Wednesday, March 16, 2011

First Words


When I woke Target Kid up this morning this was the first thing out of his mouth:

TK: Mom, I'm faster than Target Boy now.
Me: That's awesome.
TK: I have penguin feet. They make me run really fast, penguin arms too!
Me: Wow.

He must have been dreaming of beating his brother, although I'm not sure penguin feet are the way to go.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Triathlon, Dr. Seuss, and Commando Crawling

Triathlon
We are getting so close to tri day. If I think about it to much, then I start waking up in the middle of the night and worrying about different parts of it. Will I be too slow swimming and will someone want to pass me? Will I want to pass and how does that work with sharing lanes? What if I get a flat tire? Will I get passed by 70 year old women during the run? What if I'm last????
Today actually helped though. I did 10 miles on my bike and then ran 3 miles in 1 hr 22 min. For me that's respectable. I actually cut a lot of time off my run, which is my hardest part. I keep telling myself it will be easier race day too, because Wilmington is flat and our town/neighborhood is not flat. My entire second running mile today was uphill. That does mean the third was downhill, but that has its own issues.
Anyway, we are excited. Target Man got to go out today too, and did 10 and 3. He was happy with his times. Better than mine, of course, so he was happy. The countdown is on, two more hard days of training, then an easy week. 10 days till race day!

Dr. Seuss

In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday and Read Across America day, Target Boy and his best buddies from kindergarten dressed up for school. He was so awesome with his spiked blue hair. I guess having his Dad's hair is good for something!

(yes, I know my kid is tiny!)

Commando Crawling
Target Squirt Muffin is following along with all of his siblings and has started commando crawling. The little guy has been able to aptly push himself backwards for four months, but now he has figured out how to move forward. He is still quite slow, but he's getting there. I thought maybe he would be my only one to do the wobbly, slow, rock back and forth crawl that most other babies start with, but nope. Commando crawling must be genetic!