Happy Birthday Daddy!

Today is Matt's birthday.  Grady had earlier gotten his daddy a photo album full of pictures of himself (a tad bit narcissistic that one) and today drew a picture for his daddy using every color marker in the house.  It got not only on the paper, but also on his socks, pants, hands, and mouth.  Whatever, it was a gorgeous picture and very well received!  We've had a fun birthday, even though Matt had to work today, complete with a live musical performance by Michelle, Michael, Scott & Sean.

Grady and I went to a "baby boot camp" this morning - which I got to go to for  free in exchange for advertising on the website!  Basically it was just a strength training and cardio class, but you use the stroller in addition to resistance bands.  It was pretty fun, and thanks to some well-timed cries from Grady, I got a break from a shoulders workout.  Sorry, no pictures.

I do have pictures of Grady's first race on Sunday, though! 

Grady might have started out a little fast, because he spit up all over his track suit.  But he evened out and finished strong!

He hardly looks like he broke a sweat!  Matt did great, finishing the 5K in about 18  minutes.  The race was untimed, so I am pleased to say that Grady and I also finished in 18 minutes but unfortunately you can't confirm that.

Here are some pictures from Grady's third swimming lesson yesterday.  Grady did a really great job, although I had a heck of a time figuring out what exactly I was supposed to be doing.  (No surprise for anyone who ever saw me perform in our high school musicals.)  Here I am having to get some one-on-one instruction before he went through the hula hoop.



Grady was so brave going through - he was under for a couple seconds on the way back!  We don't have a picture of that, but we do have him going through on the way over.



Some other fun things - going down the slide super fast.

Standing on the big blue foamy thing

Staring at the bald guy in class.

 And staring.

This is getting awkward.

Anyway, a fun lesson.  He did cry twice this time, both times when he was climbing up onto the ledge of the pool.  Not sure what it was that bothered him this time around.  Here's a parting shot of one waterlogged baby.

And happy birthday, Matt/Daddy!