Kyleigh's ears

So today while I was at my mom's Kyleigh started getting a fever. I took her home and by the time I got home and took her fever it was about 104. I took her to the doctor and sure enough she has another ear infection. We are being referred to the ENT. The doctor said we should get a call tomorrow and they will set up an appointment and we can most likely plan on getting tubes next week. :/ I am sad, and a little concerned since it is a surgery and I can't stand the thought of her going under, but, she needs them. So I am thankful for modern medicine and thankful for insurance.

day two

Ok, so no picture again. However I did get a new scale because ours wasn't working correctly. Turns out the number was even worse than I thought. I've got a long way to go! I thought I was better than I was. Anyway, that was a little bit of a depressing way to start the day. I would LOVE to lose 40 pounds, however I will be very happy with 30. This morning I had a banana and almonds. Lunch I had my veggie wrap with hummus. Dinner we went over to my brothers house and everyone was having hamburgers. I had bought some veggie burgers at Trader Joes and was planning on eating those, however when I went to grab one today I noticed they had eggs in them. So, I had lettuce with a tomato and guacamole! I also had some watermelon, and some broccoli slaw. For snack when I got home I had hummus with carrots. I came in under 1200 calories but I never put in my creamer so I'm sure I was closer to that 1200. I haven't decided how often I am going to weigh myself. Part of me says wait until Monday and see what a week did, the other part wants to keep weighing everyday! I will try to get pictures tomorrow. Since I have so much to lose I am praying this works this month and then I will keep it up for longer (but still just going for the 30 days.)

day one

Day one of vegan-hood has been pretty good. I had oatmeal this morning, a veggie wrap with hummus for lunch, and then spaghetti for dinner. I did have bread with dinner too, it was vegan, but that was a lot of carbs. This will most likely not help with the losing the weight. I did put everything into my fitness pal though and I am on track for calories today to lose weight so here's hoping. I have had nothing with animal in it today! Even my coffee had soy creamer. There were a couple times today that I went to take a bite of something I should not have eaten. Both were when I was feeding the kids. I normally eat some of Kyleigh's cheese stick because she won't eat the whole thing and also for some reason I eat the ends of her hot dogs (this doesn't really make sense) but I do, and both of those times I had to stop myself. Other than that it was good. I did not take a picture but I will have Randy take a before one tomorrow. I did have a freezer pop before bed which again is sugar and is not going to help my weight loss. But even with the bread and everything I was at 1250 calories for the day. I also drank a ton of water again today which felt nice!

Beach Trip

Over Etta's track out we went down to the beach for two days. It was such a wonderful break to be out of the house and not worry about anything. Randy did not work and I did not do school so it was great. We went to Wilmington first and went to the aquarium. The kiddos loved it. I knew Ender and Julietta would love it, but we had no idea how much Kyleigh would love it. Kyleigh is our little animal lover. She sees a cat or a dog and she freaks out laughing and it will cash it. She has no qualms about sticking her hand on a dog or cat. So she stood at the window watching the fish and just pointed and laughed!

After that we went out for dinner on the beach. This was great in theory, but I need to keep remembering that eating out somewhere other than a fast food restaurant is just not for us right now! We also left Kyleigh's bottle at the restaurant so, Kyleigh is officially weaned off her bottle. She did not drink much at the beach but she is doing good now!

The next day was our beach day. Randy and I were stupid and did not put lotion on us so we ended up looking like lobsters, but the kids did ok with the sun. Kyleigh freaked out about the waves and they scared her to death. She spent 90% of the day in my lap with her face buried in my chest. Our day was also interrupted by about 15 jelly fish. Over all the kids had a marvelous time and it was wonderful to get away as a family.

Going Vegan

So tomorrow I am going to fully commit to going vegan for one month. I watched Forks over Knives awhile ago and have been thinking about it, but I am committing!  My husband is not down so it'll be an interesting month of cooking but I am super super excited. I am hoping that this will help me lose weight and also help my insides feel better! Because Randy is sick of hearing me talk about it and I know some on facebook are not going to want to hear about it, I will be blogging on here pretty regularly about my vegan month! :) I will most likely post some before-mid-and after pictures as well. I went to Trader Joes today and stocked up for the first week, so I'm ready to go!!!

teeth and.....

I will post pictures soon, but wanted to report that Julietta's tooth has fallen out and Kyleigh has 3 teeth in and another 3 coming in that I can see. She has been not in great moods lately.

AND..... Kyleigh is now walking!!!!!  yay! I will post a video as well in a little bit but just wanted to update :)

The last two months

The last two months have been hard and long on us here health wise. Kyleigh has had double ear infections for a while. She was on two courses of antibiotics for 3 weeks, and then she had to get a shot 3 days in a row of a stronger antibiotic. I am pleased to say that as of right now they are cleared up. However, the very next day Kyleigh came down with hand, foot, mouth disease. YAY! Then, several days later as Kyleigh was getting better and sleeping and being happier during the day, Julietta got pink eye in each eye. Soooooo this has been my least favorite beginning to the year, but we are all ok! Here are a couple pictures that are what my days are like.

Kyleigh is 13 months. She is still not walking or standing on her own. She has stood for about 15 seconds and she has taken about 2 steps, but these are not a daily thing at all. She will do it when she is ready though so I am not concerned.

The other big girl things that are going on in our house is Etta has a wiggly tooth, and Kyleigh is finally getting her first tooth! I will post pictures of both of these things when they finally happen.

I have bought a potty and big boy underwear for Ender. He does not want to do it though, so I am stuck inbetween wanting to push for my sake but knowing I need to wait until he is ready... but WE are ready :)

I am going to try to do better with blogging it's just been pretty crazy lately here.
Randy is going out to California next week for a week, and I am praying that something happens out there job wise. I am open to anything the Lord has to offer us, but I am also really praying that it is letting us stay in Raleigh. But as I said the Lord's ways are not necessarily my ways, so I know that this may not be what he wants for us.