By Wednesday, Katherine's graceful moves had left her. She tripped and fell outside and smacked her face on the driveway. She busted her lip pretty good and got some scrapes. Here she is sporting her fat lip.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee!
We had the pleasure of cruising on the Lantern Queen to celebrate St. Patty's Day! The music was great and Katherine danced the entire time. After she had worn out all of the adults she could, K found a little friend. They danced together and even convinced her older brother to join them. 
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Running Inspiration
So I follow this blog written by a woman in California that has 4-year old triplets and a 1-year old singleton. She works part-time as an environmental compliance person for Exxon (I believe it's Exxon although she's never really said), has recently started home-schooling her kids, and is currently training for a marathon. Whenever I think that I can't conquer an almost 3-year old, I read this woman's blog and I know I can do anything. If nothing else, her posts are entertaining.
I couldn't help but copy a segment of one of her recent posts on here. She has a problem with her feet falling asleep while she's running. She's looked into tying her shoes "correctly", etc. She has recently gotten inserts that may help and then she will pursue nerve tests. Anyway, this part of her post is discussing her challenges with treadmills and her numb feet. I was laughing out loud and felt that I had to share. Enjoy!
I had only run on a treadmill two times, previously. The first time, I stumbled and inadvertently disconnected the magnetic safety piece that shuts the treadmill off. In doing so, the track came to an almost instant stop and I pitched forward and landed on my knees. The second time, I disconnected the magnetic safety piece five times and had to restart my run, losing all record of the total time, distance covered and calories burned.
Yesterday when I was running, I decided to not affix the leash for the magnetic safety piece to my body and instead, left it dangling over the back of the treadmill. Surely I wouldn't fall on the treadmill. And besides, I didn't want to run the risk of losing all my data should it become accidentally disconnected.
At some point around three miles, I could feel my feet start to go completely numb. And it seems that when your feet go numb on a treadmill you become a little unstable. I was about to slow my pace from 5.5 to 2.5 and step on to the side rails, when suddenly my numb feet which weren't being picked up high enough to take a step, snagged on the track.
If my magnetic safety piece had been intact, I would have just tripped and stopped.
But because the track was still moving at 5.5, I pitched forward before falling backwards and then was whipped off the treadmill. The rest is kind of a blur although I do remember seeing my feet at eye level as I flew through the air.
I landed on the ground with a THUD a solid seven feet behind the treadmill I had been on and the woman who was on the treadmill next to me, looked back with her mouth wide open and asked, "OH MY GOD! ARE YOU OK?!" The gym staff who were working in the glass enclosed office came running out and tried to help me up.
But I jumped up off the ground and feeling only slightly embarrassed quickly shot out, "OH YES! I'm sure I'm fine! I ... I ... I have a little problem with my feet. They like to take a nap whenever I run. But oh yeah, I'm totally good! I'm actually training for a marathon. And look at that, I made it three whole miles before getting hurled in to space!! WOO-HOO!!"
I couldn't help but copy a segment of one of her recent posts on here. She has a problem with her feet falling asleep while she's running. She's looked into tying her shoes "correctly", etc. She has recently gotten inserts that may help and then she will pursue nerve tests. Anyway, this part of her post is discussing her challenges with treadmills and her numb feet. I was laughing out loud and felt that I had to share. Enjoy!
I had only run on a treadmill two times, previously. The first time, I stumbled and inadvertently disconnected the magnetic safety piece that shuts the treadmill off. In doing so, the track came to an almost instant stop and I pitched forward and landed on my knees. The second time, I disconnected the magnetic safety piece five times and had to restart my run, losing all record of the total time, distance covered and calories burned.
Yesterday when I was running, I decided to not affix the leash for the magnetic safety piece to my body and instead, left it dangling over the back of the treadmill. Surely I wouldn't fall on the treadmill. And besides, I didn't want to run the risk of losing all my data should it become accidentally disconnected.
At some point around three miles, I could feel my feet start to go completely numb. And it seems that when your feet go numb on a treadmill you become a little unstable. I was about to slow my pace from 5.5 to 2.5 and step on to the side rails, when suddenly my numb feet which weren't being picked up high enough to take a step, snagged on the track.
If my magnetic safety piece had been intact, I would have just tripped and stopped.
But because the track was still moving at 5.5, I pitched forward before falling backwards and then was whipped off the treadmill. The rest is kind of a blur although I do remember seeing my feet at eye level as I flew through the air.
I landed on the ground with a THUD a solid seven feet behind the treadmill I had been on and the woman who was on the treadmill next to me, looked back with her mouth wide open and asked, "OH MY GOD! ARE YOU OK?!" The gym staff who were working in the glass enclosed office came running out and tried to help me up.
But I jumped up off the ground and feeling only slightly embarrassed quickly shot out, "OH YES! I'm sure I'm fine! I ... I ... I have a little problem with my feet. They like to take a nap whenever I run. But oh yeah, I'm totally good! I'm actually training for a marathon. And look at that, I made it three whole miles before getting hurled in to space!! WOO-HOO!!"