He asked...

Tonight for FHE David started out with a question.  He asked Porter, "Pick a body part of Dad's and I will tell you something good that I can do with it."  And Porter says, "Your penis."

Yep.  That was the body part he wanted to know about.  And Porter so sincerely said it over and over again.  David and I were crying we were laughing so hard, but trying not to reveal the source of our laughter.  After about 5 minutes of laugh/crying, David says, "Sorry, I just thought of something funny." (As if Porter's body part request had no relationship to our laughter.)  Then David says, "I can go pee pee in the potty."  Great answer :).

And, then we moved on to the rest of us.  For me fortunately Porter picked my knees so we were able to get the lesson back on track.

Meeting a new friend

I love when babies start to see themselves and play with their mirror image. It's like meeting a new best friend.

Swim Lessons

I have been thinking about putting Porter in swim lessons and tonight was his trial lesson, a mommy and me class.  It was quite entertaining.  Porter will be Porter.

There were a lot of distractions, so he had a hard time focusing on the task at hand.  He wanted to play with all the toys, throw the ball and the floating toys. He went all the way under water once because he let go of the floating bar during a moment if distraction.  He did blow bubbles, jump in the pool and kick and "swim" to get toys.  He told me at the end he was done and wanted to go home.  In the car he said he did not want to go back.  Luckily he's not very opinionated:).  (Insert sarcasm). I'm hoping he'll give it another chance.  I think it's so important for him to learn to swim.

Goals

At the beginning of August I ran a half marathon with friends.  My goal time was 1:45.  I hadn't trained for it, but I was willing to try.  I fell short, but was still really happy with the outcome.  My friend Adrianne asked if I was up for doing another one a month later.  I made sure David was on board and signed up.  I figured, I had already put a lot of the hours/mileage in and might be pregnant in the not far distance, so now was the perfect time.  Adrianne and I both did a few speed workouts, but since we only had a few weeks, we didn't get tons of time to work on speed.  We set our goal at a 1:45.

The day before the race it seemed like things started falling apart. We planned a house swap with friends that lived closer to the race location, but they decided to stay home yesterday because the husband thought he was getting sick.  The house was full and it was hard to get the boys to sleep.  David slept with the boys in the unfinished basement.  I slept on a futon in the front room and Adrianne slept in the guest room.

Sleep wasn't great and we were up at 3:40am to get ready and head to the pick up spot.  

We got to the pick up at 4:30am, loaded the bus and started off.  Unfortunately the buses did not know where they were going.  Luckily a guy in our bus did and the bus driver turned on his GPS.  We got to the top about 5:30am.  It was cold, windy and dark.  We had 1 1/2+ hrs to wait.  Then we started lining up.  We had to wait for three buses to go down, the volunteers to set up the start line and the chip timing mat and wires.  We didn't start the race until about 20 minutes after our original start time of 7 am. Nothing like making the runners antsy and more nervous.

Then we were off.  The course was a pretty downhill route down Payson Canyon.  Adrianne and I stuck together for he first 9+ miles and ran around a 7:30 pace!  That was super exciting.  Adrianne kept it up and I eased up.  I was worn out, but still managed to run a 1:41:55 and my average pace was 7:46. I was super stoked and proud of myself and Adrianne.  

8 months

I'm not sure how they get so big so fast.  Jonas is 8 months old!

A few tidbits about this sweet boy:

-scoots around on his bottom, but doesn't crawl

- picks up foods with his fingers and put them in his mouth

- has his two bottom teeth

- eats what we are eating and he thinks that's pretty cool

-loves to eat and will eat most foods he gets.  (I may have shared some ice cream and a donut with him already)

-This past week we really started making him sleep though the night. He just cried hard for about 30 min the first night and then would just briefly cry after that.  He did so good.  He still wakes up generally around 5 am for a feed, but will go back to sleep until about 6:30am.  

-He goes to bed at 7pm.  

-Takes two naps. Am nap is about 1 hour to 1 1/2.   Afternoon nap is about 2 hours.

- shakes his head back and forth when there's music playing, he's going to bed or Porter is making him laugh

-no teeth, still a huge gummy smile

- still a momma's boy 

- gets mad if you take something from him he wants

- let's Porter know he doesn't like what he's doing by screaming/squeaking at him

- says momma and dada but probably still doesn't connect it

- a mover and a shaker