11 Months Old

Happy 11 Months Peanut!!

  

You are one activity little boy!

You don't like to sit still for long. Hence why it took so long to get this months update up and multiple attempts at getting your picture taken. :) When we go out to eat, you'll gladly sit in the highchair to eat but once your done eating you're done being confined to that chair.

You don't officially crawl yet. But you do get up on all fours, rock back and forth like you're about to take off then take about 2-4 steps and belly flop. It's rolling from then on out till you get to where or what you want! You army crawl a lot but you mostly roll EVERYWHERE.

You really like to roll from the carpet to the tile or hardwood because you like the feel of the different textures.....and the different sounds you can make. You like to scratch with your freakishly sharp nails anything and everything to make noises. Or you'll bang a toy against the floor to hear the sounds.

I swear every time we go over to Sean and Annette's you do something new. This month you pushed yourself all the way up from tummy to sitting up in front of everyone, twice in a row. And now will pull yourself up onto your knees. You love to grab onto mommies hands to pull yourself up to your knees and then have mommy pull you all the way up to standing, you just smile and giggle the entire time.

We celebrated your first Memorial Day. It was raining cats and dogs the entire 3 day weekend which was a major bust but we got to spend lots of quality time together as a family. You helped mommy and daddy celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary. Grandma and Grandpa came over to play with you so we would enjoy a date night out. We went to the Hebbel family reunion at Wise Guy’s Pizza on your daddy’s side were you got the chance to meet lots of new people who all just loved you…and you got to eat pizza!

We celebrated daddy's first Father's Day!!

We went out to lunch to the Machine Shed with grandma and grandpa. Took a 3 generations picture in front of the John Deere tractor. You helped grandpa Jim open up his gifts and loved playing with all the wrapping paper. We made a cake for grandpa Gary and take cake with ice cream. You even got to try sherbet for the first time and of course you really liked it.

Monthly Highlight's

• Went to more of Daddy’s baseball games
• Family reunion on daddy’s side
• First Memorial Day
• Early pick up from daycare by grandma and grandpa Dexter
• Celebrated mommy and daddy’s 5^th anniversary
• Went to Lilah’s 4^th birthday
• Celebrated Father’s Day
• Celebrated Stella's 1st birthday
• Lowered crib
• Sat up all by himself from tummy
• Pulls up to knees
• Family day at the park, dogs and all

Age: 11 months old
Weight: 22 pounds
Length: 28ish inches

Size: He's still wearing some of his 9 month clothes but there starting to get small. 12 month fits perfect, also wear 6-12M and 12-18 month clothes. Size 4 diapers.

Hair: Light brown, thick and getting longer by the day. On hot and humid days it tends to curl or frizz up a bit in the back.

Eyes: Love those Baby Blues!

Health: Finally kicked that double ear infection praise the Lord! Fought it for well over a month and was on the verge of getting referred to a specialists, lets hope he stays ear infection free for a while.

Teeth: Cut another tooth on the bottom!! This time it was just one instead of two at a time. Now has 5 teeth.

Sleeping: Still a great sleeper and I love him for that! He takes 2 naps each about 1-1.5 hours. Now that it's summer we've been trying to push bedtime back a bit so we can enjoy some of daddy's baseball games and the beautiful warm weather. Sometimes he's still ready for bed early though. This month bedtime is anywhere between 7-8:00pm and sleeps through the night till 6:30am.

Eating: He officially started weaning himself. Only nurses once a day, first thing in the morning, then take 2-3 bottles of breast milk the rest of the day. Eats 3 meals of solids, mainly all finger foods. New foods include watermelon, pumpkin, blueberries, black beans, strawberries, ice cream (thanks to daddy), and sherbet. Favorites are still bananas, sweet potatoes, any type of bread, and yogurt.

Movement: Not yet crawling, army crawls and rolls everywhere he wants to go. Pushes up from tummy to sitting up. Reaches arms out for you to take him out of his car seat or highchair and to pick him up. Will stand for a few short seconds by himself or holding onto something.

Milestones: Army crawling, pushed himself up to sitting from tummy (6-8-13), pushed up to all fours and rocks, pulls self up to knees, lowered crib

Favorite Toys/Activities: Bath time makes everything better...for the time being. He splashes around and goes nuts-o in the water, his legs go a mile a minute kicking all over the place. Playing ball. All types and sizes of balls. He loved rolling them back and forth or trying to throw them. Banging toys to make noise. Music. Swings at the park.

Dislikes: Sitting still for diaper changes!! Holy smokes this kid needs to wrestled or held down by two people to get his diaper changed. You need to be fast! Sitting still to get dressed. Being confined to one spot. Since he hasn't figured out how to crawl yet he gets frustrated when you put a toy away for him to get and he can't reach it.

Words/Sounds: At home or once he warms up to being around people he is a chatterbox. He tries imitating noises and sounds that we make, he studies us really hard and will watch your mouth then try to do the same thing. He says dada and mama all the time but no necessarily for mom or dad. He does nig-nig for ni-night when he's tired though.

Favorite Moments:
We went over to Jordan and Steph's on Stella's birthday for cake and ice cream. Dave thought it would be a good idea to see if MJ would like eat ice cream and like it. So he gave him just one little taste. Someone is sure going to have a sweet tooth like their parents because he wanted more. When I say he wanted more, I mean MJ cried because he wanted more and daddy walked about with his ice cream.

Another favorite moment was watching MJ and his cousin Stella playing together and giving each other kisses. Just the sweetest thing ever!

11 and One

I attempted MJ's 11 month photo shoot over the weekend so I can write up his monthly update.

 

TOTAL FAIL!

It's not always rainbows and sunshine around here.

Sometimes a kid just doesn't want to sit still for you to take his picture, even though he was just smiling up a storm at you in the living room. 

Rather....

He wants the ball on the floor.

Or that toothbrush on his night stand.

Or, oh look the puppies are in my room what are they doing.

Or roll around on the floor and find things to put in my mouth.

Or anything else in the world beside sitting on this dang chair while mommy takes my freak 'in picture!!  

Ahhh the attention span of an 11 month old.

We have a busy week coming up so I really hope to get in attempt #2 and finish update this week. It doesn't look good though...

 

Yesterday was also Miss Stella's 1st Birthday!!!

 Her big bash is this weekend but we went over to celebrate on her actual b-day. This girl killed her cake!! She started off really slow, just poking the frosting then playing with it in her fingers. But it didn't take long before diving in and getting dirty. So excited to see how she does at her party.

 

Cousin LOVE!

These two.

Melt my heart!

They were so cute together. Wrestled a little bit. Laughed at each other. Stella gave MJ kisses. Then they kissed each other. And then MJ wanted to give Stella kisses which she answered back by tackling him and he thought it was funny!

Ahhh I so look forward to seeing these two grow up together!!

My Pre-Baby Body Can Suck It!

I AM OFFICIALLY A #C25K GRADUATE! Thank you @c25kfree! Running for a cause with @BCRFcure! At the peak of my #health!

I can't believe I FINALLY made it through the entire program this round!!!
Here is my last week on the Couch to 5K program

I was less than a tenth of a mile away from running 3 full miles during the 30 minute jogging portion. My goal now is to work on my time and push myself on the treadmill to get the 3.1 miles ran in 30 minutes.
My other goal is do the program outside!!
I plan on starting a few weeks back, maybe around week 4 or 5, then building up to the full run. Running outside, especially with a stroller is so much harder than inside on a treadmill so I definitely need to build up my time and stamina on the outdoor terrain :)

Last week I said I was going to update ya'll on all my stats, AND I didn't.

So here we go....

I officially started this round of the C25K in the beginning of April, I never wrote my weight down so I'm just going by when I did, which was right before I started the 30 Day Shred on the 1st of May. I had 10 lbs to lose to get to my pre-pregnancy weight and my number one goal has been to get to that weight off by MJ's, fast approaching, first birthday!

Measurements since May 1st (as of June 20)
Weight: -11 lbs
Waist: -3 inches
Hips: 1 inch
Thighs: 1 inch
Bust: 1 inch
Arms: 0.5 inch

Photo Time

No judging please!!!!!!!!!!!



I'm only taking pics and posting them to SEE any changes. The scale will not always be the best measurement of success so that is why measuring and comparing pictures will help ME be able to see small changes.

 

Subtle changes people. But changes no doubt!

 

 

Now that I have accomplished my BIG goal of losing those pesky last pounds of baby weight, it's time to work on the rest of this additional weight we got going on.

I was overweight to begin with. I know this. 

My new goal is to work on the next 10 lbs.

Ideally, 13 pounds will put me at the top of a healthy BMI. I of course want to be under that at some point to be able to give myself some leeway.  But we're doing baby steps here. Small goals to help stay on track and feel like the goals are attainable. So 10 is the magic number.

 

Overall: I'm feeling thinner. I'm feeling healthier. And STRONGER!

I have to admit, I never EVER thought I would be able to run. Nor run 3 miles or for an entire 30 minutes. It feels great to have that accomplishment under my belt.

I barely got through half of the program before I had a baby.

Even though I am currently now the same weight as before baby and my belly may be more flabby than before as well, my body is much stronger and healthier!!

Before MJ I could barely run 1 mile.

Currently I can almost run 3 miles.

I may not have the same body as I use to.

It sure doesn't look the same, even at the same weight.

 

But my pre-baby body can SUCK IT because I.AM.STRONGER.

I plan on blogging more about this topic at one year postpartum, stay tuned.



We've reached that milestone where nothing is safe.....especially when someone is suppose to be napping.  

Time to lower the crib!!

Life via the Camera Roll

Thought I'd share a few pictures from the past 2 weeks via my camera phone. 

Bath time with mommy!
Usually it's daddy's job but with baseball season in full swing, sometimes mommy has to do some extra dirty work ;)

I spy my little guy passed out....love watching him sleep (creepy mom alert)!

OMG looking at him sitting in a shopping cart with his back towards me just KILLS me!!!

Someone love breakfast time, especially when grandma Karen drops off blueberry muffins for him. He loves his carbs!

I love me some summertime rompers and baby leg rolls...look at those hambones!

My Worst and Best

I always start writing all these new posts, meaning to come back to finish them later that day or the next....and then almost a week or two later I have 5 unpublished and unfinished posts! Such a bad unorganized blogger I am.

 

Last week I had my first epic fail of the C25K.

Okay it really wasn't that bad. With Dave's busy baseball schedule I don't get many chances to go to the gym over a lunch break since I leave work early most days to pick the little guy up so he's not at daycare for 10 hours.

Monday I decided to take MJ back to the bike path to attempt my jog outside for week 7. This was my first run that I had to stop early to walk because I had already pushed myself as far as I could and could not for the life of me find anything more in me to go any further.

I did NOT make the 25 minutes jog for week 7. 

I only made it 20 minutes.

I was pretty disappointed in myself when I stopped to walk. After a couple minutes I tried to finish but only made it 2 more minutes (when I got to the bottom of a hill) before being defeated by the elements.    

 

 Let's just make a note here that the last time I tried the C25K outside on the bike path with the jogging stroller and a 22 pound baby in with was back in week 3 or 4. So that is some significant differences in jogging amounts here. I think my longest jog time was 5 minute intervals in week 4....in week 7 it's 25 minutes.

That's a 20 minute difference in time!!!

Holy shitballs, now that I realize the difference, I guess I did pretty damn!

Jogging on the treadmill verses outside is totally different, outside is so much harder.

Wednesday I made it back to the gym in which I was able to fully complete Week 7 Day 2.

I actually felt pretty damn good the first half of the run and it didn't start getting really hard until about 3/4 way through.

 

Saturday I participate in my first 5K of the year, Race for the Cure!

I had thought about signing up for it weeks ago but didn't think I'd be ready for it just yet. And I wasn't just yet but decided to give it a try anyways with Kelsey. Since it's for a great cause and everything anyways it wouldn't really matter if I was ready, all that mattered was that we participated and supported the cause!

We got to the race within minutes of it starting so instead of running to get in line behind the starting line we just decided to wait at the beginning of that block (which was like 100 feet maybe, I don't really know distances, it was less than 1/2 a block) and jump in after all the competitive runners went by. So that's what we did.

Aside from the 1 minute I stopped to tie my shoe and 2 times I slowed down to grab water I jogged the entire first 2 miles!!!

Granted I felt like I was seriously going to ralph in the street before I got there but all I wanted to do was get to the turn around curve...it was much further than I thought it was but as soon as I saw it I just kept telling myself just to get there. Then of course as soon as I got there on the other side of the corner was the 2 mile marker so I made myself get to that sign before slowing down to walk. The last 1.1 mile I ran off and on. Stopped to walk two more times before finishing strong.

We finished the race just under 35 minutes, barely. ;)

 

I was of course completely exhausted and drained from the race that I could barely move the entire rest of the day. I even took a nap on the floor because I couldn't find the strength to get my ass up to the couch which was less than a foot away I might add.

 

Unfortunately the 30 Day Shred suffered last week and I only completed it 2 days. So I still have not yet gotten to day 3-0. I'm only counting the days I actually do it. BUT I do have other good news to share regarding all the hard work I've been doing....for that you'll have to wait until the end of the week though :)