shelby - That is some awesome nap time.  Don't forget to take care of yourself...you deserve it!

jmmiller - I would love to have people bring me wine to use our property...too bad we don't have any.  That would be fun too, to be able to try all the different kinds.  I want wine...now!

cx2 - Sounds like things are going well.  Yay for the STTN and the possible nanny!  I wish my MIL would watch  J at our house.  I think he would nap better, but she is afraid of cats and I refuse to lock ours up for the day.  I guess it would also be nice if MIL would take J more places.  Maybe we need to work on that for the Spring when she has him more again.

beckykay - Yay for vodka and playdates....only if they could happen at the same time!

jen - Enjoy your day off.  I am jealous.  I would definitely nap!

armmama - Glad the party went well.  Boo for the puking though!  You are rocking out some great mileage!

Jen- I thought of you this weekend when I had to put R in two timeouts for hitting me. He does it when he demands something and I tell him know. He gets this mean look on his face and then walks over and hits me or the sofa or something, so he got a couple timeouts. Definitely something he does when he's tired.   We haven't broke ground yet, our home sale is going to hold it up a bit because we want to use the proceeds from our house toward the down payment- so we probably won't begin building until early April and then it will take 7 mos or so to complete- November?

armama- that's awesome mileage for not training for anything! I peaked at 40 mpw when I ran my marathon (I was woefully undertrained). My grandma was a notorious dumpster diver. One time we went to her house and she was wearing this weird denim vest lined in shearling- my sister commented on it and my grandma exclaimed "Can you believe my neighbor threw this perfectly good vest in the trash?! They must have had a party because there were sure a lot of beer bottles in their trash can too."  We use a shredding service at work so I just bring my stuff in here to put it in the secure bin.

Mer- R loves weird 80's music a lot which is hilarious. We have little dance parties

rocky- we had a really hard time with boy names too. We had a list of about 10 names that we narrowed down to 3 names by the time we went to the hospital. DH let me choose the name from the 3 when R was born. He is Reid Michael, the other contenders were Barrett Eugene (Eugene is a family thing for DH) and Marshall Walker. Our method for choosing names- I told Mike that since I was making the baby, it was his job to go through the baby name book and make a list of names. I looked at the list and culled off names I hated, and then we passed it back and forth a few times crossing more off.  R has had a bit of caffeine before, I think as long as you don't make it a habit it can't hurt.

Spike - DH and I both made a list.  Mine was fairly short, DH was a little longer.  And we both veto names on both lists.  We tend toward traditional irish/scottish/gaelic names as well as some english ones.  I vetoed some boys names that were also girls names though, like Lee, Cameron, & Avery. If they had been family names they could've stayed on the list, but since they were just ones he liked, I vetoed.  We'll figure something out, obviously!  I like Dh doing most of the work on names though since I don't have any male names in my family that I'm particularly passionate about.  I think it's easier for us to pick out the middle name with is so funny to me.

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Oh other random story.  Was at the kid park with Em and it was beautiful weather so we had our jackets off.

One little boy said to me, "You have a fat belly!"

"I do have a fat belly!" I replied.  As his grandfather looked on the unfolding scene with horror and mortification.

His slightly older brother, maybe 4 y.o.? said, "Did you eat it or is it a baby belly?"

"It's a baby belly."

"Oh that's good, because if you eat a fat belly it's not good."  Continues running and playing.

I just had to chuckle at it.  I love kids.  The grandfather of course was apologizing profusely.  I wasn't upset at all though.  And the kid is right, baby belly = good, food belly = not good.

Spike - (sorry for multiple posts)  DH had lots of versions of Barrett, Bennett, Beckett, etc.  I think a lot of the names he picked he did so because you could shorten it, like beckett to "beck" or something.  And then he put some beer names at the bottom, like Porter.  I teased him that we should call baby boy Avery Porter (avery is a brewing company, porter is obviously a style of beer).

Eh - ugh, sorry about the long wake up with DD2 last night. I would not want to get up for 4:30 after being up like that either! School buses are cancelled here too, so the community centre was a total zoo.

Bermy - I didn't realize you had started TTC already. As for feeling preggo while running, I ran what was a 5k pr at the time when I was 4 weeks pregnant and didn't know it yet, so you never know! Your post reminded me that I need to make myself a dentist appointment.

Mer - Yay for the cheering squad at your half! Nothing sad about not cheering up until you split a bottle of wine with DH...wine makes everything better!

Mrszm - Nice job on your 5k run! You'll have to do a race soon as you'll surely blow your old pr out of the water!

Shelby - Wow, 5 hours of naps is quite impressive. Hope your growth spurt ends soon too so ds doesn't keep waking up to eat. Good luck at the DMV!

Jmmiller - Not sure how big your 50k is, but sounds like that property owner will get a nice haul of wine if everyone brings him a bottle!

cx2 - Hope the nanny works out for you. Writing a wedding speech is so hard! I was a friend's matron of honour last summer and kept getting stressed out trying to write my speech, so I just ended up thinking of a few general ideas and then winging the speech. it turned out pretty well. The only bad part was that I was pregnant so I couldn't down a drink for liquid courage beforehand!

Beckykay - Weekends should be at least 3 days long! Weird about the cancellation for rain - or is it freezing rain there?

spike - Your food from yesterday sounds really good. Hope the deal with your house works out!

CAR - Too bad small group was cancelled but nice that you got to go out for dinner. Was M good for you at the restaurant?

Rocky - You had a very active weekend! I found thinking of baby names hard, but fun.

Jen - Nice mileage over the past few days! And lucky you with another snow day! Sledding looked like fun - your pictures were super cute.

Arm - Wow, pushing a five year old in a stroller for five miles sounds like hard work. I think you get to count it as a 10 mile run  Sounds like the girls had fun at the birthday party but what a rough night for you! Strange about the garbage, although I have seen a guy going through people's recycling looking for liquor bottles, which seems like a ridiculous amount of work just to return a few bottles to get 10 cents a bottle.

DS went down for the night super early, out like a light. And for TTC questions – I am probably not going to post too much about it as it will take probably 2 full marathon training cycles for me to ttc or not even ttc as you all know I have one ovary that only works when all the stars are in alignment. Shelby – you might have many months of disappointment. However, my running is going great!

Rg – when are you starting your fm training? Please be careful in the crap weather.

Zorbs – can’t even begin to give advice on skin. It is so humid here that mu hair is curly. In Nashville it was pin straight! I couldn’t imagine having cracked skin. Poor you. No final date on permanent move as we are still waiting for final interview for green card. We are going over to set up and then come back. Repeat.

Ernie – you are really selling your home town to me with “freezing rain”. Sounds  abso-freakin-lutely miserable. Total respect for you getting out and running esp with stroller.

Eh – you asked about coaches – find one! Mine is a gem and she is more like a true friend. We are going to do craft projects one weekend. Find a mom – they have an understanding which really helps when you *don’t sleep through the night/ can’t concentrate cos your LO is sick/ have to rearrange last minute *pick one – or pick em all. Told coach about tempo. She said try 7.55s now.

Mer – we dtd a lot and all over the place. Who knows. If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. My cycles are 33 days and I am not sure if I ovulated this cycle, nor does it really matter to us. We’re happy just bobbing along. I am very excited you have your best support team ever. And I should tell you that dog hair makes the best baby blanket even better – gives it that lived in feel.

Mrszm – SO exciting on knocking off 2.10! How cool! Any 5k races near you? Pic please of ice skates!!!! Still waiting on call from national visa centre for interview date. We’re on the last few steps. I didn’t even need an xray as I had them 6mo ago so I felt like I caused unnecessary gossip at the dentist.

Shelby – if you don’t post tomorrow I know it’s because you are in jail for punching the lady at the DMV.

Jm – I will cross racing and pg bridges when I get there. Until then I plan to continue to train like a beast. When is your 50K? I looked up a North face schedule and it seemed easier than some fm training?

Cx2 – I have never posted this to you until now but I am jealous of your LO sttn. Can you please pass that along to my LO?

Becky – you ROCK for that 17.25m! On a TM! I showed my DH and he was in awe. Great job Becky! In my drinking life I would have asked you to post your marshmallow cocktail to me.

Spike – I am so proud of you for your miles last week. Wonderful work! So impressive on the Japanese food. You are really adventurous.

Arm – WTG on pushing 5 yr old. That gives me hope that I will still be out running with my DS then. Yes to 18wk plan. Waiting on green card interview (and a medical before that). It’s the last step and we will get notification of the date any day now.

Rocky – hope you are feeling better soon.

CA – Did you see my 1k times? They were almost as fast as my 800s! Thanks for posting your times on fb. Really helped me.

Jen – hope you enjoyed your run and I am very excited for you with all those 4 day weeks. Nice job on your high miles for the past 3 days. Wonderful training.