five BIG months

little miss rory charlotte five months old, so i decided an update was in order
it is quite possible that she is the most jolly baby i have ever known, how did i get so lucky?
she rolls to her side and back, but not yet all the way over
she chatters away when the mood strikes her
still loves her swing..( thanks kim & tony), but who can blame her? it swngs from side to side like a hammock
she loves to chew on stuffed animals and is starting to really like toys, but nothing beats a good foot chewing!
and let me just say how i love the giggles i get when i nibble on a chunky thigh! oh joy!!!
latest word sound, neh, neh, neh

in hopes that i still have a few readers....here is a quick update.

we got the car back and after it was cleaned and fumigated, it was overall, in pretty good shape. but i have to admit, after all my car had been through, i was not as welcoming as i should have been, maybe even a bit cold. poor greta..i have named her "greta carbo" in effort to bond.
but just in case i had started to feel better about the whole thing, my favorite meth-head criminals were hard at work; making counterfeit checks and overdrawing my account as well as charging my banana republic credit card to its limit (the one card i forgot about)
can you imagine how crazy i am driving my poor husband? example; "honey did you lock the house before we left?", "yes", "are you sure?", "yes, i double checked it", "can we just quickly go back and check again?", "bit i'm sure", "its less than three blocks...go back"
the good news is that i have started to take a daily dose of omega-3 to counter the anxiety....i think its actually helping!

accoutability

the main reason i started this blog was to create some accountability in my quest of gettting healthy and fit.
i have been excercising at least three times a week, obseving the food cutoff time in the evening, drinking my water, cut alcolhol out almost entirely, and strange thing has happened....not only do i feel healthier, but i feel my body changing. the changes are slight, maybe not yet noticable to others. in addition to the slight changes i got on the scale this morning and i was five pounds lighter. okay, i know scales arent supposed to talk but mine does! lately it has sceamed and yelled that it was going to break if i didnt lighten up, but not today! no sir-ee bob, today we shook hands and made friends :)
i am on my way.....and it really feels good!

the rest of the story

my last post was a bit of a cliffhanger, so here's how the story ends...

johnny and i spent the rest of the day talking to the CHP, borrowing a car from my parents, and shopping for a new car seat for rory. we ended up getting a bigger car seat as we would needing one in a few months anyway, so in addition to all of the stress of the day, i had to take a moment to be sad that the thieves of my car were making my baby grow up just a bit faster. that bothered me, but she does not care a bit.
soon enough i had to shift gears, it was a sunday night, and kyle was to start high school the next morning; problem being that he could not go to sleep because he was having a full blown panic attack..sure that the people that took the jeep would be back for a third time. i was able to talk him down from his ledge, now if i can just come down from mine.
tuesday morning was very hectic. i am not yet used to the traffic so i got kyle to the bus stop late..too late. i called johnny to tell him that i was going to have to take kyle into the city when he informed me that the police had called to say they had found my jeep and were waiting for me to claim it in belvedere, school would have to wait.
we followed the directions to the street in belvedere where me jeep was...WOW! for those of you that have never been there, it is an area where the starting price for a home is about 5 million, and now i know why. it was as if i was transported to europe, the views are breathtaking!
oh, back to my drama. so when i got there the officer asked me to look in the car to identify my property...a mountain bike, ipods, cds wallets, buckets of credit cards, duffel's of clothes, every type of cord for any kind of device you can imagine, meth pipes, and a smell that would rival any crack house. not my stuff officer, not mine at all!
the police asked if they could take my jeep to process it thoroughly. of course i said yes. by the way, kyle really enjoyed this real life csi scenario and actually pointed out some very useful things to the officer, i am sure he was very excited to tell the school secretary all of the details when he finally got there, an hour late.
so the jeep is at the dealership being re-keyed, detailed and deodorized,now if i can just deal with my new and acute case of paranoia and ocd!