Last weekend was our last weekend off as a family. I started off the Fourth of July by running my first 5k!! I ran the "Cityblast 2010" that started at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. As much as I never have enjoyed running, I really had a good time and can't wait to run my next race!! I paced myself pretty good and ended up finishing the race faster than I expected. My official time was: 32:31.4! So my pace was a 10:29 mile and I placed #16 in my age group (females 25-29)...not too shabby for my first race. After the race I headed home to get our house ready for the BBQ.
We had my mom and Dean, Nancy and Kenny and Joy and Hayden over for burgers, salad and lots of other goodies. We mostly just hung out and chatted. Since Hayden and Hudson had to get to bed everyone left before we watched any fireworks. Our neighborhood got pretty into fireworks this year though...it sounded like we were in a war zone! Somehow Hudson slept through it all :)Monday we attempted to go on our first family hike. We drove up to North Bend and got Hudson all situated in the new backpack we bought for hiking. We barely made it onto the trail before Hudson started fussing. We thought maybe he was still hungry since he didn't eat much before we left the car so we tried to feed him some more of his bottle. He didn't take much and seemed content so we started off on the trail again. After a couple more stops, adjustments to the straps, his blanket, etc. we decided he wasn't going to cooperate and headed back to the car after only making it about a half mile in on the trail! I think he was uncomfortable in the backpack and wanted to sleep...so we will have to take him around the neighborhood a bit until he gets used to it...or use the front carrier for hiking next time :)
Wednesday marked my first night back to work. I spent most of the day an emotional wreck...crying off and on and trying to take naps so I could stay up all night. Once I got to work I felt a little better and it was actually not too bad getting back into the swing of things. The only rough part was trying to sleep when I got home at 8 a.m. I fell asleep just fine but after about 3 hours woke up...went back to sleep for another hour and just couldn't stay asleep. I was really missing my baby boy since I didn't get to see him when I got off in the morning. So I called Nancy and she said he was napping. I cleaned up a bit and ran to the store on my way to pick him up. I was so excited to see the little munchkin..even if he was asleep! He slept most of the afternoon but I was just happy to be able to hold him and kiss him :) I know it's going to be hard being back to work full time, but I also know how lucky I am to have such great child care for him and to get to see him as much as I will (even though it means a lack of sleep for me). I am just finishing up my 2nd night back and can't wait to hop in bed in about 3 more hours...I am exhausted after only getting 4 hours of sleep yesterday :-/!!
Wednesday marked my first night back to work. I spent most of the day an emotional wreck...crying off and on and trying to take naps so I could stay up all night. Once I got to work I felt a little better and it was actually not too bad getting back into the swing of things. The only rough part was trying to sleep when I got home at 8 a.m. I fell asleep just fine but after about 3 hours woke up...went back to sleep for another hour and just couldn't stay asleep. I was really missing my baby boy since I didn't get to see him when I got off in the morning. So I called Nancy and she said he was napping. I cleaned up a bit and ran to the store on my way to pick him up. I was so excited to see the little munchkin..even if he was asleep! He slept most of the afternoon but I was just happy to be able to hold him and kiss him :) I know it's going to be hard being back to work full time, but I also know how lucky I am to have such great child care for him and to get to see him as much as I will (even though it means a lack of sleep for me). I am just finishing up my 2nd night back and can't wait to hop in bed in about 3 more hours...I am exhausted after only getting 4 hours of sleep yesterday :-/!!
