Jack was talking to his good friend, Josiah, who just started reception (kindergarten).
JACK: Hey Jos. How was school today? Did you do any sport?
JOS: No Jack. We did PE.
JACK (laughing hysterically): You peed at school today. On yourself?
Erin (starting to laugh too): No, Jack it is physical education class where they play sports. They shorten it to just the initials so PE (which is actually hard since physical is actually more of an F sound - silly English!).
Jack is never going to want to start school if he thinks it involves PE - ing on yourself. Maybe the English are onto something using the word 'WEE' instead of 'PEE'.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Monday, 27 September 2010
Done!
So we finally did it yesterday. After weeks of meeting on Saturday morning for practice runs E (will call my friend that for privacy!) and I ran our half-marathon together. It was good fun but even better fun to be done with it. The best part for me was getting to train together. E has done amazingly well - she just starting running for the first time in her life this time last year and started by running two minutes and walking one minute. And then she went out yesterday and RAN the entire way. She truly could be an inspirational story, but I will leave that for her to tell when she wants to!
In fact it was E who was giving me the motivational speech at mile 12! I didn't feel great during the run, but was happy to finish - seven months after having Addie. I made a goal that I would run a half-marathon after each child as a way of getting back in shape. After Jack I ran the Peterborough Half-Marathon when he was ten months and then ran in London yesterday at seven months after having Addie. Ed Note: I didn't manage one between Addie and Theo.
For the record, we finished in a whooping 2 hours and 33 minutes which was place 9,716 and 9,718 out of 15,000 runners. We aren't sure who finished at 9,717 since we were right next to each other but I guess someone did! As Jack pointed out, there were a lot of runners in front of us. (Ed Note: Kids are good for your humility) I would like to point out that there were a decent amount behind us too!
The best part of the race was having all of our family there to cheer us on. E's parents were there as were our husbands and all nine kids. It was really fun to see the kids waving at us at three different point throughout the race. As Charles and E's husband pointed out they may really deserve the medal for venturing London's public transportation and race with all of the kids. I think they might be right...because of course 13.1 miles was just a cake walk for us!
In fact it was E who was giving me the motivational speech at mile 12! I didn't feel great during the run, but was happy to finish - seven months after having Addie. I made a goal that I would run a half-marathon after each child as a way of getting back in shape. After Jack I ran the Peterborough Half-Marathon when he was ten months and then ran in London yesterday at seven months after having Addie. Ed Note: I didn't manage one between Addie and Theo.
For the record, we finished in a whooping 2 hours and 33 minutes which was place 9,716 and 9,718 out of 15,000 runners. We aren't sure who finished at 9,717 since we were right next to each other but I guess someone did! As Jack pointed out, there were a lot of runners in front of us. (Ed Note: Kids are good for your humility) I would like to point out that there were a decent amount behind us too!
The best part of the race was having all of our family there to cheer us on. E's parents were there as were our husbands and all nine kids. It was really fun to see the kids waving at us at three different point throughout the race. As Charles and E's husband pointed out they may really deserve the medal for venturing London's public transportation and race with all of the kids. I think they might be right...because of course 13.1 miles was just a cake walk for us!
Monday, 20 September 2010
Just Call me Erin Radcliffe
Tonight Charles was reading Jack a book about a race. Jack piped up and said, 'Mom might win her race next week. I think she might.'
It was at that moment that Charles and I realized that we have not set proper expectations for next weekend. For the past ten-ish weeks I have been running and preparing for a half-marathon with my running buddy (a friend here at OH). Jack knows that he is going to get to go cheer me on next weekend. He is very excited about this. In fact, each time I get home from a run Charles has both boys chanting, 'Go Mommy. Go Mommy.' What we have not told Jack is that there are 15,000 people running this race and that Mommy is slow. These two facts alone mean I will not win the race.
Charles quickly told Jack that he didn't think Mommy would win the race next weekend. Jack asked why. And Charles diplomaticly told him that there would be lots of people and that the most important thing would be that Mommy did her best. He seemed decently content with that answer. Glad we got this one out of the way now and didn't have a four-year-old that was disappointed when some fast Kenyan flies past the finish line a few hours faster than his Mommy!
It was at that moment that Charles and I realized that we have not set proper expectations for next weekend. For the past ten-ish weeks I have been running and preparing for a half-marathon with my running buddy (a friend here at OH). Jack knows that he is going to get to go cheer me on next weekend. He is very excited about this. In fact, each time I get home from a run Charles has both boys chanting, 'Go Mommy. Go Mommy.' What we have not told Jack is that there are 15,000 people running this race and that Mommy is slow. These two facts alone mean I will not win the race.
Charles quickly told Jack that he didn't think Mommy would win the race next weekend. Jack asked why. And Charles diplomaticly told him that there would be lots of people and that the most important thing would be that Mommy did her best. He seemed decently content with that answer. Glad we got this one out of the way now and didn't have a four-year-old that was disappointed when some fast Kenyan flies past the finish line a few hours faster than his Mommy!
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Come on Mom, you should know better!
Today Jack and I were both looking in the mirror while getting ready for church:
Erin: Jack, do you think you look like Mommy?
Jack: Um, no I think I look more like Daddy and Theo.
Erin: Is that just because you are a boy?
Jack: Yes, but Addie looks more like you.
Erin: It doesn't always work like that. Sometimes you can look more like a girl even when you are a boy.
Jack: Well, Mom we really shouldn't compare ourselves to other people. You know...we should just be okay with the way God made us.
What do you say to that?? You got me there kid.
Erin: Jack, do you think you look like Mommy?
Jack: Um, no I think I look more like Daddy and Theo.
Erin: Is that just because you are a boy?
Jack: Yes, but Addie looks more like you.
Erin: It doesn't always work like that. Sometimes you can look more like a girl even when you are a boy.
Jack: Well, Mom we really shouldn't compare ourselves to other people. You know...we should just be okay with the way God made us.
What do you say to that?? You got me there kid.
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Where the kids at?
Our family loves the swagger wagon video - about 'cool' adults who drive minivans. I think the two main reasons we love it are (1) because both of Erin's older siblings have succumbed not only to minivan life, but to the Toyota sienna so they all exemplify these 'cool' middle age people in this video, and (2) because we haven't succumbed to the minivan yet so of course that makes us REALLY cool (ed note specifically aimed at Lauren/Barry and Jason/Natalie: we are SO cool we don't even need a rap. No we still squeeze our three kids into the back of a Honda civic like sardines!). Here is the video for any of you who have not seen it:
We have watched the video enough that Jack and Theo have memorized parts of it. Their favourite part is the chant 'where my kids at, where my kids at' and then when the man stops and says 'honey, where are the kids?' and the wife answers 'they are right there honey'. We joke with this line any time we get the chance in our family. Jack and Theo are often the initiators. So a normal interaction might go something like this:
Erin (talking in a completely serious tone out loud to herself): Where have I put my keys?
Jack (in a rapping four year old voice): Where my keys at? Where my keys at?
We tried to get it on video tonight so we could record this joke that has taken over our family. Enjoy!
P.S. And we are happy to report that we know right where our kids are - happily in bed for the night! Awesome.
We have watched the video enough that Jack and Theo have memorized parts of it. Their favourite part is the chant 'where my kids at, where my kids at' and then when the man stops and says 'honey, where are the kids?' and the wife answers 'they are right there honey'. We joke with this line any time we get the chance in our family. Jack and Theo are often the initiators. So a normal interaction might go something like this:
Erin (talking in a completely serious tone out loud to herself): Where have I put my keys?
Jack (in a rapping four year old voice): Where my keys at? Where my keys at?
We tried to get it on video tonight so we could record this joke that has taken over our family. Enjoy!
P.S. And we are happy to report that we know right where our kids are - happily in bed for the night! Awesome.
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