Longhorn in Paradise

Here are a couple more pictures of my beautiful offspring. We have not been taking as many pics this week because it has been crazy...lots of work and lots of drama with the kiddos. Such is life.

The title of this post refers to a new quandry of mine. You see, I have been giving a lot of credit for my recent weight loss to a dedication to exercise. But, I was thinking about it today and the fact of the matter is, I have not only been exercising every day since March 1, I have also been eating at least one ice cream sandwich everyday since then. So, the question becomes, which one is more likely to have contributed to the slimmer version of myself that you see before you...well, if you have a good imagination. I think any scientist would tell you that it would be impossible to determine which of these two activities are more likely to have had the most effect. There is no control in this experiment. Imagine how this makes me feel? I assume that if I give up one of these habits, it could potentially make a greater impact on my weight loss program....but which one??? I think I am going to need some help on this one. If anyone out there has a hypothesis re. this, please let me know...maybe one of you has been in a similar situation. I don't know. What I do know is that the ice cream sandwiches are incredibly delicious. I'm just not sure what their weight loss qualities are.

Back to the family...Hagen is sleeping in his crib for the first time tonight. He actually lay there for 10 minutes without crying which was a record. I then shut off the lights and played some lullaby music on his little crib aquarium and he has been sleeping nearly an hour!!! Life is grand! Both Liska and Hagen asleep at the same time?!?!!? Now, I should be asleep too...but, alas, I know that my loyal fans could not go another day without hearing from me or seeing my gorgeous brood. Another factor with Hagen is that he may have acid reflux...we got him a Zantac prescription yesterday and he will be taking that twice daily. Hopefully that will help.

OK. I am off to sleep...btw, it is Kat's dad's birthday today. We celebrated with some chinese takeout. woohoo!

Much love to all!