Canche Chronicles: Haley and Emy help Mommy and Daddy run a 5k

Thursday night Emily slept until 7:30 which matches her previous record of 11 1/2 hours in a row! I'm not sure what makes the difference between her sleeping 11 1/2 hours and not. Wednesday night she was up at 4:30 and I didn't do anything different. Oh well, I'm just happy for the times she does sleep. I fed her at 7:30 and she slept in until 9:30. Haley also slept until after nine so we kind of had a late start on the day.

Once we were finally up we fed the girls and took showers. Then I brought Emily and Haley outside with me and weeded the flower beds. Emily lasts twice as long in the exersaucer if we are outside so that gave me a lot of time. Haley played in the dirt and with her riding toys. At lunch David made a frozen pizza and we ate outside at the picnic table. Haley ate a whole piece of pizza and Emily ate most of a pizza crust. After lunch I put Emily right down for a nap because she was tired. David had to run to Lowe's to try and find some phone line because our phone line broke last night. He had to fix the wire that connects the phone line to our house from the telephone pole. He took Haley along with him and said she did pretty well. She did have to use the bathroom during the ten minutes that they were gone. It turns out that Lowe's doesn't sell that wire and that AT&T has to actually come and do it so David ended up calling them and working that out. Once Haley got back I put her down for a nap.

Haley and Emily each took three hour naps. That is common for Emily but it hardly ever happens with Haley. I was especially surprised by it because it was really sunny out so it's not like her room was extra dark or anything and she slept in this morning. We ended up going in and waking her up around five. Actually, Leeland Smith helped wake her up. The Smith's had called and asked if we could watch Leeland and Kinsley while they went on a date so they dropped them off around five. They played inside for a couple minutes and then I ended up moving everyone outside because it was such a nice day and quite frankly they were starting to get every toy we have out. They stayed outside for the rest of the time that they were here which only ended up being a little over an hour. Leeland used the little potty once while we were outside. I had brought it out and put it on top of the picnic table. I know that doesn't sound very sanitary, I wasn't really thinking. Anyways, next thing we knew, Leeland was up on the table using it, haha.

We only had one issue with the Smith kids which happened when Leeland pushed Haley over. We put him on timeout and made him apologize. He was pretty broken up about it, Dave does seem a little scary when he gets serious. After they left, the girls and I ate dinner. We were running a 5K at 7:30 and David hates to eat before he runs so he just had a small slice of cold pizza from lunch. I feel like I could eat anything before I run, except for maybe a cold slice of pizza. The 5K was for Young Life, a ministry to reach unsaved high school students. A bunch of people from our church are involved in the Longview area chapter of Young Life so they had convinced us to go. I was a little nervous about the girls staying happy so close to their bedtime but I think the long naps helped us out.

We have a jogging stroller that one of my aunts gave me when I had Haley. The seat is super big so we decided to just put both of the girls in there. Haley sat in the back and held Emily in front of her and we were able to easily strap both of them in. The most we have ever run with them consecutively was maybe a mile so I was a little nervous about how they would do for three miles. It doesn't seem like that big of a deal except it took us twenty-six minutes and that is kind of a long time for babies to just be hanging out together in a stroller. It ended up working out pretty good. I found a shoe in the diaper bag that Emily held onto the whole time and she only cried two times: once when Haley took the shoe from her and once when Haley took her paci out. Haley did really well considering she had her "little" sister who weighs 75% of her own body weight leaning on her chest. She spent most of the run singing 'Jesus Loves the Little Children' and 'the B-I-B-L-E' It was super cute. David pushed the stroller which slowed him down just enough to be running with me.

After the run they had smoothies from Smoothie King (Rin knows that place!) and Chick-fil-A nuggets. David got his fill of those and called it his dinner. I had my fill and called it my second dinner. We stayed and talked with our friends from church for a while and then headed home. Emily fell asleep on the way home and Haley went to sleep shortly after we got back.

Haleyism:
Haley asked me the other day if she could call Daddy David. Her question went something like this, "Mommy, call Daddy David?" I said, no Haley he is Daddy. She then said, "Call Daddy Mr. Dave?" I told her to call him Daddy-doo. So now she calls him that when she remembers.

Emilyism:
Emily loves to shake her head no. David got a cute video of it but blogger is not letting me upload it right now.