Tuesday, March 29, 2011

I really should write on here more often, but with two boys running around, usually once I start, it doesn't last long. I sent Kayden in to go potty and Cory follows him and then they close the door. Maybe if Cory watches Kayden going potty enough, he'll learn a lot quicker than his big brother did. That would be great!

So I'm still training for the Relay Pittsburgh marathon. I don't really know what to call at it first when I tell people because I don't want them to think I'm running the whole thing! That would never happen! Yesterday while I was running, I was thinking to myself, "what did you get yourself into?????" I feel so out of shape. It's depressing when you remember what running used to feel like and what it feels like now. I felt like there was lead in my shoes yesterday! It was awful! And the race is 6 1/2 weeks away! It sounds like a lot of time but I expected to be running further than 2 miles by this point. I wasn't doing so great with my training there for a while. My brother came to visit 2 weeks ago and I told him to bring his running stuff because we'd go running. Well, it never happened! I didn't feel like wasting away their short time here by running and getting all sweaty! So I'm training to make up for lost time. My sister-in-law (the one who recruited me to run...the one I can blame for this! haha) and I ran 2 miles on Sunday. The first time I ran 2 miles without stopping since before I got pregnant with Cory! I was so excited! But now I think about it, and I'm like 2 miles isn't very far! We are planning on running 4 miles this coming Sunday but it'll probably be 3....well hopefully 3! We shall see.

Cory is starting to really talk now. He says "uh-oh", "bye-bye", "up", "ball", "car", "kitchen" (just once, but Jon heard it too! so it wasn't just me!), and then of course "mom", "dad" and "Kayden". Although he likes to call Jon, Brooklyn, and Kayden- "Kayden". At least I don't get called, "Kayden". Cory is also trying to jump. He just doesn't get off the ground yet.
Ever since Cory was born he's liked to rub my arm while falling asleep. Then it became that he liked to stick his hand up my sleeve and rub my arm. Then he started to do it to anyone that holds him. It's pretty funny and very cute. He'll come up to me during the day and stick both hands up my sleeves, just for a second, and then walk away and continue doing what he was doing. It's really cute. He gets really mad, though, when he's sleeping and he can't find my sleeve to stick his hand up. It's going to be really tough when I try to move him to his own bed pretty soon. I thought it was hard with Kayden. I think this is going to be tougher because of this little quirk of his.
Cory watches Kayden so much. Kayden will take his cardboard building blocks and pretend that they're cookies and he'll give them to us to "eat". So he sets some up in our ottoman for Cory and Cory goes over and pretends to eat them, chomping sound and all. I was just shocked. Kayden never would have done that at 16 months! I guess that's what happens with children with older siblings. They learn things earlier just from watching their siblings. It's so cute to watch Kayden and Cory play together when they're getting along. (Basically, when Kayden is being nice to Cory). Cory does so many things that Kayden didn't do till much later. Things that the "experts" say he shouldn't do for a while. He really pays attention to his brother.

Kayden is going to kindergarten in the fall and he went to an open house on friday. We sat in on the kindergarten class and at first he was scared and wouldn't let me go. He kept hiding his face. I told him we could leave and he said he wanted to stay and watch. So we did and he got much better. He even got to color at one of the boys desk during recess time. I'm hoping that he'll be good in school. He's so strongly opinionated. I'm very worried. For the longest time he didn't like his new speech teacher. Just recently does he go back with her without any problems. I'm just hoping he likes his teacher and the kids and that he behaves so that I don't have to be embarrassed when the teacher calls a million times! I can't believe that I'm going to have a school age child! Now I'm really feeling old!

I'll be 28 on the 28th this year. I think they call that your golden birthday. I could be wrong. 28 sounds really old. My mom was 2 1/2 weeks from being 28 when I was born. ;-) I can't believe that it's been 10 yrs since I graduated highschool! Wow!

Tomorrow my Cory will be 17 months old and Kayden will be 5 in 4 months! Wow! Wow! Wow! My kids are getting old. I told Jon we should get pregnant in May after my race. He told me that if his parents always had one of our kids and we only ever have 2 then that would be ok. haha. I REALLY wish I could convince him of another child. But he didn't even want 2 so I'm not sure convincing him of a 3rd is going to work. But I'll never stop trying. Maybe I should use that as an excuse. I'll tell him that he'll have to listen to me complain about wanting another child till I'm like 40! I'll never want 4 kids so he wouldn't have to worry about any more complaining after the 3rd.

Well I should go. I can't believe that I've been able to write this much without being interrupted too much by my kids. :-)