Check out my son’s T-Shirt

Yup thats right if you guessed I’m pregnant that is correct. Through out this pregnancy I will continue to blog about being preggers and my weight gains. So feel free to follow my new journey.

Also with my life already being hected I decided to become a Thirty-One Gifts Consultant bring extra money. If you are not familiar with Thirty-One we sell items to make your life simplified with items such as storage items, purses thermal totes and a awesome men’s collection. The best $99 I’ve ever spent.

I’m signing off for now so until next week folks. Have a happy and blessed weekend

I’ve decided that I would join weight watchers because I know the points value and I feel like counting calories is just time consuming.

My husband and I have decided that we were going to try for another baby.

My son’s speech is improving alot and he is telling me words.

My son has decided that he wanted to self potty train himself and he refuses for us to potty train him because he’s such a big boy now that he doesnt need our help. (FUN TIMES)

That’s all that’s been happening in my busy life. What’s new with you all.

My Son reading one of his favorite books he got for his 1st birthday "Curious George goes to the library" He was pointing to "George" and the pictures of the books inside of the books

It’s no secret that my son LOVES  his books or anything that you can read to him. I started reading to him in the womb when my doctor told me the interesting fact that he can hear everything that was going around me. My first story I read to him was a Dr. Seuss book. I noticed immediately which books he did not like by the way he would kick me. The kicking would stop with a book he liked. I try to read all of his books with feeling and emotion. So fast forward to now my son loves his books I have to read my two-year old 3-4 books at bed time. When I ask him to pick one book he gets 3-4. I honestly don’t mind because reading puts the “FUN” in FUNdamental and it builds literacy, imagination and a love for books in the future. In my opinion I honestly think that every child should be introduced to reading.

Our favorite books

My Favorite Children’s Books

1. Chicka Chicka 1,2,3- My son loves this book with all his heart. He loves to count along with me and with the help of this book he loves his numbers. When he jumps off things he says” 1,2,5,8 jump” so cute
2. Leap Frog Good Night Scout- I love this book because it helps my son get ready for bed time routines and it read the words on the page as you flip throught the book.
3. George Goes Fishing- My son just loves anything Curious George
4. Love You Forever-This book makes me cry every time I read it.
5. Good Night Moon-My son loves this book he likes to say good night to all of the pictures in the book
6. Hop on Pop-This was my favorite Dr. Suess book when I was a child so I shared my love of this book with my son.
7. Kids Study Bible-When my son moved over to the toddler nursery in church they brought home these little story cards about the lesson or chapter they learned about and ever since then my son has been obsessed with Jesus. So we started reading him the bible and he loves it
8. Curious George Good Night Book-Great night time routine at the end we say ” Good Night George
9. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom-We love our letters. My son gets so excited when he see and recognizes the letter “A”
10. The Very Hungry Caterpiller- Eric Carle is my favorite children’s authors and this book is one of my favorites.

What are some of children’s favorite books that you read to your kids?

My Kick A** Workout Playlist for when I need that extra push

What songs fuel your runs? What’s your go to song that you put on to give you that extra boost to get you through your last leg of your workouts? I have compiled a list (top twelve in no special order) of my favorite workout songs to give me that extra little push.

My Go to workout songs to push me through my workouts are?

• Eminem- Lose yourself
• Demi Lovato- Skycraper
• Kelly Clarkson- Stronger
• Survivor- Eye of the tiger
• Fun- We are young
• Nicki Minaj- Super Bass
• Drake- The Motto
• Gym Class Heros- Stereo Hearts
• Maroon 5- Moves like Jagger
• Cold Play- Paradise
• Beyonce- Countdown
• Green Day- Basket Case, When I come around

What’s on your workout playlist?

Our Family Picture at the zoo

Ha ha ha ha ha well not really but we did visit one. On Wednesday my son’s speech class went on a field trip to The Baltimore Zoo. I hadn’t been to the zoo since I was in elementary school and this was my son’s first trip so this was an extra special trip for us. I was expecting it to be really sunny since the previous days were HOT but Wednesday it was rainy and cold. We made the best of it and made some pretty awesome memories there. Here are some pictures from our zoo trip.

When I asked my son what animals he wanted to see at the zoo he said “George” as in Curious George so here some pictures of him seeing “George” for the first time.

His first look at the monkeys

He was trying to hold his composer

These two lions were fighting. My son kept saying "Not Nice"

This monkey was very funny and entertaining

The Polar Bears were having a lazy day because of the rain.

We had a great time at the zoo. Cant wait to go back again

I have thought about writing this post for a very long time in fact it’s been in my drafts for a few months. I rarely try new things with fitness. It’s normally my same routine or I always   say: “When I lose a few more pounds I can do it” or “I’ll be the only fat person in the class”. So today is the day that I stop making excuses for myself, step out of my comfort zone and JUST DO IT because look at the people on last seasons biggest loser and they ran a freaking marathon in the desert for crying out loud. So today is the day I make a bucket list and accomplish those things I want to do no matter if I’m the fattest person in the room. I’m going to do what I set out to do NO MATTER WHAT. So here goes nothing:

1. Try a pilates class at the gym or either in a studio

2. Take a hot yoga class at the gym or in a studio

3. Go find a nice hiking trail and go hiking

4. Go Rock Climbing

5. Run a 5k in under 28 mins

6.Run a half marathon

7. Become a group fitness instructor

8. Enjoy exercising

9. Make it through the entire Bob Harper‘s Yoga for the warrior dvd

10. Try a spin class

This is my fitness bucket list now it’s your turn to tell me what’s on your bucket list?

Not I. I dislike when people choose to stay inside and when there is so much to do outside and they are the main ones saying ” It’s such a nice day outside and there is nothing to do”  HELLO, Yes there is just look around. Yesterday the sun was out and the weather was warm and my son and I decided to pull out the jogging stroller (but we didn’t use it because my son wanted to run around the trail with me). After we were done getting in my fitness I let him play on the playground for about an hour. This time we actually had the playground to ourselves. Here are some cool pictures and a video:

Toddler Chin ups

What do you like to do on beautiful days?

I have decided to jump on the What I Ate Wednesday (or whatever day you want) band wagon. I got the idea from Jenn over at Peas & Crayons (Awesome blog by the way you need to go check it out and subscribe) I thought this was a good idea. When I first started out with my blog I would take pictures of my food to help me if I was in a hurry and couldn’t write things down. So Here is what I ate today:

My First Ever WIAW

Breakfast: Multi Grain Cherrios w/ almond milk.

Snack: Frozen Banana sliced in half and 1/2 tbsp of peanut butter in the middle. Click here for the recipe

Lunch: Boca Flame Grilled Meatless Burger, green beans, Whole wheat tortilla (Not Pictured Sorry)

Snack: Luna Bar and a Cuties Orange

Dinner: Chili (instead of using ground beef I used Boca’s Soy Crumbles), served with brown rice (Not pictured) and I’m having a glass of Chocolate Milk as a treat.

Snack: Chobani Champions greek yogurt.

My meals today are totally Meatless and Yummy