Archives for September 2007

Here comes the pageant

September 4, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

So the pageant is quickly approaching and after the big surgery day tomorrow, I’m sure it will be Saturday before I know it. I took a little bit of time to practice “the walk” with Emma tonight turning her free space in her room into a stage and telling her to walk to the front left corner and then right. It was a hoot. She was swinging those hips and propping her hand on her hip like a pro. If she does anything remotely as cute as that on Saturday, we’ll all be at least entertained even if the judges aren’t impressed. She did decide to do it though after I told her she had to walk on stage by herself in order to get a crown. I hope I have that right…maybe it’s a trophy she gets.

Lexi is still insisting she doesn’t want to try on either of her pageant dresses yet was excited when we practiced our walk together. It wasn’t anything serious. I just told her to wave to Grandma and Pappy when we stood at each corner.

I think I’ve been asking too many questions to the director because in her last email she says “Don’t stress on any of this!” While I’m not creating any stomach ulcers over the thing, I have been trying to get the money, dresses, shoes, hair, socks, hairbows, photos, etc. all in order so Saturday is just a show up and walk the stage type deal. My game plan is for me to be frazzled now and then be calm on Saturday so the girls don’t freak out and think it’s a big deal. Because really it all boils down to about a 30 second walk on Saturday.

Oh, and Lexi is now 1 of 3 in her category so her attendance in State is not guaranteed. Which, honestly, when I found that out, I was like, whew. Having to do all this out of town is even more stressful! I guess I’ll hold off on stressing on that one and just stress about this one for now…

Tomorrow is the day

September 4, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

So tomorrow is the big surgery day. If you want to know how Scott got his collarbone broken a year ago…he’s posted the story on his blog.

I think we’ve got the bases covered for tomorrow. Medicine ordered, babysitters scheduled, I even straightened up the house–again–in case someone decides to come see about him tomorrow. That’s on a tip from him, knowing how all this Southern, Baptist culture works. I wouldn’t think anyone would drop by the day you have surgery, but I’m guessing at least a few will come so they can say Sunday they went to see Scott after his surgery on Wednesday. Sorry for the sarcasm and cynicism but sometimes I wonder about some people’s intentions. I know some people are truly concerned and want the person to know they care but sometimes you just need to make a phone call and let a person rest for goodness sakes. There, glad that’s out BEFORE anyone in particular decides to visit tomorrow.

I haven’t been nervous at all about the surgery up until now. The dr’s seem to be treating as if it’s done every day. I’m hoping that’s the case and there are no complications once they get in there to take a look at it. I’m a little nervous tonight. Not sure if I’ll be able to go to sleep well tonight even though I’ll probably need to be up by 6:45 in the morning, which is WAY early for me.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do for 2 hours while I’m there. Probably update Twitter incessantly–cause you know it’s a new online toy I’ll be playing with until I get tired of it and never visit again–maybe take a book to read. I really should take advantage of 2 hours of quiet time with no husbands, kids or computer. I need to think about this carefully. What would you do for two hours in a doctor’s office?

Twitter

September 4, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

For some reason I’m just being introduced to Twitter…I’m not sure why anyone would want to know what I’m doing 24-7 but if you do, my badge is to the right and you can also find me on twitter and subscribe to the feed there.

Scott’s surgery scheduled

September 4, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Scott will be in surgery tomorrow from 7:45 until around 10:15. We’ve got his cousin coming over in the morning to stay with the girls until his sister comes to pick them up for school. We should be back and have Scott settled in so I can go pick up the girls at 12. Whew, tomorrow is going to be crazy I think. Let’s just pray the surgery goes well through all that.

Back to school…

September 4, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

First day of preschool today. Lexi whined and complained the entire morning about everything I asked her to do. I don’t wanna wear my dress. I don’t wanna put on my shoes. I don’t wanna eat a poptart. I don’t wanna go to school. But by the time I got them in the van, she was set to go and was excited to get out of the van to go into class. Emma was excited the whole morning and was practically jumping around the van waiting for them to take them out. It was a quiet morning and I enjoyed it but they were a pill when they got home. Emma started crying because I put in the Diego video for Lexi instead of keeping it on Noggin. She still won’t eat her lunch as we speak although they have been playing nicely together since Diego ended. Hopefully they’ll settle back into the swing of things soon.

WW Before/After

September 3, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

OK, I know before and after pictures are sometimes stretching the truth a little bit…I mean even I was tempted to pull out the 3 weeks post baby picture of me 15 lbs heavier to compare how I look now but I tried to find some pictures that actually made a decent comparison. After Scott snapped some decent full body pictures of me this weekend, I figured now was as good a time as any to post some before/after pictures.

The first picture is me last year at the beach but I didn’t weigh as much as I did when I started WW a few weeks ago. The second picture is back in June where the weight was closer but unfortunately the swimsuit was a little different so it’s not really apples/oranges kind of thing. You’ll notice the weight is pretty much in the belly. Some around the thighs.

And yes, I was slouching, scratching my nose and had no tan in the “before” pictures and all but posing for “after” pictures with a nice, end of summer tan but come on, you know these wouldn’t be any fun if I didn’t actually look better in the end….

So I show all that to, yes, say Go Me, but also to say Weight Watchers WORKS and once again 7 lbs was only 7 lbs (was down an extra pound this weekend) and maybe you couldn’t even see the need for me to lose any weight–yes, I’ve heard the “you’re going to blow away in the wind” comment more than I can count–but it was a goal that mattered to me and Weight Watchers was what helped and I highly recommend it to anyone! I do want to note I’ve also been working out for the past 2 years almost so it helped with a lot of the toning but the actual weight never came off until I did WW.

Happy Labor Day

September 3, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Is that the right thing to say on Labor Day? Happy Labor Day? It works I guess.

‘Member last night I said I was going to catch up on some sleep? That was around 9:30? I went to sleep right after that and didn’t wake up until 11:15 today!!! Woah, I haven’t slept that long probably in, well, 5 years. Needless to say, I didn’t get the house cleaned this morning as planned.

We went and got the girls and had lunch at his mom and dad’s house. Emma stayed over there to play with S and Lexi came home with us. I was cleaning up and Scott was supposed to sit with Lexi in the recliner to put her to sleep for a nap but this is how I found him after coming out of the bedroom:

Scott asleep with two of Lexi’s blankies but no Lexi. Thanks, babe.

This is what I was working on in the bedroom this afternoon…

My closet looked like it had thrown up. I hadn’t put away any clothes fom the trip, my shoes were out, clean clothes were mixed in there I never put up before we left, my dry cleaning was still hanging, some clothes on hangers had fallen off, etc. But this is after I finished:

So Mom and Dad and Heather came over for dinner and swimming. Turns out the water was pretty cold and dirty though and only Lexi really ended up swimming. I think we’re closing it up for the summer tomorrow. Scott has his surgery on Wednesday and the girls start preschool tomorrow so it seems like a good time.

So I think that catches us up. Let me just say another note on this past weekend though. This weekend we really did have a great time. J&J were SO easy going and pretty much catered to anything we wanted to do and really it seemed to match up with what they wanted to do. And ya’ll, I don’t think the four of us have felt like a family more than this weekend. I felt it with me, Emma and Scott when we lived in Columbia. That “we’re on our own now” kind of feeling but since Lexi was born, we haven’t really had that. But this weekend was a first. It felt so great. I really felt like we were a family. I don’t know if I can explain that in any other way but just wanted to say it felt great and we will definitely be doing more vacations/outings without family in the future.