The Queen's Rambles

It’s 11 pm and the baby is sleeping! Why am I not in bed? I was planning on writing an entry this morning, but the silly girl was awake for most of our Erik-free time. Let’s hope that continues so we have earlier nights.

I started back at the gym on Tuesday and I am feeling some pain today. I can barely lift my arms. Perhaps diving right back in to BodyPump wasn’t the best idea, but I love BodyPump. I think I would feel better if I could do BodyPump more than once a week, but with Erik’s camp schedule I can only go to the Tuesday class. Bah! I’ve been doing the elliptical the other two days. I am definetly not in shape any more. I can’t believe I used to do it for an hour, but I know I’ll be back to the hour eventually.

It has been hard to go back because I’ve been so lazy, but I’ve been in a much better mood this week. Erik was on my last freakin’ nerve last week. Even when he wasn’t doing anything but twitching around the house I was ready to send him to the moon. I don’t know why it is so irritating to watch a kid be in a constant state of motion, even if they are not doing anything wrong, but it is. I suppose I was missing my endorphins. I haven’t been a cranky, yelling meany-mama this week.

This evening I was even feeling well enough to do some serious rough housing with the boy, which he thought was the bees knees. I’m surprised one of us didn’t end up with a black eye.

Surely I had something else exciting to write about? If so, I have no idea what. Did I mention I need to go to bed?

I also need to go over to the neighborhood pool and see about getting a membership. I miss our apartment pool! But how will it work with a baby and a big boy? I know I can just throw him in the pool with his float ring and he’ll be fine, but that will make me nervous. I’ve read that it isn’t good to take a baby into the water until they are about four months old because they can’t regulate their temperature very well. How awful will it be to sit on the side of the pool watching everyone frolic in the nice, cool water while I am sitting in the stifling heat? The heat can’t be good for the baby either. It would be so nice to spend our afternoons at the pool, out of this little house. What to do, what to do?

I have learned something amazing in the past few weeks. Did you know that sunlight is a natural stain remover? I don’t know if it will remove all stains, but it will remove breast milk baby poop like nobody’ business. I read about hanging diapers out to line dry to remove the stains but thought it would just fade them a little or something. I didn’t understand. Heck, I still don’t understand where the stain goes, but I can guarantee you that it works. I wish I would have known that when Erik was a baby. He had blowouts all the time and ruined many a cute little onsie. So far Elsa has only had one blow-out. I was sad because I thought my very favorite outfit was ruined, but I hung it out in the sun all day yesterday and the stain is gone. I can’t believe I’m talking poop removal laundry methods like it’s some sort of super exciting thing, but it amazes me. Where does the poop go?