Daniel's First Race

Our town has a .8 mile race for the kids every Thursday night during the summer. Daniel completed the race tonight and I'm so proud of him (he ran/walked). It took 19 minutes. Believe it or not, we were not last...we were second to last, but I can tell you he was the only runner in diapers (he was definitely the youngest runner). At some points in the race I had to help him pretend he was a rocket or an airplane to get going and then I just plain ol' chased him with the stroller. Chasing him really got him moving.

It was really cute. Daniel was very excited at the beginning because he saw the older kids start their race. At the end, they gave all the finishers a ribbon and all the finisher's names will be published in the local paper tomorrow. I think he might hold the town record for the two year olds. We'll try to break the record next week.

Sizing up the competition

The starting line

And he's off

The following series of pictures was my attempt to get a picture of of Daniel holding up his ribbon.

PS: I did cut his curly locks and I'm a little sad. I miss the ringlets.

We Need To Work On The Reverence Part

Shakespeare at Boston Commons

Updates

James

I love it when they fall asleep with their arms over their heads!

• Sleeping through the night most nights (thank you James!)

• He's usually so happy and bubbly that he is flapping his arms and legs up and down in excitement.
• Quite the belly laugher

Daniel

• "Reads" books out loud. It is so cute to hear him make up the stories to the pictures as he flips through in a book. He even remembers most of the story lines and will repeat them.
• Needs a haircut, but I can't bring myself to snip away at any of those curly blond locks!

Tara

• I added two more items to my list of "things to do before I die" after talking to my brother on the phone last night. I want to participate in RAGBRAI (Registers Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa). It is a week long bike ride across Iowa with about 15,000 cyclists where you start with you back tire in the Missouri River and end with your front tire in the Mississippi River. How fun is that?!?!? The other thing on my list is to participate in the LeClaire, Iowa tug fest. Basically it is LeClaire, IA vs. Port Byron, IL in a tug-of-war across the Mississippi. How fun is that?!?!?!? I might just have to spectate the tug-of-war since I will probably never be a resident of IL or IA.
• I'm also loving our family's new schedule I posted about earlier...it is working great and I'm a happy mama.

Christian

• Working and travelling lots
• Excited about the Adobe video editing software he gets to buy for a great discount from a friend!
• Not so excited about RAGBRAI
  

Revere Beach

Thanks to an invited from a friend, we discovered a beach pretty close to our house. They have an annual sand sculpting contest that ended two weeks ago. Next year I want to go see the artists sculpting the sand, but this year we got to see the remnants of their work. I was quite amazed. I was especially impressed with the detail left considering we had two days of waterfall-like rain since they finished.

Maybe we should enter the competition.

Hahn Headlines

The Piano Is In The House


The movers had a hard time fitting the piano through the door, but it is finally in the house after sitting in our mud room for 3 weeks. This piano has lived in:

Germany (that is where it was made)
Argentina
Florida
Mexico
Texas
Virginia (it had some reconstructive surgery performed)
Massachusetts


Our Car Broke Down

On the way home from our city's family night, our car broke down. Christian and Daniel got to ride in a tow truck while James and I rode in the back of the police car.

Tree Accidents

Daniel's first tree climbing fall.
His tummy and chin got pretty scratched up.

Boy's Best Friend

This little gorilla was so entertaining. He played with the clothes just like a little kid would do. The only thing that separated he and Daniel was the glass wall. I've never seen such a social zoo animal.

I Love Clean Kiddos