30

Happy Birthday to me!

Today is the first day of my 30s! Wow... I guess I'm about 25% or so through my life! (I'm planning on a long life) Today is also post number 101! I just kinda casually started writing a post a day and suddenly I have 101 of them... too bad they're not Dalmatians, winter is coming and I could use a coat with a scarf and matching gloves.
Emma started slow on the weight chart as per the CDC and WHO but we weighed her today and most baby weight charts  have a kinda logarithmic look to them, starting steep but then leveling off... Emma's is the reverse, it started kinda level, but now is looking very vertical. She was a little under weight (in the lowest 5%) when she was born, but she's making up for it!

Speaking of weights. I started working out again at the beginning of August. I'm considering doing running again, but right now I'm focusing on weights and interval training. Most days I do a whole body workout, but now once a week I'm doing a 5x5. I'm up to repping almost my body-weight on bench press... and I only have dumbbell weights so that's pretty tough! I weighed 98kg this morning and yesterday I did 95kg 5 times as part of a quick whole body workout. It won't be long until I'm over 100!! I don't have quite as impressive weights with squats since it's really really really hard to hold 2 heavily loaded dumbbells in such a way that you can squat. When my new plates come, I plan on just loading 80kg on 1 dumbbell and squatting that. In the interim, I'm doing 1 legged squats and lunges with weights. It's not the same as a heavy squat, but you do what you can! Also, I'm up to 7 chin-ups ... I know, it's weak, but you have to start somewhere.