Pictures from our Harvest Festival a few weeks ago...can you guess who Ellie was?
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Well 3/4 of my children are sick with chest colds. Erik fell this morning to the bug...of course with his asthma, his chest cough always seems worse. So now I'm pumping Emma with vitamin c and encouraging more hand washing than normal to keep her healthy. We're 3 1/2 weeks away from The Nutcracker production...hoping she can make it unscathed. Colds come and go. I think the average kid has 4-6 colds a year. But with 4 kids...that's 16-24 colds/year...almost seems like someone is sick all the time, though I know it's not true.
Haven't posted pictures because I think my camera is broken. I discovered my #3 child playing photographer with it recently and haven't been able to turn it on since then. I'm in a state of denial about it. I was just starting to really like the digital camera...now I'm camera-less. ARGH!
Well I need to tend to some sick kiddos.
Haven't posted pictures because I think my camera is broken. I discovered my #3 child playing photographer with it recently and haven't been able to turn it on since then. I'm in a state of denial about it. I was just starting to really like the digital camera...now I'm camera-less. ARGH!
Well I need to tend to some sick kiddos.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Race Results
The girls ran in their first Road Lizards race this Saturday. It was about 45 degrees at race start and they were shivering! Erik placed 2nd and ran 9:04, Emma placed 3rd and ran a 9:38 and Ellie won a Finishers Medal for her 14:31 mile!!! Ellie ran much of the way, but she also stopped and hugged a few of her new best friends, picked up a few rocks along the way, and stopped to watch some of the big kids run by...Erik and Emma were not in competition with eachother, the results are boy/girl and broken into 2-year age categories. At any rate, the girls were very pleased with themselves. Ellie was so excited to earn a finishers medal that she skipped and jumped her way up to the coach to receive it...like she had just won and Olympic gold! She came home, proudly wearing her medal and exclaimed to her daddy, "Daddy, I won a finishers medal, because I didn't quit!!" There was another race the next day and the girls had tasted victory enough to want to try it again, but we didn't. Emma was so proud of herself that she wanted to wear her medal to Nutcracker rehearsal that afternoon. I told her that it would get in the way LOL. The next race is a big Veteran's Day race. We're really enjoying this activity, even Everson runs a bit at practice...and I get in some of my doctor-prescibed exercise.
The girls ran in their first Road Lizards race this Saturday. It was about 45 degrees at race start and they were shivering! Erik placed 2nd and ran 9:04, Emma placed 3rd and ran a 9:38 and Ellie won a Finishers Medal for her 14:31 mile!!! Ellie ran much of the way, but she also stopped and hugged a few of her new best friends, picked up a few rocks along the way, and stopped to watch some of the big kids run by...Erik and Emma were not in competition with eachother, the results are boy/girl and broken into 2-year age categories. At any rate, the girls were very pleased with themselves. Ellie was so excited to earn a finishers medal that she skipped and jumped her way up to the coach to receive it...like she had just won and Olympic gold! She came home, proudly wearing her medal and exclaimed to her daddy, "Daddy, I won a finishers medal, because I didn't quit!!" There was another race the next day and the girls had tasted victory enough to want to try it again, but we didn't. Emma was so proud of herself that she wanted to wear her medal to Nutcracker rehearsal that afternoon. I told her that it would get in the way LOL. The next race is a big Veteran's Day race. We're really enjoying this activity, even Everson runs a bit at practice...and I get in some of my doctor-prescibed exercise.
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