Training Update

It was a beautiful weekend for a run and I ran over 4 miles, with no walk breaks. I'm pretty happy with that. I didn't time myself so I don't know what my pace was. I do know a couple of times I started to lag with my pace, but then I thought of how I would have to be going if Eli was there with me on his bike and stepped it up.

I also need to rework my running music. What I trained to last year I'm pretty burnt out on so I need some new stuff.

I've been running the section of the bike path that is closest to our house. Since it is right with the river it is curvy and hilly. I really feel like my legs are benefiting from the hills and I'll be ready for whatever the course of the half marathon is this year.

Mom!

Do you live with a demanding 19 month old? You don't? Well, here's what it's like for me with mine that's just started calling me Mom instead of the sweet baby MaMa:

Mom!
Yes Jesse?

Mom!
What?

Mom!
Jesse?

Mom!
Huh?

Mom!
Yeah?

Mom!
Uh-huh?

Mom!
Hmm?

Mom!
Yes?

Then as quickly as it starts he's moving his distructive forces to another person/area. Tim has affectionately (sort of) dubbed him Taz. You know, as in the Tazmanian Devil? You know, as in a hurricane that leaves a path of destruction in his wake? You can follow exactly where he's been in the house. It's uncanny.

Thumb Sucker

Noah is our thumb sucker and at 5 1/2 we are ready for it to stop. Really ready. He has one loose tooth and I refuse to let him suck his thumb with permanent teeth. That's where I draw the line!

So I did some research and found a nail polish that, according to the reviews, works wonders. It came in the mail on Monday and last night I told him we were going to try it. He fussed some but I put it on. It's clear so no one knows he's wearing it.

Then a little later I notice he's picking at his thumbnail with his fingernail in an effort to take it off. He said it didn't taste bad and proceeded to put his thumb in his mouth so I knew he had picked it off. Before bed I had Tim coat his thumb again. He wasn't happy about that, mumbling something about it had been hard to get off and it tasted nasty.

Off to bed he went without too much fuss. He was trying to be all sly by putting his thumb in his mouth, on the roof of his mouth and his tongue wasn't touching his thumb. But how long could he keep that up? It was going to touch his tongue sooner or later!

I didn't hear anything from him so he either didn't suck his thumb or he toughed it out and sucked it anyway. However in the morning he was crying because he said he wasn't ready to stop sucking his thumb, he didn't want the stuff on, it tasted so bad......

I told him I was sorry he had to taste it, but that he wouldn't have to taste it if he kept his thumb out of his mouth.

We'll see how it goes!

Pictures

Remember when Noah woke up with a bump under his eye? No? Well he did, I even blogged about it here.

Turns out, one day that week was picture day at Noah's school. Here's what his eye looked like that day. I pre-determined that we'd skip picture day and hit up re-takes.


Good call, don't you think?

Well re-takes are coming up so I asked Noah what he wanted to wear. Eli will wear whatever he pulls out of his drawer first, but Noah puts some thought into things as well as he likes to be comfortable. Heaven help us if a shirt "doesn't feel right" one day!

"I want to wear a shirt with squares on it."
Squares? Like patches? Do we have anything like that?

"I don't want it buttoned up, like Dad wears."
Okay so a button up shirt. Like Dad? Hmm.

"And I want to wear a t-shirt under it so no one can see my belly."
Oh, he wants to wear a plaid shirt (you know, squares), open with a t-shirt under it. That we can do!

Veterans Day

Remember it's Veteran's Day today.

Thank a vet for all they have done to keep us safe and able to live a privileged life here in these great United States of America.

A special thank you to my Uncle who is serving in the Air Force at Wright Patterson AFB, my Marine nephew who is currently stationed in Japan-but is home for a month yay! As well as to my father-in-law who served in the Navy, my brother-in-law who served in the Air Force, my cousin who served as a Marine and another uncle who served in the Navy.

Thank you!