13.1

My awesome friend Claudia came for a visit and to run the Seaside 1/2 Marathon with me. I mean...Florida, the beach, free Vera Bradley handbags for finishing...what more could you want in a race? Uh....warm weather! The weather at start time? 30 degrees with 25-35 mph winds. It was FREEZING. The second half of the race was more tolerable than the first...we were warmed up (finally) and the sun peeked out a little. Neither of us shed any clothes like other (crazy) runners. We never warmed up that much. We saw a man dressed in full up tights, leotard and a tutu...he was actually in second place when we saw him, and we saw a woman running in a bikini. Ok, it wasn't a bikini...but it was one of those track outfits they wear in the Olympic marathons. I wouldn't even have worn that to the beach...let alone while running in public! We finished, had Geoff snap a couple of photos and we left as fast as we could. We just wanted to get in a warm car and take hot showers.

Posing post race with our bags:

Claudia with J:

At the beach near our house:

I had such a fun time. We shopped, ate yummy restaurant food...and did lots of reminiscing.

Here is a pic of W and J before taking Claudia to the airport. W is wearing a fashionable retro airplane jacket Claudia found out Target for about $2 bucks. She insisted on buying it. And the boys resisted wearing it! I think I had to threaten W that he couldn't go unless he would wear it.....

W's expressions and posture make me laugh in these pics...he is quite into wrinkling his nose at the moment............

Hodge Podge

Here I am trying to get a self-portrait shot of myself and two toddlers with a much-too-big camera to hold with one hand:

Here are some fun pictures with Grandma and Papap this past weekend:

Waving bye-bye...

Valentines Day

First off, did Valentines Day already happen? What's that? It came and went already? WHAT?! Oh. Well, then here is a belated Valentines Day wish from W:

Will You Be My Valentine?

Nanny

OK. I need a nanny. For 180 days to be exact.

Sick. Again.

W and I just returned from yet another trip to the ER. Good thing we live so close to the hospital! The poor guy's temperature went up from 102.7 to 103.3 (and rising) while we were in the E.R. He was a little furnace. The doctor was really nice and we were only there for about 1 1/2 hours so no complaints here. He has strep and a slight ear infection. After they pumped him with both Tylenol and Motrin and prescribed some antibiotics...we went home and he started to pick up a little.

Geoff literally arrived home from a trip and I left him with J for the ER. The boys are rarely apart....so when I started backing up the van W yelled "Mommy, we forgot Jack!" =)

Please pray for our immune systems. Geoff always said when I was pregnant that he hoped "the boys would get Andrea's hair and my immune system" but I don't think it worked out that way.

Magic Capes!

W in his blanket cape:

J in his cape:

Yesterday J and W ran around with their blanket "capes" on. They are so funny...they run around giggling and then bump into each other. They must feel the extra padding with the capes and take advantage...

It's a New Record--14.5 Hours Folks!

I woke up this morning when I heard the boy's door slam shut. W came in saying "change my diaper" right on schedule. 0600. He had a temperature of 102.7 last night right before bed so I was so thankful he made it through the night. I didn't hear or see J so I knew he was going to sleep a little longer. This doesn't happen often but occasionally he will get in a good hour of sleep after W gets up.

I put them to bed a little after 7 p.m. last night because they took a wimpy nap Thursday and no nap Tuesday and Wednesday. So I expected to see J's smiling face around 7 a.m. (12 hours of sleep for them is a rarity but that is their maximum threshold) When I didn't see him...I went in to make sure he was OK. This is what I saw:

Hmmm...I guess he was getting up...then decided to sleep a little bit longer...right.on.the.floor.

I still didn't see him at 8 a.m. (gasp!)...so I checked on him again:

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........

And when 9 a.m. came and went....I couldn't believe it. At 9:30 I peaked in and saw J just sitting on the floor with a grin.

W had already been up for 3 1/2 hours at this point! It was nice to spend some one-on-one time with him - I don't get to do that very often so it was a special morning.