Ouch

A hint - 

When you're hauling this around in your midsection - 

- it's not a good idea to do too much in one day, like, say, running 3.5 miles in the morning, and then coming home and cleaning the entire house, including doing several loads of laundry.

I definitely overdid it, and I'm aching as a result. I'm sure I'll feel fine in the morning, but my back is killing me. From now on, I'm splitting up the housecleaning tasks. I just can't plan to get it all done in one day, especially not after working out. 

My run this morning was so-so. It was a warm day. Not that warm, but even temperatures in the low 70s feel warm to me right now while I'm out there running - the heat is just affecting me so much more, and I think I had gotten used to last week's cooler temps, so it felt pretty uncomfortable today. 

As a result, I just felt very slow and sluggish, and had been hoping to do 4 or 5 miles, but ended up doing just 3 and a half. Hopefully it won't be that warm for the race Sunday. I'm not expecting to even come close to running fast, but I want to have fun and enjoy myself, and not feel like I'm dragging myself along. 

Dante was very entertaining today while I was cleaning. Although Gabe is capable of keeping himself occupied when I'm busy with other things, it's not something he's ever been particularly good at, and definitely not something he likes to do, so it was always tough to get things done when he was home all day. Dante, on the other hand, has a wild imagination, and can pretend all day long, so it's really interesting to see what games he comes up with while I'm busy with housework. 

This afternoon he put on his goggles, and was jumping around on the floor - pretending to jump into a pool and swim - with his imaginary friends Timmy and Ponky, of course! He was doing some pretty spectacular cannonballs, and some very fast swimming. 

He and I stopped at Wal-Mart yesterday afternoon to pick up some big plastic storage bins (to put away some of the toys that I cleared out of the living room last week), and while we were there, we checked out the Halloween costumes, and I ended up getting costumes for both of them. I'll leave it a surprise for now, but suffice it to say, they're both past the age where I can convince them to get 'cute' costumes. Thankfully I'll have a few more years of that with the new baby! 

When Gabe came home from school this afternoon, he and Dante were drawing at the kitchen table, and then Gabe started working on practicing writing numbers. That's something they've been doing at school, and he was really struggling, but after just a little bit of practice this afternoon, he was able to write all his numbers from 1 - 10 very clearly and legibly!  He wrote them all on a piece of paper that he's going to bring in to show his teacher tomorrow - I can just imagine the look of pride he'll have on his sweet little face : )   

Meanwhile, Dante wanted to practice writing his name, and after tracing it a few times, he tried writing it all by himself, and for the first time ever writing his name, I think he did pretty well. He mixed up the letters a bit - he spelled it DTNAE - and his E had about 4 extra horizontal lines, but I was really proud of him nonetheless. 

And Gabe totally cracked me up this morning. When he gets on the bus, he always greets the bus driver and the monitor with a very cheerful "Good morning!"  And today, after doing that, he looked at the monitor and said "Nice shirt."  He can be quite a charmer when he wants to be. 

Comments

[Jennifer P]

My only job after running in the morning is a nap so good for you for tackling the house. Rest up for this weekend and good luck!

My son also has a great imagination and I'm hoping that this one on the way will take after him! It's such fun to watch -- never mind actually get stuff around the house.

[Wes]

I am amazed that preggers ladies can run AT ALL :-) Very kewl...