Opening Day Flashback

There will be a lot of celebrating at my house today.  Not by yours truly, but rather my husband and my son if he chooses to be buddy buddy with Daddy.  No it's not anyone's birthday and our anniversary is still a few weeks away.

The cause for the celebrating?  Baseball's Opening Day.  I'm sure my husband chose to wear blue to work just for the occasion.  Come to think of it, Drew was wearing a dark blue to school today....

Well in honor of that occasion I'll share a photo I recently came across when Drew's former day care provider posted pictures of her "kids" past and present on a secure website.  We came across some adorable shots many of which we hadn't seen!

Here's one:

That was probably 2 1/2 years ago if not longer!  You can tell because it was the haircuts I'd give him because he was profusely puking on the hairstylists....

Amazing how little he looks there.  And ironically today we noticed he just sprouted up... pants we had to roll up a week or two ago, no longer need it.  I wish I could say they shrunk in the laundry like I do when my pants suddenly get tight...

Oh and since we're doing flashbacks... here's a video of Opening day 2008 (Drew was about 6 months old or so):

Choir Boy

On Palm Sunday Drew sang with the children's choir at church for the first time.







That's him with his little girlfriend Ella. They did so well being as it was a long service (confirmation) and they had to stay in the choir loft virtually unattended.

The other perk of the day, they were able to write on the walls for Sunday School - we are adding on so the wrote in their new classroom.

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This and That

Here's just a mish-mash of things I've discovered on my phone and details about Drew....

Several weeks ago - probably like a month or even two ago, Drew made this picture and it was posted at school.  It was likely based on a book they read that week.

The descriptions left to right (you can click on the picture to enlarge it a bit more):
Me caught in a trap doing pull-ups...
They are all watching me do pull-ups: "a one-eyed man", Grandma, Mom, Dad, & Grandpa

I had forgotten I'd even taken that photo!

Drew is still loving soccer on Saturday mornings.  It's more of a clinic at this age, teaching them how to listen, dribble and basic soccer skills.  Two or 3 weeks ago,  it was the final class of that session so they allowed parents on the field so Dave went (I was dressed up to attend a baby shower immediately after practice).

That's a shot of Drew trying to kick the ball at Dave who I believe was an alien in a spaceship (great casting if you ask me).

The other day I saw an interesting questionnaire come into my in-box courtesy BabyCenter (a website for parents and parents-to-be).  Dave's always going on about how he hopes Drew gets his vertical attributes from my side of the family - being as he has big aspirations of our son playing MLB.  So when I saw something that offered predictions of how tall Drew would be at age 18 I caved and entered the information.

The requirements were to enter his age/weight/sex.  Then the height of both Dave & I.  The prediction...

Your boy will likely be 6 ft. 0 in. at age 18.

Young men often continue to grow a little past 18 until they reach 21, but their height at age 18 is very close to their final adult height. This prediction is a "best guess" but it's still just that -- a guess. Based on the formula we used* there is a 50 percent chance that your boy's full-grown height will be within 0.8 inches (above or below) of this prediction, and a 90 percent chance that it will be within 2.1 inches.

That ought to please Dave - his son will likely be 2-3 inches taller than him, in fact taking after my side of the family.

And then this final bit of randomness comes from Drew earlier this week (no pictures, just a funny little story).  So on the way home from school Drew - who mind you never tells me what he did at school that day - comes out to tell me the following:

Drew: Roberto said I can go to his house and we can do wrestling.  It will be DrewPro versus Roberto. Then it will be Roberto's Mommy against Drew's Mommy.  And then it will be Roberto's Daddy against Drew's Daddy.  (and extra excitedly)  Roberto's Daddy has tattoos!


Really a tattoo announcement?  And the most bizarre thing, is 30 minutes later he repeated the same story - exactly - for Dave.  Clearly Drew thinks that tattoos make you extra hard to beat.

Kicking Butt

I believe I've mentioned here once or twice before that I run for fun.  I still can't believe I say that about running - even if I've been doing it for nearly 6 years now (minus the 1 year hiatus I took for having Drew). 

Well in the past few months I've been contemplating how I can switch up my workout routines to work on those problem areas - without impacting my running training program.  I have a few 1/2 marathons and shorter races planned for this year.  Before Christmas I looked very closely at doing triathlons - swimming, running & biking.  Problem was I'd need to join an expensive gym to get the swimming portion done, and I'd need to invest in a bike since my Target/Wal-mart bike won't cut it.

I despise gyms and working out indoors with a passion.  I have joined many a gym only to pay for nothing - I stop going after 2-3 months.

So in January I found a Groupon-like deal for Boot Camp.  A friend of mine (Helen) has done a similar one in her hometown and raved about it, while making me a bit nervous about the amount of pain inflicted.  I finally signed up for my "Groupon" boot camp and began going early in the morning at a local park earlier this month.  I cannot say enough good things (I certainly can come up with some bad, but good bad if that makes sense) about the 30 Day Boot Camp I've been going to.

They've been trying to hard sell me the membership - for one year.  And after some negotiating I managed to get them to a price point I can tolerate - and one that Dave was somewhat ok with.  While a gym membership would've probably been cheaper, I know I will be more likely to stick with this.

1. It's outdoors
2. It works on so many other muscle groups than the running I typically do
3. I can do this in conjunction with running - provided I'm not ridiculously sore
4. I run a minimum of 1 mile each boot camp, so I am still getting that cardio
5. It's almost as if I'm getting a personal trainer without having to pay for one
6. I have someone telling me what exercises to do and it changes every day so it's not like doing a DVD where you see the same moves over and over

Now all I need to do is to make the money to support my boot camp habit....

Self Portrait

On Friday night we had a dinner fundraiser at Drew's school followed by an Open House.

Dinner was yummy and we won a balloon prize of 2 tickets to the Jungle -a place for kids to run around and climb on everything -aka get all sorts of germs.

Then for the Open House I volunteered to help clean up from dinner so I couldn't really see much of what the kids had to show off. When I did come in it lead to drama so I went back to finish cleaning up... But just before leaving for the night I spotted this masterpiece from Drew:




Its his self portrait. I asked him what all the dots were - he said his freckles. All the hair - he said his crazy hair and beard. The frown? - he was sad about something.

The information on his portrait says:
My favorite food: sausage and hash browns
I like to play with: Jayce
My favorite part of school is: playing boxing

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Feeling Green

Sorry for the sporadic posts, I've been out of town for work. But I do have some pictures on my phone of our St. Patrick's Day fun.

We skipped the parade this year because it conflicted with soccer - Drew wanted to play soccer rather than the parade. Afterward we braved the chilly temps and chance of rain and went to the Dublin Festival.









Drew braved the slide alone (he is afraid of heights and fast slides).

Drew loved this one too! He's on the far right.





Drew had some time for reflecting...

And then we headed to Burger King for some free fries. Dave French Kissed a leprechaun.




Ok so it was the after effects of the green ketchup.

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Work Graffiti

There's some graffiti on our walls at work - well our white board to be specific. It was left by a certain four year old tagger....



That would be Drew's favorite term for himself - courtesy wii Sports. The green face is a drawing of my coworker Cathy.



This would be Drew's self portrait.

Drew came with me to work last Thursday because of a Staff Development day at his preschool.  He loves "working" with me.  Believe it or not I did get some work done, and we got our for our daily walk - I even brought the jogger for Drew and we made a pit stop at McD's for his lunch.