Triathlon Recap

I’ve been training since April for a Triathlon that I finally got to run on July 20th. I ran the First Capital Triathlon in Guthrie. It consisted of a 500 meter open water swim in Lake Guthrie, a 12.5 mile out and back bike ride, and a 5K out and back run.

Overall, it was AWESOME! I felt really good about all the times I turned in. I’m not super fast, but I never was. I came in about 13 minutes faster than I predicted.

Total Time: 1:47:22
SWIM: 13:07
T1: 2:12
BIKE: 55:58
T2: 0:56
RUN: 35:11

The part of the race I was the most nervous about was the swim. It’s a little bit scary swimming in an open lake where you can’t touch the bottom or rest like you can in the pool. Lucky for me, they had a practice the week before so I wasn’t learning how to do the swim in the lake during the race. I was able to do my swim a little faster than I predicted. I thought it would take me about 15 minutes and it took me 13, so AWESOME.

When I went out to the bike, I was pretty tired. I did do the swim faster than I had before, so I was a little more winded. Once I settled into the bike it wasn’t so bad, but it was pretty hilly. I knew it was so I was concerned about my bike. It had been giving me fits with the gears. So, I checked to make sure they would shift into the first set of gears the Thursday before the race, and they did so I stopped worrying. WRONG MOVE for me. My bike refused to shift into the first set of gears after the first hill, and I had to make do with my lowest gear being 2-1. I was hating life and cursing my stupidity to do a tri during the first quarter to even half of my ride. I was convinced that I was going to be the last one in, and that never makes anyone feel better. Once I made the turn, got some more quick energy into me, I felt much more positive and had a way better second half of the ride.

When it came time to do the run, I was cursing my stupidity again for the first quarter to half a mile. Once I got my running legs under me, I had the best run. I loved seeing all the different runners and the people out on the course cheering us on. It was a great run, and a lot faster pace than I’d been pulling off during my last training runs.

The best part was seeing my husband and sweet boys cheering me on right near the finish line. It made me so happy. I had a great big smile on my face when I finished not only because I finished, but because my family was there to support me in my crazy athletic endeavors. 🙂

In the end, I can hardly wait to do another race. The trouble is, I can’t seem to find one that isn’t on a Sunday. The ONE that is on a Saturday is an half Ironman distance (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike and 13.1 mile run)! Yikes! SOOOO not ready for that. I’d like to get comfortable with a sprint and Olympic distances before I try a 70.3!

Have you heard? I’m sure you have.

We’re runners.

I haven’t actually posted about Adam and my latest habit, running. I’ve mentioned in my Chiari 2 year review post, but that’s about it. 🙂

Starting about 6 weeks before Matthew was born, Adam decided he needed to lose some weight and get healthy.  As part of the changes he made, he took up running and started couch to 5K.  He’s been going strong and getting faster ever since.

In September, my post baby weight-loss was slowing down a little bit and I wasn’t thrilled about that so I started walking to help boast my calorie expenditure each day.  I worked into running more slowly than Adam did, but I also started couch to 5K, and ran my very first 5K (not race, just distance) on my 29th birthday.

Feeling pretty awesome about that, I saw there was a 5K race on January 1, 2013 and I wanted to do it.  I asked Adam if he would do it with me, and we ran our very first race together and ever on January 1, 2013 in 29 degree weather with freezing Oklahoma wind.

TIME: 35:57

Not long after that I wanted to run another race and both Adam and I signed up to run the Creek Classic 10K race.  Adam was already at a place where he could go out and do that, but I had to train for it.  And train I did.  I developed trocanteric bursitis (basically a continually sore hip joint that got better with rest, but flared back up after a run), and we went on a cruise.  Even on our cruise, we ran on both sea days at least 3 miles.

When race day came, it was the first time I had ever run the 6.2 miles that is a 10K.  And I met my goal. I wanted to finish in under 70 minutes. I had a great pace for me. My best pace yet for such a distance.  Adam made great time.  Here are his results:

 

 

TIME: 57:05
OVERALL: 41st of 113
MALE: 30 of 54
AGE: 4 of 5 (M30-34)

 

 

 

 

TIME: 1:07:09
OVERALL: 86th of 113
FEMALE: 40 of 59
AGE GROUP: 10 of 10 (F25-29)

After the 10K, I was put on a week of rest along with an ibuprofen regimen to help the swelling in my hip go down.  I’ve since gotten sick and had to take another week of rest after only 4 runs back from my rest.  I’m back on it next week though.

Not long after signing up for the Creek Classic, Adam signed up to run a half Marathon at the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon on April 28th.  He’s been training hard, and he got sick too.  It really didn’t help either of us.  I’m excited to go to the race to support him.  He’s gonna do great!

As for my next race, I am currently toying with the idea of training for a sprint Triathlon in September.  Who would have thought. Certainly not me. 🙂

4 years old and 6 months old for nearly a month!

So, I’ve been a little bit of a slacker about getting these things posted and getting pictures taken of my darling boys, but with the help of my mom and my husband.  I was able to get some good pictures of both boys over a couple weeks.

Let’s start with the big ole birthday boy Spencer.  He turned 4 this month!!  It’s seems to crazy that I have a 4 year old, but I do.  He is crazy funny, and sometimes a little frustrating.  He is the best big brother and most of the time his a great helper for his mommy.

Some important things that have happened to Spencer this last year:

• He learned how to use the potty. Yeah!
• He was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome
• He became a big brother
• He rode a roller coaster for the first time
• He started school (Pre-Pre-K)

His 4 year old well child check up results:

• Height: 3’8″ (44 inches) – 99%
• Weight: 40.6 lbs – 82%

We recently did a little interview.  Here are his answers:

What is your name: Spencer
How old are you? (holds up 4 fingers and after some prodding) 4
What is your favorite color? slimy things (our most recent batch of slime is green, but I’m pretty sure his favorite color is orange).
Who is your best friend? Nehemiah (a new friend from school)
Favorite animal? sheep
What do you want to be when you’re all grown up? a dragon
What is your favorite movie? [Curious] George, the show not the movie. The George movie is scary.
What is your favorite book? the dragon book (not sure what book this is, but I’m pretty sure his favorites are Curious George books).
What makes you happy? Curious George
What makes you sad? the spinning thing at Crest (a Christmas inflatable that has a spinning bar type thing)
What is your favorite food? sandwich (plain peanut butter with not jelly or crust, cut into 2 rectangles or triangles)
What is your favorite song? a pretend song (he’s not really a fan of singing or other singing. But has been making up nonsense songs that entertain Matthew)
What games do you like? the teleporter one (It’s called Jetpacks. He also is rather good at Bad Piggies and Where’s my Water)

Here’s some pictures from his birthday:

He got a marble track which is LOVES and some Imaginets (shaped magnets that you build pictures out of).  He also got plenty of clothes, but we were trying to only get him a couple toys that we knew he’d like and actually play with.  It seems to have worked this time.

Now on to my little cutie, Matthew.  He’s six months only now.  It’s  a little crazy how he just fits and it seems like he’s always been here.  When I think about the time before we had Matthew, it almost feels like something is missing, ALMOST.  It wasn’t at that point, but anyway.

At six months, Matthew is a really happy kid. Some important things that have happened to him recently:

• He’s learned how to roll over
• He prefers to sleep on his tummy
• He loves to jump in his jumper or play in his exersaucer
• He LOVES to eat. We like to call him a Chow Hound
• His favorite foods include: Pears, Bananas, Sweet Potato, Oatmeal and Momma Milk
• Started November with no teeth, but finished it with 4!

Matthew’s Six Month Statics
Height: 28 inches – 92%
Weight: 19lbs 1/2oz – 75%
Head size: 43.5 cm – 50%

And for the best part. More pictures of the little cutie.

I thought this would be interesting to see side by side. Brothers. Aren’t they cute?

Board Game Geek Convention!

Adam and I were fortunate enough to be able to drive down to Dallas the week before Thanksgiving attend to attend the annual Board Game Geek Convention (BGG Con).  What does one DO at a board game convention.  Well, you play board games!  Lots of board games.  Not like Yahtzee or Parcheesi or anything like that.  We played games like ones that have already made appearances on the blog.  🙂  I’ll give you a synopsis of our trip and the games we played.  But I will tell you, we had the best time, and would love to be able to go back next year.

Day 1, Thursday November 15
First, on our way down, we ALWAYS stop at Dairy Queen since the closest one to us is at least an hour away.  We miss Dairy Queen.  It reminds us of our dating and newly wed days in Rexburg.

When we got to the hotel, it was too early to check into our room. So we went and checked into the convention, and we each were given 4 games from the prize shelves. Thank goodness we had a car that we could deposit those games in and so we could look around free of the burden of carrying games.

We then went into the main gaming room.

And found a players needed flag and were taught how to play Hoo Yah! It wasn’t our favorite game, but it wasn’t bad. The interesting thing about this game was the man who taught it never looked at me (Jessica) while explaining the rules. EVERYTHING was directed at Adam. He seemed a little shocked every time I spoke or had a question or idea. He got used to me by the end, but it was a little funny.

Game: Hooyah!
Result: WIN
Played by: Marvin, Chris, Adam and Jessica

After a break to check into our room and take care of nursing momma business, we played Argicola: All Creatures Great and Small.

This is a two player game, so it was just us. We got the game from the library, and sat down at a table to learn the rules since Adam was already kinda familiar with them. We bought this game at the Con. It’a good one, we ended up buying it.

Game: Argicola
Result: Adam: 47 Jessica: 32
Played by: Us

After that we were a little hungry and didn’t want to brave the traffic (we were at an airport hotel and there was TONS of construction). So, we hopped on the shuttle that was proved to take people to off-site restaurants and such. There was quite a humorous conversation on the trip out about how gamers would make better city players than actually city planners. But we reached the conclusion that using the starvation strategy would probably be a little harsh, and perhaps we should stick to worker placement games. 🙂

After dinner, back on the bus, we ran into another couple, Scott and Susan, we rode out with. They turned out to be from Oklahoma City as well. And we had a nice conversation. We went to the library and got Dungeon Lords and the new expansion we were excited to try. But we ran into Scott and Susan and ended up teaching them how to play Dungeon Lords. It was great fun. Dungeon Lords is just fun, but a bit complicated alone without adding the expansion into it. Only a little bummed we didn’t get to play that. It’s always more fun to play with more people when you can.

Game: Dungeon Lords
Played by: Scott, Susan, Adam and Jessica
Results: Adam and Susan tied for the win, Jessica and Scott were so pitful it didn’t merit recording their scores.

That was our last game for the day, and we went to bed.

Day 2, Friday, November 16th

We woke up rather leisurely, and that was great for us not having kids wake us up. We left and went out to breakfast and to visit the Dallas Ikea. It’s a good thing we took Adam’s car and didn’t have room to bring home some of the stuff I was eying.

We got back in time to do a couple things. We attended the Escape Experience where we learned how to play Escape! and get a chance to win some cool stuff.

Game: Escape
Played by Adam, Jessica and 3 other people
Result: WIN

And then we headed up to grab our Arkham Horror game and set up for our epic 7 player game of Arkham. We were teaching 2 people and 2 of our players had dropped out and we were down to expecting 5. Well, we had two players wander by and ask to play too. AWESOME!

Now this is not a short game with 4 people. With 7, it should have taken around 4 to 5 hours to play. It took us 2. It was the EASIEST game of Arkham we have ever played. It was a little ridiculous. Everyone was getting the rolls they needed and beating everything.

Game: Arkham Horror
Played by: Shawn, Gerry, Jessica, Clint, Ken, Gordon and Adam
Result: WIN

After grabbing something to eat, we found some one with a players needed flag and learned how to play Courtier and Love Letter from another Scott. I enjoyed both games, but don’t think we’ll be adding them t

o our collection soon. Well, maybe Love Letter. It’s a really easy filler game to cleanse the palate between games.

Game: Courtier (2x)
Played by Scot, Adam and Jessica
Results: Scot 1 win, Adam 1 win

After that, we ventured into the Hot Games room. This is the room where the latest games that have been released are always set up with people teaching how to play them. In here, we played a very pretty gam

e called Tokadio. It’s a track game, and you’re trying to make it to the end of the track making as many stops as you can. It was fun. The people we played with were hard to understand, but I won!!

Game Tokaido
Played by Mirasol, Steven, Adam and Jessica
Result: Jessica -83 Adam – 82

After a quick breather and dinner at Applebees (after which we swore we would not leave the airport in our car during rush hour again!) We went browsing the games library and found one of our favorite games, Lord of the Rings PLUS an expansion, Friends and Foes, we’ve been wanting to try. We checked it out, grabbed a players wanted sign and went about setting it up. We got two players, Erik and other Adam (as he was called later on), and had a very pleasant time teaching them how to play and getting beaten down by Sauron. In the end, all the Hobbits died and Sam (the last hobbit left) made it halfway through Shlob’s Lair by himself.

Game: The Lord of the Rings
Expansion: Friends and Foes
Adam: Sam
Erik: Frodo
Jessica: Merry
Other Adam: Pippin
Result: Lost

After our grim defeat, we called it a night.

Day 3, Saturday November 17th

We got up pretty early, had breakfast and made a new friend in the process. Alas, I don’t remember his name, but he was by himself behind us in line for the breakfast buffet. We invited him to come sit with us when we got a table so he could get to the flea market in a decent amount of time too.

After breakfast, we went to the flea market. WOW! That was a mass of people and lots of money changing hands quickly. We found a couple games of some friends, and we were done there.

Stashing their stuff in our car, we then wandered into the main game room and found a couple poeple looking for players. We play 3 games with them.

The first was called Bohnanza. It’s basically a trading and collecting game. Adam did not like this game at all. He doesn’t like bidding games like that at all.

Game: Bohnanza
Players:
Kate 12
Elisa 17
Ian 16
Jessica 15
Adam 13

Then Kate left, and we player Shadows over Camelot. It’s a crazy memory game. Not my strong suit right now, and it doesn’t work out well when someone is SUPPOSED to the a traitor. We did end up winning though. 🙂

Game: Shadows Over Camelot
Players:
Elisa: Traitor
Ian
Jessica
Adam
Results: Win

Lastly, we played Love Letter a few times. It’s a small card game where you are constantly trying to find the princess or a roll that is higher than yours. It’s pretty fun. Very short, very fast.

Love Letter
Ian won 2 games
Elisa won 1 game
Adam won 1 game
Jessica won 0 games

After that we had our 2 hours shift working in the game library. It was SO much fun. I loved being able to talk with people about what they were checking in and out. There were a few people who actually benefited from me knowing about a game. 🙂 We even ended up having to sort out a game that got mixed with it’s expansion. It was a really fast two hours, and it was great fun.

This is a shot of one side of the games library. It was amazing how many games there were.

When I shift ended, we decided to eat relatively big lunch/dinner so we didn’t have to worry about it during the prize giveaway later.

After lunch/dinner, we got the game The Road to Canterbury. I was not a fan. I think I just didn’t really like the theme of it and the mechanics were just weird to me. This just wasn’t my game. Adam had read the rules before, but wasn’t extremely well versed, so we were kind of learning on the fly and that didn’t make things any easier for me liking the game.

The point of the game is for us to tempt travelers making their way to Canterbury with on of the Seven deadly sins. Your goal is to get sinners to sin themselves to death, but you can forgive a sinners sins along the way (but you really only do it to give yourself a tactical advantage). In the end, I did win. Woo! I’m the best tempter… ::reads sarcastically::

Game: The Road to Canterbury
Adam: 131
Jess: 132 <–win

After that, we were both in a sour mood. So I went to pick out a “light” game to wash the bad taste out of our mouths. I came back with Yggdrasil, not a light game. But we were both a little more enthused about it since we’d played it on iOS before and felt like we could handle it.

As we were setting up, Other Adam (from the LOTR game the night before) ran into us, and we asked him if he wanted to join. He agreed and we played. We had to pause mid game for the awards and giveaway, during which we didn’t win anything, and we thought we had things well in hand when one of the Enemy Norse Gods moved across a threshold we weren’t paying attention to, and we very suddenly and anticlimactically lost.

Game: Yggdrasil
Players: Adam, Jessica and Other Adam
Result: LOSS

After we cleaned up this game, Other Adam brought out a game called Coup which is similar to Love Letter in that you have a role card and you are trying to be the last person standing. The difference is you have to use money to do things instead of the influence of the person on your card.

Game: Coup
Players: Adam, Jessica and Other Adam
Result: Adam 1 and Other Adam 1

After this game, Adam and I went and got Taluva. We headed up to the room so I could take care of Mommy-type business while Adam learned the rules. It’s a fairly simple game so it didn’t take long. Then we took it back down the main gaming room, grabbed a players needed sign, and started setting up. We got two other people to play with us, Linda and Norman.

Taluva is a tile laying and a space crowding game. You lay out a tile and then expand your settlements. The cool thing about this game is that you get to build up as well as out. The goal is to lay out a certain number of certain types of buildings. The game ends when one person has placed 3 of their temples. Linda beat us all.

Game: Taluva
Players: Adam, Jessica, Linda and Norman
Results: Linda 1
Adam 2
Jessica 3
Norman 4

We cleaned everything up and then grabbed Samurai and headed back up the room to play in the quiet. Samurai is a game about laying out influence around an island to gain rice patties, Buddhas or towers. In the end, I won by ONE rice patty! It’s a fun little strategy game. I liked it.

Game: Samurai
Players: Adam and Jessica
Results: Jessica, by one rice patty!

Sunday, November 18th

The next day, we returned the game and headed back to reality. It was a great way to spend a few days doing our favorite thing. We will be going back. It was pretty awesome.

Here’s what we ended our trip with game-wise. We bought a few games while we were there too. 😉

Spencer has something to say

That’s right.  We are having another baby!! The baby is due around May 12th, 2012, and Spencer has been telling us that he is having a sister for a while now.  So, we assume he is hoping for a sister.  🙂  We don’t actually find out if it’s a boy or a girl until December 15 (ish).

Funny story about Spencer and the baby (already).  This is the conversation we had for a long time:

Mom: Spencer, are you going to have a sister or a brother?

Spencer: 2 sisters!

Mom:  Oh really, are you going to have 2 sisters at the same time or different times?

Spencer: …  (then runs off)

Eventually, we’ve gotten him to tell us that they are coming at different times, but it was a little scary there for a second.  I’m excited to see if he’s right.  We don’t have a preference one way or the other, but we’re really excited.

Education starts at home

Lately I’ve been struggling with home much to teach Spencer at home before we do the whole preschool and Kindergarten thing. I worry that I’ll either go WAY overboard and he’ll be bored in school (which starts him off with a poor pattern of learning and a poor idea of what school is) or that I’ll swing the other way entirely and not do enough, which also won’t help with his view of learning.

Instead of doing nothing, my friends that I trade boys with every Tuesday go over a letter of the alphabet each week. I felt like that was a good start, but I wasn’t satisfied with just that. It had been a bug in my brain for a while, and my visiting teachers came over the other day and one of them mentioned that her daughter loves her Kumon books.

My ears perked up when I heard the word Kumon (I used to work at a Kumon center, and I have a love for the program). So, I asked some questions and did some research. I found out that they books just for the 2 year olds (and those who aren’t ready for the full on Kumon program). They are called First Steps Workbooks. I ran the Barnes and Noble that night and got Let’s Color!, Let’s Cut with Scissors!, Let’s Fold!, and Let’s Sticker and Paste!.

We’ve only done them for a few days, but I LOVE doing them with Spencer. He seems to love them too. I’m loving what they are teaching him since it is skills and not the curriculum that he’ll be learning later on. I am really excited about the Kumon Books and hope that Spencer will love them too. 🙂

7th Anniversary

On June 5th, Adam and I celebrated our 7th Anniversary.  We had a great weekend together.  We normally go to a bed and breakfast for a night and then have a really fun filled day.  Instead, we went down for 2 nights and had basically 2 awesome days together.  I guess we were making up for missing our celebration last year (we had our anniversary while we were at a family reunion).

We went down to The Reserve at Eagle Creek, while it can be a B&B, you have to pay A LOT extra for them to do your food.  We had so much fun doing our own cooking.  We grilled steaks, campfired chicken packets, and made smores (a few times).

We also went for a drive on our second day.  We followed the Talimena Drive.  It was very scenic.  We had lunch that day on one of the look out vistas.  SO pretty.  I bet it would be crazy beautiful in the fall when all the leaves are changing.  I also bet it is pretty busy.

We had a wonderful time and absolutely love reminiscing over our last 7 wonderful years together.  We’ve had our ups and some downs, but I wouldn’t change it for anything.  All those changes have made us who we are today.  Love you sweetie!

30in45 – Jessica’s Final Thoughts

This experience was an interesting one for me. I started this a little on the hesitant side. In months prior to this, Adam would ask me if I wanted to play a game, and I really would rather have done something else. If he were to ask me now, I’m a lot more likely to say yes (generally, I’ll usually say yes now).

I agreed to the 30in45, so I could spend more time with Adam. I felt like we just weren’t doing enough together, since I think sitting on the couch and watching TV doesn’t count as doing stuff together. We learned new things about each other, and it’s been a really good experience for us as a couple. I think we enjoy one another’s company more like we did when we were newly married.

It also found us a couple new game friends to play with. 🙂 It’s always fun to play games with other people, and now we have more people we can play with.

All in all, it’s been a great thing for us to do together. Thanks for suggesting it, Adam!

Asthma???

So, I’ll start at the beginning.

The week before Spring break, Spencer came home from school with a cough and a runny nose. I didn’t think anything of it. I just figured he caught a cold from one of the kids there. So, after giving him cough medicine and stuff for a couple of weeks, we tried going a different direction.

I thought it might be allergies, so I started giving him Claritin and his prescription allergy medicine, Veramyst. The runny nose and watery eyes that had developed got better as did his cough. His cough didn’t go away.

His cough got worse at night, and it had started to bother me since I had gotten so used to the cough that I didn’t hear it sometimes. I finally took him to the doctor on Tuesday, and she thinks the cough could be Asthma related. She put him on yet another medicine. We are going to monitor him for a couple weeks to see if the Singular helps. If it doesn’t help, we are going to have to investigate further down the asthma path, which we really hope we don’t have to do.

He’s only been on it for two nights, and it seems to help. Tuesday night, we weren’t sure since he was still coughing. Wednesday, I realized I forgot to give him his medicine and he was SERIOUSLY coughing. So, I woke him up around 11, and gave him his medicine. His cough quieted and lessened. We are encouraged.

We’ve been busy…

and I’ve been lazy. I have not been taking pictures of my cute little boy like I should be! He’s growing up so so fast. So, let me tell you about our month up to this point. 🙂 Lest you think we just sit at home and hang out (which do a lot, but we do other things too).

Here are some pictures of my little cutie:

So as a result of my lack of photo taking, I am going to start taking a photo a day. I am going to TRY for the rest of the season, but it is sometimes hard for me to remember. I am planning on putting the photos here for your viewing pleasure after I Photoshop them (unlike the ones above). So, ask me about it if I’ve been slacking.

What we’ve been up to:

On March 2, I had an appointment with the neurologist who discovered my malformation. I hadn’t seen him since November, and a lot happened since then. Thankfully my neurosurgeon’s office kept him up to date about what happened to me. 🙂 So, after talking with him, he was quite pleased with my progression and how the surgery has effect my migraines and headaches.

CHIARI SIDE NOTE
That is a question I get a lot. Are the headaches gone? Yes! The constant pressure I had in the back of my head is what caused the vast majority of my headaches and migraines. While I get the occasional headache it is like normal people do. I’ve also gotten a couple migraine beginnings since the surgery, but if I catch it early and take medicine, it will not bloom into a terrible, knock ’em out headache. I also don’t the blinding pain when I laugh, sneeze, cough or bend over anymore either! I have a follow up MRI in June to see how the surgery effect the syrinx in my spine.

Okay, we also had dinner and played a game with our good friends Brian and Shanna. We always love getting together with them. I have been able to have a few girls nights and lunches with friends. I don’t even mind bringing Spencer. He’s such a good guy for the most part. He’s great to have around.

He’s actually gotten really good at listening and following instructions. Now that I know he can do it, and often does, it is frustrating when he doesn’t. He’s 2, what are you going to do? Just try not to take it personally (which is sometimes hard too), and work on it. 🙂

Spencer and I have gone and played at many friends houses, been to the zoo a few times and to the science museum. He LOVES the zoo and the park. He frequently asks if we can go see animals (zoo), play with toys (science museum) or the pirate park (he’s favorite park). And we go often. It’s great to have memberships to the Zoo and Science Museum. That way I don’t feel bad about leaving after 2 hours there. Since I know we’ll go back again soon.

Spencer is beginning to give up his naps, which makes for a nasty evening for us. He’s very cranky when he’s over tired (as am I). So, I do try to put him in his bed every day for quiet time. It often turns into naptime, but not always. He loves going to school, and I like having that day to do things that are easier without having a kid around. 🙂 We are very fortunate to have gotten him in to the MDO in the middle of the year.

That’s been our March thus far.