Many Firsts in 2010

I'm still trying to catch up on all my blogs I subscribe to from the last 12 months. I don't want to miss out on any of your lives :P

Since this lovely economy has afforded me the freedom of, well, freedom from a hectic work schedule, I decided early on to embrace it and start doing things "I've always wanted to do." One of those "things" was to participate in the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco. The race is about 7 miles, and starts near the Embarcadero (the Bay), throught the streets of SF, and then through Golden Gate Park ending at Ocean Beach (the Break = Breakers). I registered our family (Francisco, the 3 kids and myself) for the event a couple days before, so we could LEGALLY participate. Two-hundred plus buckaroos later, we were in.

This race, along with its serious runners, is more like a Bay Area tradition of a costumed parade/party. Not wanting to get heckled by the crowd or "runners", we decided to go in costume... we went as Sports Fans. Yeah, boring, but we couldn't all agree on a group costume, and I was the only one interested in dressing up in REAL costumes. Majority rules.

It took us forever to finish the race. Mainly because we stuck with the partiers, not knowing we should have been with the regular joggers/walkers, but also because we had the baby in a stroller and Francisco had to keep making bathroom stops. Although I had fun, the rest of my family was not amused. Needless to say, I will be doing Bay to Breakers alone next year. Haha!

SERIOUS update

Wow. I cannot believe so much time has passed since posting an update. Thank you DANNI for posting a comment, which in turn reminded me to post. I'm somewhat of an O.C.D. person, wanting to catch up on all the blogs I subscribe to BEFORE I post, but, here it goes.

My little one is now 9 months old. It was a hard adjustment for my 2 teenagers to accept I was having another child. I knew it would not be a good idea to FORCE FEED my pregnancy on my kids, so I went along with my days as though nothing was changing. Of course my belly was growing, but I did not make a huge deal about my pregnancy in front of my teenagers (they took they news as if the world was ending). If they asked my any questions about whether or not I could feel the baby moving, or to see the sonogram photos, I obliged, otherwise we went about our day as normal.

I worked up until the very last day of my pregancy. It was Sept 23rd, and I was driving home from work on my way to pick up the kids from high school. Halfway there my water broke. This was the first time this had happened to me. I wasn't sure what was going on, mainly in part because I expected it to be like in the movies. Far from it. It was slow and uneventful for many hours. Our bundle of joy FINALLY decided to grace us with his presence at 4 am the next day. OH JOY - haha!

He was the textbook baby for 2 or 3 weeks - asleep for 2 hours, wake up for feeding, repeat. Then for some reason he decided the world was a much more interesting place, and Mr. A.D.D. came out - LOL! The kids now ADORE this child! My son, who was my baby before, would avoid anything and everything that had to do with the baby before. It broke my heart. He would stay in his room and even move as close to the walls as possible to avoid contact with me and the baby in the hallway. Fast-forward to today: the kids can't stop playing with the baby.