6 months old

Well we hit 6 months and all is well. We love Miss Charlotte. Such a sweet baby. Here are just a few things about her:
* been crawling for nearly 2 months
* stands up on furniture
* feeds herself finger food
* gives the best smiles when you smile at her
* has her 2 bottom teeth
* has been holding her bottle up for about 2 month
* climbed over the step in the living and fell down the first set of stairs
 * started walking yesterday. Just kidding... but that is just around the corner I'm sure!

I love this picture 'cause it looks like she's totally posing and you can see her little teeth.

This one she just looks so darn cute in.

 

And this one makes me want to eat up her cute little face! Love this girl!

My journey so far....

I started a weight loss group January 1st and to recap the story I was in 2nd place the whole way until the last 2 weeks I took the lead and the next person closest to me had to lose 4 pounds to beat me. We were down in Sandy and I brought my scale and planned on trying my parents 'cause my scale kept wigging out and this was our final weigh in on April 2nd. On my scale I'd be up 1 pound and then 2 minutes later I'd be down 1.5 and it just seemed very inconsistent. Well, I got on my parent's scale and I was 1 pound less on theirs than on mine, but mine seemed to be pretty stable so I was going to take that weight. Then I got on and saw the girl had beaten me by .2%  if I went on my scale and I'd beat her if I was on my parents scale by that same amount. If I averaged the 2, we'd tie. So after a long day of debating, I figured I started on my scale I had to end on it and had I posted first and not seen her weight I wouldn't have even had this debate. I would have been excited with my loss and figured she wouldn't have lost 4 pounds since rarely lost more than 2 pounds each week. Anyway, I felt like it was the right decision to just stick with my scale and it is what it is. I took second place and I still won $120 but more importantly I lost 27 pounds and that is worth it all in the end!

So I've gone back and forth and debated about whether or not to post these pictures anywhere. They are, after all, more revealing than I'm comfortable with and fairly embarrassing.  I took the pictures just for me and to hopefully keep me motivated. Funny thing is that over the last 6 years I've taken quite a few of the "befores", but never reached the "afters". Finally I feel like I'm at a point where it's worth having the afters. Still, sharing them makes me a little nervous, but when I started the biggest loser group  one of the girls had already gone through a major weight loss journey and posted her B&F pictures and that's one of the things that motivated me, so if this motivates anyone else who may feel like they aren't where they want to be, then it's worth doing it. So.... eat your eyes out. JK.

I showed a few family members and of course they were nice enough to say that they would have never guess I looked like that and no, I'm not pushing it out or sucking it in. It's just relaxed and standing there. I still have about 10 more pounds to go, but the weight loss group ended and this is where I finished with that.