fighting the urge.

to stay in a yoga pant + t-shirt uniform and lay in bed all day.

{lulu and yerba mate}

instead, i'm going to try and focus on a few new sweetly-scented house plants.

{mexican jasmine}

{bedroom perfect lavender}

and some reminders that life is definitely blooming on our patio.

because even though, according to mrs. doctor, baby's 'due' date is june the ninth, i never really felt like that was the day she would come out and meet us. throughout this whole pregnancy i just knew she'd be here a couple days early, but as the ninth quickly approaches, it seems like baby mila just doesn't want to come out and we might be looking at a later birth date.

despite the eagerness to not be pregnant anymore, i really just want to meet our healthy baby girl. every night that i lay down, i hope that i'm awoken by some evil pain that tells me our baby will be in our arms in just hours. but each morning, i continue to wake up to the sun shining in my eyes and this little babe tucked warm inside my belly {and yes, i do know that the wonderful squirms of movement from my girl will be desperately missed once she's living on the outside}.

what i fear most is that our doctor won't be willing to work on miss mila's schedule and this whole labor/delivery snowballs into something so opposite of the natural delivery we hope to have. so please keep us in your prayers.

i certainly don't know when mila's alarm clock is set to go off, but i'm hoping it's sometime within the past five minutes.

happy monday!

...and on the baby front.

still no mila. we would be pretty lucky to actually get to meet our daughter three weeks ahead of time, and if she's anything like her "patient" parents, she does not plan on waiting any longer than we do to get out of her nine-month rental property.

{crummy iphone/ 

doctor's office photo}

we did have our second weekly appointment today and found out that i've started to open up {and soften} a bit {pretty detailed, i know, but these are the things that excite me lately}....so the daily walks continue, as do some additional herbal strategies that have been proven to get things moving in the labor and delivery department. plus, and this is a big one since having a c-section is at the top of my 'really hope this doesn't happen on delivery day' list, miss mila's head is still down. i'm telling you, i really don't think that june ninth is her birthday of choice.....maybe something more like, ohhhhhh, may nineteenth????

and today, forty+ years ago, my oldest sister actually DID define this as her birthday! happy birthday kim!

hello may sixteenth.

with this day, comes my last week to work at the office. which therefore brings lots and lots of time to continue getting ready for the little one to come home.

so far, i have my bag nearly packed.

last load of mila's laundry is DONE, smells heavenly thanks to the wonderful world of zum organics, and {thanks to aunt missy} mila has an adorably soft little outfit to come home in.

{don't think i've EVER hand-washed

anything so perfectly cute and small}

carseat is finally in mila's new ride.

and we only have a few minor things to do in her little bedroom.

how i feel lately.

not so much fatigued or worn out. just like i can't get enough sleep. and {almost} every night lately, baby has woken me up around 2:00AM to dance around in my tummy. pretty obvious she has a bit of her dad's owl-like syndrome in her.

this is what our mothers' day looked like.

wayyyy too much fun watching this kid. he's seriously THIS happy all the time {not according to his mom, but we never see another side of him and i'm fine with that}.

this little girl making her way through my kitchen. after reorganizing the cabinets,

she decides that she deserves a little treat, with mom's permission or not.

no need for words.

getting some practice in.

again...words can't do this picture justice.

and lastly, this little guy {again} because this smile seriously never leaves his face {and the little carrot-orange nose doesn't hurt}.

obviously the husband has some serious fatherly instincts. he didn't get in front of the camera once, although every one of his pictures has at least one kid in it. might need to get some new shelving space for all the pictures and photo albums in miss mila's future.

hope everyone had a lovely mothers' day.

i NEVER win ANYthing.

which is why this deserves its own post. the other day i commented on a give away over at fig+sage {a go-to must for reviews on organic products}. and look at what my little inbox decided to give me this morning:

Fig+Sage  to me

show details 7:28 PM (15 hours ago)

YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many congrats!!!  Please send your shipping address so that the lovely ladies at Zoe Organics may ship out your pampering organic pregnancy prize to you :)

Thanks so much for reading Fig+Sage, we hope you enjoy it and come back often!

xoxo,

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yeah--preTTY excited. can't wait to try out all of the mama-to-be pampering products that are coming my way.

expect lots of reviews on these beautifying, make me feel great tubs of gold!

can't seem to kick it.

so far it's been nine pounds minus the six i lost in the first few weeks of this pregnancy. that's a net total of three pounds i've gained at nearly six months in. not including those first six, my doctor seemed a little concerned that four of those nine pounds were within the last four weeks between yesterday and our last appointment. but we thought i was doing well? PLUS, little mila now weighs a full one pound and two ounces, can i start blaming my child for things? maybe not a good start. despite all the walking and exercise and crazy improvements i'm making to our little abode, i think doctor actually thinks i'm going to stop eating some of the things i haven't truly enjoyed in a long while. so, kind doctor, nutella and i will continue our relationship. and yes, it's all my daughter's fault.

{nutella + whole wheat english muffin}

***p.s. mila, mommy loves you.

because i can.

while i seriously do eat pretty darn healthy about ninety percent of the time, this little peanut inside of me definitely has my head justifying the random things to eat that pop into my head out of nowhere. today: a burger. the no-nonsense, double meat cheeseburger with everything on it, grilled onions, toasted buns with a side of some seriously skinny salty fries.

{thanks whataburger}

you might be thinking, 'she forgot the milkshake!' {a burger and fry staple}. well, i soon realized that as well {right about the time the salt really set in and i needed just the opposite in my tummy}. i have to confess that i immediately jumped back in my car and made another run to the nearest whataburger {a corpus christi favorite}.

so yeah, that's my anti-nutritious lunch for the day. and i am totally fine with it. actually MORE than fine. COMPLETEly satisfied.

what fifteen weeks looks like.

really wish i had a belly by now but i guess that just means i have some killer abs!!

my routine has finally gotten back to "normal". i woke up a few weeks ago and oatmeal FINALLY sounded good to me again. since then, i've been alternating my workouts with a start of twenty minutes of cardio each time {stairmastr, elliptical but mostly treadmill} then finishing it off with about twenty minutes of:

ANY routine by my girl tracy anderson

or this:

reverse lunge with biceps curl

deadlift to high pull

stability ball triceps extension

plank hold and single-arm row

squat with leg abduction and lateral raise

hamstring curl with chest press

v-sit incline press

side plank with rear fly

...all with eight pounds {except the 

rear fly} for as many sets as i can get 

within twenty-five to thirty minutes

officially a 'non-blogger'.

at least that's what i call people who go almost a full month between posts. i wish i could say that i've been busy the entiiiiiiiire time but that just isn't the case. we did manage to get our booties moved into our new house which has definitely drawn quite a bit of energy out of me. we've officially resided on bermuda street for a full two weeks now and it's going great. so nice to finally have a place of our own again. i don't have too many pictures to post of the nueva casa since it's not exactly 'picture perfect' in my eyes {yet}, but it's getting there.
other than the casita, we have a bit of news on the baby-front. we finally had a sonogram a few weeks ago and over the thanksgiving holiday, during our visit with nick's mom at the hospital she works in, we were able to hear the little limón's heartbeat. today we are meeting with our potential midwife and i'm really hoping for the best. unfortunately our options in good ol' corpus christi are pretty limited when it comes to alternative medicine. so far i've heard many good things about beth overton {the midwife} so my hopes are high.
this week finds me logging in some hours at our office. our lovely secretary had to have a pretty serious surgery so i'm bring home the bacon by answering phones and doing some busy work. what does this mean for you??? hopefully lots more blog posts.
now that you have a little update on my vida, here's for my work outs. last week {and this week so far} i've managed to really get my heart going. since the move, we now live across from a park that's about a mile around. for anybody who just doesn't feel like trekking it to the gym, this makes such a great avenue for getting a truly beneficial workout in. i have about ten park benches that i pass on my walk/jog and here are a few of the exercises i do on them:

incline push-ups

tricep dips

planks

plank with side rotation

decline plank with leg lefts

step-ups

step-ups with pulse back

side step-ups with kick out

donkey kicks at an angle

these are only a feeeeeeew of the things you can do on benches, in between those little fat burners, i mix my mode of traveling with:

speed-walking

skipping

sachés

lunges

jogging

elbow to knee oblique twist

kick ups {dallas cowboy cheerleader style}

kick BACKS .....boootie blaster!!

side lunges

you can seriously do ANYYYYY variation of these exercises, doesn't matter which order...as long as you do at least twelve reps {on each side} of everything!
happy workout!!!