busy week

This last week was pretty busy for us. We had fun going bowling with a couple of friends. We went to the on post bowling alley. Imagine a 100% smoke free bowling lane. There are some advantages to army life. Unfortunately the smokefree air did not help my game and I am still one of the worst bowlers ever. Jonas had a lot of fun the first game. He of course would just basically drop the ball and we had to hurry and push it before it was out of reach so it would make it all the way to the pins. During the second game Jonas kind of lost some interest and just wanted to run around the bowling alley.

At the end of the week we went to Nashville for the 1/2 marathon that I had talked James into doing with me months ago. We did survive. BARELY! Just kidding we had a lot of fun, thanks to Laura and Drew who watched Jonas for us. On our way to the race I was anything but excited however because we had hardly slept the night before, we had to wake up at 4:30 to get there on time, I just wasn't feeling that well, and then while waiting in line for the shuttle to take us to the start of the race we got rained on which made us shiver cause it was still kind of cool outside. Of course once we started running we were fine and luckily the cloud cover kept up for the whole race. James who had not trained at all made it look easy and to his credit he stayed with me the whole time. I did a lot better than I thought I would and kept going until the last few miles where I started getting really really tired. There were thousands of people running in the race and so many people on the sidelines cheering us on as well. It was a great feeling to cross the finish line. We finished in our estimated time and we didn't puke which was one of my goals. Running the marathon made me think about how when we have to go through some trial in life that seems impossibly hard and long lasting, sometimes we have more strength to get through it than we think we do or else we are given more strength than we would normally have. Because I really didn't think that I was going to survive it and I did. That day we all three came home and crashed on the living room floor. The next day James and I were so sore that we were walking weird. But we both agreed that it was a very fun experience.

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Jonas received a little t-ball set for easter. Now that it's nice outside we've been having fun with it. He likes it but likes to hit the ball vertically or just tap it forward instead of swinging at it. I think we did manage to finally get a few swings out of him last time. He has also been having fun taking the t-ball set apart and using it as different musical instruments. He likes to jam out to the songs from the movie cars especially "route 66".


He has also been going to "school". It's an in home day care on post that he's been going to two days a week so I can get some work experience. He did have some anxiety about it but he seems to be adjusting quickly. He likes being with other kids and there is a really nice dog at the house that Jonas loves. James is hoping that this will make Jonas less of a mommas boy. Hopefully it will be good for him. I think sometimes that it's harder on me than it is on Jonas. In other moments I am glad for a little break.

I took Jonas to the playground after dinner the other night. We were having fun and were about to go to the swings which are Jonas' favorite when he said to me, "are you my best friend?". Awww so cute.