Lincoln's almost 5 years old

This weekend we celebrated Lincoln's 5th birthday (his actual b-day is next week). Lincoln had a few school friends over to the house, and of course Mary and Randy and Tracy and Joni (and families) were there for the festivities. The weather was perfect, so we were able to turn the kids loose outside.

Linda's big experiment was creating a doughnut mountain instead of the typical birthday cake. The kids loved it, and we still have tons of doughnut holes left over. Note: One 50-pack of Munchkins from Dunkin' Donuts is enough to feed eight pre-schoolers. We opted for two packs (to be safe) and are now paying the price.

Our big gift to Lincoln was a new bike - a two-wheeler. Our hope is to transition him to the new bike (sans training wheels) by the end of the summer and transition Guy to Lincoln's old bike (with training wheels).

He was excited about the bike, but he's not too sure about this whole "no training wheels" thing. Results TBD.

Hospital Hill

Last weekend was my second running of the Hospital Hill half-marathon. As the name implies, it is hilly - and on race day it was also very hot. I managed to finish, though, and get a very nice medal.

I tried to train "smarter" this year by running lots of hills during my training, but it was still a very tough day. I started out faster than I should have, and the heat didn't help. Luckily there were sprinklers along the route to cool us off, and a few spectators even offered us ice!

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The best part of the race, though, was seeing Guy, Lincoln, and Scott along the route cheering me on. They stopped at two places(and the finish) and gave me high-fives as I went by. It was awesome having them there and helped keep me going. Now to start training for Hospital Hill 2012!

Guy's first week of "big boy school"

Last week marked an important day for our family - both boys are finally at the same daycare! Scott and I were sad to be leaving his old daycare, as the teachers there were wonderful and Guy really liked being there. We had always planned on moving him to Lincoln's daycare, though (since it has the Montessori preschool attached to it), and Memorial Day weekend seemed like a good time to make the switch.
Guy has handled the transition pretty well. He does fine at drop-off since Lincoln is there with him, but the teachers say he has some trouble when it's time for him to go to his own classroom. His new teacher is very nice, though, and he really seems to like her. It also doesn't hurt that his new school has "frosty treat Monday" - every Monday during the summer they get a visit from the ice-cream man!
Here's a picture of Guy on his first day at "big boy school".