Friday, March 5, 2010

Spring in February?

We got out and enjoyed some of the sunshine this past weekend. Took Dominic to the park and he just loved te swings. He usually gets bored after a minute or two. We could not get him out of it this time. He wanted Molly and I to swing next to him. He kept pointing at the swings next to him and commanding us to swing with him. Before the swing we climbed the little climbing wall there and slid down the slides. We are having so much fun with him. We are very lucky!





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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Our lives for the next 4 months....




Time for a Molly and John update. We are all caught up on Dominic for now. Molly and I are training for another Triathlon. This year we are doing a Half Ironman. This will be in Sunriver Oregon on June 26th. The race begins with a 1.2 mile open water swim followed by a mountainous 58 mile road bike ride finished off be a half marathon, 13.1 miles. This will be our longest attempt to date. We both have done sprint and Olympic distance triathlons before in 2007 before Dominic was born.




Molly, the athletic animal she is, did the Portland marathon last year,2009. She did great. I plan on doing the 2010 Portland marathon with her this year. We have a very active year planned for sure. We are in the beginning stages of our training for the year. I was sick for almost a full 2 months to start 2010. Sick enough to not be able to start training early like I had hoped. Molly has been dealing with some joint pain issues so she has been delayed too. I have been able to train now for the last 2 weeks and have been very happy with my progress, minus the swimming. I have the hardest time with the swimming for whatever reason. I will be devoting a lot of late nights to the Superior pool for the next few months.




It is a tricky thing trying to balance work, family and training time. I am mainly training after Dominic goes to bed, 8pm. I also am doing longer rides and runs during his naps on my days off. That has worked out well for maximizing my family and training times without neglecting either. As for time with my lovely wife, I have not figured all that out yet. We seem to find time for eachother though and that is great. When we are in longer training days it will become harder to balance it all. We know what we signed up for though and sacrifice is part of it.




We have 4 events scheduled for 2010 starting off with the Pear Blossom 10 mile run here in Medford. I have an extra triathlon scheduled, the Graniteman, which is a nice warm up for the Half Ironman. It includes a .75 mile swim in Applegate Lake, followed by a 14 mile mountain bike ride around the lake and finished up with a 5 mile run. Should be fun! Molly will not be doing this because of the treachorous mountain bike section. She may do one of the running events there the same day. I hope we can stay healthy and complete all of our active lofty goals for 2010. Wish us luck!!

Where did the time go???










It has been so long since my last post that I do not know where to start. My most important story over the last 10 months is definitely our little angel Dominic. He has changed and grown in so many wonderful ways. His vocabulary increases daily now and we can hardly believe the words he can manage. His pronunciation is better than a lot of adults we know. We are very proud. He is a very smart boy. He walks, runs, jumps and climbs very well. He seems to have no limits. He really likes riding his "bikey" around the neighborhood. He can ride that thing forever it seems. We have started working with him on spelling and reading as well. WOuld be nice for him to know how to do all of this by the age of 3. He knows a lot of letters and can spell some words already. We got him a couple of spelling games and constantly read to him. We are having a blast with him. Everyday is a new adventure.




He is a very loving boy and always has kisses for his adoring parents. His bedtime is 8 oclock and most times he does not fuss. He mostly goes screaming happily down the hall to his room saying "nite nite" all the way into his room. He has taken up sleeping with his favorite toy of the day. Lately that has been a generously donated "choo choo" form Aunt Robin. It is pretty big and he holds on to it with a vice like grip and off to sleep he goes. He sleeps through until around 7 most days. So mom and I get time to relax and get some sleep too. I will try and post more often so not so much time goes by between updates. Thanks for checking out my Blog.