Here is a picture of a letter my cute 5-year-old nephew Jackson wrote me during church last Sunday. It really did lighten my heart. Kids are so darn adorable--I loved it! In case you can't read it, it says : Jackson, Aunt Chelsie, Aunt Chelsies birthday present. On the other side: 4-20-08 Dear Aunt Chelsie, Have a good special day for you today! I hope maybe that you're birthday lightens your heart. Have good cake! From, Jackson
Brian suggested we go shopping at the outlets on Monday to spend the big bucks I got for my birthday from our parents. I agreed (of course—going shopping is a HUGE sacrifice for Brian—he'd rather be doing almost ANYTHING else). We found some super great deals and managed to get through half the stores before my boys just about had it. Besides running shoes, socks, shorts, and some really cheap shirts, I also found some great jeans. I'd been having a hard time finding some to fit my new physique—I'd definitely recommend them—check out the ad for them:
Ok, so these weren't the pants, but I did see some like them at Gap for $7.99 . I guess I missed out on that deal.
We had an awesome time at Brian's parents this weekend. It's always SO nice to go and be pampered and spoiled. I just can't get enough of the "Ethan is SO CUTE" "Let me hold/change/feed him for you" "I'll take care of the baby while you take a nap/ go back to bed" "Would you like some of this delicious food?", etc, etc. It was fun to sit around with Brian's mom on Saturday and chit-chat as only women can do. Here's a photo of Ethan and Grandpa hanging out on the hammock (Ethan LOVED it) and a video of Grandma trying to feed Ethan rice cereal and banana chunks—he wasn't sure what to do with a solid in his mouth. Thanks for a great time Mom and Dad!
How To Play This Game of Tag:
3 joys
3 fears
3 goals
3 current obsessions/collections
3 random/surprising facts
Here it is:
I tag: Tiana, Kassie, Echo, Jen R., and Andrea-- enjoy!
So I've been told that by 6th months after having a baby, most women will be back to their pre-pregnancy weight. Unfortunately, I was not warned that though stepping on the scales is okay, my weight distribution is sorely out of wack. Isn't my little stomach chub supposed to be gone by now?
To help alleviate this unsightly thing, I set a New Years Resolution to run a race this year, in an effort to get me back into the habit of running—despite my 2 year "vacation" from it. My initial efforts were drenched by not being selected from a half-marathon lottery in Minnesota that I wanted to run in June. So my second choice is to run the "Dam-To-Dam" half marathon at the end of May. My 4 month training plan was then chopped to 3 months to train. Then, because of numerous other reasons—aka—excuses (freezing temperatures, ice, snow, vacation, sickness, lack of sleep, blah, blah blah, you name it—I'll use it), my original 16 week training is now cut down to 8 weeks.
To make a long story short(er), today was my first attempted run. I started with an easy 1 miler. Ha. That "easy" run became a 13 minute run, plus 5 minutes of walking AND 3 minutes of lying down on a strangers lawn in order to avoid fainting. Hmm, a 5k race is sounding much more enticing than a 13 mile run...
Whoopie, Ethan is 6 months old today! What a big boy he is becoming (literally--about 21 lbs and 27 inches--but I'll update you with the official stats on Thurs). He's been so excited to be a big kid that in the past 3 weeks he's learned how to roll over both ways to get anywhere (except when furniture and walls get in the way--then he just screams until someone moves him), surprised us with 2 new teeth (and not even a complaint about pain), is eating veggies with his rice cereal now, and can almost sit up by himself for a few minutes.
I just love how having a baby makes everything he does seem like he's the smartest one on the block (as if Ethan's the first baby to learn how to move around or mature in any other way). So, though we love to gush about him, my apologies to anyone who has to read about it :)
