Stella and I went running this morning. We’ve been having a pretty good week (real teething excepted). She’s been going to sleep when she’s supposed to, and she’s started trying to reach for everything. I think her monkey arms are the main reason she hasn’t started crawling. With her arms and body stretched out she’s got about a 3 foot reach. Why move if you can lean over and pick something up? Smart kid.

Stella tells Michigan to dish it! She can take it!

So this morning it was 36 degrees. Which is pretty cold. Julie woke me up at 6:15 (which today appears to have actually occured at 6:10, I always ask her what time it is and always get a marginally inaccurate answer) and I got myself dressed in hoody and running shorts and then put Stella in a jogging suit and long sleeve onesy. I wrapper her up in a blanket, pulled her hood over her head, pulled my hood over my head and we were off. It really wasn’t that bad. We’ve been having some amazing wind gusts the past few days that have made it feel really cold. Today it was still so the cold wasn’t that bitter. Stella did really well and is upping my expectations for our Thanksgiving trip to Michigan. I think Stella’s probably going to deal better with the cold than her mom. About 40 minutes into the 4.25 mile run she started crying. I think that was the fact that she was really tired rather than the fact that it was cold. Of course at the time I was convinced that CPS agents were going jump out of their white CPS vans that they park down by the railroad tracks looking for people jogging with a crying kid in 36 degree weather. Thankfully she stopped crying once we got into our neighborhood.

I got her upstairs and started my shower. She usually hangs out in her papizan chair while I shower in the morning so her mom can get some more sleep. She keeps herself entertained by dropping her toys under her chair and reaching down and trying to pick them back up. Today she got very quiet so I peeked out of the shower. She was sleeping completely doubled over. She apparently had been reaching for her binky under her chair and just dropped off. I pushed her back into a somewhat sitting up position and she slept until I was done shaving.

Today’s my last day of work and I drove in so I took care of Stella until Julie woke up naturally. I think that was around 8:30. It was a nice morning.