I walked about four miles tonight. My legs are sore, but I’m so glad that I was able to walk. A lady from church walked with me and Mom tonight, and her teenage daughter watched Kyra and Elijah for me so we didn’t have to push them every lap. Believe me, pushing both of them in the double stroller gets kind of hard. They both weigh around thirty pounds, and the stroller itself is at least forty…probably more. Pushing all of that weight around on a gravel track gets tiring very fast. I carried little man in a carrier. So, I feel like I got a good workout. I’m about to do my crunches and push-ups. You know what? I’m seriously contemplating getting a bike. I think that would be more fun than just walking all of the time. Maybe I will. Who knows? Chris hooked the vcr up for me today, so I can do my Pilates video in the morning. Yay. I’ve missed it.

Thank you to all of you who are praying for Owen. We really appreciate it. His appointment with the hematologist is on Thursday at 11:00. Hopefully, this appointment will nail it down for us all that he’s just got prolonged breastmilk jaundice, and time will eventually get rid of it.

I need to lose weight. I want to wear my old clothes again. I have sixteen pounds left to lose to see my pre-pregnancy weight. The last two times, I had the baby, and the weight just came off automatically over the next few weeks. I gained more weight this time, though, and it’s taking it’s sweet time about going away.

I have been walking in the evenings, shooting for three miles, and, for the most time, making it. Some days, I’ve had problems with my leg muscles cramping really bad, and not made my three miles. I’ve been doing 100 crunches a day for the last week. I’ve not been dieting, since I’m breastfeeding, but I have been trying to watch what I eat.

I want to see some results! I wore a maternity skirt to church today. A maternity skirt! Ugh. I hate being this big. I refuse to buy clothes that fit me now, though, because I don’t want to get complacent and let these pregnancy pounds stick around.

This is just a vent. Move along now. I’m through.

I noticed as I typed the title to this post, that I’ve used it before. I guess I have a lot of weeks that are packed full of stuff that I want to tell you guys about.
This week started off with church, dinner at my mom’s, and church again on Sunday.
Then, Monday was Chris’ first day off of work. I took Owen to the hospital for a bili level check. His level didn’t go down very much at all over the weekend, so the doctor told us to take him back on Wednesday for another check.
On Tuesday, I pretty much laid around the house laughing at my kids for most of the day, and then we went to my Mamaw’s for dinner and cake for her 70th birthday party.
Wednesday, I took Owen back to the hospital. Unfortunately, his level went up again. Which really stinks. Please continue to keep him in your prayers. He is being referred to a hematologist at Children’s Hospital, but they haven’t called us yet with the appointment. Wednesday night was church.
Yesterday, we took the kids to the zoo. We had a lot of fun. It was hot, but not unbearably so. Kyra and Elijah rode a camel. It was so cute watching them. After the zoo, we went to Red Lobster to eat. It was so yummy. The kids were good, and they ate well, too. You can’t beat that.
That brings us up to speed. Today, I’ve pretty much tended to the baby, and hung around the house. I did work out a little bit, took a shower, and fed me and the kids a healthy lunch. So, some worthwhile activities have been achieved. I cleaned the abyss that was Kyra’s bedroom on Wednesday, so I’m still basking in that accomplishment. I should have taken before and after pictures. Her room was clean when I went to the hospital to have Owen, and, in the month since then, I had not touched her room at all. It just kept getting messier. It was so horrible. With the baby taking up much of my time with all of the normal baby stuff plus the almost daily hospital trips, her bedroom was at the bottom of the list of household stuff that I felt needed to be taken care of. It got to an all time level of messiness when Luke was over the other evening. He was going to put a dollar in each of the kids’ piggy banks (because he’s a really sweet uncle), and told Kyra that her room was so messy that he didn’t know if he could get to her piggy bank to put the dollar in. To that, my daughter replied, “You just have to look for the holes, and then step there.” Yeah. It was that bad. I cleaned it up on Wednesday, though, while Chris held the baby for me.
That totally means that I don’t have to do anymore housework this week, right? Right?

Chris and I took the kids to the zoo yesterday. We had a good time. These pictures are not in chronological order, but I don’t guess it really matters.

The kids collecting eggs by the chicken exhibit.

Kyra brushing the goat in the petting zoo.

My little barn owl.

Kyra coming down the slide.

Brushing the baby goat.

Daddy, Elijah, and Kyra looking at the elephants…or should I say, looking at the elephants’ butts. They weren’t real interested in being watched from a more flattering angle.

The black bear was finally out where we could watch him, pacing back and forth on the log! The last two time we had been to the zoo, we didn’t get a good look at the bears.

Kyra and Elijah looking at another bear from inside the cave.

Don’t worry! Elijah’s a careful driver.

Mommy, Owen, Elijah, and Kyra with the baby camel.

Kyra and Elijah riding the camel.

“Me naked!”

(This is Elijah’s daily quote, since he says it every day…usually while grinning from ear to ear and doing a little naked dance. Boys!)

Kyra, Kylie, and Keinzie…say that three times fast!