Houston Trip/Texas Ironman 2012

 Next up - Kevin finishing his bike ride. I think this took him around 5 1/2 - 6ish hours? They rode for 112 miles I believe so we only got to see him finish.  During his biking, we went and got breakfast, did some shopping, played in the splash parks and met up with family that live in Houston.

Coming into the bike finish.

 

 

  Then began the running. He ran a marthon - 26.2 miles. We got to see him come by us every 6 miles or so and then 2 miles later we saw him ran past us on the other side of the canal, so we got to cheer for him a few times!

 Ben and Cohen just hanging out. Luckily, Kelci and I are blessed with good babies and they all did so good!

 Give him a water bottle and he is a happy baby!

 Running by on the other side of the canal!

 The finish line is somewhere in there.

 And he finished. Here's a not-so-funny story. So Kelci and I had our parents and the babes go up to the finish line while we waited for Kevin to run by one more time towards the finish line. Well, Kevin never ran by. And that would be because he finished!!! We thought he was supposed to run by us 1 more time before going to the finish line. But instead, when he ran past us on the other side of the canal, there were only 3 more miles until the finish.  So our parents and the kiddos were the only ones that got to see him finish! But he did it and he did really well, finishing around 11 1/2 hours!

 Kevin Burkey - You are an Ironman!

 We then walked to the medical part of Ironman where there were chiropractors, massage therapists, food, drinks and the medic tent.  Well, Kevin went in to go get a massage and ended up getting sick and passing out to some degree. So they took him to the medic tent and he ended up being in kidney failure. Lots of fluids and puking later, and he was fine!

 Ironman 2012 wore Lyla out!

And that sums up his race! We are SO proud of him for how great he did! I love that we were able to be there to support him!

Houston Trip/ Texas Ironman 2012

 Finally the big day! We got up around 3:30ish am I believe and got ready to head to the race. Kevin and Kelci has miss placed their keys so after searching for a while, Kevin came with us. Luckily, Kelci found the keys! ;)

Headed off to get ready!

 His fans!

 She loves him so!! 

 There were SO many people there! This was where he got his number put on him and got ready for the swim!

 She was over pictures at 5:30 in the morning!

 Luckily, they were both troopers!

 Daddy and Ben!

 Kev's biggest fan! ;)

 The competitors getting ready to go in to the lake.

 Sweet Ben! I just love him! He did pretty good during the race too!

 I'm just gonna guess that he's somewhere in there!  There were around 2400 competitors I believe, so tons of people! We stood up on a bridge watching them take off!

 Off he goes!

 This was the first transition where they got their bikes!

 Kelci and I kept looking for him and I kept looking for him based off his skin color and Kelci was going off his stroke I believe! Somehow we were able to find him! He's the green cap in the back.

 Grabbing his biking gear and seeing his fans for the first time!

 This is the canal they swam up. He had to swim 2.something miles.

 During the bike part, we had about 6 hours of a break. Luckily they had some splash pads, so Lyla got to play in the water a few times! We also got to do shopping and hung out with my cousins that live in Houston. Unfortunately, I never got one picture of us together!!

The ironman symbol made up of all the competitors names.

 Can you find his?

 

Finishing the bike ride and starting the run next! I took way to many pictures to put them all in the same post! ;)

Cohen ::10 months::

How is my baby 10 months already? How do I ONLY have 2 months until he's one? This makes me heart sad!

Nonetheless, Cohen Finn, you are such a joy to our lives. You make us SO happy and we all are just smitten with you! 

 - You weigh around 15 1/2 lbs and around 27 inches tall.

- You are wearing 3-6 month and a few 9 month clothes. 

- You wear size 1/2 shoes.

 

- You are in size 3 diapers.

-You no longer nurse and haven't for 1 month. But you do just fine with the bottle. You eat around every 4 hours and take 8 oz at a time.

- You still hate food. You love fruits and will only eat jarred veggies. You have a texture problem and won't eat anything with chunks besides for bananas.  You love all fruits, yogurt, sweet potatoes and squash! You hate green beans and peas and won't even those out of the jar!

 

 - You will finally start to self feed, but mostly just puffs. You don't like your hands to be sticky!

- You have 5 teeth now with 2 more trying to come through!

- Still not a fan of the sippy cup!

 - You sleep around 11-12 hours at night and take 2 naps a day.

- Your morning nap is normally around 1 hour and your afternoon is anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours.

- You will only fall asleep in your crib or car seat when in the car. You like to stay awake for everything!

 - You are a mover for sure and like to stay super busy! You are crawling on your hands and knees, bear crawling (hands and feet, butt in the air) pulling up to stand and lowering yourself back down, walking hold on to the walker or our fingers and cruising furniture. Nothing is safe if you get a hold of it! ;)

- You are not very verbal and have yet to dabble into mama, dada, baba sounds. You like to point and say eh over and over. You also like to scream which you do quite loudly!

- You can also clap, dance, give hi fives and wave hi/bye.

- You generally are quite happy and loveable little boy! If you are tired or hungry, then watch out. You can be quite whiny! 

- Your nick name right now is Co Finn and if we call you anything but that your sister likes to correct us!

- You love to laugh and have a cute little machine gun laugh!

- You had your first trip out of state and also to the lake!

Happy 10 months sweet boy! We love you SO much!