This week has been a pretty good week! My husband was home for 3 days and I was able to use the car to go to the gym almost every day this week! I've gotten in some pretty nice work-outs.
I was also able to spend some time relaxing and getting some sun at the pool this week while my husband watched Junebug. When I take Junebug to the pool with me I don't get a lot of relaxing done and don't get much sun either because I try to keep her on the shady end of the pool as much as possible.
Although I've been working-out a lot the scale has gone UP instead of down!! I'm going to have the knuckle down and totally cut out ALL junk food for a while. I'm the type that if I allow myself a little bit of junk I just go crazy and can't limit myself. If I cut it all out it's easier because I won't allow myself to touch any of it... where as if I allow myself "just a little" I quickly spiral out of control. That means my daily trips to Starbucks are going to have to STOP completely! Ugh. My goal weight is about 140 (I think) so I have about 20 lbs to lose!!
Junebug will be 6 months old in a couple weeks. She's almost sitting up alone now. In fact if I set her down on a soft surface (the couch or bed) she can already sit up alone for a little while. But on the floor the she just topples over. When she's lying on her back she manages to scoot around in a small area. I have to watch her more closely now when I lie her on our bed or on her playmat. Yesterday she scooted around on my bed and I found her face under a blanket! (she was only like that for a split second - she started fussing and I went to see what was wrong.) And she's been scooting all around on her playmat - we'll lay her down and a while later she'll be lying in the opposite direction or even off her playmat. I know things are going to get crazy once she really starts moving around. I'm sure she'll be into everything soon!! I'm trying to give her more tummy time so maybe she'll learn to crawl soon. Up until now I've been pretty bad about tummy time. She always fusses when I put her on her tummy so I've never made her stay on her tummy for very long or very often. I want Junebug to start eating real food - with a spoon - when she turns six months. We've already tried giving her rice cereal and rice cereal with bananas but she hasn't quite caught on to the concept of a spoon. We're going to buy her a highchair at Ikea this weekend. It's hard to believe my little baby is already almost 6 months old!! Before we know her 1st birthday will be here!!
Even though it's only mid-summer I'm already looking ahead to December when our lease will be up on this itsy-bitsy apartment. I am sooo anxious to get a bigger place! We're hoping we can get a rent house but we both have some debt and we know there's a slight possibility we'll have to stay in this apartment complex another year. Ugh. If we have to stay here we will get a larger apartment though and even that sounds pretty good compared to where we are now. The only downside (for me) of a larger place is that Junebug will be sleeping in her own room. I can't even imagine putting her in another room at night right now!! I think I'm going to have some real anxiety about that when the time comes. I am excited to decorate her bedroom though! I'm already trying to come up with some cute ideas. I'm sure there will be lots of pink. I don't want to do a theme but I want all her decorations to tie in together. I'm determined to paint our next place as soon as we move in so we'll be able to enjoy pretty painted walls for at least a year. I'm getting ideas on the colors I want to use... I'm sure I'll be posting a lot about all that in the months to come.
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