8 Weeks Postpartum

Between last month and this month I haven't lost much weight. I don't even think my body changed much at all. Which is why I decided to start up on T25 and hopefully will see a change in 4 more weeks. Especially since I'll be going to my 10 year high school reunion in August (I can't believe it's been 10 years already, I feel so old thinking of it but I don't FEEL that old).

4 weeks PP vs 8 weeks PP

Squirt goes to the doctor on the 17th for his 2 month checkup so I'll have new height and weight for him then. I have no doubt he'll be huge.

Squirt has been growing so much. He smiles, he kind of laughs, he loves bath time (he can be fussy and as soon as I put him in the tub he's happy). He has been fussy this past week, I don't know if it's a growth spurt or what but he doesn't want to sleep much during the day and just cries a lot. Today I thought it'd be like that but I placed him in his boppy on the couch so I could dress Little E and he fell right to sleep and has been sleeping for a while now.

With Squirt I'm doing some things different than I did with Little E. This time, one of them, I'm doing a bedtime routine even though he's little. I didn't do one with Little E and it's kicking us in the butt now. So around 7:30 every night both of them go in the tub, come out and get dressed, Squirt gets a bottle while Little E gets a snack and chocolate milk. Then Squirt sometimes watches cartoons in our room while Squirt snuggles. Then it's brush teeth, potty time, and a story in bed. Then lights out. It's been working great for Squirt. Little E it's been working somewhat, but he's got a tendency to get out of bed and turn his light on then climb back in bed. I'd say it's because we don't have a nightlight, but there is a nightlight in his room, plus I leave the hallway light on so it's not dark in his room. I'm not sure what to do about it so that he doesn't keep turning his light on (we go turn it off and he'll eventually turn it back on, we constantly do this).

Job searching has hit a dead end. I've been applying for everything from cafeteria cook at the school to manager positions and have got nothing. I'm avoiding the minimum wage jobs right now, but we'll see, I may have to take them. It's always reassuring to know I went to college for 4 years to get a bachelor's degree and it's not helping me at all to get a job. Neither is my military experience. So much for it all.

Little E has been doing well with potty training. Except pooping, he doesn't want to poop in the toilet for some reason and he doesn't get all the pee either, but he gets most of them.

Our home we're waiting patiently for the loan approval. We're excited to finally move next month into our own place and have been constantly looking at things we want to do in there. Even though the house doesn't need anything done to it we're just wanting to do some things to it for ourselves. But we could move in and not have to change anything.

We can't wait.