Journey to a booster seat...

The minimum requirements to move a child from a standard car seat to a booster seat is 4 years old AND a minimum of 30 pounds. Well, our little guy is ready in his heart, but not quiet ready in size. His last well-check was almost 6 months ago and he weighed in at a whopping 29 pounds! The doctors were less than thrilled and urged us to increase his caloric and fat intake and get him re-checked in 6 months. This was not new to us. Noah has been on the smaller side since he was 15 months old. We frequently made extra growth check visits to the pediatrician.
That day, at Noah's 4 year well check, our journey to a booster seat had begun! This journey mostly consists of offering and encouraging Noah to eat as many high fat, high calorie and still HEALTHY meals as possible! I wasn't thrilled about the pediatricians idea of fattening Noah up with milkshakes and ice cream. Instead we turned to whole milk, fatty nuts, peanut butter, and an array of other healthy and high fat foods suggested to us by our amazing on-call doctor, also known as Auntie Lana :). We have lots of discussions with Noah about the importance of being healthy and in turn, eating healthy.
The Compromise: As a family, we decided when Noah weighs a consistent 32 pounds he can move to a booster seat. This sure did motivate our little guy!! This morning he weighed 31 pounds!!! Woohoo!!! Go Noah!!! He is so close and we are so proud of his progress. Noah gets re-checked again next month. I hope his doctors will be happy with his progress.

Enjoy this picture of Noah weighing himself. One of his favorite morning (and evening) activities.



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Noah reads "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

For my phonetics class, I had to take a speech sample of a child. I used this video of Noah "reading" as my sample. Enjoy!!
Oh, I got an A on the project :)

P.S. This is my first post made with my iPhone :) I love technology!

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Taking control and Letting go

In my previous post, I mentioned that we are hoping to be pregnant in the near future, hence waiting for a family portrait. I got to thinking, and our family sure is going through a lot of changes, and I am personally making a lot of changes in my own life. I decided I want to document those changes here in our blog.


As many of you know, we are have been trying to have our second child for the last 3 and a half years. Wow, how time sure can pass by! Its incredible to me how I can recall past events and remember thinking "Am I pregnant?" during the time. One that comes to mind was when Noah was 18 months old and he had an x-ray to test for pneumonia. The technician asked me to join him in the x-ray room and asked me if there was a chance I was pregnant. There was, but my current baby needed me and I didn't care. Its memories like these that make me realize how LONG we have been wanting this second child, and also make me grateful for the amazing, perfect, most blessed child G-d did give us. I have learned to let go of this part of my life, leave this in G-ds hands. No more drugs, no more tests, no more artificial anythings anymore. I am letting go of the things I cant control, appreciating what I have, and taking charge of the things I CAN control.


This leads my to my next big change....my health!! Thanks to the guidance of my incredible sister, Dr. Elana Gelman :) I have taken control of my life through the parts of my body which I CAN control. There is a whole different part of my health which I cant control (my positive results from my BRCA testing done 1 year ago), but I can control what I eat and my exercise routine and I believe in turn that may even control what happens with those BRCA results. Stay positive, right? Anyway, the past four months for me have been focused on eating well and exercising. I run 2-3 times a week, and go on walks and do workout videos at home throughout the week as well. My little workout buddy loves to do the videos with me! I have lost 12 pounds so far and so excited to see where I can go with this. I hope to reach my goal weight by my 28th birthday (August 27th)!


Last but not least, I went back to school this January. I work part time and study part time. 3 classes this past semester and too many more to go; all before I can even apply to the Masters program. Im really excited for what my future holds as a Speech Pathologist and thoroughly enjoying school and everything I'm learning. I feel extremely lucky for this opportunity. That being said, being a student again while being a wife, a mom, and having a part-time job can be HARD! So, I'm staying positive,trying my best to balance it all, and just doing my best while trying to be the best me I can be!


To conclude this post, I want to give a HUGE thanks to my hubby. Without him, none of this would be possible. Adam, thank you for:
*Loving me, even when I'm acting nuts
*Entertaining Noah so I can get school work done, housework done, whatever it is I want to get done, done
*Always making sure I have something healthy to eat
*Giving me that extra push to go workout on those lazy Sunday afternoons
*Talking things through with me, over and over and over again
*Laughing at me and knocking me back into reality when I'm crying over the "A" I wanted, but didn't get
*Working hard for our family
*Loving Noah and being an AMAZING Dad
*Most of all, just being there to laugh with, dream with, plan with, re-plan with, cry with, and live my life with

"I'm wrong. Your right."

The words every wife loves to hear, "I'm wrong. Your right!" I have been begging Adam for years to switch over from wordpress blogs to blogspot. Blogspot is user-friendly, much prettier, and, recently and most important, iPhone compatible! This afternoon, Adam brings me a laptop with blogspot on the homepage set up for Robles Family Blog. "I'm wrong. Your Right." Success! So, here is my first test blog through blogspot!

Our blog will document our journey through life, love, parenthood, and the pursuit of personal happiness.

This family picture was taken 2 years ago. I cant believe its been 2 years already. I told Adam just yesterday that by the end of the summer our next family picture will be planned. The date will depend on two circumstances: 1. I reach my goal weight and therefore, need to document with a gorgeous family picture, or (fingers crossed) 2. We get pregnant! and then delay a family portrait until the end of the pregnancy and take a picture with the three of us plus 1 in utero! :)