Friday, January 23, 2009

Eli is 2 months already!

If you have read Wed. post I would like to let you all know that I did get a little nap it AND I accomplished everything on my "to do" list. I love those days!

Yesterday Eli had his 2 month shots. He did really well and just cried when she started. I think it took him a few seconds to realize what was going on. Overall he didn't freak out too much. We have been giving him infant Tylenol and that seems to be helping too. He is now:
11.11 lbs (55 percentile for his age)
21.5 inches long (10 percentile for his age but the doctor said he will catch up, I'm not too worried about it yet.)

I was able to get the car cleaned quickly yesterday too since it was so nice outside. It was good to get all that salt off the car and see it sparkle again. Eli was crying before we went into the car wash but once we were in there he really seemed to like all the noises and the brushes going over the car. It will be fun to go through a car wash as he gets older.

It's finally Friday! I'm kind of excited about that. Not that I have any big weekend plans but it's just nice to have Eric home all day and to spend time with him too. I am also done with my bible study for my Gen to Rev class. I am homework free again for another couple of weeks. I am working on reading the book "The Shack." So far so good. REALLY sad but good. I will let you know what I think at the end. I honestly have so many books on my list that I want to read. Some day!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Question for the Day

QUESTION FOR THE DAY:
Why is it that when I sit in the chair at the infodesk... pull it up to the desk and get ready for a good morning of surfing the internet... I feel the need to put my seat belt on? Figure that one out!

This morning was a pretty productive morning. I woke up at 5:30am. Showered quick. Eli woke up around 6 to eat. I fed him and got him back down by 6:30. Finished getting ready and was out the door by 7:15am. I even had chance to shovel some cereal in this morning. I left the house with two boys each sleeping in their own beds. Most of the time I leave them sleeping in the chair. I hope Eric was able to get some sleep in before the little one woke.

Today I have a lot to get done and of course have a list:
1. Finish Bible Study
2. Come up to campus to print off
3. Buy stamps for us and for the infodesk
4. Mail letters
5. Call Fairview
6. Call insurance company... they finally got Eli's insurance cards to me but they spelled our last name wrong. Grrrr!! I feel like I need to do everyone's job for them!
7. Fax Eli's insurance info to different doctor's offices

I think that's it. Somewhere in there I would LOVE to take a nap! We will see if that happens.

Oh yeah and update on the weight loss thing. I did pretty good this week. I lost 2.5 lbs. Not bad. I'm tryting to figure out how much I need to eat because I'm breastfeeding but also not trying to over eat. I figure with the breastfeeding thing this will be the easiest time for me to loose weight since it allows me to eat more. It's kind of nice to keep track and to know that I am loosing the weight and it helps me to feel better in the midst of still not fitting into my jeans yet.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Update and Goal for the New Year

So much to do in my 4 hours at the infodesk... so little time!

So I thought I would spend some of that time blogging. It's been a while. Few key things that have happened since the last blog:

1. Christmas that the Hartung household -- it was a good time had by all. Hard to catch up with everyone but we tried.

2. Eli's baptism the weekend after Christmas 12/28. It was great to have family around and to see him get baptized. I might have started to tear up a little.

3. The mom came up to stay with us for a few days the week after Christmas. We took her back to South Dakota with us when we headed out again to the Mitchell/Sioux Falls area. It was great to have her around and nice to have the help. It felt like the time went by so fast. Makes me wish we were closer!

4. Christmas at the Goldammer's in Ethan, SD was celebrated the first weekend in Jan. It was really good to have everyone home. All day Saturday we hung out and didn't make it anywhere because of the snow. It was actually really nice just to stay in all day.

5. Sunday Jan. 4th we took off and headed to Sioux Falls for a few hours. I had my approval interview. I was approved. YAY! Then we had pizza with some friends really quick and took off back to the Cities. I wish we would have had more time to see more people. Maybe in the next visit. It was good just to be able to see the few we got to see.

6. I started a J-term class. Genesis to Revelation. It's 2 weeks, the whole bible. It's in the afternoon so Eli has been going with me. He seems to really like it and so far has learned most ofthe Old Testament. This week we are on to the New Testament.

So that's pretty much the catch-up.

Before you read the next paragraph I would like to start out by saying.. I don't like New Years Resolutions and this is not one of them. It's just time to start loosing some of the baby fat and trying to fit into my non-prego pants again.

Today starts the Eric and Sarah weight loss program. It's going to be awesome! Our goal is to lose weight. I know.. pretty obvious. We want to lose 50 lbs between the two of us by C and A's Wedding July 10th. I want to loose the majority of those lbs. 35-40 lbs would be awesome! It will just be nice to have Eric on board to eat better with me. For me to loose the 35-40 lbs by July 1oth I will have to loose an average of 1-2lbs a week. That is pretty easy to do. I was really struggling with how to get exercise in these next few months when it is too cold to take the Eli for a walk outside. I originally was not walking up the hill for work because of the shoes I wear up here, butI have now decided just to pack dress shoes and wear my tenni runners up the hill. Even that 10 minutes up and 10 minutes down 3 times a week will help this month. I will probably have to renegotiate that in Feb. once classes start up again.

Working at the desk again I am gong to try to be better about blogging. With that being said... off to get some more of my me time in!