I hurt...

I'm trying to get into training for the Irongirl Duathlon at the end of September. I've had a few runs, but getting into a regular training schedule has not happened yet. But, I ran last night (plan to use the Couch to 5k training for the run) and now I hurt.

It's good for me, right? Now if only I can get to a regular training regimen.

It's Goose!

Our church had Vacation Bible School last week and I helped on 2 of the days with Games. The second day was beautiful and we were able to play outside. We had some extra time and a couple of the small groups wanted to play Duck, Duck, Gray Duck. We've had the debates with native MN friends about Duck, Duck, Goose versus Duck, Duck, Gray Duck. The argument for MN's "better" Gray Duck version is that colors are used and therefore it's a better game. Instead of going around the circle with just duck, duck, duck, duck, goose it's supposed to be red duck, yellow duck, green duck, blue duck, gray duck. I suppose I can give in a little bit on that point.

However, the kids at VBS just did duck, duck, duck, gray duck and no other colors! Did their parents forget to properly instruct them on how the game is played? Do they not know color names? Should they just give in to how the rest of the world plays the game?!!? Can we teach our kids it's goose and not gray duck and not have them ridiculed? Oh the dilemma! =)

Here's the Wikipedia link to the game. Even Wikipedia recognizes Minnesota's are "different".

It's all about perspective

It's Friday night and Kate and Zach are asleep (at least for the moment). An 80s movie on TV has a scene where a quarter is put into a juke box to play a song.

That sure makes today's 99 cent MP3 downloads look cheap AND you get to listen to the song how ever many times you want!

Guess that's my random thought for the night!

Bath time fun!

Joe and I are bad parents. Zach got his first bath last night at almost 4 weeks old. To be fair, I had been wiping him down with a wet cloth, but we hadn't done a full bath with him in a tub. We kept putting it off since the experience was never fun with Kate. She cried and screamed the whole time. We got to be pretty good at baths in under 5 minutes. Kate was 16 months old before she seemed to "enjoy" the bath. Even now it can be hit and miss.

So, we were prepared to do the bath really fast last night...and I mean fast. In and out in a few minutes. It turns out our trepidation was all for nothing. Zach didn't mind the bath. He didn't start crying until he came out and was wrapped in a towel.

Maybe there's hope for fun bath times sooner than later!

Deja Vu #2

This was 23 months ago when Izzy was born.
Kate is 9 days older than Izzy.


And this is yesterday...Baby Sam arrived.
He weighed in at 8 lb 8 oz and 22 inches long.
Zach is 18 days older than Sam.


And just for good measure, here's the Green dads with their kids.

This should be a baby post but...

I should post something about Zach, but it'll wait.

In Hotel Rwanda, Don Cheadle's character and Nick Nolte's character (I think anyway) had a conversation about Americans (and the world) seeing the atrocities happening in Rwanda and doing something about it. One of them responds with something like "No they won't. They'll see it on their TV, think how sad it is, then resume eating their dinner." I remember thinking "no we won't!" at the time.

Every time I see something sad in the news, like at least 12 people killed at an immigration center in NY today, I think of that line. What can I do? Sure, I can say a prayer, but it doesn't feel much different than thinking how sad it is and then resume eating dinner. More often than not, I've moved on to the next news story shortly after reading the sad one.

Typical American? It would seem so.

A Friday Morning Conversation with Kate

On the way to Brenda's this morning, Kate and I had the following brief conversation:

Kate: Butterflies!
Me: Butterflies? Where?
Kate: In the trees.
Me: Oh. (pause) What color are they? (we've been working on colors)
Kate: Brown.
Me: (after another pause and realization) I think you mean leaves. The leaves in the trees are still brown.
Kate: Yeah, leaves.

Got to love her. =)