A few triumphs...

Hmmm... well this post is going to be full of a bunch of random items that have been on my mind lately. To start, I'm in the midst of reading Harry Potter. I feel embarrassed to call myself a true Harry Potter fan, when I have yet to finish the final book. Good grief. I'm so lame. I'm not sure why it took me so long to get started with it... Ben read it first in like one day and then the next day I got sick with a cold and it gave me a headache to read... and by then all of Ben's family had finished it already and I was the lame duck out. Oh well... I finally got going with it (and it's just AWESOME!) Don't spoil anything for me... I'm on chapter 26: Gringotts... it's really getting to some good stuff... I guess if I were really a true fanatic, I wouldn't be wasting time blogging, when I could be reading. :/

Heather mentioned on a previous post that Taya was fitting into her "skinny jeans" again. Well, it inspired me to give my good old jeans another try. The last time I tried to put them on was 3 weeks after having Becca, and I couldn't even get them buttoned up... oh man! Well, much to my surprise... I have shown some real triumph over the post-prego fat and could fit into them again! It's a miracle! And I didn't even have to suck it in. Woohoo!

Another piece of good news, is that Emma has started to eat carrots! Some of you may wonder why this is so amazing, because I am sure you all have kids who love eating vegetables and never complain about the food on their plate (wink). Well, I have not been able to get Emma to eat any veggies for ages... so I consulted Ben, who at the time was in his pediatric rotation, for some possible advice. He happened to be listening to some pediatric lectures in the car recently and the doctor on the CD mentioned putting out a tray of vegetables everyday. The idea is to not make a big fuss about it and to not make the child eat any of it if they don't want to... but to just put out a plate of veggies daily, so they get used to seeing the food and is convenient to get at. So, I tried this out, and at first, Emma wouldn't even touch any it... however, I did start including some fruit on the plate because she really likes many types of fruit and this got her to at least start eating off it. And during this whole process, I have been eating a lot more veggies myself, because if Emma doesn't eat any of it in the course of the morning, I start picking at it so it doesn't go to waste. Anyway, it had been 3 weeks of this with no progress, and then all of a sudden, a couple of days ago Emma came up to me with a bunch of chewed up carrot in her mouth and excitedly tells me, "I eat a carrot mommy!" I cheered and said "Hooray for Emma!" She was so pleased with herself... and now she seems to really enjoy eating the carrots. How amazing is that?! Well, I'm still putting out a variety of fruits and veggies everyday, with the hopes that she'll start sampling some other things like peas, cucumber, etc. We'll see where this goes.

In closing... here is a super funny clip from Jay Leno where this little kids calls 911. It's absolutely hilarious! A friend of Ben's emailed it to him recently, and we were just cracking up about it....