Today is the first day I weighted in under 170. My official weigh in according to my nice Withings Scale was 169.7. That was a big phycological barrier to cross for me.
Today I also took a sick day. I am still trying to recover from my cold.
Test Cake
MC has been experimenting with cake for Teagan’s upcoming first birthday. This weekend she made her first test cakes. One was in a duck mold. it looked horrible but tasted perfect. The other one was a traditional cake that also tasted fantastic. MC is really good at this cake stuff but her decision to start a baking hobby is a challenge since I am dieting.
I was eating so much of that awesome cake that we had to throw out what we had left over after giving away a ton of it.
Another Jawbone UP
While I was away on vacation my jawbone UP broke yet again. Their warranty replacement process takes one to two weeks. They’re very good with giving you a replacement UP’s but it takes forever to get it. I am assuming since I have gone through six or seven of them and I don’t beat them up very much they are having problems with them and that is why they are quick to replace them. While I’m trying to actually lose weight and check my activity every day not having an UP for one to two weeks is very difficult. Because of that I decided to eat the $129 and get another one so I had it when I got home from vacation. I seriously contemplated getting the Fitbit Flex but I opted for another UP. MC convinced me to get another black band one instead of the blue one I was looking at. I’m glad she did because Jawbone I didn’t have any black ones in stock so the replacement one I am getting will be blue.
Our Private Pool Cabana
On our last full day in Aruba we decided to rent one of the awesome poolside cabana’s and relax in style. It was really nice. The free towel service, water and ice on top of the guaranteed shady chairs made the splurge worth it. I can’t see spending money on them every day but since we had the cabana we stayed by the pool a lot longer today. Teagan enjoyed her nap in the shade as well.
It was a fantastic last full day in Aruba. Sad to have to be going home tomorrow.
Dinner on the Beach
Today Teagan took a power nap with me while I walked her in the stroller on the beach. She then took a two hour nap after lunch. We got lucky. The weather continues to be fantastic. For Lunch we walked to the Westin Hotel and grabbed food at their poolside cafe since MC & I did not think that much of the poolside cafe in our hotel.
For dinner we had reservations for a beachside meal right on the water in the sand at our hotel. It was one of the two splurge nights we decided to have on our stay. It was pretty amazing to sit and relax at a table right on the beach. They timed it so we started to sit down as the sun was going down.
The food was pretty good. it was the first time i had a lobster bisque soup. The service was a bit slow but we attribute that to the distance the servers had to travel to get to us! Teagan was very cooperative also. She generally is a fantastic baby and she fell asleep in MC’s arm’s after it got dark but not before she was up way past her bedtime. Overall a perfect day in Aruba.
Catching up on Blogging
The way I write this blog is I will try to come up with a subject to an entry and a sentence or two on what I want to write to job my memory when I finally sit down to write about it. Many times I will write the full post within a few days of my thinking of it. Other times I pile up entries that I really want to write but dont get to them for weeks or sometimes months later. Tonight I had some down time so I went back to a half a dozen posts that I have wanted to write since as far back as November and tried to catch up. I still have over 38 drafts pending but I made a dent in my backlog. I will usually back date things to the day they happened or when I thought about writing them instead of posting things dated today. It is my way of keeping a certain point of view. My post for today is that I spent almost an hour and a half catching up on posts this way. it is news in my life only because I dont normally get that much time and when I do I dont always focus on writing. I almost never focus on writing. I like doing it and it sometimes helps me relax so I will try to do it more often. Of course I can find a half a dozen times when I say that over the past 10 years and it is always a struggle to sit down and write.
Lunch With My Mom & Sister
Today was my mom’s birthday. When talking to my sister last night she mentioned that she was going into the city with my mom for a show and they were going to grab lunch. I pointed out sarcastically that I work in Times Square and I also have been known to eat lunch. She didn’t know why she didn’t think of asking me but we made plans to get lunch.
We met up at an italian restaurant around the corner from my office. That was coincidental since my mom got a recommendation from a friend to go there. We had a nice lunch. I had Veal Parm. It was good to see both of them especially since I wasn’t going to see my mom for dinner on her birthday.
The Containment System is in Place
MC & I have procrastinated long enough. We spent months pondering what baby gate system we should get. In our defence we had issues with the length of the opening of the play area by the living room. We wanted a friction mount system but nothing would work with a friction mount at that size. We also didn’t want to drill a hole into the molding around the opening we were going to use. We ended up having to buy a system that we drill into the wall but also figured out a way to not touch the molding. Once we figured that out we bought a system but then found excuse after excuse not to set it up for 2 weeks. Finally we found time to do it today. The bigger gate took a while to get right, but the smaller one we use to block off the kitchen was thankfully a friction mount and it only took like 10 minutes to setup.
Teagan was babbling and crawling through the kitchen and turned the corner and saw the gate for the first time and just stopped talking and stopped moving to stare at it. When we are with her we leave the doors open so she can crawl out and explore with us in toe. She crawled into the living room and then started playing with the door. I think she will be locking us out very soon. At least we can contain her in her play area when we want to. Well that is until she learns to climb over the gates. She has already figured out that the bars are great for helping her stand up.
A New Media Center Unit
Today I put together furniture for the media center. When we found out we were haivng a baby we knew that part of baby proofing would require us to replace my old media center. What I had was open and had glass shelves. We bought a new unit with drawers. I was able to put the power strips and everything inside the unit so only a few wires go out of it into the outlets. We can also get baby proofing stuff to lock the doors on the front of it.
We hoped to have this built sooner but when we got it the base piece was broken. Crate and Barrel was really cool and sent us the replacement part with little hassle. We spent most of Teagan’s nap assembling it. MC then played with Teagan as I moved all our electronic gear to the new enclosure. I am very pleased with the results!
Now all I need to do is finally order my new TV so I can get it mounted on the wall above this unit.
T Standing on Her Own
Sometime in the past week or so T started pulling herself up to a standing position. She would try before and we would help her do it but within the past week she has been doing it much more frequently and totally by herself. it is pretty cool to see her mastering a new skill.
She is also able to sit back down with some difficulty but she can do it. M saw on a parents news group people saying their babies had trouble doing that for a while so at least we hopefully dont have to keep going into her crib to sit her down once she figures out how to do that in there. Please no one tell T that she can do that. She hasn’t figured out she can stand up in her crib yet.
She has been teething a lot recently. Drool is everywhere but at lest she has 4 teeth showing now. Two on top and two on bottom. If I didnt see them I would hear her grinding them all the time. Apparently that is her latest play time activity. It sounds like it would hurt a lot but my dad said it doesn’t and she is testing out her new weapons.
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