 2 nights she has gone to sleep in her own bed and woken up in her own bed at dawn so I'm hoping that it sticks for a while. We had her 6 month shots today and she did great! She weighs 15 pounds 1 ounce and is 26 1/2 inches long.
She is already practicing good oral hygiene....too bad it's her hairbrush (yes the brush was clean and sanitized).
Here is her trying something other than greenbeans.

This was April 24, 2010 and Piper tried to crawl for the very first time.

Her guilty face from naptime.

This was her 6 month birthday present.....her Precious Planet Jumperoo. She loves it, but only at about 10 - 20 minutes at a time.

Piper is just such a joy to have in my life. I'm thankful everyday to be her mother. She made my first Mother's Day great! I know when she gets older that she will get embarrassed by me, will want nothing to do with me, and may even hate me for a split second, but there is one thing that she will never be able to say.....that I didn't love her. She will always know that her mother loves her and I hope to have the relationship with her as an adult that I do with my own mother.