Happy Tue to you!

Just a little something for you to enjoy! :)

Ethan after waking up from a 2.5 hr nap last week.

Caught them kissing!

Ethan tried to move his friendship with Laekin to a whole new level. Laekin leaned in to give him a peck and Ethan took the opportunity! Just a note: she refused to kiss him after that. :)

Ethan's buddy

Laekin and Ethan are becoming good friends as Ethan is able to engage more and more in play. The other day he was sharing his Joe's O's (Cheerios) with her by feeding them to her. She gets so concerned when he has a messy face and insists that he be cleaned up. She also has a thing about putting items on his head. He's not so excited about that part. :) I love watching them together.
Don't you just love that face! :)

Mud Mania

Here are the muddy pictures I promised:

Halloween

Halloween is in November right? Oh, I'm just a little behind on my posts :0)

Ethan was a monkey for his 1st Halloween and his suit had extra padding to go over his already nice round belly. Perfect! When we were up in SCV visiting fam I thought it would be a great idea to go to Lombardi Ranch with everyone. What could be better? Grandparents and aunts watching their adorable grandson/nephew enjoy a quaint farm for the fall. What I didn't take into account was the 97 degree weather, the fact that it was the weekend before Halloween and that Lombardi Ranch is the only cute farm around. We grew up going to this ranch and I couldn't have imagined how many people would be there. They had cops directing traffic for goodness sake! There were lines wrapped around the building to buy overpriced pumpkins! Combine all this with lots of dust and heat and it made for a miserable experience. Kim was able to take a few cute pictures and then we got out of there as fast as those cops would allow! Now I know for next year. :)

9 months

Ethan had his 9 month checkup last Monday and he weighed in at 20 lbs. He just started successfully eating Joe's O's and he has developed into a serious dancer. That is, when he hears music with a good beat he rocks forward and back with a look of concentration on his face. He wants to stand as much as possible and he is more fun with each passing day.

Ethan's Muddy Mom & Dad

Mike and I competed in the Muddy Buddy Run yesterday in San Dimas and it was awesome! A couple of months after Ethan was born Mike bought us new running shoes and we signed up for the Muddy Buddy in order to have a goal to lose the pregnancy weight. Mike's family came down to spend the day with Ethan (huge thanks!) and we loaded up in the wee hours of the morning. We first had an unplanned but satisfying breakfast at Denny's due to forgetting to turn our clocks back. We checked in at 5:30am and started enjoying the energy and excitement as all of the 1200 teams began to arrive.


In this race, the team members alternate between running and riding their bike. Mike started off on the bike, rode to a transition area, left the bike, did a small obstacle and then took off running. I started off running, reached the transition area, did the obstacle and then searched for our bike amidst the large pile of bikes. The total race distance was between 6-7 miles up and down the beautiful hills in Bonelli Park. There were five legs of the race (leg 3 was a whopper) and it ended at big mud pit that teams army crawl through together. We finished 40th out of 103 with a time of 1 hr 2 min (our category was coed with combined age of 56-65).

We had such a great time! It was very, very hard but not overwhelming. I wasn't in as good of shape as I had hoped I would be but it didn't kick my butt like I thought it might. It was so satisfying to be pushed hard and to be surprised at what my body can do. It was a blast to have this adventure with Mike and we can't wait until next year. Who is going to join us???

For those of you who want to see our muddy picture we will add it here when we get a link from Muddy Buddy. :)