Climbing, coughing, hurting...

Random updates to follow.....

First things first...are your toes cold? Cause you still have time to participate in the Winter version of Sock it To Me. You can find the badge that wil link you to Kymberli's blog to sign up over there ---------> right below my weight loss tracker...

Which brings me to the next subject. My weight loss. I have done good in going to the gym 3 days a week like I planned. It is hard to do though. I don't usually go until around 8:30 9:00 at night which means I don't get home till after 10pm, and I don't know about you all, but I get a surge of energy after I work out, so of course I can not come home and go right to sleep. This is causing me to stay up later yet I still have to be up for work early. Needless to say I have been lacking some sleep and have slept late a few times, getting to work a bit late. But I have lost 3 lbs. I know it's not a lot, but for 2 weeks time, I am good with that number. My overall goal is to average 1.5 per week. I know some weeks it'll be less, and others it'll be more.

I am facing an issue now though. I seemed to have pulled something in my right knee. On Wed night I went to the gym with my niece and half way through my run I noticed my knee was hurting, I ignored it and ran the full 45 mins. Afterwards I completed my stretches and headed home. My knee has hurt ever since. It is at the point that I am taking 4 Ibuprofen every 5 hours or so. Also I have not been back to the gym since! I need it to get better. I am not a huge fan of lifting weights, I like to run and do a little free weights. If I can't run (the pain is so bad it hurts to walk too - so that and the elliptical would be out) then how can I get cardio in? I think today I put in a video I have that is all exercises using the ball...

It is a 3 day weekend, so of course I am not feeling well. I have an earache (I suffer from chronic ear infections) and a soar throat. My glands feel pretty swollen. Baby K felt pretty warm to me last night and I had noticed she was coughing and sneezing a bit at dinner time. I took her temp before bed and for her first time ever she had a fever over 100. Poor thing, it was 100.3. She wasn't acting any different, so obviously she feels ok, but it makes me sad to think that she could have a soar throat or something and can't tell me. Today her temp is 99.6. (question for the Mommies- do you give your babies Tylenol for a temp in the 99's? Or just over 100?)

In other Baby K news her new thing is climbing. I guess I knew this day would come, and have dreaded it (almost as much as i dread her walking). She has decided that Laundry and Dishes will be her chores as she gets older.

She took a digger this week and spent a good portion of the week with a nice egg and cut on her forehead. It is just about healed now.

The cat has decided he wants her to go away now. He used to love her, want to be near her all the time, now when she comes into a room he bolts to a location she get to him. I don't understand why?

She is going to be a year old in 23 days...where did the year go? I want to do it all over again, but slower....

I was going to talk about our upcoming vacation, but now my post is too long, so I'll do it separately...