Weigh-in Wednesday

Short post! 

Lost 1 pound! Woot woot! 

Started the 30 day squat challenge and it's kicking my butt - and I don't mind! 

I also started increasing and tracking my water intake with a new app called Waterlogged. 

I really like the app because I can get a good visual of where I'm at during the day and how much water I have to go in order to reach my goal. 

I may or may not be consuming equal amounts of coffee each day but that's a whole other hurdle I need to tackle. I will worry about that later.

Ok back to work! 

Happy Labor Day!

The family and I had a great weekend of end of summer fun.

Just typing 'end of summer' makes me wanna cry.

Saturday we cheered the Ohio State Buckeyes onto a victory and we spent some time with friends. Marlee met my bestie Kelly for the first time and we were able to catch up a bit.

(When are you moving back btw?)

Note to self: Don't stand next to Kelly. She can make a supermodel look like a house.

Just kidding Kel. You look great - as usual.

Sunday we went to the Tozzi's and Marlee was put on a wait list for being held. Next time we are going to take a timer so everyone gets a turn. Needless to say, she enjoyed all the extra loving. Baby girl loves to be held.

Today we went to Gma Wanda's for time with my side of the family. Once again she was passed around and loved on some more.

In that last picture, she wanted some coffee - just like her mom.

Marlee also scratched herself this weekend and officially had her first boo-boo. It didn't seem to bother her very much but as soon as I got home, I knew I had to suck it up and clip her teeny tiny claws to prevent further injury.

And of course I clipped the end of her finger. 

It seriously bleed for five seconds and she cried for even less then that.

I cried for about ten minutes and you would have thought she was bleeding out from my reaction. 

Traumatized. 

So scratch away Marlee. I will never clip your fingernails again.

Happy Labor Day everyone!

Bath Time!

I went a little crazy with the picture taking yesterday while baby girl was in the bathtub. She just loved every minute of it and so I let her soak her little worries away. And she sleeps amazing after a nice long bath so it was a win win for baby and me! 

I was also looking back at her first bath pictures and she has grown so much! 

My chunky little nugget has really filled out! 

She makes the funniest faces sometimes. I could seriously sit and laugh at her all day. 

We were also able to enjoy outside a little yesterday on my day off. 

See! Pissed off face for absolutely no reason. Apparently she did not want to be this close to the pepper plant. 

She was enjoying her daddy and the sun! 

She even rode Brusco backwards. My little daredevil. 

And now it's 2am and everyone is sleeping. I should be too but my body is always on a strange midnight schedule so it's hard to sleep thru the nights on my day off. Marlee will be waking up here soon anyways and after looking at these pictures, I am anxiously waiting for her to rise. Motherhood is strange like that. I spend half the time wanting her to nap and the other half waiting for her to rise. 

Until next time! Goodnight! 

Weigh-in Wednesday

Not only have I been slacking on working out, I also completely forgot to weigh myself this morning. So only God knows if I have lost or (GASP!) gained weight. I am going to continue to be optimistic and say that I lost. Even though my sister was so kind to point out how big my butt is! Anna you are banned from Marlee for a week!

Pumping at work sucks so bad by the way. Blogging makes it go by a little quicker... Still about as uncomfortable as it gets. I feel bad for cows. 

This week I made some awesome peanut butter cookies which had no flour in them which practically makes them healthy. Right? They were moist and really tasty. Besides the couple I treated Brusco with, I actually ate the whole batch. I did have to bake while holding my fussy Marlee which was a workout in itself. I can cross 'one handed baking' off my bucket list. 

 

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

 

1 egg
1 cup Peanut Butter
½ cup white sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

 

Mix everything together.

Form balls. (Hopefully you have two hands for this part.)

Make pretty patterns with a fork.

Bake @ 350 degree for 11 minutes.
Eat!

 

 

Work has been decent this week.

Isaac had his first football game and won!

Breastfeeding is actually (dare I say it!) enjoyable this week. I think being away from Marlee makes our time together so much more special and feeding is a huge part of that.

Marlee met her oldest cousin Taya.

 

Here are some other pictures from the week.

 

 

 

 

Not too exciting but definitely busy!

 

Hopefully this gives Aunt Lin her Marlee picture fix for the week :)  

One Month Old!

Hello.

My name is Marlee Josephine and I am one month old today!

I like the Browns but this makes Daddy very happy. 

My likes include my binkie, wearing pajamas all day long, and being carried around. 

I also love my swing when it has batteries ((D batteries cost an arm and a leg!)), warm baths, and sucking my thumb ((ugh we have a thumb sucker!)).

I get the hiccups a lot, prefer to lay on my belly, and sleep 3-4 hours at a time. 

Overall, I am perfect! ((At least I think so :))

Weigh-in Wednesday!

This week has been a little hectic so no progress has been made on getting the treadmill to its new home in the basement. So therefore there is no new weight loss to be shared. 

Nick, Grandpa Jim, Marlee, and I did go on a nice walk down in Magnolia yesterday which did have me breaking a bit of a sweat. Then I came home and ate 9 bratwurst for dinner. They were delicious, I was starving, and I would do it again! Once again, food is going to be my enemy number one. 

Now back to playing with Marlee since I have to work tonight. 

Deep in thought

Happy Four Weeks Marlee!

Baby girl and I have made it to four weeks! She has been a bit of a pistol at night time lately so I gave her a nice warm bath tonight and she finally fell asleep. 

I think she out grew her first outfit. Tonight is the last night for these PJs. 

I started back to work last night and as mentally prepared as I thought I was, it hit me pretty hard once I left the house. Pregnancy and motherhood has made me sappy. I cried the entire way to work. I missed her something fierce. I couldn't stop thinking about her sweet face. And I couldn't get home fast enough. I snuggled with her all day today. She smelled like heaven. Nick did really well with her too at night, which will make my next night of work a bit easier. I won't have to worry as much about how the both of them are doing. It's a good thing I only work 3 nights a week. I'm not sure if I could do the regular five days a week shenanigans. 

Now after a rough start to the week, hubby and I are going to enjoy our time together and watch some Suits. Love, love, love some Harvey Specter!