Yeah, thats right. Another year older.. One short quick year away from 25.. What? I couldn’t possibly be 25 you say? Because I really only look 21? Oh your too kind.. then I’ll tell you that I’m really turning 29. So I actually ordered a birthday cake today. For myself. Yeah I know.. pretty sad. But when I told my 2-year old daughter today that my birthday was this weekend she perked right up and said “Yeah! I can go! I can eat cake!” You’d let her blow your birthday candles out too.. So we’ll have a cake and celebrate a little.

On another note: I had my post-partem check up today. I asked the nurse practitioner that I saw if I could get my thyroid levels checked because I’d been feeling alot like I felt before I ever went on medication. All of the symptoms could very well just be typical ‘just had a baby 8 weeks ago and am chasing around a 2-year old’ symptoms.. but I also thought the symptoms I was feeling after having Grace were similar post-partem thing. So she felt my thyroid and said that yes, it seemed to be quite enlarged and one side felt like it had a lump or two. So she urged me to get an appointment with my endocrinologist and that she would probably want to check things out. Tomorrow I’m going to have blood drawn to check that out. While I know that I should be a little more tired from doing so much during the day, I’m getting quite a bit of sleep these days. Cate is pretty much only waking up once during the night and we’re taking turns doing that. Half the time, she even skips that night feeding and wakes about 5 or 6. So at least half the time I’m getting 8 or more hours of sleep. While I could see being a little worn out, this is just way beyond that. Plus, I have so many others of those symptoms that I had before.. so it’ll be good to have it looked at. I’m hoping it’s nothing serious.. just some benign lump. My appointment is September 5th, and I’ll update after.

Otherwise everything is good there, and I am getting an IUD next week. Mirena, the 5 year one. I can barely remember to take my thyroid meds at the same time everyday so I’m not even going to go there with the birth control pill. And we’re pretty certain that we’re done having kids.. So this is a good firm form of birth control without being permanent.

Okay, so thats about it for here. We will have some more pictures up in the next week. I might do a “Look Back” on Grace too.. I was looking at some pictures and I just can’t believe how grown up she looks. Thats one amazing thing about having a baby when you’ve got a toddler too.. just the contrast in looks and size between the baby and the toddler. So it’ll be fun to see.

Dear Self: In order to lose weight and drop those pesky 7 lbs that are sticking to you like white on rice.. one must stop eating as though the world is going to end tomorrow.

I am actually pretty happy with my overall size..when I’m standing. It’s just when I sit down that all these rolls show up. So I am starting tomorrow with my group weight training. WOO! Of course I know I need to ease into it and have been doing short workouts and stretches for a couple weeks now, every couple days.. and have been to the gym once or twice to re-introduce Grace to the playroom. I’m ready though, to fully embrace my old friends, both the gym and the bike that has gathered dust over the past several months. My goal is to get into shape enough to be able to haul the burley trailer so Grace and I can have some fun rides into the fall.. and then when Caty is at least 6 mos and sitting up, we can all have some family rides together. Chris is practically salivating at the thought of that. My own salivation seems to be just coming from the thought of wearing a fitted tee that doesn’t pudge out when I sit down..

I got the most killer fare for the girls and I to fly out. I had to do Cate as a lap child, otherwise it would have gotten out of our price range.. but I got roundtrip tickets for $91 each (plus all the security taxes and whatnot of course). And it’s not even on Southwest! Normally they are always the lowest, but they were around $160 each for round trip tickets right now. I got mine on Travelocity..so we’re flying into Phoenix in November for two weeks towards the beginning of the month. Yeah!! I was thinking that it just wouldn’t work out.. but I do check the airfares occasionally just to make sure I don’t miss a special. Now I just need to work out how to get to Wyoming to visit my folks and Graces’ other cousins…