Five Things Friday

1. I am loving the Second Time Mama class through Amma. The group is great, a variety of background but I really appreciate all of them! It’s nice to have other people going through this challenging/exhausting season also to be able to bounce things off of.  It’s also nice to be able to visit different places to eat and get out of the house. We went to Woodhill Brewery in Edina this week and it was such good beer and fries :) 

2. I’m thankful for health insurance (I think, we haven’t had all of claims processed yet…). Between Miles’ birth, my emergency surgery, and Miles’ hospital visit last week (not including the ambulance ride) alone, our bill is over $75k. We ended up at urgent care for Miles to get something checked out that ended up being perfectly normal, but it was so relieving to be able to go get it looked at, especially if it wouldn’t have been normal! 

3. It’s been so nice that Joel’s parents live so close now.  We’ve been able to stop by after daycare with the kids and see them for a bit.  It’s also incredibly helpful that they can pop over to help with the kids too. 

4. I had my first run that felt so good! I hadn’t really run since about 11/12 weeks pregnant with Miles since that’s when all the bleeding started. I did a 3 minute/1 minute run/walk and was hitting about 10 minute miles on the run. The weather was also in the 50s, so it was nice and cool. That was helpful for both me and for Miles since he didn’t overheat in the stroller. I am signed up for the Twin Cities 10 mile - really nice to have something to look forward to! 

5. We are starting to get plans ready for our trip to visit Joel’s family and then go to the CrossFit Games. We have something that goes until about 3 the day we are supposed to leave so it will be a late-ish night.  I’m really looking forward to the trip and getting out of town since we haven’t really gone anywhere since the pandemic started.  Joel will have to work from the hotel for a couple of days, but it will be so nice to be able to have dinner and spend some time with family! 

Miles got his 2 month vaccines/2 month check up early (at 6 weeks) since we’ll be out of town when he hits 2 months. He was super fussy in the afternoon but gave us his longest stretches of sleep last night! Only woke up twice! At 6 weeks, he hit all of the 2 month milestones except the personality ones but she wasn’t worried since a lot can happen in 2 months.

I finally went through and sorted all of Hailey’s old clothes and dropped them off with one of my First stone Amma Mom friends that is having a girl in November 

Hailey is staring to warm up more to Miles, she likes to share his pillows and blankets. She has started to try to take care of him by shoving his pacifier in his mouth and trying to feed him his bottle