E is for Ella

Yesterday I did this. I was proud of my creativity. Many people liked the pic on FB so I think it is good. She was having so much fun with the play mat that 20 or so pics are blurry. She was always moving.

(3/6/14)

Here are a few variations of it. 

2.17

Ella has a good smile, some good tummy time, and some cute pictures with Dave.  I wore real clothes. That pretty much sums up the day from what I can tell from the pictures. 

February Outfits

2/1

I live in the nursing tanks I have just like the pink one above, or the 3 nursing camis I have that you will see further down.  When I wear the camis I always have a cardigan or shirt over them though so you don't get to see them so much.  There are many days missing from February. Those days I will be in one of the 6 tanks mentioned and in one of 4 pairs of athletic pants.

2/2

I broke out old athletic jackets so I wasn't always in my red hoodie. The first jacket I grabbed wouldn't fit over my belly though.

2/7

I wanted to try to wear real cardigans but most of mine are too short and the tanks stick out far too much. I did find this black one that I can wear instead of my yahoo hoodie if I want to look a little more put together.

2/10

I got dressed again and missed a picture. I couldn't actually wear jeans because they hurt the scrapes all over my knee.

2/12

This gray cardigan is another that I have that I can wear since it's not too short. I wish I had more.

2/13

I have on a nursing tank under that blue shirt.

2/14

2/16

2/17

I got dressed for real and love how I went to the side street. More people can see me take pictures but you don't see houses or cars in the background so I love it.

2/18

I wore a necklace!

2/19

This shirt I got from my mom back in October when I went home. It is 29 or 30 years old. I forget what she said. The sleeves are way too short so I just rolled them up and then it looks like I rolled them up versus being too short.  This is the first article of clothing I remember wearing that was my mom's. We wore the same shoes at one point or other back in the day.

2/20

2/21

2/22

2/23

I broke out a non maternity shirt. I got to wear a nursing cami under it and unbutton the buttons very nicely for nursing.

2/24

2/25

2/26

I ended up changing my clothes here early on after Ella got pee on my jeans. I had on a real outfit too. How sad.

Well there you have it. These are the days I got "dressed" in February and really sometimes I was in my pajamas but still took my picture. I always sleep in the nursing camis and nursing tanks with athletic pants. I may also wear them for 2 days straight or something.  It's hard to be motivated to get dressed because I don't leave the house. Sometimes after I shower, I think I could put on something real but then it makes nursing more difficult. Also with any jeans I've worn it's hard to get up and down off the ground without feeling like I'm about to moon someone.

2.16

Ella always likes her time with Dave. She likes to look at him and smile up a storm.

I gave Ella a bath. I kept her warm at the end when I washed her hair. She didn't even cry until I took her out of the tub. It's hard to get her out and into a hooded towel properly.

Sometimes Ella's legs look so long.

2.15

Ella was so cute with Dave. I took many pictures. Most had poor lighting or were blurry though.

 Her Swaddle sack looks like a cape.

Poly got booted off Ella's changing table so she hid in the box.

Breastfeeding (3.2)

There are some days that I feel like nursing consumes my entire day.  Today around 9 PM I told Dave that I nursed every hour today except once that was 1.5 hours (since 9 AM). I offered to show him my app and he didn't care to but decided to let me open it and look so that I would see it really wasn't as often as every hour.  Well it was every hour or ever 45 minutes. She was nuts today.

I pumped at 1 AM. I actually woke her up around midnight thinking she'd eat a normal amount but that didn't happen so I pumped. Then at 9 AM I pumped a little after that feeding.  The rest of the day she ate so much that I even had to use some of that pumped milk from earlier.  I think there were a few times I tried to give her the rest of the bottle but she gave up which is why she only had ~0.3 oz.

I wanted to run to Target today and run today but neither happened.

February Exercise

I was cleared to start exercising on January 31. I hadn't done anything in so long so knew that I needed to start slow. I decided to make a goal of running 8 miles in 8 runs.  I ran 9 times for a total of 10.87 miles.

I also went on a lot of walks with Ella and did some core exercises. I had 6 days of no exercise throughout the month.  Some days we went on 2 walks. Some days I ran and walked and did a core workout, but most days I just did one thing.

I feel so slow when I run. I also feel my gut jiggle around when I'm running.  It's surprising how I can feel my abs when I run. As I run more, I go further without feeling them so that's good.

I just took a quick screen shot but you can see notes by each run if you are curious.