Constructing a Life

Stephen, while walking outside:  "I was younger like mommy and daddy.  Now, I'm 2 and a half"

While in the bath, mommy was talking about the rubber ducky and asking Stephen if he had a tail:  "No, I don't have a tail, I have a penis"

Stephen and I both got the stomach flu yesterday.  I think we are both much better today, although in recovery.  It is very hard to parent when you are that sick, but thankfully it was only a few hours until Sean came home and put Stephen to bed.  A few hours of watching Sesame Street and Cars movie. On Monday, before the stomach flu, Stephen got into a fight, pulled some boy's hair, and that boy bit Stephen on the cheek.  He's okay now after a lecture about not pulling hair and some advil, and the bite is now just a bruise, which is going away quite fast.  Here's to better days ahead...

This weekend, Sean, Stephen, and I headed down to Houston for me to be able to do some training rides for the MS150 coming up.  We went on one 50 mile ride on Saturday and one 30 mile ride on Sunday.  It went really well, but the last 12-14 miles of the 50 mile ride was hard since it was head winds and through hills, but that's good practice :)  We saw a lot of cows and really pretty farm land scenery on the 50 mile ride.  We did an "easy" 30 mile ride on Sunday morning in the park near the Bayou that runs basically from Summer and Jon's house all the way to Katy, where Sean's parent's live.  I took my point and shoot camera with me both days to get some shots.  Stephen had a lot of fun with the rest of the family and Sean who took care of him both days.  Sean got some golf in, we got a couple of good Catan Settler's games in, and had a good weekend. 

okay, so I wasn't all that impressed with the ipad launch.  I don't have an iphone, but i do own an itouch that I LOVE and am planning to get an iphone soon.  I am a HUGE reader of actual books, BUT...I am excited about this ibook app on the iphone/itouch/ipad.  Penguin books is exploring what kinds of things they should do with it...take a look.  The audio is horrible, but I don't think you really need it to understand what concepts are at play here.  Think about interactive books; kind of like taking Choose your own adventure books to the extreme...

I've been re-reading "Flux" by Peggy Orenstein, which is one of my favorite books.  I first read this book at 24, on advice from my sister.  4 months later I met Sean.  Then I re-read this book at 26, right before I got married and after I had moved with Sean cross-country.  I thought it might be interesting to read it after having a baby and getting married.  It is.  My perspective has definitely changed in 7 years since the first read.  At that point, I was so concerned about having equality in my marital relationship and wondering how I was going to have it all, or how I was going to find someone who would be my partner and what my career would be like.  Now, I read it and I don't think that about that stuff to that extent anymore, I just do it. The book still reads well and I still find myself saying, "yeah, that's true" to most of it.  

Here at casa Eidson, we have some flux of our own going on, with some EXCITING (as Stephen would say) stuff on the horizon that I can't talk about yet. :)