Mia's 1st day @ Kindergarten

Snuggling on her last night of freedom

Breakfast

All ready to go

Posing in front of her new cubbie.

Mia has a friend already.  Bailey went to pre-school with Mia

7 minutes

That's all it took for Mia's surgery. Getting her down on the table was more traumatic for me than I think it was for her, especially after she started getting the gas. She's home now counting all her stickers she got from the nurses(she hit the sticker jackpot!) & watching Sponge Bob. She was a little sluggish but is really perking up now.

Tubular

Tomorrow @ the Ass crack of dawn Mia goes in for surgery. Nothing major just tubes in her ears. Hopefully it will end the constant battle we have had with ear infections. Unfortunately she inherited my bad ear genes & has chronic ear infections. I didn't have to go the tube route but she does. Though I am getting as deaf as a bat(work related more than genetic) we don't want her to be. They say it is no big deal.

Tonight Mia & I went to a pre op party to get a tour of what we'll go through Friday. I get to go in the operating room till the gas knocks her out. Since we're shooting for kiddo numero dos Amber has to sit in the waiting room while I wear the white antrax suit. The tour was pretty informative & Cox does a good job of putting the parent & the kid at ease for what is happening. Mia even walked away with a belly full of ice cream & a baggy full goodies(I'm sure I'll be billed for it all).

Read this article. while you wish Mia well. A lot of familiar names ie Irwin & Smith. Great pics of my old stomping grounds. Man I miss Gunni!

I guess I'd better update to keep this thing active

It's either feast or famine with this damn blog. Truth is the new job has me going from 4:30 till after 5. Makes for a long day. The proclaimed 4 day work weeks are actually 5 day weeks kinda like I knew it would be. Training took a hit this week since Mia got another ear infection which I picked up a cold from. Amber got it so bad today she went & got a shot. Me I just have a persistent dry cough. Not a lot of fun for sleeping or even riding. Needless to say I skipped racing this weekend. Hopefully I can get some consistency back & get some kilometers in before the Sylmo revenge or that is going to hurt worse than any amount of free beer can help. I look at it like this I need the training so why not get some free beer after?

Mia is with the in laws watching Disney on Ice & JQH Arena. Explain this one too me? We have an ice rink in the SPR but they have an ice show @ JQH? WTF is that about? Great use of the assets we have. Though it doesn't really surprise me all that mutch.

Watched Amstel Gold this AM. Kinda of a snooze fest. Except for Fränk Schleck and Matthew Lloyd eating pavement. Schleck was one of my picks for the win so kinda lost interest in the race after that. Cleaned house instead to help out the ailing wife. She's feeling really bad. Actually I'd better go stick a mirror under her nose she's been comatose on the couch awhile now.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

We're down @ then lake for Easter so I watched Roubaix on multiple Euro feeds this AM. I started in French & ended up in Spanish. Never fails if you watch a race on the Euro feeds the closer it gets to the end of the race more people log on & crash the server. Then you have to scramble to find another server. But it beats paying. Boonen got lucky avoiding the crashes at the end. It takes luck & power to win on the cobbles, that's why he has 3 cobbles on his mantle. I really wanted Hincapie to win but he just doesn't have the luck. I'm wondering if that was the last time we'll see him on the Pave'?

Yesterday part one of the garden went in. 4'x8' of raised garden bed. That's a lot of dirt, peat, & manure to haul in the back of the Volvo. This week part two will get built(hopefully). Yard work had top priority so no saddle time. But the yard looks good all weeded & new plants in the back yard. Now if we can keep the hounds outs. A few new runs of electric fence should work.

Mia is wired on candy this am. I'm expecting a big sugar crash at any second.

Thug

My kid is a thug. She is trust me. I've seen her throw right crosses that would lay out Tyson. I guess it comes from being twice as big as kids her age. Yesterday @ daycare she put another thug(according to their teacher) in his place. She bit the hell out of him. I can't help but laughing since she told me she did it because he stole her socks & shoes. How he did this without her ever taking them off a 2.5 year old's mind will only understand. Of course this isn't really funny because she got sent home with the official State note saying my kid had bit another kid. Pay backs for when Mia got bit in daycare.

When life kicks you in the nutz....

go mountain biking. I think that might become my new motto.

An hour worth of the above is worth more than a whole bottle of anything a shrink can prescribe you. At one point I was singing Xmas carols I was having so much fun. My back is F'd though today. Turns out when you get to my age you can only switch back & forth between 2 bikes not 3, especially one you haven't ridden in about 6 months. For you overly observant readers yes that is a flat rear & yes those were the WRONG tires for the conditions at Sac. I didn't feel like swapping them out. That is also a 400mm seatpost! Holy Treefarm. I figured its a Kona why not.


Mia is now designing her own clothes.

Since I'll probably be a no show at Natz I'm practicing my viewing by reading about the USGP final in Portland via the live feed. CXMag is doing it for Natz as well.

DeStad Final in Pics (my own, not stolen for a change)

My #1 fan

The Heat showed up in force, with most of the heavy hitters from the Master's showing.



Mark Studnicki, Me, Jeff Winkler, Tom Price

The new Skinsuits. Do they make me look fat?

Tom, Jeff, & Me. Jeff would go on to win. Tom would crash so I could pass him to finish 2nd. Tom took a hard fall & either broke a bone or separated his shoulder. I hope the later since that heals faster. Old guys don't bounce so well. But I was glad to see Tom & Mark both line up since it made for some super fast, really fun racing.





Cobbles baby! Ala Koppenbergcross. Very Belgie.

Paint drying.

What can I say I root for the under dog. Fighting the under dog battle all of the DeStad Series. Dan made a race of it in the 45+. I really wanted him to take the overall. Oh well as he says its all in fun.

I got the top spot in the 35+ for the series. Mia decided to do some podium practice for later on. Yes that is a Challenge Podium hat! Thank you Don Kellogg & Greg Keller.

On the way home about Clinton, no Taco Hell stop this week.

I didn't have to work on Monday so I spent my recovery day laying floor in my bedroom. Amber likes it, but I'm a little disappointed because I think it makes our room look smaller.

Mia is a HUGE CX Fan

Last week @ Vet CX. It's snowing here in the SPR. Should be interesting tomorrow @ the KS State CX. Last year they had epic conditions.

ZOOOOO

Last Saturday when I was at work, Mia's Nanny took her to the zoo. I meant to post them the other day but got sidetracked









So tired at the end of the day passed out eating ice cream.

33 days till CX

The new camera broke @ the Dave show so you'll have to bear with the cell pics for now. With cross rapidly closing in, the next few weekends will be spent catching up projects on the home front so I can go a racing on a weekly basis. As Amber reminded me this weekend we've lived on Brecklyn now for 3 years & every year we've undertaken a major home project. This weekend we had had enough of the crap carpet in our house so out it went.
We made a trip to the Lowe's. Low & behold they actually had the same laminate that is in our kitchen. This made the project scale a lot littler thank god. In the back of my mind I thought I was going to have to redo the kitchen & the living room. Now its just the living room(this weekend anyway).

A little on Saturday & a little on Sunday & Mia is enjoying here new sliding floor. I am a lot worse for the wear though. I can hardly walk today I'm so sore. Getting old is rough. My back aches, my legs ache, my ass aches....Thank god for liquid aspirin Sunday night.

For some reason we can't figure out Mia decided Desitin is for her face.

A Happy Belated BDay

After a whirlwind weekend I'm still trying to catch my breath. Friday was Mia's second Birthday or as she says: "Happy Birthday you you." Saturday was Amber's Birthday (age left out). Saturday night we went out for dinner on what will be our last night out as a family till Mia is 16. Let's put it this way, I don't recommend going out with a toddler who has hit the terrible two's. Sunday we had a party for the girl's. Lots of Dora the Explorer cake, balloons, & Dora related gifts. Throw in riding to work all week(4x), mowing(twice), a hard Saturday ride, weed eating, power washing the deck, too much sun, & I was ready for bed at about 3:30 Sunday afternoon. I'm still not woke up this AM after a ride to work & half a pot of coffee. I'll post pics tonight as soon as I round them all up. Long week ahead with Memorial Day Weekend. I had planned on racing but it sounds like a trip to the lake will be in order instead. Maybe I'll get in a 6.5 hour ride on Saturday instead.

Kid Cage

I'm going too(spelled just for Skip & Shane) start marketing this:
Actually this is a rooster cage, like a shark cage but to protect from roosters.

cross training

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