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Smarty Pants #2

Jacelyn has had a few moments over the last week that have really surprised me.

We were at my grandparents house on Sunday afternoon showing them how to use their new laptop. For some reason I decided to ask Jacelyn how to spell her name. She said J-A-C-L-Y-N. I was so excited, even though she left out the "E". lol. Just a few months ago when I would ask, she would just say L-Y-N.

The next thing was the other night Rick was giving her asthma inhaler/chamber to her. She is supposed to take 4 breaths with it. We usually just count to 10 and she usually takes about 4 breaths during that time. Since she has started counting, she now counts to 10 on her own. However, the other night when Rick was giving it to her, she kept going after 10 and made it all the way to 20! She has made it to 20 before but she usually skips quite a few numbers. This time, she only skipped #16. When Carlie was learning to count, she would also skip #16 every single time. It makes me wonder if Carlie is the one teaching her all of these new tricks. lol.

Jacelyn got her ears pierced!!!

Jacelyn finally got her ears pierced on Jan 1st! I've been putting it off because I didn't want to be the one that took her. It's hard enough to see her get shots, and those she needs! My friend Ashley took Carlie for her 2nd birthday and she planned to take Jacelyn for her 2nd birthday also. We both ended up getting really busy and never found the time to do it. My dad decided to give her the money to get it done for Christmas. We took her on New Years day and she was such a big girl. One of the ladies that was helping said "Are you sure you want to do this? It's going to hurt" and Jacelyn said yes. She was smiling the whole time and SO excited about getting earrings. She picked out her earrings and sat on the chair. She let them clean the spot and apply the dot on each ear. She let them put the guns up to each ear at the same time and then...bam, she realized that it hurt and started screaming! My poor baby. She only cried for about 2 minutes and then she was over it. I was so proud of her. She's been very good with them so far. She doesn't touch or bother them and she shows them off to everyone! I haven't gotten a good picture of them yet but here is one from Carlie's party where you can see one ear.

Birthday Pictures

I'm finally posting pictures from Carlie's birthday party! Enjoy!

Party host, "Sparky", and Carlie

Her new backpack and lunch box with her name on it.


Brooklyn (Carlie's other sis), Carlie, and Jacelyn

My sweet 6 year old!!!

Smarty Pants

On the way home from picking Carlie up at her after school gymnastics program, she said "This is a rectangular prism and this is a sphere". She's in kindergarten. I don't think I knew what either of these shapes were until geometry class!

After that, we started talking about where everyone in our family was born. I told her what city daddy was born in and she asked why he was born there instead of where we all were born. (Me, Carlie, Jacelyn, and 2 of my 3 sisters were all born at the same hospital). I told her it was because "Ma" and "Grandpapa" lived there at the time. Then she asked why they don't live together anymore. Then she asked why my parents "Memaw" and "Grandpa" don't live together and why "Memaw" now lives with "Papaw". They are all divorced so I had to, for the first time, explain an adult concept to her. I have no idea if I explained divorce correctly but she seemed pretty confused after our talk. lol. I'm just praying that she doesn't ask where babies come from any time soon. I don't think I could handle that one.

3 a.m. Wake Up Call

We are having major trouble with keeping Jacelyn in bed. We would start trying to get her down around 7:30-7:45pm. She would get out of bed every 5-10 minutes until about 10pm. We cut out naps to see if she was tired enough to get in bed at her normal time. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Last night, she went straight to sleep! I went to the gym, got home and cleaned the kitchen from supper, made Carlie's lunch for today, set her alarm clock, laid out the girls clothes for today, fed the fish, and went to bed. Around 1-ish Jacelyn got up, I put her back to bed. She got back up not long after that and I put her back to bed again. She got up AGAIN and Rick put her back to bed. She finally got up around 3am and Rick put her to bed with us. She didn't want to go to sleep. She wanted to play and watch T.V. Around 5:30am she started screaming that she wanted Carlie to get up and play. She finally somehow dozed off around 6am. I managed to get in a few more minutes of sleep, with her kicking me in the back, before I had to get up and get ready for work. It's going to be a LONG day!

The Gym

So I joined a gym a few weeks ago. My plan was to start going 3 or 4 days a week after January 1st. I also started Weight Watchers on the 1st. I'm not going to the meetings or weigh ins though. I already know how many points I can have and how to figure points, etc. I've lost 3 1/2 lbs since the 1st. Now, don't get me wrong, 3 1/2 lbs is good for 1 1/2 weeks. My problem is that I lost it all in the first 4 days. I haven't lost a pound in a week! I went to the gym for one hour, 3 days last week AND I did exactly what I was supposed to on my diet. I've lost weight before on WW fairly quickly so I'm pretty sure it works for me. Is it the gym? Am I building muscle, therefor I'm not losing pounds? I read somewhere that when women work out, they don't gain mass like men do. I have no idea if that is true. Am I doing something wrong at the gym? Here is a normal night at the gym for me. Bike for 20 minutes, walk for 20 minutes, stomach crunch machine 20 times (reps maybe?), some kind of upper arm/shoulder area machine, and then back on the treadmill for another 5 or 10 minutes to cool off. According to the bike and treadmill, I burn about 250 calories, not counting any that I burn on the other machines. Oh, and on the days/nights that I don't work out (like this weekend) I do other physical things like shopping (walking)/cleaning/chasing the girls on their bikes, etc. I'm scared that if I keep getting discouraged that I'll end up giving up and I don't want to! I need to see some results soon though!