It has been another long time since my last post. Lots going on, unfortunately, not so much in the world of running for me. I am still running when I can - lunchtime runs have at least kept me going. I have run the last two weekends now: last weekend was a 6.5 mile run and this weekend was a 4 mile run. Not great lengths by any means, nor were they fast - at best a 9:00/mile, but I did get out there. My lack of sleep is once again catching up to my running and I cannot find any speed. My legs have felt heavy. Not where I want to be at this time, but I am trudging forward.
In one of my last posts I had mentioned going to the
Children's Museum. It was great.
I know Lilli was a little young yet to enjoy most of it (though she loves to people-watch) she did enjoy the "babyscape" area where she played with big cushioned blocks and looked at herself in the mirrors, and she enjoyed her first carousel ride!
My nieces loved all of it. It was a tiring day, but so much fun.
After that, we went back to my parents house where my mom made a huge dinner and we ate and relaxed the rest of the evening. We got home late that night and ended up relaxing on Friday. Saturday night we were back down at my parents where we left Lilli with her cousins and my mom and dad and my sister, her husband Matt and Stephanie and I we out for dinner and a movie. We went to
Red Robin, which has great burgers and then went to see
Ironman - I highly suggest seeing this movie - it was great!
Then that Sunday was Father's Day... my first. I had hoped for a picnic out at Fort Harrison State Park, but schedules didn't work out and we ran out of time. Instead Stephanie's family came over for dinner as a farewell party of sorts (Stephanie's parents have since moved to Arizona).
And finally, I have discovered probably one of the greatest ideas I have ever come across... lullaby music...
No, not
Twinkle, Twinkle little star and Brahms Lullaby, but cool music - my kind of music. I have found a series of CD's that take rock songs and turn them into lullabies. It was a bit of an accident that I found them, but during a search on the libraries web site I came across
"Rockabye Baby!" The first one I found was lullaby renditions of Coldplay, but then I expanded my search and came across AC/DC, Nine Inch Nails and the Ramones to name a few.
I was able to get the Nine Inch Nails CD right away, the others have been requested... I wasn't sure how it would sound, but I have been growing tired of the Baby Einstein Lullabies for some time.... I loved it. And more importantly Lilli loved it. Admittedly, it is a little weird listening to "Closer" or "Head Like a Hole" while she is going to sleep, but she doesn't know the words (luckily) and I can enjoy some music while she fades off into blissful sleep (and sometimes I fade off too).
Oh, and I picked this up too:
Lillian is a bit young to appreciate it, but I grew up on this stuff and it brought back great memories... hopefully she'll enjoy them as much as I did/do.
And I would be remiss if I didn't post a few more photos of Lilli from this past weekend...
