Before I get reflective, here are some updated pictures of miss Kate. I took her to the doc today and she is 90% for both weight and height (I know you were holding your breath for that update!). Everything is growing except her hair. Someone told me the other day that she is "getting cute." Hahahaha!!!
Our life has definitely been a little slower paced since Kate was born. I feel like we haven't done much that is "blog worthy." I can say that I am finally to the point that 1) Zachary watches less TV and plays on the IPad less while I nurse, 2) Zachary gets more attention from me during the day for stories, coloring, play dough, etc., and 3) We are able to go on outings each morning. Combined, this all makes me feel like a great mom (in comparison to the mom I've been lately), although I still feel like I have a little ways to go until we are back to "normal."There's a million things I want to do that I'm just not getting to: putting photo books together on Blurb, spring cleaning, teaching Zac how to cut (yikes, I have no idea how to be successful on this one with my leftie boy!), looking up new recipes, finish Les Meserables (I'm only about 200 pages into it, so "finish" is probably the wrong word), and a lot of other non-essentials that keep me from going out of my mind, but don't matter that much. I've been able to do the things that DO matter a ton to me, including finally getting some surf time in after almost a year off, getting my physical therapy in for my SI joint issue, putting things together for co-op preschool, and going out as a family on a little adventure every Saturday. Brady is getting to basketball again, faithfully running, and back to very busy at work. Overall, I would rate satisfaction with how things are going at a 7.5, and we're continuing to move up the chains.
So, yeah, our adventures went from long hikes on steep terrain or entire days at the beach to going to the swimming pool on Saturday afternoon, but it's still good.
We went for a "big adventure" on Saturday--a drive to Hanalei for surfing. Kate is a screamer in the car, so this 1.5 hour drive (each way) was a major risk. She only cried about 35 minutes on the way up and less than that on the way back, so...progress. Sadly, the day was not quite what we envisioned when we left our sunny Poipu in the morning. It was windy and rainy the entire time we were there.
We both surfed for a whopping 20 minutes each, and held Kate bundled up and under an umbrella. No one left completely satisfied...
...except for Zachary. Wind and rain don't really bother toddlers.
Flushed face, and not a sunburn:
Really, his 15 minutes running in the rain and once again displaying his sand monster skills made the trip almost worth it!
A couple other pics of Zac. Here he is at nap time sleeping in his "dog house":
He just discovered popsicles.
He still loves bubbles. Someday, he's going to be over them and that will be a sad day for me.
I think this post makes me sound like I am craving something else. That's true to an extent--I'm ready for a little more activity on the weekends and I'd love to be healthy enough to run for 45 minutes straight, but really, I get a lot of thrill from holding my little babe, hearing new words pop out of Zac's mouth, and watching him suddenly start coloring "in the lines." Not every moment is blog worthy, but those are the day-to-days and what makes mommy-hood fulfilling.
