Alex's First Cross Country Race

This week was Alex's first cross country meet. They've only been in school and practicing a few weeks so none of us really knew what to expect. And the kids are in 7th grade so they've never run in any official capacity or anything so it's all new to them. For example....to get the kids prepared for what they'll experience at the meet, this last week, the coach brought out the starter gun to their practice. Alex said, the coach held up the gun and one of the kids yelled "He's got a gun!!!" Too funny. I digress....

The 7th grade girls ran first and they had to run two laps around the course which was a total of 2 miles. Alex did FANTASTIC and came in 19th out of 70 girls. Her time was 15:48. We are so proud of her! Here is a picture of her crossing the finish line. (Notice how blurry she is compared to the rest of the photo.....just further evidence of her super speed through to the finish.) The other picture is of her after the finish. I'm impressed with how pretty she looks after just finishing a two mile run!!

Joe has some new tricks lately too. He's started rolling over a lot over this past week. He really likes being on his belly. Even in his sleep he rolls from his back to his belly and sleeps that way.

He's also got a tooth breaking through and between that and the day care crud that we still can't shake he's been having a few rough nights. But I can understand being upset with all that madness going on in you head....would make me cranky too. Between the crankiness, we got some cute pictures this week to share.

Here he is in his new exercise jumper. He was very pleased when the frog started spinning as you can see from his big smile.

Big sister Maddie introducing him to the wonders of the cell phone. Should I be worried?