INSANITY!!!

I'm feeling incredibly discouraged with my weight loss plateau, so I decided to try something new and do the first workout in the Insanity program...and it totally kicked my ass! Seriously! The little testers on the video are doing like 23 squat thrusts and I did 8. Grunting the WHOLE time. This is intense! I fell flat on my face trying to do a push-up the way they wanted me to. And then, being the champ I am, decided to have another go at it and fell on my face AGAIN! I did get a work out, I definitely worked up a sweat, but I really, honest to goodness, spent the majority of the time laughing hysterically on the floor because:

A) It is soooo freaking hard!
B) It is ridiculous what horrible shape I'm in
C) I had to GRUNT to do these things
D) Half of the exercises were so damn hard that I almost peed on myself out of strain

No, really. Avery spent a solid half hour "exercising" after he watched me do this mess....it consisted of him grunting like a gorilla. hahaha SO PATHETIC!!!

Some memories of my little-Averyman...

...mostly so that I won't forget.

When Avery was just a baby he used to make the "cheerio mouth"...pursing his lips together really tight until they formed a tight little o.

In the waddler classroom, before one year old, Avery used to take kid's pacifiers out of their mouth and laugh at them when they cried (little devil since day one!)

Recently, whenever Avery asks if he can do something and I say he can he says, "Mommy, you're so nice."

Avery's speech is still not that great, but when he was little Jeremy and I used to have some fun with it. The greatest one? When we told him to say "starfish" it sounded like he was saying "Son of a bitch". Yeah, can I have my Mom of the Year Award now? haha

Avery went through an extensive period of being a cat when I first had Caitlin. I assume that it was his way of telling me he wanted to snuggle up...but I would have to pet him, and give him food on the floor, etc.

Avery also went through an extensive period, and still does occasionally, of telling me that he couldn't get up because he was "Stuck in the mud". Code for "I want you to carry me".

More to come as I remember...I'm too tired to think right now

I'm going to have to change the layout of my page...

Particularly devastated by this. I was looking through help links trying to figure out why comments couldn't be posted on my blog and it's a problem with the layout template. The help section gave information on how to add the comment html into the template, but I am NOT going to sit here for hours trying to figure that mess out!

Comment section...

Why won't mine work? I tried to comment on someone else's post and that wouldn't work either...but I have commented on a different person's blog before. wtf?

Just some pictures...

My little beauty on her first birthday. She's trying to put her headband back on <3













She rolled under the bed and was temporarily "lost".















The damage done to Avery's bedroom by him and Hope during one of her visits. This was MORE than enough to send me into panic mode.















Trying to demonstrate to Avery exactly what would happen if he didn't sit still for the dentist.

Updated post..

My post about my little artist Avery now has pictures of his artwork.

Finally losing :o)

I don't really know what's gotten into me recently, but...
I'm FINALLY losing the Caitlin weight
(I say Caitlin weight because I'm still a loooong way off from losing the Avery weight). I have tried and tried and tried to lose this weight all year long, but, for whatever reason, I always ended up quitting after a few weeks. (I prefer to call it "cheating"). That being said...I lost 8.6 lbs. last month! Whoot!!
I entered into the 150's range for the first time since getting pregnant with Caitlin and, while it did feel good, the good feeling only lasted a moment because...
150 range is still freaking fat!
Seriously! But, I'm determined to be in the 140's by the end of this month (April 2nd is my one month deadline)...and the 130's by the beginning of May. To see that 130 again is probably going to make me throw a party. I haven't been there since getting pregnant with Avery! Through all this excitement I can't help but wonder..
where is this motivation coming from?!?
I know that it started because I knew my mom was going to visit for Avery's birthday and I'm sick of her telling me that I'm fat. Another motivational piece, my 10 year reunion is coming up soon (although, there hasn't been much talk about that recently...). And, I am sick of not liking to wear a bathing suit. I LOVE the water and it sucks to be embarrassed about putting a bathing suit on. These all got me started, but, I just don't know what has kept me going. I'm going to take it, whatever it is, though!

The honesty of children...

A little tidbit from a conversation I had with one of my students today.

"When I grow up I'm going to be big like my sister. She's big like you and Ms. Lindsay. But she's not as fat as you."

I mean, in all fairness, I am fat. But, good grief that was harsh! This little girl is one of my favorites (yes, I have favorites...any teacher who says they don't is lying) but she has been a little too lippy, honest, snobby, whatever you want to call it. This came after she announced quite loudly that she thought another child's artwork was ugly. Actually got my attention just to say that she thought someone's person was ugly (we traced our bodies and the kids painted the cut outs).

Also out of a students mouth recently,
"I'm going to kill you down."
Erm, wtf? I chose to ignore that one because the child has been acting a little attention starved lately and has been acting out just to get it. He had pulled it on my co-teacher the day before saying such things as "I'm going to beat you with my knucklehead.". (Yeah, I don't get it either haha).
I love my students, don't get me wrong. But seriously, there are some days when they need to be lucky I'm not their mother. Because when a student does that teacher Melissa says "That's not nice. You need to go sit down and think about what you said." Or, if it's really bad, "Are you kidding me?!" And, when Avery does that, mommy Melissa says "If I EVER hear that come out of your mouth again I am spanking your bottom! Hard!" lol, poor Avery.