Pictures

We're not great at taking pictures, which also leads to me being bad at posting pictures, but here's some "recent" ones. Madeline has become too cute for words. SHe is oozing with personality and we are in love with it. Not too much to say for now, except for I ran the Rex E. Lee run (no pics sorry) and ran a 5K in 28 minutes! So I'm pretty stoked. I haven't run since, but I did hike the Y with Madeline, so that's something. WE made it to the top! With me carrying her in my arms sleeping all the way down. Anyway, I'll post more later.

Cute!

I wanted to adorn this post with cute pics of Madeline cooking ( pretending to cook that is...) but I will have to wait until I take some for that. Madeline has discovered her love of cooking (or basically doing whatever I am doing), so I decided to make her this adorable vintage-inspired apron! So cute, right? but seriously, for the time it took to make this adorable apron, this kid better be turning out some gourmet meals!
Oh and a shout out to Lesley, who helped with everything but especially the binding! THanks!!!

Do cougars have the smartest kids?

New York Magazine
March 16, 2009
"Earlier this month, the journal PLoS Medicine analyzed data from a study of over 50,000 pregnant women and came to a simple but stunning conclusion: Older fathers have dumber kids. The more geriatric the dad, the dimmer the progeny, on measures including "thinking and reasoning, concentration, memory, understanding, speaking, and reading." (Luckily, geezer offspring had no problems with motor skills, making them ideal for wheeling around their elderly dads.)
It was another unsettling addition to the growing pile of evidence that men have their own biological clocks, with older fathers also producing higher rates of schizophrenia and autism. But what really caught my eye was the secondary finding, which was that older mothers were associated with smarter children. I quickly did the calculations and was pleased with my findings. The most intelligent children, I deduced, must be the outcome of 45-year-old career women inseminated by their 21-year-old personal trainers."
Being two years older than my husband, and pretty much almost 30, this article does give me some peace of mind.