First Triathlon

This week started off very early Sunday morning, at least for Duncan, when he participated in his first triathlon which took place in Ocala (an hour and fifteen minute drive).  It started at 7:00 am but he had to be there early to get things set up so he left the house at 4:00 am.  Needless to say, we did not go up to watch! It was a swim-bike-run event and he did very well.  The swim portion was in a lake and he had a bit of a bloodied foot afterwards from hitting into something near the start of the race.  He didn't stop to see what it was but of course, the kids had a great time joking that it might have been an alligator.  Personally, you will never find me swimming in a body of a water that an alligator could be lurking in but that's just me.

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While Duncan was busy with that, the kids and I went to a few yard sales around here (since I only went to a couple on Friday due to bad weather) and then after nap time and Duncan's return, we went over to Winter Garden Village for a little shopping (finally getting around to buying letters for Colby's name but alas, couldn't find a "B"), a haircut for Brady, capped off with a stop at Five Guys for supper. They have a veggie sandwich there that I've heard is really good but upon inspection, it was a no-go for me. I'm the worst vegetarian as I don't like mushroom, onions, or my peppers grilled.  Just give me cheese, lettuce, tomato, and some mayo and I'm a happy camper.  Seriously, I could eat that every day and probably never get sick of it.

Found these matching dresses at a yard sale for $.75. It's a size too small but Aubree insisted on putting it on.

Monday was a "clean up the house" kind of day as we had company coming for supper.  It was Ricky's birthday and the Rondinelli's are in town for a few weeks so we all gathered along with Aunt Wanda and Ana's cousin, who is also visiting, for the birthday festivities.  Calleigh was happy to be reunited with Bruno...I need to check and see if she is still saying he's the one she's going to marry.

Thirty-seven years young.  My bro and I are 14 months apart which was so nice growing up.

As for the rest of the week...Tuesday was a Joann's (to find the missing "B" and glue to put the girls' patches for Adventurers on their sashes) and Costco run while Wednesday we joined Jennifer, Evan, and Addison at Chapin Station for some playground activity.  Oddly, Brady started bugging me to leave after about 20 minutes.  I'm not sure if he was recalling he got his eye injury there or what but he didn't really want to run around and play.  Or maybe he's used to being the top "boy" dog and Evan was there to steal his thunder. Who knows!

The boys did get in some swinging time together.

Thursday we made a trek back over to the pediatrician for Calleigh's eye.  It was actually a wasted trip because they just referred us to a pediatric ophthalmologist.  I figured they would refer us elsewhere and that they didn't even need to see her again but I didn't know if the doctor would just give us that information on the phone.  So, we just went.  It was a quick visit, obviously, so we had some extra time to stop by at Minnehaha playground over in our old part of town.  But yeah, as far as her eye goes, the lump on it is getting bigger although it's still not bothering her at all.  We have tried rubbing it and doing compress treatments but clearly that isn't working so I think they're going to just have to drain it.  Calleigh seems completely unphased by this but I'm wondering if she isn't comprehending that that is going to involve a needle.  No point emphasizing that yet I guess!

Minnehaha

Yesterday was a great day of yard sales as several communities in Winter Park were having a community wide sale.  One of them had a map of all the houses that had sales and these really professional looking signs at the end of the streets.  They must have a really great HOA!  At one sale, a lady had these laminated fruit and veggie cut-outs with the English and Spanish names for the fruit on the back of each one.  I showed Aubree them and she started rattling off the Spanish names for them and I was just so proud.  The lady made an attempt to say orange in Spanish, which was a very poor job, and then Aubree said "naranja" in this perfect Spanish accent.  Thank you Tia Ana!  Your lessons are paying off.  And the reason that Aubree and Calleigh know naranja so well is that they eat SO many of them.  Clementines to be precise.  Honestly, Calleigh probably eats like seven or eight of them a day. She will not be suffering from scurvy any time soon.

I'm happy to report that after my strict talking-to with Brady last week about his early morning waking habits, things are basically back to normal.  He's been sleeping until at least 7:30 again and when I come in to get him up the first thing he does is point to the window and say "See, it's morning out."  That reminds me that when he goes to bed either for his nap or at night, he calls it nap night.  I guess it's a combination of the two words.

Brady rarely wakes up during the night but every once in a great while (maybe once every few weeks), he'll cry out because his binky has fallen out of his crib.  A couple of night ago, it was probably about 3:00 am, I was awoken by such a cry.  Colby hasn't woken up during the night in weeks so I've gotten quite accustomed to not having my sleep interrupted so I made a big groan as I dragged myself out of bed.  As I started up the stairs, low and behold, I could hear Colby screaming...and it wasn't a scream that had just started.  It sounded like it had been under way for awhile.  That's when I realized that apparently the monitor had only been on Brady's room and wasn't rotating through the three rooms.  I couldn't believe I had messed that up again after the incident where I didn't have the monitor plugged in and it died during the night.  I put Colby's binky in his mouth, ran down to put Brady's in, and then headed back to Colby's room where I was figuring he would need some therapy after being deserted by his mother...or at least some cuddling for a few minutes.  But no, he was already back asleep.  Phew.  Note to self, check and double check monitor before going to sleep.  How hard is that?  Bad Mommy.  

A few anecdotes from our school days...We don't start school until about 3:00 pm and because of this, or maybe just because I'm dealing with a kid, Calleigh is often droopy when she comes to the table to get things going.  She will lounge around with the worst posture, her head resting on the table.  Of course, I always I tell her to sit up straight and she'll moan and groan.  One day, as she's holding her neck as if trying to keep it in an upright position, she gives me a big sigh and says  "I wish my esophagus would just stay up."  I briefly lamented with her and then it was back to work.  The next day, we go through the same thing again and this time she says, "I wish I could just attach a rope to the ceiling and then put it around my neck so it would keep my head up."  Have mercy!  Perhaps if you wanted to end it all you could do this!  I didn't want to get in to details about how to kill yourself so I made a brief remark that we don't tie anything around our necks and moved on.

For our Bible class we've been reading about the children of Isreal the last few weeks.  As you know, they wandered around in the desert for forty years and ran in to many challenges that had them seemingly constantly lamenting that they should have just stayed in Egypt.  This week, one of the readings was about how they were complaining, even now that they were in the Promised Land, that they didn't have a king like other lands had.  Aubree looks at me and says "Boy, there was a LOT of complaining in the Bible!"  

I just had to share this because I think it's a hilarious.  I just went to a website I hadn't been to in awhile and had forgotten my password.  It sent me a link to reset it.  I tried to do just that but every password I put in it would say it wasn't good enough, that I needed to use more special characters.  Nothing was working so I finally saw a button you could press called "password generator."  I thought maybe it would adjust the password you were putting in to better meet their criteria.  Nope!  It creates a completely random password for you.  What was it, you ask?  This:  jsWKPaCKx&nnJZPSXnWgb3%V4.  No joke.  I'm speechless.

Some other pictures...

Aubree helped me try on all his hats.  This week I moved him to 6 - 12 month clothes.

Also this week the kids discovered making mud in the sandbox with the hose.  I hate how dirty they get but it occupies their time so I say "go for it!"

Little bro has to just hang in the swing for now.

Colby was playing with these beads on my dress while he was nursing and Aubree got all excited, "MOM!  They put baby toys on your dress!!"

I just love all his expressions.  He was mad about something and sat at this table to sulk.

Aunt Wanda was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday and got out today.  I took Calleigh to visit her last night.

Playing...

Went swimming and to the playground with Daddy yesterday and ran into Isidros.  

A little photo session with Daddy.

Last uniform Sabbath of the Adventurers year.

And finally...this week I got in the mail what I've been longing to get for years.  A jury summons.  Only now I can't do it because of the kids. Yes, I'm one of the few that would actually be happy to be on a jury.  I guess it's all the true crime books I read (or used to read before I had an infant in August).

Have a great week!