Our 2nd climber

Following in her sister's footsteps

Ouch

Morgan has a real sensitive scalp and doesn't really like having her
hair combed or put in ponies. And she HATES when we have to take the
ponies out since her hair almost always gets pulled a little. But
today she did this herself. She was playing with her cup strap and
tried to throw it. (This is a strap that attaches to whatever and I
tie around her cup so when she drops said cup, I can find it.) Anyway,
she attemps to throw the strap and it lands in her hair. The end of
the strap has Velcro on it and it got stuck in her hair. Ouch! I had
to pull little bits of hair away from the Velcro real slowly, but she
still cried. :(

Treasures

We were at Maggie's preschool Halloween party and I needed to keep the
girls in the stroller. They decided to check out Ms. Karen's
treasures...and I let them.

Megan

A rare shot of Megan with an actual smile.

The Peanut Bee

Attention hog

What happens when parents say, "oh X, you got chocolate all over your
face. Ha ha ha"? Um, Maggie takes her cookie and RUBS it on her
nose, so parents giggle at her too. She was looking around for someone
to notice and take her picture.

Cinderella's class

Maggie was Cinderella for Halloween at school today. The babies and I
made it just in time to see her Halloween parade. (She's in the center.)

Bzzz. Bzzz

The girls at our twins playgroup Halloween party.

Halloween Dance

Maggie's dance class - she is Snow White in the back row. (They still had to dance and I didn;t want her ripping her Cinderella dress, so we switched Princesses for the day.)

Carving pumpkins

Pumpkins are all done. Mason carved his own this year. He says his
looks very spooky.

Peek a boo

We see you

My 1/2 marathon training

After a lot of thought and discussion, I have decided to stop training for the Austin 1/2 marathon. I have been walking/jogging for 8 weeks now, but the marathon is still 4 months away. My biggest pitfall was finding the time during the week to train. And due to the lack of weekday training, my weekend runs just got to be unbearable. This last week I didn't want to finish (5.2 miles). Had I driven myself and not had someone else's keys in my pocket, I probably would have stopped at the little park along our route and taken a long rest. I'm tired of complaining about it. I'm tired of forcing myself to go every week. I'm tired of feeling like crap all day Saturday. I'm just tired. And to top it all off, I haven't dropped a single f*ing pound. Exercising, in any form, without losing weight sucks. I am proud of myself for doing it as long as I did. Heck, I went from zero exercise to walking 5 miles, and my mile time wasn't too bad at 19 minutes/mile. Unfortunately, that's not fast enough to finish the 1/2 marathon. And at only 5 miles, my time is bound to get slower as the distance gets further.

Anyway, thank you for supporting me and encouraging me. I will try this again next year. Hopefully by then I'll have a better plan for weekday training.

Maggie got her ears pierced today

It was fairly traumatic but Maggie got her ears pierced today.