So, I think I forgot about this blog!

Ok, no, I didn't, but I certainly have neglected it for quite a while. Where were we?

Marathon!
Well, back in the beginning of October I did end up running the Lakefront Marathon. It was a gorgeous day and it was the kind of day that you could run a PR on. We had an absolute joy of a time running and the three of us finished together as planned. I think we ended up around 4:25 or so.

After finishing, I was ready t o start thinking about the next marathon. I would love to train for a Boston Marathon qualifying time but I think that would be pretty selfish considering what life looks like in this family right now.

Al's Run
About a week later I did Al's Run just to see what kind of time I could get. Let's just say that I didn't pay enough attention to diet before that run and it was not pretty. I ran pretty well, but for as short of a run as it was, it was not nearly as enjoyable as it could have been.

Running since then
Since then, I have only run a few times but they have been awesome runs. Yesterday I ran with Clare and we had a wonderful time on, what may be, one of the last beautiful running days this fall.

Clare's developmental joys!
Let's see... where to begin! She has been crawling with great ease lately. She pulls herself up on everything. She stands on her own. She has taken a few steps here and there. Clare loves to laugh. She claps and eats finger foods. She hasn't decided on her first word yet, but she "talks" all day long. She has a tooth coming in and so far, it seems to have been a relatively painless process.

On to the pics!

Here is my little Gopher fan! She doesn't know that the bad-gers won that game and I guess what she doesn't know doesn't hurt her (though I am sure that if she knew, she would be quite sad).

She is 9 months now and actually she is quickly coming up on 10 months! Unreal! Yes, that is a bow in her hair... it is long enough for a bow!

And here she is with uncle Ben (and his rice)
living the ream!