Keeping up with the Kants

I've been working from home yesterday and today, and I am missing human interraction.  Yesterday it was to test our disaster recovery system (basically make sure tripling our remote users wouldn't cause problems with the system).  I got a call around 2:30 to pick Harper up as she was running a fever.  Got her home, gave her sometylenol, and she was fine.  Temp went down.  Then she slept like crap last night, up ever hour or so, and woke up with a slight fever again.  At first I chalked it up to teething, but daycare sent home information about RSV, so now I'm worried about that.  Erich is with her this morning while I work until noon, then we'll switch.  So far she just seems cranky and tired, but no coughing and lower fever, so that's a good sign. We got hit with about 5 inches of snow yesterday :(  I was really hoping this weather was over.  Maybe this will be the last snow!  A girl can dream...or go to Vegas in a week, I guess ...

Started up and only got a few before it broke again...better luck tomorrow?  Harper's skirt...and new favorite thing to do--pull out magazines. Watching Hailey play, "So Big!" Trying on her easter costume; I think she was trying to flip me off. Thug life bitches. Abbey's Valentines shirt!  Ready to represent at PJ's! More to come...

The title of this post is my new goal: lose 30 pounds by my 31st birthday, which is September 9.  At the beginning of the year, I knew I needed to get started on this baby weight.  Just because you don't "gain" while you're pregnant, doesn't mean you get to slack off afterwards...for like 9 months.  Erich and I have both recently felt like big lumps, so a change is in order.  We're going to work out more, eat out less, and actually pay attention to what we're eating...meaning when we're both too tired to cook, we don't rely on chicken patties and fries.  I'm not quite sure Erich is sold on that yet, and it is only day 2 of this.  I've done pretty well, and worked out both days, stuck to my calorie goal (coming in slightly underneath even with Chipotle for dinner and a piece of chocolate this afternoon), and despite being woke up around 430/5 nearly every day the past week or so, am feeling pretty good.  I'll keep you posted with our pro...

**Just as a prefice to this post, I wrote it on Monday the 7th during my morning break.  I had touched on colds in our house...well, they turned into sinus and ear infections for Harper and I, so we were out of commission for a couple days, and although I was still going to work, I felt like crap. But the show must go on, and the only time Harper acted sick was at night.  Finally, Sunday, we all seem to be almost back to ourselves.  I have a lingering cough that a little 'tussin will take care of.  Onto the post...** I was giving a friend a hard time about not blogging recently, so she challenged me to a duel of sorts...who can post the most pictures and blog updates in the month of February.  She definitely has the upper hand when it comes to photos, seeing as how she hasn't posted since December and just moved, but I'll give it a shot. We're all sick with icky colds at the Kant house.  Harper has learned that Kleenex are evil and you can't get anywher...