This morning was the annual Jingle Bell Run in downtown Seattle. I’m not sure how many runners there were but I do know that it’s the biggest Jingle Bell Run in the country and I would bet there were thousands of people there. Fiona and I met my sister and my brother and a group of people from my brothers Fire Dept. to run the race. With the best intentions to be well organized we all arrived there at close to the same time…about 10 minutes before our wave started! We made it to the starting line before our wave left but not with enough time to even get pins for our numbers….crazy. Luckily my sis had extra. There are so many people at this event that it is hard to even run – there were times that i just gave up and walked and didn’t go any slower. It felt good to be out doing an event of some kind and even though I haven’t been running that much I felt pretty good and ran the whole time (the slow pace certainly helped!). Fiona did o.k. – I still am not great at timing all of the things that need to happen to keep little one happy…we left the house with everything we needed but i didn’t feed her (other then nursing) because it was too early. Of course half-way through the event she was tired of being in the stroller, overwhelmed by all the people, possibly cold, and I’m sure HUNGRY. She cried for the last 1.5 miles. Luckily I made her a waffle before we left and stuffed that in the bag and had a warm bottle ready for her too. She slugged down 6 ounces and half a waffle and was pretty happy from there out. Then we ran into Frosty the Snowman and that really made her happy. She loved everything about him…the furry white suit and the giant carrot…mmmmmmmm!
After the race Auntie Theresa and I stayed and took Fiona on her first carousel ride at Westlake. The pictures don’t show it but once we got going she really warmed up to it and had a great time. My sister and I had made fun of my mom all of our lives because even the carousel would make her sick – she sometimes couldn’t even bare to stand on the ground and watch us go around – we never understood. But today standing on the carousel trying to balance Fi and get pictures taken both my sister and I found ourselves totally dizzy and it took a bit for us to get our sea-legs =) Oh the things we learn.
Nice work mama and Fi!!!! Glad you got out and enjoyed the race! Our Jingle Bell run was like yours.. slow and crowded. Though i’m sure our’s was colder than yours. ha ha And my kids were at home w/ gma and gpa!