Sleepytime

Sportler!

Laith has been following a 5k training program for the past 4 weeks as a way to motivate himself to stay active and to improve his running. It's easy to let your activities slip away from you when you're all wrapped up in the daily doings of being new parents. Even though we do take Lucas on a hike nearly every weekend, we also need to do things that are fun for us more than just once every 7 days. Soooo, today was Laith's 5k race to see how the training paid off. Lucas and I cheered from the sidelines. He beat his goal he set for himself and is now excited to see how fast he can get over the next several months. His next goal is to beat 22 minutes. Go Laith!

I also went running today- for the first time since I was 9 weeks pregnant! It's been 10 months since I lengthened my stride into a run and even though I could only go half a mile I felt really good and light. I didn't want to just shuffle around the track- I wanted to actually run fast enough for my hair to blow back behind me so that I could see what my body could do. Fun! I want to keep up this pace and just increase the distance little by little. My first 5k will be March 15th and I'm not expecting to be able to run the whole thing- though that would be nice if I could.

Baby boy photo shoot

The lighting in Lucas' room this morning was so perfect that I had to break out the camera. Of course it didn't hurt that he was being irresistibly cute!
It was hard to pick just a few pictures for this posting so if you want to see more, go to www.flickr.com/photos/jbvincent
Yay!

Greenbelt Fun

This weekend was unseasonably warm and BEAUTIFUL. So, as we've done every nice weekend since Lucas was 2 weeks old, we went on a family outing. Lucas went rock climbing the first time after watching Daddy's fancy footwork.



Our friend, Daniel, joined us and managed to climb like this in jeans, a sweater and cowboy boots! Can't wait to see what he can do with climbing attire!

Another Growing Baby Picture

Lucas is 3 months old today

Lucas is officially out of his "4th trimester". He has really come a long way from those first few weeks when all he wanted was to be wrapped up tight and held all day long so that it felt like he was still in the womb. I thought I'd post a few photos to show his growth and change over the past 3 months. Surprisingly, this outfit still fits him even though he's almost doubled his size since that initial 1 pound weight loss after birth.
I had the opportunity to weigh Lucas yesterday when we went in for a doctor appt (to see if he had an infection...really stinky pee). He's 13 pounds 8 oz. Still 60th percentile for a 3 month old.

Photo Time

Smiley-pie Returns!