Sometimes I still have to remind myself that we have four people in our family now. I know that my hubby has had a hard time with saying “he” when referring to Charlie. Charlie has been so great, he only gets up once a night and goes right back to sleep. In a month he has gained 3 pounds since leaving the hospital at 7 lbs (he was 7 lbs 10 oz when he was born). Which means he is a good eater and that I am doing something right! Ella is doing better with him. You could tell when Charlie first came home she wasn’t too sure about Charlie and even if she didn’t verbalize it I sure she was wondering when he would be leaving 
She now will pat his head, hug and kiss him, bring me his pacifier or blanket when I ask for it and she isn’t too jealous that I am constantly holding him. I do play with Ella when he’s asleep though and that probably helps.
I had my six week postpartum check up and have been cleared to do exercise and I can stop taking my lovenox shots now! My dad reminded me that I have taken over 300 shots (and then I remembered that I had to do two shots for a month so really I have given myself over 330 shots! That’s like a whole year of giving myself shots!) I am soo glad to be done with that part of having a baby. I can’t wait until the bruising is gone around my stomach.
Even though I was officially cleared to run today I have run 3 times. Last week my hubby said it was close enough and that I was doing really well that he didn’t think one week would really matter. I am amazed that even though I haven’t run for seven weeks I haven’t lost too much fitness. I was able to run 3.5 miles the other day and look forward to seeing if I can log 1000 miles again this year. As for races and things I haven’t thought too much about that. There is a race though in the beginning of March that I have run every year since 2006, I hope to run that one and probably a half marathon too.
Another short but sweet post today…This is what I have been up to for the past month
Ella, hubby, Charlie and Me!!!
Charlie Matthew was born at 12/13/11 at 5L44 pm weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz
and my blog is up running! Lots to catch up on but for now I am just glad to be back…by two year old is going crazy!!!
12 Races in 2011 (check!)
February 18: Virtual 10K
March 6: Shamrock 5K
April 2: Fair Housing Contract 5K
May 8: Just a 5K Run around the park
June 18: Jim Klett 5K
June 29: Do Life 5K unofficial
July 4: Stow Firecracker 4 miler
August 13: Valley Home Days 5K
September 5: Labor of Love 5 Miler (two person relay)
September 24: 2nd Annual Rock Your Socks Virtual 5k and 10K (ran my leg of the Akron Marathon 3.5 and counted the first 3.1 miles for the race)
September 24: Akron Marathon (running the first leg of the relay…3.5 mile)
October 15: Project Homeless Connect 5K
November 5: Trick or Treat Trot 5k
So I reached this goal and have even surpassed it. I might be doing a 14th race on Thanksgiving called Home Run for the Homeless. I don’t think I will be able to run but since we are stuck to being close to home (35 weeks…what?) I thought it would be fun to walk with the hubby and Ella. It’s 4 miles and it would be a fun way to start the day. When we go to my parents house I have run in a 5 mile Turkey Trot, which I have run 5 or 6 times. Other than that, we don’t have plans for the day. It might just be nice to relax, we aren’t even too crazy about doing Thanksgiving food, we had two big dinners last weekend. We’ll see!
I was unable to post for the last weekend as our computer is really acting crazy. When I say crazy, I truly mean it! We have to restart it probably 10 times a day. Once you have started it up and start working on stuff sometimes it will let you stay on for hours and then other times it freezes up in the middle of something so it’s been tough to get much done. However we had a productive weekend around here. Friday the hubby and I both had dentist appointments…neither of us had any cavities…HOORAY!! I went to a kid’s sale and bought some clothes for Ella and baby boy. Then come home and had a quick lunch before running off again to get groceries (in preparation for a Thanksgiving dinner with friends on Saturday). After that I went to the gym and ran my 1000th mile (YAY!!!!) Hubby and I made cranberry sauce, pumpkin bread and cookies. We also ran to the $$ store to collect items for Operation Christmas Child. I finally got to rest around 830 on Friday night and got caught up in my Bible studies.
Woke up early-ish to walk 3.1 miles with a friend. We had a nice time chatting and added a few more miles to my growing total Got home and started cleaning the house. Seriously our house has never looked so good. We ran out for lunch as we didn’t want Ella to make too much of a mess at lunch time and then came home for hubby to cook the turkey. I took Ella outside and she played and “helped” me clear out the garden 
Next year I think I might just do some flowers and maybe zucchini and squash…I got to rest for maybe half an hour before I peeled the potatoes for mashed potatoes and made stuffing. We had a great time with our friends eating turkey and acting out Christmas Vacation, I guess I don’t have to watch it this year as I pretty much saw it already
Sunday was filled with church and going to the in-laws for round 2 of Thanksgiving. They are leaving next Sunday to go to Iowa where hubby’s grandparents are. After eating we all were watching football and I fell asleep on the recliner with one of their cats, Maizy, who sat with me and had her paw on my stomach as if waiting for Jr. to kick her. She jumped up in my lap, and this is the cat who doesn’t really like to sit in my lap
This morning I had another ultrasound to see how Jr is growing. He is now 5 lbs 10 ozs, 2 pounds bigger than last month which is great as babies tend to put on a half a pound a week. He has a lot of hair like his sister did in the womb. I can’t wait to meet him in a month. Wow! Tomorrow I have another doctor’s appointment, a NST, sigh, I can’t wait for all the tests to be over.
I feel like the little guy has run out of room and has started to make my stomache muscles to hurt like they have been either exercised too much or that I laughed too hard for too long. Honestly, I don’t know how someone would not know that I was pregnant. Maybe tomorrow I will be brave and post a belly picture. Good news though, I have only gained 21 pounds so far (and lately I have been hovering around this point for the last month). I still can’t believe that I gained 40 pounds with Ella, I feel like I never looked this pregnant. I am rambling so I should get to bed
Did not feel like running. I ate three pieces of Papa Johns pizza and had a cookie. Hubby told me I should go at least for a walk (it was dark so a treadmill would have to do) I got bored after walking a mile and ended up running a very slow 2.5 more miles for a total of 3.5 miles in a little over 43 minutes. I am so glad that I was pushed to go out because I can see the finish line of my goal of 1000 miles. I have just 9.22 miles to go! I think I can pull it off before the end of the week. And just so you know, I am not stopping until I can no longer physically run or walk
my child refuses to take naps anymore. I don’t know how to handle this. I still want to put her in her room and have quiet time but lately her quite time has turned into kicking the walls and jumping on her big girl bed. A friend suggested putting some soft music on for her, I am going to try that tomorrow as she enjoys music. Any other ideas? And if she isn’t napping how long should quiet time be?
Went for a bike ride with the family today as it was such a pretty day. We wanted to go out yesterday, but it was too chilly in the morning when we had time. Anyways I know it’s not running and I am not sure that it’s very accurate I am adding an additional 6 miles to my 1000 miles. I figure it takes me about 10 minutes to go 2 miles on a bike and that’s what it takes me to run one mile so if we rode 12 miles on a bike that means I would have run 6 miles (right?) Well, I don’t care if that doesn’t seem right to you, I am just trying to get to 1000 miles. Maybe next year I will attempt to run 1000 miles (no walking or biking will count…)
12 Races in 2011 (check!)
February 18: Virtual 10K
March 6: Shamrock 5K
April 2: Fair Housing Contract 5K
May 8: Just a 5K Run around the park
June 18: Jim Klett 5K
June 29: Do Life 5K unofficial
July 4: Stow Firecracker 4 miler
August 13: Valley Home Days 5K
September 5: Labor of Love 5 Miler (two person relay)
September 24: 2nd Annual Rock Your Socks Virtual 5k and 10K (ran my leg of the Akron Marathon 3.5 and counted the first 3.1 miles for the race)
September 24: Akron Marathon (running the first leg of the relay…3.5 mile)
October 15: Project Homeless Connect 5K
November 5: Trick or Treat Trot 5k
I signed up to do this and wasn’t sure I would be able to run the whole thing so I decided to do the run/walk category. I felt awesome this morning and actually ran the whole way in a graet time was 29:30. I was running on a treadmill (which probably helped a lot!) and was able to control the pace better. Started at 6.0 and went up from there every five minutes or so…
And I only have 28ish more miles to run for 1000…hooray!!!
And happy anniversary to my hubby! 6 years, where has the time gone!
