New Mom Diet Tip #1

Those little plastic baby food containers make great 100 calorie packages. 20 almonds = 100 calories, 12 TLC crackers = 100 calories. I've been trying very hard to eat 5 small meals a day. Portion control is my biggest problem, so quantifying my small meal is important. Snacking is my 2nd biggest problem. When I think of a diet tip for that one I'll let you know. Now I need to go and chug a liter of water cause I'm behind...

1st Tooth, Frozen Trees & Free Dr. Pepper

This little guy isn't even 4 months old yet and he has his first tooth! Amazing! You can see it in this picture pretty well, and the one next to it is coming in too. He is such a trooper because I couldn't even tell that his gums were bothering him and I just noticed the little chicklet in there Monday night! This is very early for a first tooth; between 4 to 7 months is the norm. (He did not like me taking this picture and i felt like a bad mommy after I blinded him with the flash. Yeah, memories!!...)

I thought this was a really cool picture of the trees behind our house. We got hit by a really nasty ice storm that began Monday afternoon. When i was driving home around 1pm I saw a lot of slipping and sliding and cars off the road. Very scary. I've been home ever since. I have more pictures I plan on posting later. Our power was out yesterday from about 10:30am to 8:30pm. A lot of cities around here are still out of power. The city i work in is still out, and not expected to be back in until Saturday. Wow! There was a fatal accident Monday afternoon here in town also.

Click the can for the link to get your free Diet Dr. Pepper coupon! Awesome! I found this on http://www.slickdeals.net/ ; that's where I find all the good ones!!!

Pizza Night

We all went to Gusano's for pizza Wednesday night. It was gooooooood!

Full Night's Sleep

Last night Logan slept all night through!!! He has slept for about 6 hours at a time before this but last night he went to bed at 8PM and I had to wake him at 6AM this morning to feed him. I'm hoping he does the same thing tonight! That was the first full night of sleep I have gotten in at least 6 months; the last 3 months of being preggers and the previous 3 months of him waking up every 3 hours to eat.
Our family has such a hectic schedule! We wake up at 6am and we are all at daycare and work by 8am; I usually take my lunch hour to go feed Logan; I leave work at 5PM and the kids and I make it home around 6PM; then I feed Logan. Logan will usually eat one more time to get his belly full before he goes to bed at 8PM; Lexa goes to bed at 9PM. Lance and I go to bed at 10:30 or earlier depending how tired we are. The hardest part of our schedule is getting dinner in there somewhere. I can usually get caught up on laundry and cleaning on the weekend, but getting everyone a good dinner is the biggest challenge of my entire day. Anyone have similar problems? Does anyone have any suggestions? We eat a lot of leftovers because when I do cook, I cook enough to feed an army!

What is an Octogog?

This is way too freaking cool! Although Lexa probably wouldn't get to excited about Octodogs yet, because she doesn't even know what a hotdog is, she will surely get a kick out of this some day! Just slice and boil.

Click one of the pictures for directions!!! So awesome!

The Starbucks Dilema

No, this isn't a post on Battlestar Galactica - even though the season finale was sick!

This is to report my recent research on finding the perfect low calorie summer time drink from Starbucks. I usually pull up to the window and frantically think what would be a good choice and then end up ordering the safe Venti House Coffee. Then wait half an hour after getting the drink to cool off before I can drink it as I sweat in my car. All the while thinking I should have ordered the Grande Carmel Maciatto Frappuccino with whipped cream - but wait, that has like 500 calories right? So after a little bit of research I have some drinks to report just incase there is anyone out there like me.

1. Iced Caffe Mocha - Tall - Nonfat - No Cream - 130 Calories


2. Cinnamon Dolce Frappacino Light - Tall - 120 Calories


3. Espresso Frappuccino Light Blended - Tall - 80 Calories


4. Iced Caffe Latte - Tall - Nonfat - 70 Calories


5. Iced Sugar Free Syrup Flavored Latte - Tall - Nonfat - 60 Calories


6. Iced Caffe American - Tall, 10 Calories - Grande, 15 Calories - Venti, 25 Calories