Loose Teeth

Anna has lost a couple of teeth and today lost another. It is her front, top tooth (she lost the other one awhile ago). The process is quite laborious. It not only includes a lot of wiggleing, but a little blood, a few tears, and a lot of time in front of the mirror. I tried to get her to let me pull it out, but she would have none of that. I learned my lesson not to insist on doing it myself when Cole had his first loose tooth. By the time everything was said and done, I basically sat on top of Cole and pulled his tooth out. Don't ask me why... to this day Cole hides the fact the he even has loose teeth and won't tell me untill they are already pulled out. Anyway, after Anna chanted "I hate this tooth" a dozen times, and, "I can do it, I'm a woman" more than a dozen times, she pulled it out all by herself! Proclaiming that she has heard that the tooth fairy gives way more money for big top teeth, she promptly washed her tooth clean, placed it carefully into her "tooth pillow" and tucked it under her pillow. After all that work, I sure hope the tooth fairy remembers that she has a tooth waiting under Anna's pillow at 2060 25th St in Ohio.

Mall Walking

This morning I met my friend Jessica at our local mall. I have some how talked her into training with me for the race and we decided to walk together every Wedensday, and do a long run every Saturday. Well, since it is freezing here and neither of us have a gym membership, we consented to walk the mall. Have you ever done it? We have now done it twice. The first time we were a little late getting there, so we ended up dodging nicely dressed people out doing their shopping. We only got a couple of wierd stares and a few rude gestures by the time we were done. Today we got there a little earlier and oh my heck! It was like a mob in there. There were so many people there to exercise. Little old men who like to look at and talk to the kids everytime we pass, old ladies who totally are into their workout and don't even glance at the kids, packs of heavier women, sometimes 4 abreast that are "exercising" but are walking slower then a crawl and gabbing louder than the kids (when we come up behind them, we have to take a short cut around and through the "stalls" in the middle of the mall because they don't move for nobody!), suprisingly we were not the only young ones walking this morning. I saw at least 3 other youngish looking moms toting strollers and grumpy kids-however, WE were the best looking moms there...It was so crowded that like on a track at the gym, they were going one way only-you felt very stupid if you went against the flow. As we were walking and of course passing everyone, little Abby proceeded to take off both socks and toss them over board along with her jacket, Taylor kept repeating "cuck, cuck, cuck..."(which is truck) louder and louder until I would answer him, and Jack made many conspicous slaps and pinches to Abby which would start her crying. After about 10 min, we decided to pull over to the cookie store and Jessica bought a dozen chocolate chip cookies for the kids to munch on. And of course we were parched and had to get ourselves a diet coke. After about a 1/2 hour or so of walking, we decided to go into Old Navy. Each of us bought something and were thinking of stopping in Buckle and Children's Place but decided against it because Jack wanted to go home and play "Mario" and Taylor and Abby were fussy. So, having spent money, gotten our diet cokes, and exercised all before 10:30am, we walked to our cars and decided to meet there again next week!

Neglected Child

As this new world of blogging has enfolded for me, I find myself sitting at the computer for hours on end. Yesterday as I was "blogging", the kids were at school and Taylor was left downstairs watching his "dance shows" (which happen to be the Wiggles) and a nice big bowl of fruit shnacks. Well, he only sits there until his shnacks are gone, so in approximately 3 minutes he was back up with me by the computer. He proceeded to bring me every truck he owned, threw a good portion of his toy box into the tub, dumped out Anna's beads in her room, flushed the toilet 30 times, pushed the on/off button on the computer twice, and dumped out the garbage in my room. I found myself getting quite frustrated with him until I remembered that it was MY job to take care of him. So, after a few more minutes on the computer, I took some pictures of the dumped out garbage, threw Taylor on my bed and proceeded to kiss and tickle him for a good 20 minutes. Then we read some "gooks", played ball, had lunch, and went down for a nap. My being on the computer caused 200% MORE work for me. So, I have pledged to try and only be on when Taylor is sleeping.

Yeah, we'll see how long that lasts!

A view of my buttocks

I decided that I would brave the cold this morning and go running outside. So, to find an appropriate outfit. Something that would let me run, yet keep me warm...Before I tell you what I came up with, let me say that I have promised myself that I would not buy anything in the way of new running things until I hit 10 miles. So, I was limited in what I had to wear. I decided on layering running tights and silky exercise pants on the bottom, a long sleeve shade shirt underneith a hind outdoor winter running shirt. My pants were olive green, my top was navy blue with florescent green stripes. For my hat I wore Anna's sparkley pink butterfly snow hat. So, now that you have the full picture, I go out the door and head off for my 3 mile run. As I start out, my pants start to creep down. You see, I have not worn these pants since last winter and apparently I have lost a little weight. Eventhough I would look like the biggest dork, I decided to tuck in both shirts to the elastic waist of my pants so that it would give me a little bulk and hopefully the pants would stay up. It worked! Almost. I was running good, going up a little incline and all the sudden I feel a little chill. Yes, the unthinkable happend...My olive green silky pants were down around my thighs. Everyone behind me caught a little glimpse of my cute bum. Luckily it had on a pair of running tights. I had to decide if I wanted to run with a wedige, or take the silkies off, tie them around my waist and run in nothing but thin tights. Not a hard choice-the wedgie. They were not long enough to tuck under my sportster ( I tried that too), so the whole rest of the way I could be seen tugging them up every couple of steps. I made it home in record time. I have learned 3 lessons from this run.

1-I must be a runner at heart to have worn this outfit
2-if you loose weight, buy new things
3-make sure your pants are long enough to tuck into your sportster-just in case you have a problem like mine

I have also recalled a saying from my old days. My buddy will be able to recall it... No pain, no gain. I have a feeling I will be repeating this a lot through out my up coming training.

Wall writing

I have an aunt that is extremely talented and crafty. You need to check out her stuff on her blog. http://terolswallwriting.blogspot.com One day I will have a house that I can fill with cute things like this. Because, like my mom, I am decorationally challenged, I am so happy that I have people I know who can help make my home look good. I would post some picks of her stuff on my blog, but I am also technically challenged and wouldn't even know how to begin to do that. So, check out her site and you can see all the stuff for yourself.

Running anyone?

Okay- I am going to run the Akron city marathon. Don't laugh! I already have 3 weeks of training. Truth be told, 3 weeks of walking/running for 30 mins a day, but I have started! The race is on saturday, Sept. 27th. I figure I can do it if I start training now and build up slow. When I did the half, I built up my miles too fast and ended up having to take 4 motrin before every run just so my knee would not shoot daggers of pain down my leg. So, my goal is to build up slow, train long and run it under 5 hours... I would love company from anyone of you! Check out the race details at www.akronmarathon.org

Rocket man

Cole (and his dad) were very excited to win first place in the scouts rocket derby. Cole proudly displays his ribbon and rocket in his bedroom. The pinewood derby is coming up and Travis took Cole to the store today to pick out a "model" for what he wants his car to look like. They came back with a box of weird looking hot wheels. I am just glad that I won't be carving that thing out!