Mooperrific

J commented recently that the reason the Moop can be hilarious and annoying at the same time is because she is usually acting like a drunk person. Think about it.

Mama's So Proud

My first born, the art thief.

My second, living the "Snug" life.

So I've been walking 2 miles a day with the double stroller for the past few days and it feels better and better. Today I tried to jog a few steps and it didn't feel as wrong as when I tried yesterday so hopefully I'm getting closer to running. I'm able to do push-ups now and seated weight-lifting so at least I'm getting a bit of an upper body workout while I wait out this recovery period. I keep telling myself it's a very short period of time in the grand scheme of my life so I should just relax and do it right. I would really like to run the Thanksgiving 10k (Snugs will be 6.5 weeks by then), even if it's really slowly.

1 Week

We ventured out for a 1.5 walk - my first post-partum exercise - with the double jogger. Man, that thing is more like a bus than a stroller. It felt pretty good but was definitely enough for this point in my recovery. I'm going to try to get out for a walk every day from now on.

3 Days OId

Josée Ema

Just a quick announcement about the birth of our second daughter. She arrived on 10-10-10 at 3:20 in the morning. I went into labor the morning of my due date, October 8th, so, yeah, it was long. I am pleased to say I had a successful vbac despite her being, and staying, posterior, and attritube that mostly to the fact that I labored at home for 31 hours with J and a team of midwives' support before transferring to the hospital. The original plan was to have her at home but I did the best I could under the circumstances and am pleased with the outcome. Though it wasn't a section this time, the birth was not without trauma (um, did I mention posterior?) so it may be a while before I'm back to running. It's all good, though, I am so happy she's here and am excited to get to know her.

I promise more pictures to come. After 43 hours of intensity we're both a little tired and it's hard to find photo ops with her eyes open! Even though, strangely, and frustratingly, she does spend a lot of time not-asleep. Guess we both need some time to figure out what, besides nursing, makes her happy.

Hurdles

So here I am, trying to get this baby out (mentally, that is - so far no real labor, just stronger and more painful BH) and the three of us come down with a cold. Fine. We're starting to get better and then N cracks her head open last night and gets 5 stitches at the ER. They will be in until Friday. Good. Times. And here I've already hit 800 miles, vacuumed, cleaned the bathrooms, and baked a cake. (All yesterday, before the aforementioned trip.) I know I'm not officially due until Friday but the amount of mental blocks that keep getting thrown my way is getting a bit ridiculous.

And in running news, besides hitting 800 miles a little early, I have decided that this past Saturday was my last long (6.2 miles) run of the pregnancy. I have noticed the past two Saturdays that I spend the rest of the day suffering - baby goes crazy, I get lots of pressure on my hips and in my pelvis, and lots of fake-o contractions. The last one was the worst because there was shooting pubic bone pain during the actual run. No thanks. So I will be running only 3-4 miles a day until delivery.