18w. discovery

Today's discovery: I can hide a pregnancy extremely well. Maybe I just have cooperative babies.

I need to build my newborn diaper stash. It's looking quite lousy and I'm jealous of the girls on the forums. Boo hoo :(

Spunktastic Sunday

I'm feeling spunktastic :) Maybe it was the overwhelming amount of sleep I got last night, or the fact that my high protien diet is really kicking in. Either way, I've got a ton of energy to use wisely today.

A spunktastic sunday to do list :)


-Follow my diet and report to the blog at the end of the day.
-I'm going to wash all of the laundry I've been meaning to in efforts to try and use up our toxic laundry detergent (I have to be frugal before I be green!) so that I can start either making my own or buying a storebought green one.
-Look online for good deals on natural detergent (although I can't smell test them...)
-Wash N's diapers.
-figure out everything in our home that is potentially toxic.. but since that's almost everything, figure out what to keep and what not to keep.
-Seal away N's plastic old toys for a garage sale. As a matter of fact, I'm going to get alot of things set up for a garage sale.
-Green our kitchen.
-Remove all toxic cleaners. Yes, that means you, Windex!


One last thought.. "Green" is becoming such a dull word to me, since it's in my head all day. There is just too much meaning behind it to be just "green". Maybe I should change it to "Grizzeen". Yes, that'll do nicely.

Changes of life

I'm not talking menopause. I'm talking job interviews. I had one today and got a second (follow up) interview. Went pretty quick but hey, I've got another one.

I purchased a new book today, I believe it is called "Growing Up Green" by Deirdre Imus (I think) and it is teaching me a bit beyond "Raising Baby Green" by Dr Greene. I still think that Dr. Greene's book was better written. However, Dr. Greene didn't cover some of the things that this one does, like the "human body burden". Scares the crap out of me. Even if you're not a green bean like me, I'd suggest you read both. I actually walked into Waldenbooks in search of a book about the Bradley Birth Method, but had no luck with that.

I'm currently pursuing the Brewer Diet, which is a pretty big part of the Bradley Method. I have no clue how i'm going to pull this off.. about 100 grams of protien a day! From food ONLY!

I'm growing quite sleepy so i'm going to cut this blog short. I also wanted to add that I started a green to do list on the right of the page :) enjoy.

She's a Knockout

N sleeps through just about.. anything! Today she slept through the neighbor's roofers hammering a huge tarp to the side of our house. It woke Jaime & I but miss sweet thing just kept sleeping!

My birthday was pretty good, I had me a wonderful Porterhouse steak. It had been over a year since I had me a true steak, so I was dead happy. Baby got a good meal!

It's time to wash dipes. Toodles.

The Big Shot- Happy 18 months!

Yes, N has become somewhat of a big shot. She marches around uttering "no. NO." and replies to all of our questions with a firm "No". I'm trying to erase it from my vocabulary as much as possible in hopes of erasing it from hers, but it's not working too well. N is a bit too smart to drop her favorite word of all time. Her vocabulary is increasing greatly. Here is a brief (probably incomplete) list of her words. I know that her speech is lagging behind for her age, but for many months I was not her sole caregiver, and she got a little bit lost in between languages. Anywho, N can say: Juice, no yes, it's hot, outside, let's go, what's that (and other variations like who's that, etc), mama, daddy, ball, book, baby, and much more. She has said other words, but those are her "main vocabulary" words. I'm slowly trying to teach her more, so in the coming months this should build. We are also encouraging her to use her big girl words instead of whining out every demand. Truth is, she has become quite spoiled in her 18 months of life, but this is to change.. slightly :)

N has also taken to love Michael Jackson. All of his songs have been on the radio, her grandma is blasting it upstairs.. when N hears "Thriller" or better yet, "Billie Jean", she can't help but bust a move. She's not quite moonwalking, but spinning in circles does a mighty fine job for her.

And what have mommy and daddy been up to? Nothing really, actually. Staring at the messy house around us, for the most part. It is just so difficult to clean with a toddler trailing behind me all day. But I'm getting it done with the help and encouragement of FlyLady.
We also took N to the beach last week for the first time. She loved it. I think I blogged about this. So our plans for the week are pretty non-existant. Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm not looking forward to getting another year older. Tuesday might warrant another trip to the beach. It IS free, you know. And on Wednesday N has her 18 month doctor's appointment where they will confirm her height and weight as well as stick her with a bunch of needles and argue with me about the ones that I don't want her stuck with.

14wks-Lemon Love

okay, so since I figure I won't update this for a while, I'm jumping to 14 weeks even though that's tomorrow. Baby is now as big as a lemon or my clenched fist. So exciting :) I keep thinking I'm feeling flutters but surprisingly I'm not sure. I felt N at 13wks. It's only a matter of days now.

I started seeing a midwife and am SO excited about natural birthing.

We went to the beach yesterday! N had a blast. We can't wait to go back!



I've got to go catch up on a ton of math studying.. toodles!

10 weeks :) Our Big Update!

It's update time :)

That was baby bean a week ago! He or she was measuring a day ahead which was great, so now due December 29th 2009. Two days after N's birthday. It's a real possibility that our kiddos could share a birthday!

So I start school tomorrow- I'm nervous as hell. Wish me luck!

Also, N's been doing great with the cloth diapering! Everything is going wonderfully.

So that's my big update- haha!