Humphry Update: You can read about Humphry’s condition HERE. While Humphry is still in intensive care we did get a good update on him this morning. I was very glad to not have my phone ring last night as no news was good news. I did wake up at least once an hour to be sure I didn’t miss a call. The vet called us this morning to give us the update that Humphry had a mainly uneventful night. He was responding to his name and even stumbled around outside to go potty. The vet was pleased with this progress and is hopeful that we may be able to bing him home in a few days. She did tell us that Humphry is now blind, his vision could return as he heals but there is no way to know if and when that could happen. I just hope he isn’t in pain or too scared. I can’t wait to hold him again.

Even though we are all feeling sad and anxious we still found ways to distract ourselves and have fun.

It was actually sweatshirt weather (LOVE) so we got out the matching Mickey Mouse shirts. How long will they let me dress them in matching outfits?

We had a playdate at a playground with some friends in the morning, it was so nice to see them! We aren’t seeing our friends as much now that most are distance learning at home.

Cannon got to spend solo time with my parents which he loved!

For the evening we went to our neighboorhood pool for the last time. The pool will close on Monday (Labor Day) and we are only allowed to go once a week to keep the pools from being crowded. I will miss going to the pool, it was a nice distraction from missing Humphry. We grabbed a pizza for dinner because no one felt like making dinner and cuddled the kids most of the night.

This morning we asked Cannon if he wanted to go to school and he did so Cannon, Emmy and I got a nice walk down to the school.

My mom bought Emmy some cute new clothes so I asked Emmy to pose so I could send a picture of her in her new sweater for Grandma.

This was the pose she gave me.

We are loving this cooler weather but we are about to go on the Colorado weather roller coaster.

Notice that we are going to have a high of 90 on Monday and an inch of snow, how is that even possible!?! Also it will be below freezing so we are going to have to do something to protect our garden. The weather here is just wild.

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Anyone else looking at crazy weather coming up?

Any fun plans for the holiday weekend? We were supposed to go camping in southern Colorado but with Humphry’s condition it us unlikely. We will just be happy if we get our boy home for the weekend.

Did you ever read the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day?

My mom would read it to us when we were kids and having a bad day.

Unfortunately today has been a very horrible no good day. It started out bad and just got worse as it went along.

I tend to keep this space fairly positive, a space to document my running and life so in ten or twenty years I can look back at this time and remember the day-to-day of very little kids. I don’t want to come off as ungrateful but today has been pretty terrible.

We spent the night up with Humphry who couldn’t keep anything down and was continuously throwing up. Very little sleep and worry is not a fun combination.

We recognized the symptoms as the same as May when he was treated for Pancreatitis. We called our vet and he suggested we take him straight to the hospital where they could do a ultrasound on him.

We took him in and dropped him off without much though about it because we had done this before without any issues. After looking him over the vet suggested a non-invasive procedure to treat a cyst on his pancreas. We were told he could come home and recover here with us as an outpatient.

In the afternoon we got a frantic call from the vet saying that Humphry’s heart had stopped and he wasn’t breathing. I am not sure exactly why she called me in the middle of the crisis, maybe to get my consent to do everything to save him, although I was never really asked. It’s not a question, of course we want them to do everything in their power to save him.

I feel very lucky that Emmy was napping and Cannon was at my parents house when that call came in because I was cursing and sobbing. This was a routing procedure, nothing like this was expected.

They were able to get Humphry’s heart started, and intubate him until he began breathing. The slowest hours ever are the ones you spend waiting to hear if your loved on is going to make it.

As of this evening Humphry is breathing on his own, but sedated and basically in a coma as his brain heals. We won’t know what his future looks like until he recovers more and we know the extent of the brain injuries.

Hunphry will be monitored constantly overnight as he could go into arrest again, or have a stroke or probably many other things I don’t know about. The night shift default is to not call unless something starts to go wrong, no news is good news until tomorrow morning. The vet said he will likely need to stay in the hospital for three to four days.

We love Humphry so much, he is a little cuddle buddy and the kids constantly want to play and hang out with him. I have hated coming home today and not have him waiting for us at the door. Sending Cannon to bed without Humphry in his bed was heartbreaking. We can’t go visit him and I hate that he is alone and possibly suffering.

I just hope that we get to bring him home and he is the same sweet dog that we sent in this morning.

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If you are the praying/good vibes/whatever type we could use them, we are hurting and scared and I am sure Humphy is too.

Normally Cannon and Emmy are really good sleepers. But once in a while they throw us a curve ball. Emmy decided she needed company all night last night. Maybe she getting her two year molars, who knows.

Given that Emmy needed attention my 4am alarm was ignored and my morning run didn’t happen. Lucky for me it was only 3 miles so I was able to shift my run to nap time.

Cannon joined me for my run, he hung out in the play area (which is a mess) with his tablet while I ran. I have been avoiding running with the stroller because it tends to hurt my knee more. The treadmill and I are becoming very close but I am going to have to make an effort to get outside more.

We built this play area for the kids for Christmas last year, enclosed it with baby gates filled it with toys. It’s been one of the best things we have done. The kids LOVE it and it’s another space we can use if it’s too hot or cold to be outside. We didn’t know there would be a quarantine with all of the playgrounds closed in December when we built this but I am sure glad we did.

Watching Keep Your Daydream in New Zealand, their RV was very similar to our RV in Germany and it makes me nostalgic.

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For dinner we had shrimp tacos, they were amazing, mango is key.

Did you guys see that the London Marathon will go for elites only?

I am excited that the pros get to races, this is their profession and their passion. I will be excited to watch on October 4th!

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Are you excited to watch any sports?

I am loving Le Tour de France and will be stoked to watch the return to racing. Also super hoping that the olympics actually get to run in 2021, silver lining is that we get the olympics two years in a row!

Happy September! I can’t believe it’s here already! The start of my favorite season and one month closer to all of this COVID life being over. September is one of my favorite months, I loved going back to school as a kid and I love the season changing, even if it means the sun is coming up later.

Our school district is supposed to announce what the rest of the semester will look like on September 11th. I don’t know what to hope for with school. I want all the kids to be able to go to school and learn as normal, but I also want everyone to be safe and I am loving the extra time with Cannon.

Today was a full rest day for me so the kids and I took an easy slow morning. It was nice that we didn’t have to rush out of the house early before it got too hot to be out at a playground.

These kids RUN everywhere they go!

After playing we did the normal boring life things like naps, laundry and attempts at homeschool {LOL}.

It was odd to have a full rest day, I kept feeling like I was forgetting something. I thought a lot about trying to do a run streak now but while recovering as well as a 10 day trip at the end of the month I didn’t want the pressure. I have done a couple “streaks” and have loved them. I have never done very long streaks, a month here and there with the longest being 50 days. It is tempting to go for a 100 day streak to end the year.

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100 days to the end of the year starts on September 23rd…..anyone want to join me?

Another week down, I do feel like the weeks are flying by! I am still playing it safe with my long runs so I did my “long run” for the week on the treadmill of six miles. I was pleased that my knee did not hurt at all while running (win)! As the day wore on I could tell it was stressed so I am not completely out of the woods yet.

This is how the week went down:

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Monday:  3.3 mile steady run on the treadmill.

Tuesday: Rest day

Wednesday: Two easy miles before strength training.

Thursday: 1.75 miles pushing the double (so it counts for double right?)

Friday:  Fiveish miles with some strides in the middle.

Saturday: Two miles with the family.

Sunday: Six miles on the treadmill, with progression along the way and a fast finish.

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Totals: 20 miles and really excited to be adding on the miles. Can’t wait until this is closer to 50 miles a week. Slow and steady, hopefully we will be closer to that total by November.

Cory took the kids out for a run while I stuck to the treadmill. While out they ran across (not over!) a tarantula.

It’s crazy the wildlife we see in this neighborhood!

Don’t worry they didn’t touch it.

Emmy’s head is so much better today, it’s amazing to me how quickly kids can heal!

For the afternoon we watched Cannon’s soccer game and he scored his first goal.

So proud of our little guy. I don’t care if he is great, or what sport he ends up playing I just hope he learns to love moving his body and being active.

For dinner we had salmon and broccoli. Cory found this amazing recipe:

It’s so good, the kids love it too, we just leave the chili flakes off for them!

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How was your week?

Found any great recipes lately?

This morning we woke up to glorious cool weather. It was perfect for a family run together. In the spring I was really wishing that we could all run together when we were all stuck in quarantine but Cory had an injured knee. Finally now we are able to get out together.

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The kids love to go with us and run the last bit home with us.

Emmy is now old enough to run in kids races, Cannon was younger than her when he did his first race. I am a little sad that she won’t get to do that for awhile longer.

Today is the first day of Le Tour de France I really missed watching it in July, but I am glad it’s on now.

I just hope everyone involved stays healthy.

We spent some time with my parents, so nice to be hanging out with them again! and then made some dinner.

As we were getting ready for bed Emmy was twirling, and twirled herself right into her bookshelf. She got a nasty looking goose egg and black line on her forehead.

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We called her pedestrian (so glad they have doctors on call 24/7). They thought she would be fine as long as she didn’t start throwing up. Poor girl barley cried, she is so tough. I will probably be up all night watching her. Grateful we aren’t making an ER run!

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Anyone else watching the tour? I guess our crash was fitting since the day in France was FULL of crashes!

The day started with a 4:15 alarm, and even though I got up quickly I still didn’t start running until 5 am. I really need to tighten up my morning routine. Less time sitting around drinking coffee more time warming up and actually getting to it.

Five miles on the treadmill and still loving it, but I have been thinking about running outside more. The smoke is clearing some so the air is better and the weather has taken a big turn today. Everyday has been in the 90s and not getting below 70 at night. Now we are looking at much cooler temperatures and it feels just a bit like fall.

I noticed a Halloween virtual half marathon advertised on instagram and I think it could be really fun.

The proceeds go to support the Special Olympics and the trails in Boulder are still beautiful and runnable in October.

After my run it was time to get the kids going and ready to go to school.

It’s so nice to be back to the routine of walking the kiddos to school in the double.

Emmy helped me get a menu and list together before heading to Costco. We will pick up the groceries later. Anyone else always go to two or more stores a week? We consistently go to the grocery store and Costco, thank goodness for grocery pick-up. So much easier with the littles in tow.

My mom made this board for Cannon’s back to school. I am always so impressed with her talent.

In the evening we were treated to a rainstorm that cooled things off, gave us some much needed moisture. The storm also cleared out a lot of the smoke and treated us to a nice sunset.

Anyone else thinking of doing a virtual race this fall?

Today was Cannon’s first day back to school. He is in his second year of preschool. He has the same teacher and a couple of the same kids from last year. He marched into class like such a big boy knowing exactly what to do. I am so so proud of him, while I miss the little baby he was he is such a cool little boy now.

We took the required first day pictures with his board. I love this board from Chalk Designs by Me.

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Cory joined us for our walk to school. Things are a little different this year that the kids don’t get to play together on the playground before or after school. It’s a bummer for Emmy who LOVED playing with her friends there every day. The classes are also split in half so there is only six kiddos in Cannon’s class and they are all boys!

He looks so different than last year!

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Drop off was very weird and quiet since preschoolers are the only students going to school, all the other students are remote learning for now.

Emmy walked all the way home and then we didn’t know what to do with ourselves. Most of our friends have older kids home distance learning, we can’t go to museums or libraries or gyms so I am going to have to get creative on how to keep Emmy entertained and socialized.

After picking up Cannon from school the kids got a treat for both rocking their first day.

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They both love these Mickey Mouse ice cream sandwiches (they split one).

For the rest of the day we played outside and even prepped dinner on the deck.

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I had a class to teach so after dinner I tucked myself away in the office while Cory got the kids ready for bed.

During my classes break I got to come up and say goodnight to Cannon. Cory was reading him the Giving Tree. I avoid reading that book because I can’t get through it without crying.

Any books make you cry?

Read any great books lately?

I got up with my alarm at 4:30 am excited to run 5 miles on the treadmill while watching the Netflix documentary The Least Expected Day about the Movistar cycling team.

As I was just about to head downstairs to the home gym, Emmy started crying. She had been sleeping pretty well lately so I am not sure what caused her to wake up. Morning run foiled, but I did get some extra time cuddling Emmy. She will only be this little and want to cuddle me at all for a short time.

I was paying attention to the morning and it really does take us too long in the morning. We are in trouble tomorrow when we all need to be ready to leave the house for school at 7:30 am. It’s going to be really weird to drop Cannon off at school when the preschool is really the only kids attending. 2020 is just nuts, I am ready for some good news and normality.

We met a couple friends at the park to get some playtime in on this last day of summer. It makes me a little sad to think of Cannon starting school tomorrow and I am not so secretly glad it’s only two days a week.

We were able to score a great deal on some Kelty Little Dipper sleeping bags. They are so cute!

Can’t wait to take them camping!

The afternoon was spent getting last minute things done for school, like Cannon’s immunization records and a few more things from his supply list. I have no idea what Emerald and I will do tomorrow after dropping Cannon off. We have been so busy getting him ready that we won’y know what to do with just the two of us!

I used to love to take Emmy to the gym, get my run in while she had time to play with other kids. Obviously that isn’t happening this year and even when this is “over” I don’t know how that will go. Being together 24/7 has really increased Emmy’s seperation anxiety. I don’t know how we are going to deal with that :/

A storm rolled in for the evening and Cannon decided he wanted to eat dinner in the trailer.

The kids think the camper is their playhouse.

Then it was off to get ready for bed and everything packed up for school.

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Are your kiddos excited for school this year?

What foils your running plans?

I took a rest day today as my legs were not feeling good last night and I want to be very careful.

As with many days recently it was hot and smoky.

I really hope those 70 degree happen, that would be so nice!

We stayed home to try to get things a little in order. My parents did come over with their dogs for a bit for a play date. Their puppy is pretty timid and it’s really hard to get her socialized with Covid.

During nap time Cannon and I ran out to get his hair cut. His last cut was in February, we decided to just let it grow.

I love it long and floppy but it makes him touch his face all the time and it’s hard for him to put his mask on with all that hair over his ears. So for safety sake we decided it needed a cut.

Then we ran to the store to pick out a first day of school outfit and drop some things off at the post office. It’s really nice being able to leave Emmy home napping while Cory works. We made it home before she woke up.

Cannon’s school was having a fundraiser at a local pizza shop so it was pizza and a movie for dinner. It was nice to cuddle and celebrate the end of summer.

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Is your state on fire? It’s so sad to see so much beautiful land on fire.