Bennett - Alittle of This, Alittle of That

Bennett is growing and maturing so much lately!  Here are a couple of things he's been up to this winter: 

• He is officially trained to sleep in his own bed the entire night!  I couldn't be happier!!!  It took him a couple of weeks where he would still wake up and knock on the door for me around 2:00am.  But eventually that faded and he ended up sleeping the whole night.  After a few weeks of him sleeping the whole night, I took the child-proof lock off of the inside of his door.  Even with him having the ability to get out during the night, he hasn't!  One night in the past 2 months he snuck up to our bed - but he got carried back down to his room and he was ok with that.  Now, he has been sick this past week so he has made his way up to our bed a couple of nights but I was ok with that since he didn't feel good and it was easier for me to keep an eye on his temp that way.  But last night he slept the whole night again in his bed which was great.  I'm so proud of him for this.  I would imagine for a little kid to be away from everyone else for the whole night would be kind of scary but he's doing such a great job!

He has been cracking me up lately with the things he says.  Here are a couple of quotes from him that I was able to jot down:

• While watching the SuperBowl with him I asked him "Bennett are you going to play football when you get bigger?"  He said "Yea I have fast shoes and nobody will catch me and tackle me!"
• He got a haircut one evening.  The next morning, not sure if he forgot or what but, he looked at himself in the mirror and said "Mom do you like my hair cut?  All my hair's gone!  I'M NOT BENNETT FORD ANYMORE!!!"
• I said to him, "Bennett stop jumping on the couch."  He replied "But mom I'm exercising!"
• One night when we stopped at McDonald's and were in the drive thru line, I had noticed that the boys Happy Meal toy was really dumb.  When it was time for me to order, and they asked me if it was for a boy or girl I said "They are both girls."  Bennett, with a confused tone in his voice and said "Mom, I'm not a girl!"
• I was reading him a bedtime story one night called "Happy Birthday Thomas".  On the last page of the book is a picture of Thomas the Train with all of his wrapped birthday presents.  Bennett looked at that page and asked a very legitimate question:  "How does Thomas open his presents?  He can't open them with his wheel."
• Ashley's closet door came off of the track one day.  I was trying to fix it but couldn't get it so I just left it for when Mike came home from work.  Bennett was obsessing with the door though and trying to get it working again.  I yelled at him to just leave it alone before it really broke.  His response was "Mom, that's what boys do...boys fix things...girls can not..."  He has a point haha.
• He was helping me get supper ready one night but he was getting more in my way than actually helping.  I asked him to find me the whisk in the drawer figuring that would occupy him for a couple of minutes.  He replied with "Aye Aye Captain!"  And then to my surprise, he opened the drawer and instantly pulled out the whisk for me!

He is still enjoying Preschool and looks forward to it every day.  He has really had fun playing outside in the snow with his friends on mornings when its been nicer outside.  Here is a pictures of the projects he has done this winter.  They had a Winter Unit for a couple of weeks and then a Valentines Unit.  Right now they are working on a Numbers Unit and making a Number Book so he hasn't really brought an actual project home much lately since the project is going in to the book.  He has been learning to cut with a scissors really well too lately. Also, about a month ago he learned to write a "B"...just in time to write his name on the Valentines Cards for school!

He was being really goofy and wouldn't let me take a 'normal' picture of him...he kept closing his eyes...stinker.

Detox Water

Another Pinterest post...

I read about this Detox Water on Pinterest, tried it and was satisfied!  Basically, you mix up this water drink which includes Dandelion Root Tea, drink 60 oz. of this water a day for 7 days and lose water weight!  This originally comes from Jillian Michaels (The Biggest Loser show trainer).

Here is the recipe:

• 60 ounces of water
• 1 tablespoon of sugar free Cranberry Juice.  (you only really need 7 tablespoons so if you don't plan on drinking the remaining juice afterwards, just get a small single serve bottle).
• 2 tablespoons of Lemon Juice (the kind from the bottle will do - you don't need to fresh squeeze lemons)
• 1 tea bag of Dandelion Root Tea.  I found a box at Target for $5 which included 16 tea bags (enough to do this mix for the first 7 days and another round in a week or so).

You mix this recipe up daily and drink the 60 ounces of water for 7 days straight.  I mixed it up at night so that the tea bag was able to sit in the water all night to get the most out of the tea.  It works because it helps to flush out excess water weight that your body may be carrying around.  You could lose up to 5 pounds during the week depending on how much water weight your body has.  The tea itself is a detox for your liver and kidneys.  *Not sure if any of you need this or not but there was a disclaimer on the box of tea that does say not to drink this tea if you are pregnant or nursing.

So, I did this and it was so easy.  I was able to lose 3 pounds during that week.  I ate and walked regularly so it's not like I was starving myself or anything like that to lose these pounds.  I assumed I'd have to pee constantly but honestly that wasn't the case at all - normal.  The 60 ounces really wasn't alot or out of the normal for me either since I drink glasses of water all day long.  (60 ounces is about 3 water bottles full).  Now, one night I decided to brew up a tea bag and try that alone.  That was TERRIBLE tasting and I could only manage to have a few sips before dumping it out.  But, the 60 oz water recipe really wasn't bad tasting at all - kinda a mix between lemon water and cinnamon.  It was better tasting when it was cold - when it got to room temperature the root tea taste came out alittle bit stronger.  

Anyways just thought I'd pass this on if there are any of you who want a quick and easy way to maybe drop a couple pounds!  Obviously since it was only water weight, it could easily come back.  But I just needed a jump start to get a few pounds off...without starving myself!  

Here is the original link to the pinterest post http://lizspinspiration.blogspot.com/2012/06/pin-91.html

Also, here is a picture of the box of tea that I found at Target and a picture of my water pitcher to show what 60 ounces looks like...64 oz was the top marked line on the pitcher.