Sickly

The past few days have been spent indoors with runny noses and horrible coughs. We have been doing lots of this,

and on Sunday, we did this, alllllll day.

To stay, please

I'll take one extra cute baby, dark on the hair and eyes, sweet on the smile, lots of extra chub, and as cuddly as they come, please. Oh, and I want him forever.

I voted

Prove me wrong President-elect Obama, please prove me wrong.

Howdy ya'll

Huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, colossal, enormous, extensive, gigantic, humongous sense of relief.

Dave was accepted into his first choice endodontic program. Dallas, TX here we come.

I am so proud of you honey.

Chocolate, and LOTS of it...

Thank you dear Joshua, for letting your mommy eat chocolate again. It has been 7 months, 2 weeks and 3 days since I have tasted the goodness. And you better believe I am making up for lost time. Bring.it.on.

AHHHHHHHHH

Today is a day where I want to sell my children (well, child. Audrey to be exact). Bidding starts at $1. Any takers?

Look who's sittin pretty...

or sitting handsome, I should say.

7 Months

At seven months, Joshua
* sits up
* has his two bottom teeth and his top two are coming in
* loves squash, green beans, carrots, but hates peaches
* kicks his legs and flaps his arms when I open the front door to go outside
* loves, loves, loves his Daddy. Kicks, flaps, and is all grins when he sees Dave
* loves to "talk" and can do so quite loudly
* loves my cell phone

Audrey at 7 months. I love how they both look like they are going to jump off the couch.

Audrey at 3 years, 2 months.
Audrey saw Joshua wearing a onesie, so she wanted to wear one too (plus the high heels and sun glasses that are in her hand).
At this age, Audrey:
* She has stopped callling Dave, "Dad". She now calls him, "Da." ?????
* She loves to watch The Nutcracker movie, only she calls it the "Crut-Nacker"
* Is obsessed with smelling things. She won't let me use any sort of soap on her unless she smells it first (and sometimes when I'm not looking she likes to taste it. Barf.)
* Is so, so, so sweet with Joshua.
* Always says, "of course." Example: "Audrey would you like a snack?" "Of course."

In the Genes?

Joshua

Audrey

Both Full

This picture was taken awhile ago (Audrey is now in a big girl bed) but I just found it and had to post it. When I was pregnant, I would walk into Audrey's room and see the little bed for our baby-to-be and I would just stare at it wondering what our little guy would look like, be like. The first night home from the hospital, we laid our sweet little baby in his bed in Audrey's room and I was overcome with emotion. Both beds were full. I couldn't believe he was here. I am a lucky lady.

A Walk to Remember

This morning, 20,000 of us lined us to run/walk the Nike Women's Marathon.

Out of all the 20,000 people, these are my favorite.

Regan and I started training a few months ago, but we both got injured. We decided instead of running, we would walk the 13.1 miles together. We had so much fun walking through the city. We took our sweet time walking, stopping, taking pictures and enjoying our beautiful city. It was 4 hours and 1 minute of pure bliss.

Nike goes all out. This is the largest women's half and full marathon in the world (I learned that this morning before the race started). Along the route they had lots of things to keep up entertained. For example, a Gospel choir. And who said we didn't go to church today?

The Maltese Falcon even stopped by.

Gotta love the Scottish men playing the bag pipes.

Hello cheerleaders! Go team Regan and Michelle!

The best entertainment was watching Audrey and Maggie run to us to give us big hugs of encouragement.

Thank you for the sign Juli!

This will be the last time I do this half marathon as a San Francisco resident. I really do love this city. Today, I think an additional 20,000 people love this city as well.

Regan and I love to do all sorts of things together, but the thing we do best is "gab". We couldn't pass up this "Gab like a girl" sign. Nike's marathon theme is "Like a Girl".

Regan and I picked up our girls from the sidelines and carried them the last .1 mile. It was so fun to cross the finish line with Audrey. She was obsessed with the Tiffany's necklace we got at the end (she thinks it's hers, so won't let me wear it, only her). I hope someday to do this half marathon with Audrey. Until then, I want to make it a yearly tradition with anyone who is interested. Tonight when I was putting Audrey to bed she wanted me to tell her the "finish line" story one more time.

Phewww, we finished. Barely even broke a sweat, but thank heavens for the Tiffany's necklace, Jamba juice and granola!

The best cheerleaders anyone could ask for.

Twiners.

Tiffanys is sponsor of the Nike Women's Marathon, and each year they design a necklace for those who do the race. This year the necklace has a picture of two girls running on it. I have seen the necklaces from the last three years and this was the only year that had two girls on it instead of just one. We like to think it was for us. But if it really was for us, the girls would have been walking...

I actually trained and ran the race in 2006. It was Dave's first quarter of dental school and he was crazy busy. I couldn't run one mile when I heard about the race and I decided I wanted to train and run it. It was a great experience to train and run it with Kelly.

Dear Kelly,
Remember when we would run to the bridge and back at 6 am and watch the sun rise? Remember how we would pick up Dave from school on Wed nights then go to Union Square and run while Dave watched Audrey? Remember the Coldstone ice cream we would get after we ran? That was a great race. I miss you Kelly.