And Ten For The Devil's Own Sell
Hi kids, have you missed us? Sorry we haven't been around so much it's just...parenting. My God. And the twins are just so demanding. I've also gone back to work, although still from home, and that's stressful enough in and of itself.
And because of that...well. I've been stress eating. And pleasure eating.
Mostly I've been doing a fair bit of eating.
And God, Sebastian spoils me. When we FINALLY get the babies to bed at night (I caved and I've given them dummies. I really didn't want to but they're not good at self-soothing and honestly at this point if anything will shut them up then PERFECT, GREAT, LET'S DO THAT) I'm usually too exhausted to do anything, and he'll whip me up anything I feel like. Last night he asked me what I wanted for dinner and I requested 'something with chicken,' and he made me this amazinf white-chicken alfredo lasagna with spinach and thick toasted garlic knots drenched in butter. And I ate the whole thing. I'm still in my maternity-wear but if I wasn't I think I would have burst a button.
So I had a little weigh in today, for fun. Now my last weigh in I think I was topping the scales at 19 stone, or 266 pounds. Keep in mind that when the twins were born they weighed about 15 pounds combined, and the placentas and fluid weighed about 8. So I weighed about 243 pounds when all was said and done and I left the hospital.
Now? It's been almost two moths and according the scale this morning I weigh...
Exactly 20 stone. 280 lbs. I've gained 37 pounds in two months. Without the excuse of babies.
Frankly I'm aroused, shocked, and a little worried. Sebastian doesn't even know yet, but I bet he's going to be mostly aroused. Because that's a total of 10 stone (140 pounds) gained. All because of him. Because I'm his.
However I have come to a decision. I definitely can't keep gaining this rapidly, not with two little twins to look after. I'm definitely waddling now, and to be honest down the road I wouldn't mind hitting the 300 mark, since I'm so close to it anyway, but I like that even though I'm waddling, I'm still active enough to keep up with my babies and my dog. And rock my mate's world ;). So that's it on the frequent updates. I'm going to slow down my gain significantly now, and just concentrate on my family.
That being said, my family. The update on the babies is that they're just that, babies. But they're perfect and sweet and progressing just as they should be. Their reflexes are getting better, and they're starting to try to hold their heads up during tummy time. They also really enjoy being talked to now, although they're not quite ready to start cooing back to anyone yet. They really love it when their daddy sings to them. It puts them right to sleep.
I can't believe how much our lives have changed in this past year, or how we went from being Moriarty and Moran, the Spider and the Sniper, the Devil and his Prince of Hell, to Mammy and Daddy.
Of course, with these two little demons...well.
Who says we can't have it all? ;)