Preggo Crossfit Women

I found this blog, that is about pregnant women who continue their cross fit training.  It is insane and so inspirational.  I haven't worked out in like a month and half.  I pulled my back out, and I struggled with bad nausea.  But my back is good again, and guess what I don't feel too sick anymore!! So, I went back to the gym last night for this first time.  It felt so good! Not just the exercising part, but the finally being out of the house part.  And as much as I love my munchkins, it was nice having some time alone.  I lifted weights with David, and today I went and did a cardio class.  I think I am ready to go back to my favorite class which I consider to be insane! My teacher does a combinations, of weights, cardio, and crossfit/bootcamp excericises (no resting time in between exercises).  No matter how good in shape you get, she changes it so much that you can never get comfortable. The instructor is in amazing shape.  And she even run's extreme marathons.  Yeah I know, like a regular marathon isn't hard enough.  She goes off and runs a marathon through mountains and crazy terrain.  I guess its more like cross country.  Anyways all these women have inspired me to keep trying.  I worked so hard to get to where I was.  And I am hoping if I can continue, it won't take me as long to bounce back.  Its just so much work, to have to start all over.  It took me forever to finally do unassisted pull ups, and then to loose it so quickly is so sad :(   I am hoping if I can stay in decent shape I can start doing cross fit after I have the baby.  I like it because they have like an olympic like competition but for cross fit people.  How cool would it be to compete.  If you know me I love myself a competition and a challenge.  I may never get there, but I think it would be fun to try. 

Reading

I don't have a picture of Ariana reading, but I found this one that David took like a month ago.  I thought it captured her cute studious face.  He took this picture the day he was fixing our car, and so I decided to blog a bit while Viggo napped, and David worked.  Ariana quickly got her little learning computer and plopped right down next to me.   David put an apple sticker on Nana's computer so that her's would look like ours.  She loves that about her computer.

I feel like I am so behind on recording all the things my kids have been doing lately. I didn't want to forget and record that at four years old Ariana is beginning to read.  She is doing so well.  She is only reading sight words right now.  But I am so impressed at how well she sounds out her little words.  We started working on them back in March.  She found it a little frustrating at first.  At first she would say the letter instead of its sound.  But, now she is on a roll.  I bought her some more complicated sight words the other day, and she is beginning to realize that some letters have more than one sound.  I think its amazing how kids at such a young age can process all of this.  I am so proud of her!  I don't know if its out of the ordinary to be doing it at four, but either way I am just glad that she loves reading.

If you know my Nana she is not short on confidence.  She will go up and talk to anyone.  She loves making new friends.  But something different happened to her when she saw that she could read.  It was like a quite confidence.  It is so true what they say about reading.  It really helps kids feel good about themselves.  I am so glad we have read to her since she was a newborn.  Viggo and Nana adore books.  Another thing I think that has helped a lot is that every night we read scriptures together.  David always reads a verse with each of the kids.  Since Nana's is older David picks a word out from the verse that shows up various times, and makes Ariana read it every time it appears.  Viggo obviously can't do this.  But he repeats the verse after David, while sitting on his lap.    He is really cute when he does it, because if he thinks a words sounds funny he will giggle and repeat it several times, before he is able to move on to the next.  I should record it one of these evenings.  I love that they do not get overwhelmed by seeing a book with all words and no pictures.  Ariana has really come to love the stories found in the scriptures.  Its been pretty fun seeing her become such a big girl.

I'm Sorry

Don't you just want to pick him up and just squeeze him.  This is the face I have been getting from him every morning.  Its the same face he gets when we tell him we are going to cut his hair.  He loves his hair.  He gets so sad every time we cut it.  David thinks he gets that from his uncle Andrew.  Anyways this is the face of concern he gives me every morning.  If I'm still in the bedroom in the morning when he wakes up he tells his Daddy that he going to the bathroom because Mommy is sick.  Cute right...... but then his sister and him take off running to the bathroom making throwing up noises, and when they find me over the toilette they continue to pretend to be sick along with me. Then Viggo goes back to being cute because he begins to scratch my back with his tiny hand.  As I am writing this I realized all I need to do is shut the door.  Oh, boy I think my ability to think straight is already being affected by the baby.

I just want to apologize to my babies.  I know I am not the same mom I was two months ago.  But I promise I feel like I am almost there.  Everyday I think I get a little better.  I have two more weeks before I enter my second trimester, and I have high hopes that this nausea will soon begin to fade.  And we will go back to being us.  And, that goes for my David too.  I am pretty sure this baby is a girl.  If I was betting woman I would bet on it.  So, to my little princess peanut, I love you and as much as you may hear me complain, I know it is all worth it.  And if you need to continue raising my hormone levels to continue developing beautifully past 13 weeks, that is okay with me.  It just means you will come out even more beautiful sweet and perfect.  I promise Viggo, you won't have to look at me like this every morning for too much longer.  Right Princess Peanut? You wouldn't do that to your brother, would you?

Hotshot

I can not tell you how proud I am of this guy.  He got hired on with the Alpine Fire Department mid season.  And now he has been offered another job with the Laguna Hotshot Fire Department.   Because, he was hired mid season, when he showed up for his first day of work, his squad was in New Mexico fighting a fire.  So he got sent to work for a day at the Descanso fire Department.  But, when he showed up he was told that the the Laguna Hotshot Fire Department had one of their fire fighters get injured so they needed someone to fill in, so they sent my brother out.  The Captain told him don't get too excited you are just filling in.  Well, Josh showed up, and was asked again to show up the next day.  After day two he was offered a place on the Hotshot squad.  This is so amazing.  No one makes the Hotshots their first time out.  They pride themselves in being very good, and extreme! And my brother impressed the Captain so much that they offered him a job on the spot.  I am not allowed to talk about what he did, because he is way too humble, but let me tell you he rocked it.  And I am soooo proud.  So in a couple of weeks my brother will be an official hotshot.  And he is on his way to his next goal.  He wants to be a smoke jumper.  The Captain on the hotshot squad said physically he would pass the test but he just needs some more experience.  He thinks he will be ready in five years.  He thinks the hotshots will be a perfect fit for him, because they have already had five fire fighters from their squad go on to be smoke jumpers.  He is so excited.  I love talking to him, because one he is my brother, but it is also so nice to hear how happy is.  He loves what he does for a living, and that makes me so happy.  So, as scary as I think a smoke jumper will be, I am so happy that he will be doing what he loves to do. 

He may now be a Hotshot, but this is what his personality is really like.  Just a really nice guy. Love you Josh, don't get mad at me for boasting about you.  I can't help it I am too proud.