HAPPY

Last night I was playing tickle monster with Benjamin and through his giggles he said "momma, got me, momma got me, HAPPY...(pats himself on his chest)...HAPPY". It just melted my heart that he was telling me that he was happy. Love that little guy!

Kickaroos

Not anymore! We had signed Benjamin up for a Kickaroo class up at Vetta so he could get out of the house and interact with other kids. Well, he only made it through three classes. It’s not that he doesn’t want to interact with other kids; it’s that he wants nothing to do with being told what to do, shocker, right? In his defense though they do red light, green light and how is he supposed to know what to do. Anyway, the instructor noticed how much Benjamin doesn’t want to do the class so he allowed us to drop the remaining classes. Benjamin would ask through the whole class if we could go bye-bye, or ask if we were all-done.

After all this is said and done I was starting to feel like a bad parent. Like I was supposed to make him finish the session and teach him that we don’t give up on things that get too hard or that we don’t want to do, right? And then I was thinking how is Benjamin at this age going to know the difference if we took him out early or if the session was over, right??

I believe it is a great program and we may consider it more like when he is three or four when he will understand more and want to do more activities because these days all he wants to do is run around and be outside. I am completely OK with this!

Half Marathon

I was in a rut after my surgery and my friend Katie was doing this half marathon and I thought this is was what I needed to get back in shape. Thank you Katie so much! David volunteered to do it with me and I am so thankful that he did. I couldn’t have done it without him. He is such a motivator and supporter (even of all my crazy ideas and we all know that I have a lot). There were a lot of days training and lost Saturday mornings, but he stuck with me.

My expectation was just to run the whole thing at whatever pace, but my expectation was let down at mile 9 when I started getting this horrible pain in my left otter foot and I was walking by mile 10, what a disappointment. I have to look at the positives her and know that I did accomplish a half marathon. I will do another half marathon this year to redeem myself. It will not be about beating my time; it will be about running the whole thing.

As a side note, I went back to the store that I bought my shoes (just two weeks before the race) and explained the whole situation and they replaced my shoes with ones that fit. I am not trying to make an excuse for my horrible run but the lady said that I was in the wrong shoe and disappointed that the woman who helped me didn’t even fit my foot after my surgery…I have 30 days to figure out if this shoe is the perfect

David's dinner the night before

 

Pre-Race

Post-Race

Katie and I (my new hippie headband, love it)

Watch Out Cardinals

Palm Sunday

Benjamin and I went to church for Palm Sunday and he was so excited about his palm he wanted to show everyone...it was really cute! Later that day we had family dinner so we did a little Easter egg hunting with my dad's side of the family as we won't see them on Easter.

 

Easter Egg-Citement

This is the second year that I have taken Benjamin to Eckert's for their Egg-Citement and they didn't disappoint. We went on a tractor ride, pet some ducks, made a cookie, had a picnic, got a photo with the Easter Bunny, and of course some egg hunting...he didn't want to leave at all.

 

Tractor Ride (yes he still sucks his fingers)

"Mom, I don't want a picture, I want my cookie"

 

Frisco Fun!

This past Friday night Henry Haupt invited Benjamin to one of his favorite places to hang out, a train store. On the second Friday of the month they keep the store open for a small entrance fee to play with all the trains and tracks. They also give you a train cookie to decorate with juice on the side. It was a blast, Henry loves this place so much that he is having his 3rd birthday party here!

Watching the train go around on the track above

Choo Choo!!

Such good little boys