Week Seven Weigh In

This week has been one of those weeks for me.. i've stuck to my diet.. but i've had no physical activity.. the weather has kept rosalie and i in the house, plus it made me just want to lounge. I figured I gained this week just for that fact... butttt.. i stayed the same. No gain no loss. I'm not disquisted... I'd rather stay the same than gain!

Week Zero: --

Week One: -2.9lbs

Week Two: -1.3lbs

Week Three: +.9 (Boo. lol)

Week Four: --

Week Five: --

Week Six: -1.3lbs

Week Seven: 0lbs

Total Weight Loss to Date: 46.5 lbs

Keeping Busy!

As I said before, my mom arrives in Italia in less than a month. I'm so excited I could explode.. not only because I miss her.. but I know it's killing her to see Roey (she's changed so much since we saw my family 3 months ago).. and I know how excited she is to see Italy.. it's always been a dream of hers. We finally have our agenda laid out.. it took a crap ton of work, researching, and flipping back and forth between train schedules.. but I have it figured out.. so I'll share :)

Tues 17 Mom leaves from PA

Weds 18 She arrives in Italy

Thurs 19 We're going to take her to the local things.. Polcenigo, Barcis, ect. and we're going to go the Spaghetti House for supper

Fri 20 Venice

Sat 21 Head to Camp Darby.. check in.. Catch the train up to Florence.. spending the night at Darby

Sun 22 Pisa then heading home

Mon 23 Down day

Tues 24 Verona

Weds 25 Lignano Beach

Thurs 26 She heads back home

I know it's a little over a week.. but the time will fly by sooo fast :(

So it seems as though time is just dragging til she gets here.. so I've been trying to keep busy. Friday, housing came to fix our bathroom cabinet.. it's been broke since we've moved in, but it's the bathroom that we don't use so we've been putting it off. After housing left, Rosalie and I picked Kevin up from work then went and got groceries. I hate getting groceries. The commissary is always a zoo.

Saturday morning Kevin needed a haircut.. so we all headed to base... then we came home and I cleaned my house.. and by cleaned.. I mean I vacuumed downstairs and dusted and wiped the kitchen down.. Just a quicky. Then our friends Meghan and Derek came over.. the boys had a good time playing wii.. they are so competitive it's sickening. I made awesome strombolis.. as always :) hahah... Roey had a WEIRD night. First she passed out in her high chair while I cooked dinner. It was a weird time for her to sleep. She woke up crying and crying.. she was miserable. She then had an explosive poop.. which told me her teeth musta been bothering her.. After that she was fine.. then her and I walked out to the kitchen and she just started puking everywhere. Ugh it was terrible. Then she was fine.. she sputtered around the livingroom and played with Audrey. She finally went to sleep at like 9.. but she was up most of the night.. she just kept waking up crying for Mom.

Sunday, I was exhausted. Thankfully, when Roey got up for the day, Kevin got up with her... and I got a few hours of sleep. It felt amazing. We spent Sunday doing odds and ends that we've been putting off.. I made a new arrangement to be hung upstairs and Kevin got it hung up... I just have to order pictures for the frames. Kevin got the grass cut while I cleaned up the kitchen. I then painted over any little marks on our walls. I know what you're thinking, painting over marks? Our paint here is weird. The walls mark up sooo easy, but if you try to wipe it off the paint comes off too. I got the entire downstairs done... then I touched up any scratches and dings in the molding,, which looked like total crap when we moved in. The corners were completely chipped up.. but some Old English Scratch Remover made them less noticeable. Our molding def looks 100 times better. We were planning on going to the Papa Roach USO Show on base that evening.. we figured it would be outside so Kevin brought his muffs home for Roey.. Well we got the base, it was raining, they had it inside, so we said screw it and left. We went to the BX.. Kevin got some new Under Armour.. Roey got some new toys.. and we went home. We spent the evening all 3 of us playing.. so much better than a concert :)

Today I've gotten a good bit accomplished.. but not as much as I wanted. My downstairs is clean (although with all the toys scattered you'd never know).. I have a mountain of laundry and I've conquered a good bit of it.. I got my ironing done.. dumped some weed killer outside (i couldn't get my sprayer to work and got frustrated so I just started dumping the solution everywhere)... I swept the back sidewalk... I need to clean upstairs, but can't bring myself to do it. Housing is coming tomorrow and I don't want to waste my time and scrub my floors and housing just track all through the house. Especially since I hand scrub my floors, I would just get mad by the time they left. I hate when people wear shoes in the house.. it's not how I was brought up.. shoes are for OUTSIDE.

I need to at least weed out some of Roey's clothes.. I have such a hard time taking stuff she's outgrown and putting it in the bins I have.. I just hate to face the fact that she's getting bigger.

Since I've rambled entirely too much.. yet again.. here's a few pics :)

Week Six Weigh In

So I know I've TOTALLY been bad the past few weeks.. I got off the wagon and it was soo hard to get back on.. but here I am going strong.

Week Zero: --

Week One: -2.9lbs

Week Two: -1.3lbs

Week Three: +.9 (Boo. lol)

Week Four: --

Week Five: --

Week Six: -1.3lbs

Total Weight Loss Since Delivery: 46.5 lbs!

How'd she get this big?

It's been a pretty eventful week for us at the Hollis house and it's only Wednesday. Roey has 2 new teeth.. we let her feed herself the other night with a spoon and it was successful! As soon as I gave her the spoon she scooped up mashed potatoes and began chowing away. Granted, she wore a lot of the potatoes, but a lot also made it to her mouth! She is so smart it's crazy.

Even though those 2 teeth came through.. we still aren't getting a break at night. Rosalie just wants to eat and eat and eat. Let's do a run through of our day.. Rosalie gets up and has a heaping bowl of cereal. After breakfast, she gets a bath and gets dressed for the day. After her bath she eats at least 4 oz and takes a nap. A bottle follows her nap.. then an hour later lunch. She usually has a mid afternoon snack and by snack I mean a whole thing of baby food. In between lunch and snack time, she usually has a bottle or two. After her snack, she sometimes has another bottle... supper soon follows. After supper.. Rosalie baths (i know again.. but she loves her tubbies so she gets 2 a day).. and she'll either play for a bit, or go straight for 6 oz of baba and crash. Every 3 hours she is getting up and eating 4-6 oz. Every time. I can't seem to get her full. This is one major growth spurt we are going through right now. She was eating at least 9 bottles during the day.. I know, like 45+ oz of formula! We started trying to substitute it because seriously, who can afford that! lol We started giving her even more solids.. it just blows me away how much she is eating right now.. coming from the little girl that had to go see the pediatrician because she was refusing to eat anything! I stop and think about how much of a fight it was to get her to eat.. she'd scream the whole time in her high chair.. then all of the sudden it's like we can't give her enough! She even gets snacks all through out the day.. gerber cheezies, biter cookies, yogurt melts, and puffs. I can't wait til she turns 9 months to weigh her and see how much she gained this month. She was averaging about a pound to a pound and a half a month... I bet she goes way over that! The outfit that she is wearing right now is 12-18 months!

On another note, our baby gate finally came! We've had a lot of mail problems lately and luckily the gate wasn't one of them.. it came within a few days! It's installed and is soo nice! It's metal and has a spring loaded door.. I'm going to eventually order another one for upstairs, but it's not a necessity right now because rosalie doesn't play upstairs..well she does, but she plays in her crib. She loves the baby gate... she constantly stands by it, pulling on the bars and squealing.. all I can think about is Step Brothers "THIS HOUSE IS A PRISON!!" hahahahah. It's a dream baby gate.. I couldn't get any place to ship it... and sure enough Walmart did! ANDDD it was only .97 cent shipping!

I have been on this hair bow craze right now.. it's like an addiction. I can't stop buying them. I have found the CUTESTTTTT little boutique.. Miss Khloe's Bows.. Click on the link to check out her facebook page. Her work is awesome. Rosalie's bow holder is actually stuffed full.. I'm going to have to order another one. I love that her hair is getting long on top that I can actually put it in a bow instead of her wearing headbands (cause frankly she doesn't keep them on!) She has a bow in her hair every single day! :)

Oh and a Mandee note. I've been going stir crazy. As most people know, I'm an obsessive compulsive neat freak. Everything has to be organized and perfect. I can't help it.. it's a problem I have. Once a week I thoroughly clean out our fridge.. throw away anything that's expired, anything that's going to expire before we can use it, and wipe it out. Well, the other day this odor started. It was bad. I assumed first it was from the steaks that I had marinating over night, but I couldn't understand why I would be able to smell it because they were in lock and lock and they seal tight. A day after they steaks were gone, I could still smell it. I then assumed it was the broccoli in the crisper, so I threw it out. The smell stayed. I then threw out a thing of tomatoes and a container of watermelon. I thought for sure the watermelon was the culprit. Hours later, the odor was even stronger. At this point, there was nothing fresh left in our fridge, EXCEPT for an onion that I had cut up in a little lock and lock. (I cut up an onion at the beginning of the week that way all week when I'm cooking I don't have to worry about cutting an onion, I can just take some out of the lock and lock).. apparently the onion went terribly bad. MINUTES after removing it from the fridge, it was odor free. lol. I put a thing of baking soda in the fridge to make it fresh. Boy do I feel relieved.

Well I have really rambled today. Ciao.

My bestfriend and I :) I just love her so much!

Tooth Number FOUR!

Tooth #4 made its debut today! Roey now has her front tops and front bottoms! It seems like the last 2 months has been an endless teething nightmare.. FINALLY a break! I deserve it! lol!

Where did it come from?!

Last night Kevin said "Roey, let me check your mouth.. I haven't peeked around in awhile"... because she just won't ever let us in there to see if her gums are swollen or white...so Kevin stuck his finger in her mouth and rubbed her gum and low and behold, there was a top tooth in there! It's pretty far down so I'm guess it popped through about a week ago. Roey has a total of 3 teeth now! I'm pretty sure that the other top one will be coming soon. She screamed and screamed and screamed last night until she puked.. after she puked, she screamed and screamed more... it was this ear piercing high pitched screams that I've only ever heard the night before her 2nd bottom tooth popped through. Finally we got her calmed.. lots of walking.. lots of passing her back and forth..Kevin went upstairs and got her blank and I got her a teething ring... she curled up on my lap with her blank and went to town on the teething ring and she calmed.. then she was ready to play! haha! It was like nothing ever happened. Of course she then had a rough night... she slept til 1:30 and after that we were up most the night. I feel like a slug today.. but I really need to clean.

OOHH and I forgot to add.. my mom is officially coming! She got her ticket over the weekend.. she arrives in Italy on the 18th of August and will be here til the 26th. We have such a fun schedule planned. They day she gets here we're going to have a down day and just chill and let her get settled. On Thursday we're going to take her to the local stuff, Polcenigo, Barcis, and going to San Gorgios for supper. Friday we're going to go down to Venice. Saturday we're going to head down to Pisa, stay at Camp Darby for the night, then hit up Florence on our way back home. Monday is going to be a down day... give Roey a day to stay at home.. we'll probably grill and let Roey swim.. Tuesday we're going to Verona and going to the arena, the mafia museum, Juliet's house and tomb.. Kevin and I have been down to Verona but we didn't get to see everything just because Rosalie was sooo tiny that we didn't want to be gone the entire day... Wednesday we're heading to the beach and Thursday she leaves to go home. We are going to be sooo stinken busy!

Well I have a busy day ahead of me.. I'm hoping to squeeze in a nap when roey does... then I'm going to start tearing this house apart and cleaning. With working outside so much lately I've let things pile up.. I've at least got my laundry done and ironed this morning.

Ciao :)

Sleep Strike Again

Roey still hasn't been sleeping very well.. but we were at least getting her to sleep for like 5 hours at a time... that lasted real long... JOKE. I read about giving her a blanket to sleep with so that way when she wakes up, she doesn't need me... and honestly, it worked. I was so impressed. But, then she hit a growth spurt and was up like every 4 hours anyways to eat. We went straight from that, to her just getting up every 3-4 hours. Seriously, she's 8 months old.. I've been dealing with this for the past 2 months since we got back from the states. She's wearing me down... and I know everyone is probably getting sick of me complaining about it... but she's just breaking me. If you were in my shoes you'd complain too. What happened to my perfect newborn sleeper?

She's also getting sooooooo bad. She has mastered the stairs... and I really mean, mastered. We ordered a baby gate but it's not here yet. It's a pretty sweet gate.. it's from Dream Baby.. it's white and metal and really classy looking.. it has a swing open door. We were going to get one from the italian toy store, but we compared prices and this one was so much cheaper, and walmart even did .97 cent shipping. Awesomeness.

Roey is constantly pulling herself up to everything.. usually everything on my coffee table is on the floor within a matter of minutes of her being out of bed. She's going to be walking soon. She's trying so hard to stand on her own. She's getting so brave it's scary!

She talks like crazy.. everything is DaDa.. Mama when she's mad.. (go figure)

Well that's about all the time I have.. I have weeds to pull outside! TGIF!

Here's a few pics since I haven't posted any lately!

(isn't she just so beautiful?!)