6 Months & Crawling

OutForARunAdmin — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:40:00 +0000

Marshall turned 6 months yesterday. The day after Christmas. I know I’m always reminiscing about when he was first born, BUT I’m gonna go ahead and to continue to do that. (don’t think for a second I spelled reminiscing correctly without spell check… I can’t even believe spell check picked up what I was trying to spell)

During those first scary 6 weeks of Marshall’s life, all I wanted was to be at that 6 month bench mark. I would see babies at target and their mom’s where just holding them on their hips, these babies seemed like full grown humans to me. Like I could throw one across the isle at target and they’d be just fine. Not fragile and on the edge of death like my actually healthy 3 week old.

I still find myself constantly googling “should babies be doing this at 6 months” or I just ask my sister in law for advice. Let’s be honest, I know how to love this baby like none other, but other than that I really know nothing about babies.

Anyway- WE ARE HERE! 6 months.

This post is going to be picture heavy. There is just way too much cuteness going on these days.

First of all Marshall had his first visit with Santa. He stole the show at the mall. Completely hammed it up for the crowd. The baby was not shy. He was pretty much best friends with Santa… and Santa had just came back from a whiskey, I mean lunch break.

Marshall and Santa coming up with a game plan for picture poses.

Hey guys look at my Bears socks. I’m lucky I’m even wearing socks really. Still haven’t worn a real pair of shoes and if it weren’t for Grandma Peggy, mom would have forgot socks all together.

And I just threw in the picture below to show off the cute new hipster shirt he’s rockin:

Hey Blue Eyes

We spent the weekend with Glenn’s family in Crown Point- so thankful to have married into this group.

The entire Hein Family

On Monday and Tuesday we spent time with my family for Christmas:

Marshall and Giovanna Christmas morning. Chapstick “makeup” is her favorite toy and Marshall doesn’t care as long as he can eat his toys.

Here’s what Marshall is up to at 6 Months:

Has two teeth
Sitting up always – Two weeks ago I put him down for a nap. He cried for 10 minutes, I went in to check on him once he was quiet and he was creepily just sitting up staring at the wall. Guess he wanted to let us know it was time to move the matress down.
Crawling everywhere – Video
Ate real food for the first time – Video
Puts everything in his mouth
No more net in his bathtub
Goes to bed at 7pm, still napping three times a day
Sleeping through the night, kind of… lately has been waking up between 12 & 3. We let him cry it out unless it’s past 4am & then I’ll get up to feed him.
Always happy unless hungry or tired. We really lucked out that he got his dads laid back personality.

Check out that tooth! There’s two of them.

He looks scared here… he wasn’t.

Cadence is such a good girl with Marshall, although we do watch her carefully… he loves her

Beginning of a new training session.

OutForARunAdmin — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:31:00 +0000

We missed the Drumstick Dash this year. I was sad to break the tradition & was sad not to start off Thanksgiving with the BoMF crew, but with Marshall, it was decided to head out of town Wednesday and miss the run.

Instead Glenn and I woke up in Crown Point and ran 10 miles. I am so happy to be able to do longish runs together again. I know once he starts his training for Carmel, our paces for long runs will be way too different, but for now while he is maintaining fitness before he ramps up training in a few weeks, I’m enjoying being able to do some runs together. Like old times.

I’m taking two days off and on Monday, I’ll begin my 16 week training plan for the Yuengling Shamrock Marathon in Virginia Beach. I haven’t done an entire 16 week training cycle since our first marathon in 2008. 16 weeks seems so long to me, but with the Rehoboth Beach Marathon two weeks into the training, I think it will be broken up nicely as I’ll have a mild cut back for two weeks after that race.

My real goal for Rehoboth is not to PR, but to run a negative split, which I have NEVER done. This will help give me the confidence to PR with a negative split in the spring.

I haven’t decided what pace to try for for Rehoboth, still need to sit down and come up with a game plan. Off the top of my head, I’m thinking possibly, go out at 8:20 pace and pick it up slowly for the last 13 miles.

I know it will be hard to control the pace, but the goal of the marathon isn’t to race, it’s to teach myself control and also to enjoy the run. This race isn’t supposed to hurt, it’s supposed to feel good. (I envision it to be similar to how I felt for Flying Pig in 2011). I didn’t race Flying Pig, as it was a marathon coming off 6 weeks after a PR and we just signed up to run it for fun. So I ran, I didn’t run slow, but I didn’t run fast and when I finished, I felt like I could run 5 more miles. If I run Rehoboth smart, that is how I should feel when I finish.

And this has nothing to do with my upcoming races, but this is what the boys are up to today: