Cady's new Walker and Cell Phone

Here's Dan putting Cady's new little walker
thing together and the next picture is of her
enjoying it. I think it is really going to help her
get the hang of walking.
The other picture is of Cady and her new
pink cell phone!!!

Caged!!!

from Cady --Here is how I'm locked in when they put me in my room. But really I like playing in there because I can crawl all over and play with my toys and pull all of my books off the shelves. But my mom fooled me and took all of the books that I'm really not supposed to be playing with now and packed them away. I really devour books....literally...I chew on the corners so now all I have is the chip board kind of books...the really hearty ones!!!

Hope you can see Cady's two top teeth and look at her curly hair, she got that from her mom and her blue eyes from her dad.

Here's what we did today!

Cady played in the garden for awhile and then

read for awhile and listened to her "radio" that only has classical music.

Cady loves playing in her room with all of her toys.

What I've been doing---

In the top picture here Cady and I are at the park and she love the swing. Please disregard the graffitti on the swing! She loves being outdoors and in the swing she loves the wind blowing at her face and threw her hair....what there is of it.

from Cady: In the second picture I'm on the patio in my pack-n-play and I'm wearing my new leg warmers. It's really a nice day here in Southern California.

from Cady: In the last picture I'm trying out my new walker. I'm still not very good at it but I'm sure with a bit of practice I'll get the hang of it!

Click here if you want to see the pictures of me in the half-marathon. I'm in the orange long-sleeved shirt. Later I'll post a picture of my daughter and I right after the finish line.

Here's what we did today!!!

We had a great time at the park today. The weather was beautiful and Cady was really warm in her cute little sweater. She loves the swing!!!

She also loved getting in the box that her diapers came in.

Surf City Half-Marathon

Here's the medal I got for finishing the Surf City Half-Marathon in Huntington Beach, CA today. I took the place of my daughter's friend who couldn't make it so I wasentered in the female 30-34 group. My stats were:

Overall: 12911/13256

Women: 8075/8357

Female 30-34: 1315/1342

Place in race: 13037

Time: 3:43:49

I am really sore and during the race my hips hurt really bad but I kept on walking!!! I was very proud of myself that I finished and I was really glad to see that finish line!

Santa Ana Winds

This is a picture of how you should dress when going for a stroll in Southern California in the winter and the Santa Ana winds are blowing. It was REALLY cold!!!

Las Vegas Bound

Am in California now visiting my granddaughter and her parents. I arrived on a Wednesda and on Friday we left for Las Vegas for the weekend and had a wonderful time. Was great seeing all the new casinos. It had been about 15 years since I had been there and lots of new things to see. Cady loved all the lights and the people. Everytime someone got on the elevator with us she would give them the once over. And one night on the monorail she stared some guy down.

However, let me explain the picture. On the way down, in the middle of nowhere, I told Cady's mom and dad that she had pooped. They asked if we thought we could wait awhile before we changed her. I said, "how far?". They said 50 miles. I said "no way!" And then the "aroma" got to all of us and we pulled off an exit where there was nothing and pulled to the side of the road. When we took Cady out of her car seat there was poop all over. It hadn't got on her car seat but it was all over her clothes and up her back and down to her ankles. We got her clothes off and put them in a plastic bag and used LOTS of wipes. We stood her on the trunk of the car buck naked and finished wiping her down. In the meantime there were a few cars and semi trucks passing by. It was really pretty funny and I'm sure she'll really enjoy this story and picture in about 15 years.