it is HOT

Unfortunately I have not been able to write due to our air conditioning being out.
Normally air being out is not a huge problem, but its June in Memphis, and the temperature has been in the mid 90s. Also there is a heat advisory, and we have three small children, the youngest being our newborn. We have been out of our house for nearly two weeks, and only now have internet where we are staying. It has been horrible not being able to go home two weeks after having a baby, so far everyone seems to be dealing with it better than I thought they would. Hopefully we will be able to get back in our house and establish a routine sometime in the next few days!

Not much happening here!

My older kids are at piano camp all this week. I was looking forward to them being out of the house, and still being busy so I did not have to feel guilty for spending so much time with the baby.  What I did not realize, was with them out of the house, we really don't have that much to do.  It has been very nice to catch up on sleep and be lazy in between feedings. I think I am looking forward to being able to do more stuff during the day, because two days into this I am already feeling very lazy!! With this being my first maternity leave I feel guilty like I am skipping something important. This is the longest I have not had anything to do (like go to school or work) probably since high school (so at least 10 years!!), I am pretty much at a loss as to what to do with myself. I never anticipated that it would be hard to relax and just enjoy down time.

Post Baby Weight Loss!

Even though it's only been 12 days since I had the baby, I was brave enough to hop on the scale. I had barely gained any weight during pregnancy due to being sick the entire time, so I knew it wasn't going to take long to lose it. I officially weigh less than I did pre-pregnancy, and during pregnancy. In the first two months of my pregnancy I had lost close to 10 lbs. The bad news is I'm considerably more out of shape then I was before pregnancy, which is to be expected since I was too sick to be able to exercise comfortably for the majority of my pregnancy. 
Now I can slowly start my training for my third half-marathon in December!! I have to stick to only walking for the next 4 weeks. I went on my first walk today, it was only one mile and I walked very slow, but at least I'm getting back on track!

Farmer's Market

Today was the first time all five of us went out. I guess that's not really true since we have been to my parent's house twice, but I don't count that as "out". 
This morning we were able to get all three kids ready and walk down to the farmer's market. It is on our corner so it was really only two blocks, and we were only gone for about 45 minutes, but it was still nice to feel like we had everything under control with all three kids.  We joined a local CSA so we were just picking up our weekly share, but it was nice to walk by the other booths and get out of the house.

Baby is here!!

He finally came!! DS2 was born June 4th at 8:02 am, 8 lbs 7 oz, 20 inches long.
I couldn't be happier because he is perfect!!

So far having three kids at home is tiring but much easier than I feared. I have gotten to spend alone time with everyone and its only been 4 days. I'm looking forward to adjusting to our new normal.