She's running the house now!!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Memorial Day Weekend 2011
We spent the past couple days in Elkton to celebrate Memaw's birthday, which was Sunday.
After we wrapped up the Garage cleanout on Saturday, we headed down Sunday after lunch.
We got out Mallory's little pool that Grammy Werner gave her last year.....didn't realize quite how small it was, but it did the trick and Bean had fun crawling in and out of it:
We had to get her all lubed up with sunscreen, gave a pretty funny appearance to her hair:
I bought her an spf hat for the sun and pool, but she wouldn't have anything to do with it:
We love being out at Mom and Dad's deck, just for wildlife viewing. Here's the squirrels:
And of course there's Mallory's waterfowl, they get pretty loud at feeding time, not sure she knows what to think about her birds!
Then we just enjoyed a nice night out on the deck celebrating Memaw's 82nd birthday until the breeze stopped and it got too hot, so in we went.
She loves her Memaw! Happy Birthday Memaw!!
Sunday we re-smeared on the sunscreen and ventured to the pool. The water was COLD but Mallory didn't act like it bothered her at all, she had a ball!
And then we headed home and she was all tuckered out from a busy weekend!
Will be celebrating Ben's dad's birthday next weekend!
After we wrapped up the Garage cleanout on Saturday, we headed down Sunday after lunch.
We got out Mallory's little pool that Grammy Werner gave her last year.....didn't realize quite how small it was, but it did the trick and Bean had fun crawling in and out of it:
We had to get her all lubed up with sunscreen, gave a pretty funny appearance to her hair:
I bought her an spf hat for the sun and pool, but she wouldn't have anything to do with it:
We love being out at Mom and Dad's deck, just for wildlife viewing. Here's the squirrels:
And of course there's Mallory's waterfowl, they get pretty loud at feeding time, not sure she knows what to think about her birds!
Then we just enjoyed a nice night out on the deck celebrating Memaw's 82nd birthday until the breeze stopped and it got too hot, so in we went.
She loves her Memaw! Happy Birthday Memaw!!
Sunday we re-smeared on the sunscreen and ventured to the pool. The water was COLD but Mallory didn't act like it bothered her at all, she had a ball!
And then we headed home and she was all tuckered out from a busy weekend!
Will be celebrating Ben's dad's birthday next weekend!
Saturday, May 28, 2011
A Stormy Week
Ben left Sunday for Lima, OH for the week, some kind of tractor training. Last time he was in Lima was 8 years ago when we got Tucker!
Never fails that when Ben leaves is when we ate supposed to get severe weather. Wednesday they were calling it a PDS, particularly dangerous situation.
Last time we had a PDS day was in November of 2005 when the F4 came through Madisonville and missed our house by about 200 yards. Close enough to be in the upflow because it sucked all the leaves out of our yard.
Needless to say, it made me very nervier between that and all the deadly tornadoes of late. And of course Ben is gone and we have no basement.
Thankfully it had decreased in intensity by the time it got here around 9:30 pm Wednesday night, but it didn't mean we weren't prepared! Her's Bean all crashed out in the tub, I put her helmet on her just in case!
Thursday I cut my hair, I'd had enough! Here is my "I want that picture"
Mine will never quite be that perfect, but it's that style/cut and it feels good to be short again!
I caught this super cute picture of Bean this week:
Cheesy!!!
And, to keep those cute choppers in tip top shape, I got Bean her first toothbrush and tooth paste!
Mallory has also taken up weight lifting : )
And here's one from tonight, my two sweeties cuddling!
We cleaned out the garage today and I can finally park my vehicle in the garage!! First time ever in the almost 3 years we have lived here!!
Now we can relax and enjoy the long weekend.
I've also wrapped up week 1 of 18 of half marathon #2 training and in my quest to lose 20 pounds in 20 weeks, I just finished up week 6 and have lost 5.8 pounds, so pretty well on track.
Happy Memorial Day. Thank a soldier and remember those who gave everything for our freedoms.
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Never fails that when Ben leaves is when we ate supposed to get severe weather. Wednesday they were calling it a PDS, particularly dangerous situation.
Last time we had a PDS day was in November of 2005 when the F4 came through Madisonville and missed our house by about 200 yards. Close enough to be in the upflow because it sucked all the leaves out of our yard.
Needless to say, it made me very nervier between that and all the deadly tornadoes of late. And of course Ben is gone and we have no basement.
Thankfully it had decreased in intensity by the time it got here around 9:30 pm Wednesday night, but it didn't mean we weren't prepared! Her's Bean all crashed out in the tub, I put her helmet on her just in case!
Thursday I cut my hair, I'd had enough! Here is my "I want that picture"
Mine will never quite be that perfect, but it's that style/cut and it feels good to be short again!
I caught this super cute picture of Bean this week:
Cheesy!!!
And, to keep those cute choppers in tip top shape, I got Bean her first toothbrush and tooth paste!
Mallory has also taken up weight lifting : )
And here's one from tonight, my two sweeties cuddling!
We cleaned out the garage today and I can finally park my vehicle in the garage!! First time ever in the almost 3 years we have lived here!!
Now we can relax and enjoy the long weekend.
I've also wrapped up week 1 of 18 of half marathon #2 training and in my quest to lose 20 pounds in 20 weeks, I just finished up week 6 and have lost 5.8 pounds, so pretty well on track.
Happy Memorial Day. Thank a soldier and remember those who gave everything for our freedoms.
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Mallory's First Trip to the Zoo!
Today marked Mallory's first ever trip to a Zoo!! And our first ever visit to the Louisville Zoo.
We went for the NICU reunion for Kosair's. Apparently they have it at the Zoo every year because I saw several previous year reunion shirts on people.
We really didn't know what to expect. I figured our entrance into the Zoo would be free and I knew there was some type of tee shirts and White Castle would be handing out burgers.
As Ben said, you would think after racking $125K worth of NICU bills, the least they could do was to pay our entrance into the Zoo.
So, free entrance and we were off in BOB to the big tent that would serve as reunion site.
There were tons of people, none of who looked remotely familiar. We did see a couple of nurses that were familiar but not the ones we knew the best. We did see Dr Singh and Dr Tabb from a distance but never got to talk to either. I was a little disappointed that we didn't get to see more people we knew, it was more like "free tickets, white castle and a tee shirt if you were ever in the NICU" day as opposed to what I consider a reunion. But we will probably go again, it is free tickets and tee shirt : )
So here's some shots from our day. It was hot, about 86 degrees, but a good day. Mallory really seemed to care less about the animals. She was more into people watching, munching on cheerios and riding in BOB!
And, here's a few of the animals. The funniest thing I saw was a peacock that runs loose on the grounds was running up to this little boy eating a piece of bread. The boy was screaming thinking this peacock was going to attack him or something.....it just took his bread, lol!
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We went for the NICU reunion for Kosair's. Apparently they have it at the Zoo every year because I saw several previous year reunion shirts on people.
We really didn't know what to expect. I figured our entrance into the Zoo would be free and I knew there was some type of tee shirts and White Castle would be handing out burgers.
As Ben said, you would think after racking $125K worth of NICU bills, the least they could do was to pay our entrance into the Zoo.
So, free entrance and we were off in BOB to the big tent that would serve as reunion site.
There were tons of people, none of who looked remotely familiar. We did see a couple of nurses that were familiar but not the ones we knew the best. We did see Dr Singh and Dr Tabb from a distance but never got to talk to either. I was a little disappointed that we didn't get to see more people we knew, it was more like "free tickets, white castle and a tee shirt if you were ever in the NICU" day as opposed to what I consider a reunion. But we will probably go again, it is free tickets and tee shirt : )
So here's some shots from our day. It was hot, about 86 degrees, but a good day. Mallory really seemed to care less about the animals. She was more into people watching, munching on cheerios and riding in BOB!
And, here's a few of the animals. The funniest thing I saw was a peacock that runs loose on the grounds was running up to this little boy eating a piece of bread. The boy was screaming thinking this peacock was going to attack him or something.....it just took his bread, lol!
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Triathlon in the books!
It just seems like it's been a busy past two weeks.
Last weekend we went down to Mom and Dad's so Ben could help Dad do a few things and then I was off Saturday afternoon to head to Nashville to meet up with another preemie momma to do a Triathlon!
We've truly lost our minds, but it was a ball.
We met through our preemie board and her daughter, who is now around 2 1/2 was born at 28 weeks weighing only 13 ounces. Her story is a true miracle. No one ever expected this sweet little girl to make it and she is amazing now!
But, regardless, we met at packet pickup and sat through the "tri for dummies" on what to do and what to expect on Sunday morning.
We then met up with another Nashville preemie mom for dinner, here's the 3 of us at Buca de Bepo's.
This was an all women's sprint triathlon. So it consisted of probably 80% of people who had never done one before. You swam 250 yards, biked 8 miles and then ran 2 miles.
I was totally nervous about the bike ride, my crappy $100 Walmart mountain bike wasn't exactly good Tri equipment.
Lets just say I limped through the biking portion. The gears weren't working right, the course was WAY hillier than they had led us to believe and my bike almost failed me, but I pushed through and finally got to the end of the longest freaking 8 miles of my life. It would have been easier to have just run it!
Then around Centennial Park twice and I was done. My time was not pretty, but I finished.
Now, I have new bike on the brain : ) I really enjoyed doing this Tri and can't wait to do another, but a new bike is a must. So, I'm selling crap on ebay, will combine Mother's Day, my birthday and then our Heath and Fitness allowance from work to combine to buy it......lets just say, it's not a $100 Walmart bike and I didn't realize how expensive bikes are!
If you want to read all about my Tri, here's my very LONG blog post about the tri and what I learned. It was a ball and everyone should try one!
I was quite happy that it was much easier than my half marathon and that I had no soreness on Monday and my butt really didn't hurt from the bike ride, which is impressive considering the last time I rode a bike about 6 years ago, I recall having trouble walking for like 3 days!
Monday was Ben's mom's birthday and I've got to get my butt in gear and figure out what to get her since she doesn't provide any ideas.....hint.....hint.
All is going well with Mallory.
She is enjoying the helmetless life. She's started standing up in her pack and play and pulling up on about anything she possibly can.
Her little peach fuzz head is growing hair like crazy.
She's just such a delightful kiddo!
Ben picked up his deer mount from the taxidermist this past weekend. Can't you just hear the excitement in my typing, lol! So, now we have 3 deer in the living room. Yippee. I can't wait to get a basement.
Tomorrow should be fun. We are heading to the Louisville Zoo for the Kosair's NICU reunion. I'm hoping we are able to see Dr Sing and some of our favorite nurses. When you are there for 5 weeks you kinda get to know them.
I can't wait to see Mallory's reaction to the critters!
And, for anyone contemplating running, Christi and I will be starting our next 1/2 Marathon training plan on Monday. Come be our virtual partner!!
Friday, May 13, 2011
Triathlon Eve Eve
Tis the the eve prior to Triathlon eve : )
We've arrived to mom and dads for the night.
I laid out all my stuff last night and in normal fashion packed way more than I will need, but the weather will narrow down my choices Sunday morning.
Right now Sunday is looking to be a high of 59 and chance of rain. I was hoping for a little warmer, but you never know here, they could change the forecast by 20 degrees in 2 days.
I determined that my day pack LL Bean backpack I bought around 5 years ago if perfect for holding all my Tri stuff! I have a thing for bags, always have, but this one is coming in handy!
They posted the swimming order this morning and our bib numbers. Looks like I'm #28 and I think Nancy is #20.
When we registered we had to rank our swimming skills from 1-10, 10 being the best. I had no idea but since they said 1 was if you couldn't swim it non stop so I figured I was a 5. There's a zillion 5's registered!!! Guess we will see if I'm really midpack or not!!
Me and my side stoke, lol!!
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We've arrived to mom and dads for the night.
I laid out all my stuff last night and in normal fashion packed way more than I will need, but the weather will narrow down my choices Sunday morning.
Right now Sunday is looking to be a high of 59 and chance of rain. I was hoping for a little warmer, but you never know here, they could change the forecast by 20 degrees in 2 days.
I determined that my day pack LL Bean backpack I bought around 5 years ago if perfect for holding all my Tri stuff! I have a thing for bags, always have, but this one is coming in handy!
They posted the swimming order this morning and our bib numbers. Looks like I'm #28 and I think Nancy is #20.
When we registered we had to rank our swimming skills from 1-10, 10 being the best. I had no idea but since they said 1 was if you couldn't swim it non stop so I figured I was a 5. There's a zillion 5's registered!!! Guess we will see if I'm really midpack or not!!
Me and my side stoke, lol!!
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Helmetless!!!
As some of you may have seen from Facebook, Bean is officially done with her helmet!
We went back to Louisville this afternoon to the orthotic and prosthetic office, aka helmet dr, although I'm pretty sure Aaron isn't a doctor.
Whatever!
Her head hasn't really changed from the last visit but during her 3 months it had improved a 1/2 inch and is much better!!
And once she has hair, it will not be noticeable at all!
We ran to the mall afterward, here she is after we ditched the helmet:
We then made a stop at Starbucks! Mallorys first trip to Starbucks.
It wasn't really deliberate, but where else are you going to get milk in a mall??
Mallory's order? Tiny whole milk, cold : )
Now I will probably freak out because she's going to bump her head on everything!
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We went back to Louisville this afternoon to the orthotic and prosthetic office, aka helmet dr, although I'm pretty sure Aaron isn't a doctor.
Whatever!
Her head hasn't really changed from the last visit but during her 3 months it had improved a 1/2 inch and is much better!!
And once she has hair, it will not be noticeable at all!
We ran to the mall afterward, here she is after we ditched the helmet:
We then made a stop at Starbucks! Mallorys first trip to Starbucks.
It wasn't really deliberate, but where else are you going to get milk in a mall??
Mallory's order? Tiny whole milk, cold : )
Now I will probably freak out because she's going to bump her head on everything!
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