{"id":707,"date":"2007-06-03T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=707"},"modified":"2007-06-03T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T20:15:00","slug":"big-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Big changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The
\n Farmer in the Dell<\/span>
Ok, not a change,
\n but fun anyway. Lex likes signing The Farmer in the
\n Dell<\/span>. This morning I sang it and Lex did his
\n little dance thing and Eve grinned. At the end I said, “I think
\n Eve likes that song.” Lex said, “Do it again.” So I did. This
\n time Lex sang with me (so cute) and Eve cooed a few times, like
\n she was trying to sing along. We sing it a lot and often I make
\n up funny words (for example: daddy goes to work, mommy stays at
\n home, lex stays with mommy, eve stays with lex). One day I was
\n singing “daddy takes a shower” (we were all upstairs) and then
\n Lex sang “shower takes a wife” :) <\/p>\n

Now
\n that he is two years and she is two months, we decided to make
\n a few changes around here. Two worth mentioning:<\/p>\n

Back to
\n Bed<\/span>
\"\"<\/a>Friday afternoon we rearranged his nursery with
\n several goals in mind (1) get climb-on-able furniture away from
\n the skylight, (2) move the crib so it’s easily seen from the
\n door, and (3) make the room “new” in an effort to get Lex back
\n into the toddler bed. The whole time we told him that Eve needs
\n the crib now and he gets to sleep in a fancy big bed. Oddly
\n enough, it seems to have worked. We don’t put him in the crib
\n anymore (not for bed, naps, or so-sads) and it takes him awhile
\n to fall asleep (and several trips up on our part) but he
\n eventually does. \"\"<\/a>Not surprisingly he has emptied his drawers
\n several times and frequently gets up to bring a toy into his
\n bed, but he eventually falls asleep. Very surprisingly… he’s
\n fallen out of the bed several times! He never did that before
\n and I don’t know why he’s doing it now. When he falls out he
\n cries and we go put him back in the bed, but there’s really no
\n harm done since he’s only falling about 6″! Today I put Eve in
\n the crib when Lex took his nap and asked him to be very quiet
\n so she could sleep. It was cute and he did a good job of being
\n quiet. They are both up there now too and he’s still awake but
\n being mostly quiet :) <\/p>\n

New Me<\/span>
I
\n decided that after two months of my free-wheeling “eat too much
\n and move not enough” lifestyle it was time to get serious about
\n baby weight. It’s amazing how little<\/em> baby
\n weight you loose when baby is born. I don’t think I even lost
\n 8lbs when I delivered an 8lb 3oz baby! Since I was still
\n carrying baby weight from Lex when I got pregnant with Eve I
\n think I’m now carrying more baby fat than both of my babies put
\n together. Blah!! So I decided to reel things in a bit and move
\n towards a “controlled eating and exercise” lifestyle. As you
\n all know, there’s really no fun in that! Friday went well,
\n Saturday sucked and I was starving (not literally, of course)
\n all day, but today has been ok. I’m sure (I hope!) it will get
\n easier as my brain and body adjust to less snacking and smaller
\n portion sizes. The snacking is the hardest part really,
\n especially with kids, because it’s so easy and tempting to grab
\n a handful of Goldfish when I’m getting some out for Lex, or to
\n finish a bagel that he didn’t eat, or whatever. I also busted
\n out the Tae-bo videos again. Lex loved doing (sort of) yoga
\n with me when I was pregnant so I thought he’d like Tae-bo even
\n more… but no such luck. Not sure why but it kind of freaks
\n him out. Maybe the louder music or more bouncing around or
\n something. I don’t know. He keeps asking to do yoga though :)
\n When I finished Tae-bo this morning I put in the yoga DVD and
\n we did that for awhile. He was much happier then :) Silly
\n yoga-boy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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