The weather was extra amazing today and we spent a long time at the park and walking to get Hayden at school and I got a sun burn! In January!!!! Fantastic! It was an awesome Japanese park with this huge slab of cement that was a slide, Danica was in heaven! The weather has made running great, I really have no excuse not to run other than laziness. I set a goal for this month to run 80 miles, 20 a week and it’s gone really well. It’s great having a little extra incentive to get myself out the door. The race was a lot of fun and I’m glad I won because it was my first and last chance to win in the 18-29 year old category! A few more months and I roll over to join the “old” people... ugh. If only there were a way that I could stay the same age forever... that reminds me of my second bit of great news: The Twilight movie came to the island! It was only here for a week or so but it was fabulous and I had a great time seeing it. The theater was packed with teenage girls and they made it so much fun with all their squeals, yells and swoons. I enjoyed the movie and my short trip back to Forks. I had a few spare minutes today while the girls took a late bath after getting filthy at the park and I picked up Eclipse and got sucked in. I had to hurry to put it down because I could tell how easily I could have spent the rest of the day reading when in reality I had to get Hayden at school, do homework, take him to Karate and then go the grocery store, eat dinner and then watch my friends kids because her husband is out of town and her and Tom had to be at a young women’s activity. Needless to say, reading was not in my plans for today!

I keep thinking that I will sit down on Sunday and write about the week but it seems that if I actually have a quiet minute on Sunday I just fall asleep and so weeks go by without an update! Luckily we only have minor news to report:

Hayden learned how to ride his bike! It’s seriously about time! He’s been so sure he would just fall down that he wasn’t even willing to try. Finally his friend’s dad suggested we take him to a huge grass field to practice so it wouldn’t hurt so much if he fell and that did the trick. He learned in a matter of minutes once he was willing to try it! He’s been saying some really crazy things lately, here’s two examples:

Hayden was making some chocolate milk to have with his lunch one day. He finished stirring it and was about to take it out the table when he said:
“You know I have to taste it don’t you.”
“You do? Why?”
“It might be poisoned, I have to check.”
“Well, if it’s poisoned then you are the one who did it because you made it.”
“Umm, maybe not because it could have been a rat and lizard. A really strong rat could open the lid to the chocolate mix and the lizard could spit in it and he could have poison spit. Oh, wait, are there rats on this island? How could rats get here? It’s not like they could swim”
“They could come on a boat.”
“Oh yeah, of course, rats love boats.”

The second incident was last night, we had gone to Burger King for dinner (the only American place with kids meals with toys, a necessity for Hayden.) We were done eating and were trying to leave the play area. Hayden wanted to stay longer and was upset we had wasted time eating instead of only playing. So he said:
“I wish that we were all just made of bread so that whenever we got hungry we could just reach down and grab a piece of ourselves and we wouldn’t ever have to stop playing.”
I’m thinking that if that’s the case I want to be made of chocolate brownie...