Working Out
Unfortunately, I am not one of those women who lose all there baby weight in the first three weeks from just breastfeeding.  Gretchen is almost 2 months old and I have only lost 13 pounds since I gave birth to her (almost 8 of which was her body weight and probably another 2-3 from placenta and blood.)  I gained 33 pounds during my pregnancy and I am anxious to lose it.  Dave and I started T25 which is great because it is short and we can manage to fit it into our busy days.  I know it took me nearly 10 months to gain that much weight, but I am anxious to lose it and have been very disciplined...it is just taking forever.  What is particularly challenging is making sure that I eat enough to keep up my milk supply.

Dave's Baseball League
Though he has yet to play a game, Dave has joined a baseball league in our community.  There are only a few games left in the summer but we are excited to go watch him!  Funny side story - Dave and I were out fishing one day last summer and I was trying to open a bag of sunflower seeds.  I was having difficulty so he took it from me and I asked him, "Are you sure you know how to do it?"  Which he promptly snapped back at me, "I played baseball for 9 years, Tasha...I know how to open a bag of sunflower seeds."  He was so defensive about it I just started cracking up.  Every time we eat sunflower seeds now, I like to tease him about that.

House Updates
Finally getting back into making our house a home.  Starting with the living room!  Can you believe that there is only one overhead light in our living room?  It is so dark and with fall rapidly approaching I wanted to lighten things up.  On a whim last weekend, we painted the walls a cream color.  We also got some bookcases from Ikea that we are turning into DIY built in storage and a coffee table from Ikea that we are sprucing up with some wood planks.  We got all white furniture and a few lamps and looks like a brand new room with all of the light we get now.  Picture updates coming soon...we still have a little ways to go before we are finished.

No Surgery!
I don't know if I mentioned this in Gretchen's birth story (which you can read here), but I got a pretty bad 2nd degree tear during the whole birthing process.  At my 6 week appointment they told me that it healed, but I had a fair amount of granular scar tissue.  So I waited 2 more weeks to give it some more time to heal and if I still had that amount when I went back I would have to get surgery to have it removed.  Luckily it wasn't that bad when I went back in so instead of surgery they used silver nitrate to freeze the remaining scar tissue off.  All better now!  I think my pelvis might still be a little bruised though because sometime when I sit in a certain way I feel sore.

Anyways, that's all for now.  Gretchen will be 2 months old tomorrow so an update on her coming soon!