Goodbye 2012!

For New Year's Eve we made our annual pudding parfaits! Yumm!
Then we hung out and watched The countdown on tv. The kids love to dance to the music.

I tried to get everyone to take a nap earlier so we could stay up late. Rowan was the only one who didn't nap and he ended up falling asleep before the NY ball drop at 11. I tried to wake him up for it but he was out! Eli stayed up for it for the first time ever but fell asleep just a few minutes later.
Mike also made some bacon wrapped poppers for us! Oh so good!

Eat it!

 On Christmas Day we gave Silas some banana! I really wanted to try Baby-led Weaning so we just gave him a few cut strips of banana for him to play with and hopefully put in his mouth.  I thought that part would be easy since he puts everything in his mouth! He was able to get some in his hand but couldn't quite get it to his mouth, we helped a little but he did not care for it! We mushed some up and tried with a spoon and the reaction was the same.  It wasn't the typical "hmmm this is different" look, it was more like "what is this disgusting thing you put in my mouth?!" So we decided we'd try again another day- no big deal.

How to Entertain a Baby During Dinner

1. Take off baby's clothes
2. Put baby in highchair
3. Give baby bowl of mushed banana's
4. Enjoy YOUR dinner, while baby enjoys his

5. Give baby a bath

Got My Fix

I have seriously been making up for my months without sweets. In the past 3 weeks I have eaten more oreo's, ice cream, cake, cookies, and brownies than most people eat in a year. I think I am done. Of course that doesn't mean I will never have it again, but I really need to get some self-control on this. I think I am going to gain more now then I did during the pregnancy if I don't stop now! Luckily, thanks to breastfeeding, I am starving ALL the time and must be burning some calories.

I have lost 16 pounds so far, about half of what I gained so I think I am doing pretty well. I can also wear my pants that I wore pre-pregnancy, although they don't look quite as well as they did, i'm still excited. It took me months to even lose 10lbs after having Rowan, something I still don't understand since he weighed 8lbs7oz, but whatever.

I think that I need to start back on my gestational diabetic diet (w/o ALL the strict restrictions), since I usually enjoyed how I ate. We are getting some yummy stuff from the garden now so that should help. I don't know if I am quite ready to try weight watchers, but maybe I will- soon. I guess there's always excercise- haha!!

I Want Cake!!

This Cake

But of course I can not eat it, so instead Mike made me

Sticky Rice w/ Mango, still pretty good and at least I can FEEL like I'm getting a treat!!!! Since I don't eat hardly anything with sugar now, and even when I do take a tiny bite of something I usually start to feel like crap soon after. I wonder if I'll even be able to tolerate it after the baby's born- maybe I'll have to slowly wean myself back on sugar. I am hoping the baby will be born before my birthday so I can eat cake!!