We did it!

Ian and I, as you can see, have completed our 100 mile pledge!  He hasn’t been along for all of them, but he’s logged a lot!  He’s quite a trooper.

Wish us good weather in the morning, although the actual three miles of the march itself are going to seem like an anticlimax to us!

I also want to take a moment to say THANK YOU, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! to my generous sponsors.  You’ll find them in the sidebar.  There is still time to be one of them!  Just click on the badge below.  Thanks to all of you, not only did I reach my personal fundraising goal, but my team is nearing their goal as well.   The babies thank you too!

Love to all!

Out ahead of the rain

Little Dude’s Travel Gear Selection:

Yes, we think it’s not a very attractive outfit, but he picked it himself, and at least today he consented to wear the onesie inside the pants.

Current Weather conditions:

Quotable Moment:
Mommy, there’s letters on that shed.  There’s a zero.  The zero is on the shed.

Distance traveled: 2.52 miles


Current Total Distance Traveled: 100.3 miles

I owe the babies: $25.08

The icing on the cake…

I made two “I’d Marry you for this” cakes.  One for our auction winner, and one for my friend who recently gave birth to a healthy baby boy after 8 weeks of grueling bed rest.  Yes, if you get married or go on bed rest around here, you get a cake.  Them’s the rules.

I made the chocolate truffle frosting in my new Calphalon pots.  Lest you be thinking, “Calphalon?  Meghan shelled out for CALPHALON?” No, I did not.  I was fortunate enough to win the 10 piece set in a giveaway sponsored by Calphalon and BigTent.  I say fortunate enough because I LOVE them.  And I love, love, love, LOVE free stuff.  But more on that another time, since this post is about cake.

If you’re thinking you can’t live without one of these cakes, but you aren’t willing to go on bed rest, get married, or make a honkin’ big donation to the March for Babies, you can find most of the recipes in the Joy Troupe Cook Book.

Here are the finished cake photos, in all their chocolate chunk brownie layer, cocoa icing cream filling, chocolate truffle frosted glory:

All through the town

We decided the conditions were ripe for a “Jammie Ride” when Ian climbed into the stroller and started doing his own buckles once he was “all jammied up.”

Little Dude’s Travel Gear Selection:

Current Weather conditions: 68 and partly cloudy

Quotable Moment:
“The wheels on the bus go up and down, up and down, up and down, the wheels on the bus…”

Distance traveled: 2.12 miles


Current Total Distance Traveled: 97.78 miles

I owe the babies: $24.45

Bloomin’ in Burke

Since Ian was having fun with his friends while I took this walk, I want to mention that items of note this week are the fact that he is now saying “lighthouse” instead of “house-light” and “excavating” instead of “axeing.”  (Bulldozers still “bull,” and backhoes now “backhoe.”)  Also, he has been trying to do his own buttons. 

I want to note here, that these geese looked all peaceful when they were swimming together on the other side of the pond, but the near one gave a totally different “vibe” when it was swimming at me at top speed, hissing and trying to make itself look bigger.  Yes, I’m still bitter because I was bitten as a child.

Current Weather conditions: 68 and sunny

Distance traveled: 3.42 miles
Current Total Distance Traveled: 95.66 miles

I owe the babies: $23.92

Off to the library

Little Dude’s Travel Gear Selection:

Current Weather conditions: 58 and sunny!

Quotable Moment:
“Mommy that’s a jeep. It make a noise, go brrrm. It make a LOUD noise”

Distance traveled: 3.5 miles

On the way back, we noticed the orange signs up to show they were working on the construction site down the way, so we took a little detour and enjoyed some time watching the “excavator, wanna axe, Mommy!” (And if you can’t tell, he’s also eating a pear.)



Current Total Distance Traveled: 91 miles

I owe the babies: $22.75

The rain’s got us down…

Today was a “wrong side of the crib” day, which is to say the little dude woke up from his nap in a bit of a snit. (No, really.) So once he settled down to happily playing in the sandbox, I decided that “if it ain’t broken, don’t step on it” definitely applied and let him play. I took off for my walk pretty much the minute my husband came in the door. Ian had pre-selected “Pie Rats” as the book Daddy was to read him when he got home, so they did their “arr”s and their “yo ho ho”s while I made my escape!

Current Weather conditions: 58 degrees and threatening to rain.

Distance traveled: 2.04 miles

Current Total Distance Traveled: 87.5 miles

I owe the babies: $21.88