The Nelson Family: Winter Is a Monkey

One week of being 27 down. 51 more to go. This last week wasn't so bad. We enjoyed some of the last nice days of the year. Ben pretty much finished the fence (he only has the gate left). And then it started snowing. I don't altogether hate snow, but it's severely inconvenient. And cold, and I don't really like cold. It's hard to walk to the gym in the snow. Actually, I busted my toe on one of our barstools that day. I don't think it's broken, but I wasn't sure at first. When it's taped up, it's not bad, but it's pretty swollen and bruised.

We got over 18 inches of snow this weekend. It was nuts. Korban finally decided he likes the snow. I got up early Saturday and headed out in the snow with my friend Natalie to pick up our bountiful baskets (a fruit and veggie co-op). Then we went to the gym. The weight loss challenge is going pretty well for me. I'm down 6 1/2 pounds. Which is awesome, and puts me right on target for my weight loss goal for this challenge. But I still hate losing. This week I'm going to try eating fewer carbs. I may not survive, because I love my carbs. After Thanksgiving, I'm going to try two weeks of vegetarian eating. This is on my 101 list anyways, I think it may be a good way to bolster my weight loss. I may die then, too, because I love meat. I am so surprised that I've been so good about not eating sweets. Last week was the worst, when everyone was eating my leftover birthday cake, except me. Apparently my competitiveness trumps my love of food.

Korban is a monkey. He climbed out of his crib a few weeks ago, but it was an isolated incident (we think he grabbed a stuffed animal and used it to climb out). Then yesterday he climbed out at naptime. Then at bedtime. Then 3 times during the night. And again this morning. One of those times in the night, we couldn't find him. Kennady brought him back to bed, apparently he decided to pay her a visit. Right now, I'm not sure what we are going to do. I wonder if he is using his blanket to climb out, or if he just can. Oh yeah, he also learned to open doors yesterday. So I may try a couple of things to keep him in his crib. I don't really worry about him breaking a bone (maybe I should), because he's such an agile climber. If that doesn't work, then I guess we'll have to convert his bed into a toddler bed. That sounds like a mess of trouble. If we do that, we may move Kennady and Korban into the same room, because I have a feeling, that's where he will go anyways.

We just realized yesterday that Thanksgiving is next week. We don't really have any plans. I'm guessing we may end up at Rob and Kristi's with the rest of Ben's siblings that are here. I wonder what project we'll work on this time ;) Last year it was the world's largest trampoline pit. Too bad the fence is finished, we could have done that this year. Except it's buried in 2 feet of snow.

Yeah, yeah, our blog is boring now. Well, life is kind of boring right now. I'm ok with that. More than ok, I think I kinda like it right now. Surely it won't last. Oh, and I hate adding pictures on blogger. Blah, blah, blah, Wordpress. So just deal with them all being in a row and not necessarily in the order I wanted.

Kennady likes to paint her own fingernails and put on lipstick. Daddy's not a fan.

Korban sometimes falls asleep before I can get him down for a nap.

Kennady can make her own PB&honey sandwiches.

For family night, we went to ride the indoor Ferris wheel.

At the top!

We also tried to feed Korban to the bears. He was terrified.

Painting time!

My little monkey. And a preview of how our living room look every day.

Chocolate chips pancakes. We made these for dinner one night, and we had leftover, so I tried freezing them. It worked awesomely. Now we have chocolate chip pancakes on demand. Perfect.