Daily Ada: 28 April 2013

Bristol 10K.

I'm running the Bristol 10K on 5 May, as part of a company team. I'm on the social committee at work, so when we started to organize it, I allowed myself to be talked into running it.
It's been a long time since I've exercised regularly, and even longer since I've run six miles. I've been following a couch to 10K app (run double - it's a fantastic app). It's timed out that the first time I go the full six miles is two days before the race! We'll see how I do - I just want to finish.
But the important thing now is that we're raising money on behalf of the Wallace and Gromit Grand Appeal in aid of the Bristol Children's Hospital. If you can throw a few pennies our way, we'd appreciate it!
www.justgiving.com/businesswest
I'll report back when it's all over!

Weekly Ada: 13 April 13: including her first haircut!

As mentioned in the previous post, Ada was acting better by the end of the day on Sunday and was eating OK (though not very much) on Monday. We sent her to daycare on Tuesday, but she had trouble keeping things down again so they sent her home. That meant that she couldn't go back for 48 hours, so she couldn't go in on Wednesday, and she's normally home on a Thursday any way. Lots of home time. 

We seized the opportunity to do some more media training, trying to nurture the addiction so when we have long haul flights all she wants to do is stare dead-eyed into a screen. And I hear TVs make excellent babysitters. We're making progress - soon we won't be needed at all. Nice!

That's a Wii-mote, not the remote, but it doesn't matter

On Thursday, we went to the library. We haven't visited since she's been walking and standing, so she had a good time trying out all of the chairs.

 We made a couple of trips to the park..

Action shot from Friday

 And finally, we've been noticing that her bangs/fringe were getting a bit long and starting to get into her eyes, so we decided it was time for her first trim. All we did was the little bit over her eyes so we didn't have to brush them out of the way all the time. The picture below doesn't really show how much her hair was getting into her eyes.

Before

After

A lifetime of crooked home haircuts has begun

Daily Ada: 7 April 2013: Sick.

Today Ada woke up feeling poorly. Mark was "on duty" this morning (we take turns in the mornings on the weekends) and he was faced with a lot of unpleasantness in a short period of time. We're not sure if it was food poisoning or a virus, but Ada couldn't keep anything down and wasn't completely out of sorts, just extra sensitive. But it seems that whatever it was, it's already been and mostly gone because by the end of the day she was pretty much back to normal, and ate a decent dinner. She's in bed now, coughing a little bit but mostly sleeping. We'll see what tomorrow brings!

At the beginning, she was sad and puny.

Then we started watching Timmy Time.

Thanks, Netflix!

More sad and puny

Moved Timmy Time to the iPad. Ate a little bit of rice cake.

Managed to keep it down. This is progress.

Since she could now keep things down, we tried some kids ibuprofen.

This made a big difference. Hello, world!

And back to normal - a pre-dinner visit to the park:

Daily Ada: 31 March 2013: Easter!

So Easter arrived and we decided to try out an egg hunt for Ada. 

This is what happens when you don't have "real" dye or the energy to make some up

Ada's first egg!

I am the egg-man

We got Ada ready with an egg carton in her push cart thing to gather. We had also inadvertently done some training previously by giving her the "Hide and Squeak" eggs toy months ago. 

After being distracted by a book (which we had to explain was not an egg)...

Not an egg

 ...she spotted her first egg.

Wait a minute...

Which, amazingly, she sprint-crawled towards to collect, without any further prompting from us.

Gotcha!

She then found the rest of the eggs, and carefully (mostly) placed them in the egg carton in her cart. It was a great success! The only down side was my poor judgement in putting the egg that had a face on it (that Mark drew, in the picture above), in the hippopotamus's mouth on her "activity center." That one we had to show Ada since it wasn't visible, and then she got a little freaked out by it. In hindsight, a face inside a hippo's mouth was maybe a bit gruesome for a kid's first Easter hunt. Oops.

But that aside, Ada seemed to enjoy it. I was just surprised that it went as well as it did. We did it two more times; probably more for me than Ada, since I was so delighted that she "got it."

Then we went to Brean and had a British style egg hunt for (BIG) chocolate eggs in the backyard with Nanny Kate and Auntie Sarah. Ada didn't do too much hunting, but she seemed to like carrying the spoils around.