Limber Up

My 8 week yoga class starts tonight. Now that I'm able to run again, I need to be sure to stay loosened up so that I don't injure myself again. And I really like yoga.

Truman is ONE!

It's hard to believe that he's already a year old!

We had a small birthday party here at the house last weekend with some of his baby friends. He LOVED the cake.

Truman is growing fast. At his one year pediatrician visit, he measured as follows:
Head: 19 inches (90-95%)
Height: 31 inches (75-90%)
Weight: 22 lbs, 10.5 oz (50%)
Yes, he's going to be tall and lanky like Craig :)

Truman's Chrismas Gift to Craig and I was WALKING! He is fast and cruising all over the place now.

I swear he gets cuter by the day. On his birthday, he was announced as the "Cute Kid of the Week" by Moms Out Loud, a Dallas-area mommy group. And he's been entered in to a few other cute baby contests. In fact, you can vote for him to win the Parenting.com Baby Model Search by clicking on HERE (you can vote once per day, so visit often!).

Now that Truman is feeding himself, he and the dogs are becoming best friends because he's gotten good at 'sharing' his food with them.

He's babbling a lot but hasn't said his first discernable word yet. I'm betting that it will be Momma or Dog. We'll see.

Addendum

One thing I forgot to mention is that I need to pay particular attention this year to my outlook and perspective. I choose, in 2010, to see the good in all situations. I choose to see the best in those around me.

Particularly, instead of thinking that the world is out to get me, I recognize that all of us are imperfect and sometimes we all make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes result in consequences that hurt me unintentionally. But just as I hope I'm offered forgiveness when I mistakenly or inadvertently cause others pain, I will offer forgiveness and understanding and grace to others.

"For surely I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for destruction to give you a future with hope."
-Jerimiah 29:11

2010 Resolutions

I do it just about every year, so here we go:

1. Learn to play the piano
2. Run a marathon
3. Get plugged in to a women’s bible study or fellowship group
4. Take a vacation with only Craig

And the outcome of last year's resolutions?

1. Run a 5K by mid-year- CHECK! Ran a 5K (very, very slowly) on 4th of July
2. Complete a sprint triathlon- NOPE. I ran a half marathon instead. There just wasn’t time to train with Craig’s cancer diagnosis.
3. Take lots of photos of Truman's first year (minimum of monthly photo sessions)- CHECK! And darnit, he’s the cutest little guy.
4. Find ways to keep the romance alive in my marriage- um? Half check? We’re still working on finding balance between family and couple time.
5. Stay sane- CHECK!

Well, 3.5 of 5 isn't horrible. And the cancer diagnosis certainly threw a huge wrench in to a lot of my (and our) plans. It's been a while since I could really say with conviction that I'm thrilled to see the past year gone and am looking forward to 2010 with an optimist's eye and a faithful heart.

In My Thirties

A friend of mine posted a similar list on Facebook regarding the things that she wanted to do before she turned 30. In honor of my BIG 3-0 birthday today, I’ll share my list with you. Some are big, some are small, but all are things that I’d like to do, hopefully sooner rather than later.

Without further ado…

1. Run a marathon. Yes, a full marathon. Not a half. TWENTY SIX POINT TWO full miles.
2. Draw or paint something, and then frame, mat and hang it somewhere in our house. I used to draw a lot. When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up to be an art teacher. Craig even got me a really nice easel, sketch pad and charcoals one year for Christmas. I haven’t used them since that first year he got them for me, but they have made the moves with us and are now sitting in our crawl space under the stairs. Time to remember the creative aspects of myself.
3. Complete a Crown Financial course. We aren’t terrible with money (my husband IS an accountant) and we tithe, but I’ve wanted to take one of these classes for a while now. I think this is something I’m called to do.
4. Sonoma Wine Tour. ‘nuff said.
5. Learn to play the piano. Not just the self-taught kind of learning, but the taking lessons and can actually play a piece that requires both hands kind of learning.
6. Complete a Century Bike Ride.
7. Host a fondue party.
8. Sing Handel’s Messiah.
9. Go Christmas Caroling in our neighborhood.
10. Go camping. Real camping: sleeping in a tent and cooking over a wood fire, not parking the RV somewhere.
11. Go horseback riding in a scenic location.
12. Go snorkeling.
13. Volunteer at a food pantry.
14. Do something radically different with my hair. For pretty much my whole life, I’ve had the same, boring hairstyle.
15. Host a foreign exchange student or missionary.