Thursday, June 14, 2018

3.22.18

Miles kept bending down peeking in Ella's house/tent. I told him he could go in. When Ella's here she doesn't let him. He knocked off her barbies, and then moved the big toy house so it knocked off the blanket. This is why Ella doesn't want him in there. At least I can fix it all.
He came out on his own and sat reading a book.





 And by sitting, he's sitting in a doll stroller


I met Dave with his snow tires so that he could go to the Tesla dealer to get his 12V battery fixed and do snow tires at the same time.






















Miles did not want to nap. It was a real struggle to get him upstairs.
I told Miles that if he goes to sleep he can get a hug from daddy after. Oops. I felt bad for Miles after.  He ran to the laundry room looking for Daddy. He kept saying hug hug hug. He went in the laundry room still saying hug. He went to the door to the garage trying to open it saying hug.

Before Miles's nap, I dropped Ella off at preschool, went to Giant Eagle, went to Dollar Tree, looked at houses on Trulia, cleaned up a little bit, put snow tires in the car, met Dave with the snow tires, and played with Miles.  Miles didn't start his nap until 2:45.  Late nap!
I randomly found an old pic and went to try on the same clothes. I couldn't find the same ones but I tried on the similar yellow ones.  I was in shock that they fit.   So then I got distracted trying on old dress pants.  I found a few tops I tried on too. I threw them down the laundry chute so now I can add them into my rotation.


Dave got home while I was doing my workout. Once I was done, it was time to get Ella. Miles was still asleep. We decided to wake him and all go out to dinner. We got Ella and went to Olive Garden.  I put Miles in his high chair and Ella really wanted to sit next to him. She said she would feed him/help him.  So we let her start. We figured we would have to swap partway through but Ella did so well that we lasted the entire meal sitting like that.





When we were deciding what to get, Dave asked Ella and she picked.  Then I said what about Miles. So Dave showed him the menu and told him to pick what he wanted to eat. He was so cute! He held up the menu and looked at it. You could see his eyes very slowly going from one picture to the other. Then he points and picked something. Later he was pointing again to that same thing questioning why it wasn't there yet.
When we got bread, Miles started eating it even though he is not normally a bread person.   Then the appetizer of fried mozzarella showed up and Miles immediately said "dip" because he wanted to dip his bread stick into the sauce.  He did. He loved it. He continued to eat the entire bread stick dipping it in sauce every few bites.
When the meal came, both kids ate the grapes first. They both ate the spaghetti. Miles ate his with his fingers because Ella took her first bite like that. I kept trying to tuck a napkin in Miles's shirt but he would take it off right away.



 Right after diner, we went to Sam's club. Both kids were wanting food at Sam's club and wanting to eat on the way home. We got home and they had a snack.   It was already 8:30 so it was quite late for Miles.
Miles and Ella were playing and a little crazy. We didn't start bedtime stuff for either kid until 9:30. Oops.

Then I was so tired. I tried to do a few things and ended up being up past midnight but was so tired so whatever I did, I was doing a bit slower than normal.

Friday, June 8, 2018

Running Update (June 2018)

I learned from this to get us in the top part of the pic
I started running Ella to or from school.  The kids love it so much. It's been a little tricky because the first 2 times I did it the tires were flat and then today they weren't flat but kind of felt flat anyway. There are too many construction signs or just realtor signs on the sidewalks so I have to very slowly hop off the sidewalk and back on with a double stroller. Yesterday I had to drive to pick Ella up since we were going somewhere after and Miles cried for a good 20 minutes saying that he wanted the stroller and did not want the carseat. He cried prior to going in and also in the car.   Tonight Dave will be at preschool for a function so we were going to drive but the kids want me to run and then run home with them and have Dave drive separately.  They are encouraging me to exercise. But I've always heard to increase mileage slowly and so far this week I've run 6 miles which brings my total to 11.56 miles for the YEAR. The week isn't even over but I'll only run a max of 2 more miles this week.  My legs are feeling it. My groin is feeling it. Hopefully I don't end up injured.



Miles likes the run but doesn't like that I take a picture of us before I unbuckle him.

Today Ella ran for awhile beside the stroller to practice for her race. Then I said she had to hop in the stroller when the sidewalk was closed and we were about to be at the busy street. She did over a quarter mile though.
I did a separate mapmyrun for when Ella was running


My pace seemed to range from 11:08-12:04.  I've had to walk for various obstacles but the walk breaks probably help my speed at other times. I wonder if or when I'll show improvement.

Edit to add: I forgot to mention how annoying it is to hit my head on low hanging branches. In CA they trim all the trees but I swear all the people are short so all the trees are always trimmed way too low. Dave would hit his head on even more than me. 

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Week 1 in CA (May 27-June1)

Here's a quick rundown of the first week in CA!

Arrive Sunday and go straight to a BBQ at Beth's

Swimming at temp housing!
Monday morning: Target to buy some  necessities.
Afternoon: go to Angie's to play with Jaden and Maddie.
Tuesday
Seven Seas Park (and ran into Tobe, Arthur, and Quentin) then visited Poly at Amanda's (and Jai's and Esha's)

Swimming after nap. Slice of NY for dinner and then picked up Poly.

Wednesday
Park to play with Lilly and Michael in the morning
Target to buy diapers and attempt to charge car.
Park to play with Arya and Sara in the afternoon.
Thursday
Visited preschool so Ella got to see what class is like.


Friday
We moved and then it was all moving and all dealing with the landlord.

*I finally got internet at the new house so I could post this!