catch up

i still like staying up late, with my boys sleeping near by. it makes me feel like i'm still on maternity leave. evan is still sleeping in our bed...and dylan is still in his crib. not sure when we're going to start making the transition to other options. i still have our europe trip as a goal to transition evan into the crib, but dylan needs to be out first. who knows.

i didn't get a chance to write about the trip down to socal before work. it was probably the longest trip for me to LA in a very long time. i'm always torn when i go back. it's great to see friends whenever possible, but it makes me sad to see our house so run down and old. the bedrooms are drafty, the bathrooms need to be updated, i mean dad has clear duct tape holding the paint together in the downstairs bathroom. it makes me sad. but it's so nice for the boys to spend time with puo-puo and gong-gong, and i'm sure they like to be in their own element. dylan was a little bit sick prior to the trip, and successfully contaminated the entire family. evan was sick (his case was pretty mild), i became sick, but my parents (mom who was sick earlier from dylan) had it the worse, along with brian. dad had a high fever and went to the doctor, a few days in, but had a lingering cough for weeks. Brian seemed sick for almost a month as well, finally going to kaiser to get some meds near the the end of Feb. we stayed in san diego for an extra night to let my parent's recover.

highlights:
-wandering through target with kathy and christine, after meeting for dinner and picking up some coffee
-visiting with Cindy at her home in seal beach
-experiencing legoland with the boys
-model train museum

low-lights:
-everyone becoming sick
-dylan not into the zoo that much, and getting fixated with the train outside the park
-dylan melting down at the scripps aquarium (at lunch, and then not wanting to wash his hands afterwards)
-the westin at the gaslamp district (a bit too urban for my taste, with the concierge eyeing vagrants coming into the hotel to watch the superbowl)

everyone was sick and low-energy the last few days of my leave. it was all pretty mellow and low key, which was i guess ok. i focused on getting rest and working out. losing this weight is a full time job, which of course is interrupted with my full time job. and that will be another post.

6 months

hard to believe that evs had his 6 months check up this week. he was 17 lbs 10 oz (50 %tile) and 90%tile height, but i don't think brian brought back his print out home after the appt. i had to leave the appt before it was over to get back to the office by 930ish for a meeting. sad.

evan is still a bundle of joy - a little giggling rolly polly. his top right tooth is coming in, and we're just about to start solids. we have the rice cereal, but i haven't picked out a good outfit for him to be on camera/video to record the moment.

dr kleary is leaving menlo clinic to work for a boutique practice that offers 24/7 care so that she can be more present for her boys. i am happy for her, but a little sad for the rest of us. it was again a reminder of how she's in an occupation that lends itself to more work/life balance. i need to keep in mind my ability to work on a marketable/transferable skill set for possible consulting work down the road. bridget is having such a hard time back-filling cathy on maternity leave, that having a backfill gig for bridget would be nice...if i knew my fertile future.

i still stare at evan and wonder if he's going to be it. i'm still not sure...and the more difficult it is to loose this post-partum weight, the more daunting becoming pregnant again seems. i'm about 132 now, still about 5-10 lbs from where i want to me. i feel like it's been about 5-10 lbs for the last few months. getting below 130 will be a good milestone, although my body composition is so different these days. my gut is so protrusive and im pretty sure my butt is flattening away, making the stomach distortion even worse. good to know my body dysmophia is still in full effect. i have to say the i've become less enthralled with dailey method, and prefer personal training and soul cycle instead. now 1 hour workouts seem way too long and not as effective.

dylan is as active and as inquisitive as ever. constantly saying "Watchu talk'n 'bout baba". he's pretty good about wearing underwear, and letting us know when he needs to go to the bathroom. today he asked to go to the bathroom at cooking papa, and told b that he was going "big boy style". he's now forward facing in the car, and quite the little music connoisseur, liking Justin Timberlake and one direction. it's pretty funny that he'll ask me what song is on the radio, and then he'll tell brian in the car. he's been bitten a few times in preschool now, which is unnerving, and i'm a little nervous about his preschool trial playdate this week at cornerstone. i hope we both like the place.

last week we went to spring training. in spite of the apparent food poisoning, the spa day was quite nice, capped off with a nice meal at don and charlie's. poor brian got sick when we got home, and now mumford it sick too. i think b was pretty stressed during the trip, trying to manage the logistics. i hope he had fun. it was good to see juice and go out with friends (terry, noel, and anson) for a night. no shopping for me (the rack was a bomb)...no time and not quite satisfied with my body composition. strangely enough i only went to 1 game, and felt like i could have gone to 1 more.

so sick and not pregnant

it's strange to be throwing up and have it not be associated with a pregnancy. well this is me, sitting in my underwear in the dark with the curtains drawer, with a sore stomach and a wrecked GI tract. we're in scottsdale now, for spring training, and i'm pretty disappointed that i had to skip out on the game. did not want to risk getting sick, from either end at the ballpark. evs is with me tossing and turning, and look, he just rolled over!

the official roll over date was about March 4, but he has progressively become rollier as the week went on by! he is so cute! ok, must attend to the snuggle bunkers now.