a tooth!!
It hasn't completely broken through Dom's gums yet but it is definitely there and it is definitely a tooth! Yay!
It will probably come through tomorrow or so. I tried taking a picture this morning but I was by myself and me trying to hold him and take a picture with my hand in his mouth...didn't work so well!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Running Updates
I haven't posted too much about my training for the half marathon...As some of you know, my sister and my friend, Abbie, are both training for the half marathon with me. We started a blog that is a private blog and only the three of us are members. It's a good place to keep up with each other and keep each other motivated (I need it motivation a LOT) and Angie gives us good tips about running since she's already done 5 FULL marathons. I do a lot of my running posts there, so I don't bore you guys too much.
But as I am about to finish my 3rd week of training, I thought I'd give you an update.
Training is going pretty good. I'm not going to lie and say great, because I've been struggling a little bit. I have good days and bad days. Tuesday was a bad day. A very bad day. I was supposed to run 3 1/2 miles and I only did 2 1/2...and those 2 1/2 were a struggle. A very serious struggle. I walked part of it and felt miserable the whole time. And then felt miserable because I felt like a failure! That was Tuesday.
Today has been a GREAT day! I got up at 5 am and went running. I was supposed to do 3 1/2 again. I did 3.75 easily. Ran the whole time and felt pretty good. Then I got home and did the dishes from the other night (we had company so there were a TON). Then I made Nick a lunch and a snack for work today. Then I took a shower and got Dom's bottle ready. And fed him. And got ready for work. And came to work....I feel like Super Woman today!
This week's training will end on Sunday with a 5 mile run. I'm a little nervous about that because I haven't ran 5 miles straight since before being pregnant with Dom. But I can do it....I can do it....I can do it....
Next week is the same training as this week, and then the week after that gets tough. 4 miles both Tuesday and Thursday and then 6 on Sunday. But it's worth it. I need to be able to do all this if I expect myself to run 13.1 miles straight!
I added a countdown ticker to my blog. I like being able to see when the race will come. How much longer I have to train and get myself in the best shape I can be in.
Wish me luck!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Ring Bearer
Dom is supposed to be in a wedding in September. I'm very excited about it. It's a doubly special wedding for me. One of my best friends, Michelle, is marrying my cousin, Adam. They would like Dom to be one of the ring bearers in the wedding along with Michelle's niece Olivia. The older flower girl and ring bearer will pull the little ones in a decorated wagon.
Well Michelle and I were talking on Monday night and Michelle said she'd like Dom to have an outfit with a little bow tie if we could get it. I said yes, of course. He'll look so handsome! Well today I started looking at baby tuxedos and here's what I found...
How cute will Dom look in that??? So excited....
Well Michelle and I were talking on Monday night and Michelle said she'd like Dom to have an outfit with a little bow tie if we could get it. I said yes, of course. He'll look so handsome! Well today I started looking at baby tuxedos and here's what I found...
How cute will Dom look in that??? So excited....
Wordless Wednesdays
Happy Birthday Nick!!
Also, my friend Ashley had a great Wordless Wednesdays. Click on her link to the right!
Thanks Ash!!
Also, my friend Ashley had a great Wordless Wednesdays. Click on her link to the right!
Thanks Ash!!
Dommie Sleeping
Yes, I wrote Dommie. I started calling him that and now it has stuck. I never call him Dominick anymore. It's always Dom or Dommie. My little Angel.
Anyway, I was clearing out some pictures on my phone and I had a few of him sleeping and it the funny ways he sleeps. I had to post them because they are so cute.
This first one is him sleeping with his feet right under his belly and his butt up in the air! He sleeps like this a lot.
These next two I just took last night. If you remember back to my ultrasound pictures, Dom always had his ankles crossed. All the time. When he was little and I would feed him, he would instinctively cross his ankles. Well, he hasn't done it in awhile, but when I went in to check on him last night before turning in for the night, this is how he was sleeping. Isn't he adorable!!??!!
My goodness he's too cute...
Anyway, I was clearing out some pictures on my phone and I had a few of him sleeping and it the funny ways he sleeps. I had to post them because they are so cute.
This first one is him sleeping with his feet right under his belly and his butt up in the air! He sleeps like this a lot.
These next two I just took last night. If you remember back to my ultrasound pictures, Dom always had his ankles crossed. All the time. When he was little and I would feed him, he would instinctively cross his ankles. Well, he hasn't done it in awhile, but when I went in to check on him last night before turning in for the night, this is how he was sleeping. Isn't he adorable!!??!!
My goodness he's too cute...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
American Film Institute's 10 Top 10
After reading BK's blog about wanting to watch all 100 movies in the AFI's top 100, I decided that sounded like a good idea. So I looked up the Top 100 movies. I also looked up the 10 Top 10 movies. These are 10 categories and the top 10 movies in each category. This looked interesting so Mike and I decided to watch all 100 of these movies. If we haven't both already seen it, we're going to watch it together. Nick has sat in on one but I don't think he likes the oldies as much as I do. We're doing one category at a time.
The categories and movies are the following:
Animation
1)Snow White (X)
2)Pinocchio (X)
3)Bambi (X)
4)Lion King (X)
5)Fantasia
6)Toy Story (X)
7)Beauty and the Beast (X)
8)Shrek (X)
9)Cinderella (X)
10)Finding Nemo (X)
Fantasy
1)The Wizard of Oz (X)
2)Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring (X)
3)It's a Wonderful Life (X)
4)King Kong - 1933 version
5)Miracle on 34th Street - 1947 version
6)Field of Dreams (X)
7)Harvey
8)Groundhog Day (X)
9)The Thief of Bagdad
10)Big (X)
Gangster
1)The Godfather
2)Goodfellas
3)The Godfather Part II
4)White Heat
5)Bonnie and Clyde
6)Scarface: The Shame of a Nation - 1932
7)Pulp Fiction
8)The Public Enemy
9)Little Caesar
10)Scarface - 1983
Science Fiction
1)2001: A Space Odyssey
2)Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
3)ET (X)
4)A Clockwork Orange
5)Day the Earth Stood Still
6)Blade Runner
7)Alien
8)Terminator 2: Judgment Day (X)
9)Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1956
10)Back to the Future (X)
Western
1)The Searchers
2)High Noon
3)Shane
4)Unforgiven
5)Red River
6)The Wild Bunch
7)Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid
8)McCabe and Mrs. Miller
9)Stagecoach
10)Cat Ballou
Sports
1)Raging Bull
2)Rocky (X)
3)The Pride of the Yankees
4)Hoosiers
5)Bull Durham
6)The Hustler
7)Caddyshack
8)Breaking Away
9)National Velvet
10)Jerry Maguire (X)
Mystery
1)Vertigo
2)Chinatown
3)Rear Window
4)Laura
5)The Third Man
6)The Maltese Falcon - 1959
7)North by Northwest
8)Blue Velvet
9)Dial M for Murder (X)
10)The Usual Suspects
Romantic Comedy
1)City Lights
2)Annie Hall
3)It Happened One Night
4)Roman Holiday
5)The Philadelphia Story
6)When Harry Met Sally
7)Adam's Rib
8)Moonstruck
9)Harold and Maude
10)Sleepless in Seattle (X)
Courtroom Drama
1)To Kill a Mockingbird
2)12 Angry Men
3)Kramer vs. Kramer
4)The Verdict
5)A Few Good Men
6)Witness for the Prosecution
7)Anatomy of a Murder
8)In Cold Blood
9)A Cry in the Dark
10)Judgment at Nuremberg
Epic
1)Lawrence of Arabia
2)Ben-hur
3)Schindler's List
4)Gone with the Wind
5)Spartacus
6)Titanic
7)All Quiet on the Western Front
8)Saving Private Ryan
9)Reds
10)The Ten Commandments
So all the movies that are bolded are movies we still need to watch. There are a TON of them! The (X)'s are movies we've both already seen. If we need to watch it, it means one or both of us haven't seen it yet. So we'll both be re-watching a few movies but it's worth it.
Our first movie we watched on the list was "Dial M for Murder". It was SO GOOD! I loved it. Great movie. The next one we are doing is The Godfather.
I'll keep you updated!
The categories and movies are the following:
Animation
1)Snow White (X)
2)Pinocchio (X)
3)Bambi (X)
4)Lion King (X)
5)Fantasia
6)Toy Story (X)
7)Beauty and the Beast (X)
8)Shrek (X)
9)Cinderella (X)
10)Finding Nemo (X)
Fantasy
1)The Wizard of Oz (X)
2)Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring (X)
3)It's a Wonderful Life (X)
4)King Kong - 1933 version
5)Miracle on 34th Street - 1947 version
6)Field of Dreams (X)
7)Harvey
8)Groundhog Day (X)
9)The Thief of Bagdad
10)Big (X)
Gangster
1)The Godfather
2)Goodfellas
3)The Godfather Part II
4)White Heat
5)Bonnie and Clyde
6)Scarface: The Shame of a Nation - 1932
7)Pulp Fiction
8)The Public Enemy
9)Little Caesar
10)Scarface - 1983
Science Fiction
1)2001: A Space Odyssey
2)Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
3)ET (X)
4)A Clockwork Orange
5)Day the Earth Stood Still
6)Blade Runner
7)Alien
8)Terminator 2: Judgment Day (X)
9)Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1956
10)Back to the Future (X)
Western
1)The Searchers
2)High Noon
3)Shane
4)Unforgiven
5)Red River
6)The Wild Bunch
7)Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid
8)McCabe and Mrs. Miller
9)Stagecoach
10)Cat Ballou
Sports
1)Raging Bull
2)Rocky (X)
3)The Pride of the Yankees
4)Hoosiers
5)Bull Durham
6)The Hustler
7)Caddyshack
8)Breaking Away
9)National Velvet
10)Jerry Maguire (X)
Mystery
1)Vertigo
2)Chinatown
3)Rear Window
4)Laura
5)The Third Man
6)The Maltese Falcon - 1959
7)North by Northwest
8)Blue Velvet
9)Dial M for Murder (X)
10)The Usual Suspects
Romantic Comedy
1)City Lights
2)Annie Hall
3)It Happened One Night
4)Roman Holiday
5)The Philadelphia Story
6)When Harry Met Sally
7)Adam's Rib
8)Moonstruck
9)Harold and Maude
10)Sleepless in Seattle (X)
Courtroom Drama
1)To Kill a Mockingbird
2)12 Angry Men
3)Kramer vs. Kramer
4)The Verdict
5)A Few Good Men
6)Witness for the Prosecution
7)Anatomy of a Murder
8)In Cold Blood
9)A Cry in the Dark
10)Judgment at Nuremberg
Epic
1)Lawrence of Arabia
2)Ben-hur
3)Schindler's List
4)Gone with the Wind
5)Spartacus
6)Titanic
7)All Quiet on the Western Front
8)Saving Private Ryan
9)Reds
10)The Ten Commandments
So all the movies that are bolded are movies we still need to watch. There are a TON of them! The (X)'s are movies we've both already seen. If we need to watch it, it means one or both of us haven't seen it yet. So we'll both be re-watching a few movies but it's worth it.
Our first movie we watched on the list was "Dial M for Murder". It was SO GOOD! I loved it. Great movie. The next one we are doing is The Godfather.
I'll keep you updated!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
The wettest day ever...
was Saturday.
Angela, Andrew, Abbie, Nick and I all ran the Macklind Avenue Mile. It was only a mile but it was hard! Everyone was running so hard and I felt like I had to keep up! We got drenched. We were so wet that I felt like I was running with an extra 10 lbs. We still did pretty good.
The race was "chipped" so we had a chip on our shoe that recorded our exact times. Here is how we finished:
Nick finished in 7 minutes and 8 seconds, which was 226th place and 39th place in his age group.
Andrew finished in 7 minutes and 22 seconds, which was 238th and 20th in his age group.
Angela finished in 6 minutes and 50 seconds, which was 62nd and 9th in her age group.
Abbie finished in 7 minutes and 18 seconds, which was 87th and 27th in her age group.
I finished in 7 minutes and 53 seconds, which was 123rd and 33rd in my age group.
I was the slowest, but I'm ok with that. I normally run a mile in 10 minutes so I was happy with those results.
I have a few pictures of me, Abbie and Nick before and after the race. It's crazy how wet we got. I actually got out my shoes for my run today and they were still very wet.
Today we have officially finished week 2 of our training. The half marathon is in 10 weeks. Scary!!
Angela, Andrew, Abbie, Nick and I all ran the Macklind Avenue Mile. It was only a mile but it was hard! Everyone was running so hard and I felt like I had to keep up! We got drenched. We were so wet that I felt like I was running with an extra 10 lbs. We still did pretty good.
The race was "chipped" so we had a chip on our shoe that recorded our exact times. Here is how we finished:
Nick finished in 7 minutes and 8 seconds, which was 226th place and 39th place in his age group.
Andrew finished in 7 minutes and 22 seconds, which was 238th and 20th in his age group.
Angela finished in 6 minutes and 50 seconds, which was 62nd and 9th in her age group.
Abbie finished in 7 minutes and 18 seconds, which was 87th and 27th in her age group.
I finished in 7 minutes and 53 seconds, which was 123rd and 33rd in my age group.
I was the slowest, but I'm ok with that. I normally run a mile in 10 minutes so I was happy with those results.
I have a few pictures of me, Abbie and Nick before and after the race. It's crazy how wet we got. I actually got out my shoes for my run today and they were still very wet.
Today we have officially finished week 2 of our training. The half marathon is in 10 weeks. Scary!!
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