Saturday, February 26, 2011
B.O.B. Recall
Everyone who has read this knows I am a fan of my B.O.B. stroller (Thanks Sarah for recommending it!). I still am. But wanted to give readers a head's up on this-- they just had a recall on most models due to the drawstring at the top. Go to this website and enter in your model number for a free retrofit kit and instructions on how to remove the drawstring on the canopy. Want to keep our babies and their mama's healthy!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Happy Half Birthday to the Baby Boy!
Happy half-birthday to our sweet baby boy! Six months old-- whoa!
You are the only kid I know who laughs through all the foot game of "this little piggy went to the market" until I get to the "wee wee wee" part after your little toe... then you look like you might cry. Just one of your many sweet quirks.
We love you soooo much little man!
You are the only kid I know who laughs through all the foot game of "this little piggy went to the market" until I get to the "wee wee wee" part after your little toe... then you look like you might cry. Just one of your many sweet quirks.
We love you soooo much little man!
Monday, February 21, 2011
ABCs of Me
Inspired by another post I read today-- this is totally not running related but may give you a better glimpse of who this running mama is... ABCs of me...
Animal: dogs
Advice: Assume positive intent. (huge in a marriage relationship!)
Album: Hummm... this changes often and I have honestly not listened to a full album in a while-- more talk radio than anything. I heart Dave Ramsey for talk radio.
Best feeling in the world: Love
Best weather: High 60s, low 70s with sunshine
Band: I played nothing in a band.
Candy: Dark chocolate.
Color: Red
Continent to visit: Back to Africa!!
Cheese: Vemont cheddar
Drawing or painting: Oil painting.
Dog breed: English Springer Spanials. My last dog was one and he was a beauty and so soft!
Eyes: Dark blue
Everyone’s got: A story. Take time to listen.
Ever failed a class: No. But I did get a C in family 252. My lowest grade ever. Might not have helped that I skipped class and went on to my archi studio instead.
First thoughts waking up: Time to go feed the baby! Get to see that sweet face again!
Feeling: So blessed and happy I might explode.
Favorite Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Greatest Fear: Lately-- critters in my attic.
Goals: Soak up a day at a time.
Good luck charm: Prayer-- not so much a lucky charm.
Holiday: LOVE Thanksgiving
Hot or cold: Usually cold unless I am pregnant and due at the end of the hottest summer in my history... ; )
Ice cream: Cookies and Cream
Instrument: I can’t play anything
Jewelry: My wedding and engagement rings
Job: Architect, Wife and Mom (probably not in that order)
Jokes: Love to laugh-- bad at telling jokes
Kids: One baby boy and hopefully more in the future!
Keep a journal: Yep.
Love: The Lord and My family!!!
Laughed so hard you cried: yes... usually over something goofy my hubby has done.
Learned: Firsthand how all the things my parents taught me were right on.
Lost: Currently a car key and my Blackberry phone case.
McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonalds, but thats rare... though they do have the best coke if I crave one. And I like an egg mcmuffin on occasion.
Marriage: 5 years this summer. Blessed.
Musical: Sound of Music
Number of siblings: Oldest of 4 (2 sisters and a bro)
Name that comes to mind first: Mark (hubster-- love him!)
One wish: Someday design and live in our dream home on a piece of land with a creek close by.
One time I…: rafted the Nile and thought I would not live to tell about it!
One word: Blessed.
Perfect pizza: Chicago style cheese!
Pepsi or Coke: Coke (but 99.9% of the time I drink water!)
Pet: nope.
Questions: Why must time go so much faster as I get older?
Quit: Easting Bare Naked Chocolate granola. Addicted, I tell you.
Quiet: LOVE a long hot shower or bath to myself.
Reason to cry: Thinking about my baby growing up.
Rude: being snotty for no reason.
Song: Like an Afters Song right now.
Sleep: Prefer 9 hours.
Salad dressing: Raspberry
Slept outside: Of course! Love camping or laying under the stars on a blanket-- hubby is not such a fan of ground sleeping.
Time for bed: 10ish
Thunderstorms: Rain ok-- but too many tornatos to like storms.
Unpredictable: Stolen answer-- I like a good plan. I think I am pretty predictable, but life is not.
Uncool: More now that I am a mom.
Vacation spot: Would love to take hubby back to Venice where I spent a semester or back to Kenya.
Voice: A bit through my nose. : )
Weakness: Worrying
Worst feeling: Forgetting to do something.
Water or land: Land.
X-rays: Try to avoid them-- but have them on occasion at the dentist and chiropractor.
Ex’s: Yep and only a few I'd like to forget.
Year it is now: 2011
Zoo animals: A Monkey!
Ok-- if anyone actually read these, hope you enjoyed the silly-ness!
Animal: dogs
Advice: Assume positive intent. (huge in a marriage relationship!)
Album: Hummm... this changes often and I have honestly not listened to a full album in a while-- more talk radio than anything. I heart Dave Ramsey for talk radio.
Best feeling in the world: Love
Best weather: High 60s, low 70s with sunshine
Band: I played nothing in a band.
Candy: Dark chocolate.
Color: Red
Continent to visit: Back to Africa!!
Cheese: Vemont cheddar
Drawing or painting: Oil painting.
Dog breed: English Springer Spanials. My last dog was one and he was a beauty and so soft!
Eyes: Dark blue
Everyone’s got: A story. Take time to listen.
Ever failed a class: No. But I did get a C in family 252. My lowest grade ever. Might not have helped that I skipped class and went on to my archi studio instead.
First thoughts waking up: Time to go feed the baby! Get to see that sweet face again!
Feeling: So blessed and happy I might explode.
Favorite Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Greatest Fear: Lately-- critters in my attic.
Goals: Soak up a day at a time.
Good luck charm: Prayer-- not so much a lucky charm.
Holiday: LOVE Thanksgiving
Hot or cold: Usually cold unless I am pregnant and due at the end of the hottest summer in my history... ; )
Ice cream: Cookies and Cream
Instrument: I can’t play anything
Jewelry: My wedding and engagement rings
Job: Architect, Wife and Mom (probably not in that order)
Jokes: Love to laugh-- bad at telling jokes
Kids: One baby boy and hopefully more in the future!
Keep a journal: Yep.
Love: The Lord and My family!!!
Laughed so hard you cried: yes... usually over something goofy my hubby has done.
Learned: Firsthand how all the things my parents taught me were right on.
Lost: Currently a car key and my Blackberry phone case.
McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonalds, but thats rare... though they do have the best coke if I crave one. And I like an egg mcmuffin on occasion.
Marriage: 5 years this summer. Blessed.
Musical: Sound of Music
Number of siblings: Oldest of 4 (2 sisters and a bro)
Name that comes to mind first: Mark (hubster-- love him!)
One wish: Someday design and live in our dream home on a piece of land with a creek close by.
One time I…: rafted the Nile and thought I would not live to tell about it!
One word: Blessed.
Perfect pizza: Chicago style cheese!
Pepsi or Coke: Coke (but 99.9% of the time I drink water!)
Pet: nope.
Questions: Why must time go so much faster as I get older?
Quit: Easting Bare Naked Chocolate granola. Addicted, I tell you.
Quiet: LOVE a long hot shower or bath to myself.
Reason to cry: Thinking about my baby growing up.
Rude: being snotty for no reason.
Song: Like an Afters Song right now.
Sleep: Prefer 9 hours.
Salad dressing: Raspberry
Slept outside: Of course! Love camping or laying under the stars on a blanket-- hubby is not such a fan of ground sleeping.
Time for bed: 10ish
Thunderstorms: Rain ok-- but too many tornatos to like storms.
Unpredictable: Stolen answer-- I like a good plan. I think I am pretty predictable, but life is not.
Uncool: More now that I am a mom.
Vacation spot: Would love to take hubby back to Venice where I spent a semester or back to Kenya.
Voice: A bit through my nose. : )
Weakness: Worrying
Worst feeling: Forgetting to do something.
Water or land: Land.
X-rays: Try to avoid them-- but have them on occasion at the dentist and chiropractor.
Ex’s: Yep and only a few I'd like to forget.
Year it is now: 2011
Zoo animals: A Monkey!
Ok-- if anyone actually read these, hope you enjoyed the silly-ness!
Yep
Caught 2 mice in the attic. Ick. At least the run to the store was not worthless at 3am. : ) Hoping for a better night of sleep now.
I think this is the first time I have (knowingly) had a mouse in my house. Ew.
I think this is the first time I have (knowingly) had a mouse in my house. Ew.
Gonna Feel This Later
You know when you are working out and think-- this is gonna hurt later? Well-- thats me today. Up at 3 am. Can't sleep so deciding to get some "work" done in the peace and quiet-- which may or may not have included a trip to Walgreens for a mouse trap to catch the mouse my brain thought it heard while I was still safely asleep in bed. This is gonna hurt later today when I have a kiddo to care for and two meetings throughout the day. Fun.
Well-- ran 6 miles on Saturday. It was a cool morning in the 30s and I had the baby boy with me for the run so he was very bundled and only his little face was showing. He was warm when we finished and just looked around most of tthe time except for a 20 minute snooze in the middle. Other runners are even more friendly when you're pushing a baby early on a cold morning. Felt good to be out at a common running time to see the "real" runners out.
Supposedly there are 9 weekends before our race. So that puts us at a little less than a mile a week to build up to 13 for our long runs. We should be just fine. Too fine. I have got to get my head in the game for this race and seem to be taking it more lighly than I ever have in the past. Which probably will equate to a slower year than usual. I think more than ever it is a motivator to get my bootie out there to run and less about the race this year. Of course I will probably feel differently the day of the race and wishing I had taken this more seriously. Such is the life of a running Mama.
Guess that will hurt later too.
And side note-- it was crazy warm out at 3am today! About 70 degrees!
Off to do some "real" design work I have been putting off. I have a small residential kitchen project I need to bust out.
This post has been heavy on the "air quotes" today-- forgive me. : )
Sleep tight runners!
Well-- ran 6 miles on Saturday. It was a cool morning in the 30s and I had the baby boy with me for the run so he was very bundled and only his little face was showing. He was warm when we finished and just looked around most of tthe time except for a 20 minute snooze in the middle. Other runners are even more friendly when you're pushing a baby early on a cold morning. Felt good to be out at a common running time to see the "real" runners out.
Supposedly there are 9 weekends before our race. So that puts us at a little less than a mile a week to build up to 13 for our long runs. We should be just fine. Too fine. I have got to get my head in the game for this race and seem to be taking it more lighly than I ever have in the past. Which probably will equate to a slower year than usual. I think more than ever it is a motivator to get my bootie out there to run and less about the race this year. Of course I will probably feel differently the day of the race and wishing I had taken this more seriously. Such is the life of a running Mama.
Guess that will hurt later too.
And side note-- it was crazy warm out at 3am today! About 70 degrees!
Off to do some "real" design work I have been putting off. I have a small residential kitchen project I need to bust out.
This post has been heavy on the "air quotes" today-- forgive me. : )
Sleep tight runners!
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