Give me a break.....

....but not this kind!!

I went to the doctor yesterday because my foot has been bothering me. Come to find out....there is a bone that is broken into 2 pieces hanging out! The bone is one of my sesamoid bones (http://www.nefca.ca/find-ft-nurse/images/foot-prob/ft-anatomy6.gif). My doc said to think of them as "tiny kneecaps" for the ball of your foot.

I am in a "moon boot" for 2 weeks. Then back to the doc for more X-rays and potentially an MRI to see how it is progressing. The absolute worst case scenario is surgery to insert a pin to hold the 2 pieces together. In the meantime I get to feel like a lazy ass because I can't run, ride bike or do the elliptical machine. I can however lift weights.......I will be the freakshow at the gym walking around in a moon boot doing arm curls!!!

I hope this just heals on its own.......

My Little Bumpkin...aka Alex

I must say she is quite animated!

Adventures of Alex Part 1

Apparently, my 8 1/2 month old angel is the bully in her day care class.

One day last week all the babies were awake and playing on the floor (some can sit upright on their own and some have to be propped up in their boppy’s). Conjure up a mental image of a room full of babies all happy and content just playing and enjoying their day?

Here comes bandit Alex crawling around doing laps. And what was she doing while doing these laps….she crawled up to every baby and took their pacifier out of their mouth, dropped it on the floor and then laughed about it. She did this to each baby about 3 times and eventually all the babies were crying except her (I guess the look on her face was priceless….I can just envision her little grin). They couldn’t get her to stop so they had to put her in a swing just to get the other babies to calm down.

I apparently have a very smart yet very evil child. What more could I ask for!!

Random Question

Do all babies eat soap bubbles? Every night when I give Alex her bath, the first thing she does is put an entire handful of soap bubbles in her mouth. The strange thing is...I really think she likes them...she grins and laughs...all while having soap bubbles fill her mouth.

I guess threatening her with rinsing her mouth out with soap as an adolescent will not work.

It has been awhile.....

...since I have posted anything. Work has been keeping me terribly busy and any free time I have is spent with Alex.

Alex experienced her first Halloween yesterday and was the cutest Cow this side of the Mississippi!! I need to download my pics and so I will post one in the future. She is also on the move now and has officially moved to the ranks of crawling. I never knew how fast a baby could move. I think that she will be bored with crawling soon as she is already trying to walk.

My hubby is currently enrolled in classes at The Ohio State University and is gone every night of the week therefore I am constantly left with the feeling that there is not enough time in the day for me to get things done. I have not been running as I would like to and trips to the gym are few and far between (this is something I used to do 5-6 days a week). It is hard and my body is definitely feeling the brunt of it. I am tired most days and just have a general feeling that I am not nearly as strong as I would like to be or once was. My ab muscles are shot because there is no time for the gym, this is disheartening because I worked for years to obtain my 4 pack (on some days you could see 6) flat abs and now they are non-existent. 1 month ago I could run 6 miles in just over 50 minutes...now it would probably take me an hour or more.

With time, it will get better. I think the change of the seasons and time change has not helped my situation. Once my hubby is home a little more, things will change for the better.