progress

Feels like I'm always bribing my kid with "special treats" to get photos of him, but it never works. The minute I put the camera up to my face, he looks away. It's very frustrating. Anyways, we had a lot of sun yesterday (and today too) and so I tried to get some pictures with full sun.

Above: eye contact...good, but dang those pin lights. I need to get him to look up at me. Still trying to achieve catch lights with him. I don't know why I even try.

Above: a second later and he's off to come down to where I am.

Above: My little hurricane mess.

I finally have an update on my 'Couch 2 5k' training. I haven't been reporting because I have shamelessly fallen behind. I have been stuck on week six for three weeks now because I have only had time to run once a week.

I am happy to report that tonight was the second time I've run this week and I am up to running 10 minutes straight (in three intervals of walk 2 minutes, run 10 minutes). I know it doesn't sound like much, but I count it as an achievement. It's hard to run with 25 extra pounds on my 5'3 and 1/8" (yes...every 1/8" counts when you are this short) frame.

I don't think I'll make the actual run, but I was able to do 3.1 miles in about 39 minutes of run/walking. Again, doesn't sound like much, but it's something I haven't been able to do in a long time.