We got a scale!

We got a scale!!!!! It brought good news for all, too! Emma gained some weight, and I lost some! YAY!! I am officially within 5 lbs of my goal! I have lost like 4 pounds since we got here! Hip Hip Hooray! Emma was anxious to try it out, she wasted no time getting on it :) I am loving getting back into the routine of exercising too! I was so out of practice. The trail doesn't have a terrible view either :) I am loving my new morning me time! Emma goes to school at 8, and then while she is there, it is my time to go to the gym, run outside, get my nails done, go to the pool, whatever! The spa opens next week, so soon I will be adding massages and steam room to that list! Since Charlie and Johana get along so well, I can leave him with her, and go do whatever I want! I will miss having a built in babysitter for sure, but it will be nice to get back to the States and be able to get back into the real world :) As opposed to this vacation world I have been living in. I will miss empty, quiet, relaxing pools though!!

I thought that this might be a good time to bring up some of the downsides I have found to having full time help. I know everyone is rolling their eyes at the screen as they read this.. But just hear me out :) #1- Complete lack of privacy. From the hours of 7-4, Mon-Sat I have someone always aware of what I am doing, how I am acting, asking me questions, etc. Don't get me wrong- I would never think of letting Johana go because of this, but it is definitely something that takes some getting used to. #2- Always feeling like I am in the way in someone else's house. I never know what to do when she is trying to clean. I feel like as soon as I move out of the way, I am in the way again. Also, whenever I go into the kitchen, she asks what I need/what I am looking for. Sometimes I am just in the kitchen to graze and look for snacks. I think this is one reason that I have lost weight :) I don't snack as much because someone is always watching and I feel like I need to explain myself! I can't do it in private until she leaves. (Which incidentally happens to be the start of wine time.. Hey- it's 5 o'clock somewhere, like Cincinnati :) BUT if I didn't have her- my floors would never ever look like this :) I can honestly say that they are clean enough to eat off of- and that's a good thing, since Charlie does! Oh- I am so excited.. You may have seen on facebook, Charlie's bed finally got taken care of! He is in his big boy bed and out of the pack n play!!!! He LOVES his new bed, and all the extra space he has now! AND the guy came yesterday to measure the windows for our bars and screens! I am not 100% excited for the way they will look, because who wants bars covering their windows?? But this will let us keep our windows open! The screens will let us keep everyone open at night, and I am SO excited for that because in the last couple of days we have been getting some bugs in here. I don't know why it is just now starting? But regardless, no more mosquito bites for us!! YAY! Everything should be installed by the end of next week! The screens have to be specially ordered. I cannot wait! Onto another note- does anyone know of any place that you can watch American TV and not physically be in the US? Carlos doesn't want to get VPN access because he is afraid of getting hacked since we both have protected info on our laptops, and we obviously don't want it stolen. I am not able to watch anything from the US unless I pay top dollar on iTunes. Except for the rare occasion that I find something on youtube. I think it is so stupid that I can't watch anything while i'm here. I pay for cable there, I have a permanent address there, I just happen to not be there, and I have no access to anything. All the websites give me a geographical restriction message, and I can't view anything. Since it looks like we will be here after the start of the fall tv season, I want to be able to watch the shows I like without having to buy them. I love to watch trash TV, but not necessarily enough to pay a lot for it. (Keeping up with the Kardashians costs $47.99) Also, we like other not so trashy TV, but I hate to spend over $40 for something I probably won't re-watch. I also don't want to just wait and hope that everything shows up on Netflix. Esp. since we have to use the Colombian Netflix. It is a little different. There are more Disney movies, which is good for Emma, but unfortunately there is a much smaller selection of TV shows. UGH This post is looking a little verbose, so here is another picture. Our church in the neighborhood.