Post-Baby Running

I mentioned before that Jake and I are going to be running a half marathon (13.1 miles) in September, so I've been running 5 days a week to prepare for it.

For the record, I am not an amazing in-shape runner person. I have a love/hate relationship with running. I hate running, but I love the way I feel after I run. Even with the love part, it took me a while to get into it. Here's my running schedule:

Week One: walk 1:30, run 1:00, for 3 miles.
Week Two: walk 1:30, run 1:30, for 3 miles.
Week Three: walk 1:30, run 2:00, for 3 miles.
Week Four: walk 1:30, run 2:30, for 3 miles.

And so on, and so forth. Sometimes I run 4 miles, like I did today, and then I'm super sore, like I have been all day.

I'm up to 2:30 running now. I have good days and bad days. The good days are great; the bad days are pooptastic. No matter what kind of day it is, though, I'm constantly amused that I run a 5K every day, and I used to do everything I could to avoid running in all its forms. My, how things have changed.

Birthday Preparations

Camille's birthday is fast approaching, so I decided to start the prep!

And by that, I mean I reserved the location for the party. Parks around here get booked way in advance.

I reserved a pavilion at Sugarhouse Park, and I'm really glad I called about it today. You can reserve either a morning (8am - 2pm) or afternoon (3pm-10pm) time slot, and the pavilion I wanted to use was already reserved for the morning slot. I wanted the afternoon one anyway, but still! I felt silly reserving it so soon, but now I'm really glad I called today.

I think I want to do a combo Camille-Jake birthday, since their birthdays are only four days apart, and having two separate parties would be extravagant. Jake isn't really into birthday parties anyway, so if we combine it, he'll be happy that most of the attention is going to be on Camille and not him.

Alright. I've done enough for now. There probably won't be any more talk of Camille's birthday until early September or so. What can I say? I'm a seat-of-my-pants type of mommy. :P

Nine Months Old

Nine months! Holy crap!

So, let's see... what does Camille do, nowadays? Well, she crawls like it's the Indy 500, 

she tries to feed herself with a spoon, 

she cruises on the couch, 

she hates her car seat (she used to like it just fine), 

she's learning how to drink with a straw, 

she will wave good-bye (but only once; if you try to get more waves out of her, she'll stare at you like, "I waved at you already, asshole. Get out of my face,"

and she takes baths without a baby tub. She loves splashing around in the water!

Here she is trying to feed herself. Please take note of the pea-bindi she's given herself.

 

The Poop Ponderance

Hypothesis: Camille will not poop if she's not at our apartment.

Why I think this: for a long time (when I wasn't really going anywhere in the morning), Camille would poop like clockwork. We'd get up, I'd feed her, and then she'd take a dump. Clockwork. But now, since I've actually started getting up early, her poop schedule has changed... but only when we go out.

On days I run, she won't poop until we're done running and have returned to the apartment. On days I don't run, she poops as per the usual: wake up, eat, poop.

On Wednesdays, I have my mommy group, and she doesn't poop until we get home from it.

The ultimate test came yesterday, when we went camping. She pooped before we left, and she didn't poop again until we came back the next day.

So yeah, Camille only poops at our apartment. Possibly at her Grandma's house, too.

Camping!

Earlier this week, Jake found out his work schedule for the weekend. Friday off! So we decided to go camping with some friends of ours at a nice little place called Tanner's Flat in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Early Friday afternoon, our friends left their house and headed up to Tanner's Flat. Jake and I were still getting ready, and planned to meet them up there.

We got a call.

"Hey, so we're at Tanner's Flat, and all of the camping areas are reserved or occupied. The guy says there's one group that might be leaving in a couple of hours, but they don't really know for sure. So... what do you want to do?"

Uhhh, go back in time and reserve a spot in advance.

But seriously, we opted to go camp somewhere else. I forget the name. Jake and I left our house and stopped at the store to get some water, and we got another call.

"Hey! We were on our way to Sum Nutha Camping Spot, and we got a call from Tanner's Flat. A spot opened up! They're holding it for us. Meet us there"!

Hooray!

So off to Tanner's Flat we went, and camped in a very nice little spot.