Nine Month Check-up

Cohen had his 9 month check-up today.  He has grown from 66 cm to 72 cm, and he's back to the 50th percentile for height (up from 25th at 6 months).  He currently weighs 18 lbs exactly, only a half pound increase since his 6 month check-up and he's down from the 50th percentile to the 15th.  I was expecting the decrease in weight percentile because he's such an active kid, but still doesn't eat a lot of solids compared with his peers.

Muffels Cousins

Brenda added little Peter who couldn't make the trip from Maryland for our Easter celebration (he was lucky enough to have Oma and Opa all to himself on Easter weekend).

Playing with Big Cousin Wyatt

Easter Egg Hunt

We celebrated Easter with the Muffels clan last weekend and had an egg hunt for the "big" kids.

Close-Ups

The Hell of the North 2012

I don't look as muddy as I felt or as muddy as my bike looked but this is what eating mud on a bicycle for 60 kilometres looks like. I am sopping wet, my nipples are raw and both my calves and both my quads are painfully cramping during this photo. The race is officially called the Paris to Ancaster and like the famous race in France that inspired it, called the Paris - Roubaix, it is also affectionately known as "The Hell of the North". Today was particularly hellish as anything that wasn't paved, which is most of the course, was "soft".

In case you're wondering: yes I paid money to participate, yes I checked the weather forecast ahead of time, no it wasn't my first time, yes I think the hat does make me look younger, yes I shamelessly used this photo with Cohen in the bottom corner to justify this post on his blog and no I didn't get a free t-shirt.

If you look closely at this next photo you can see caked mud on my lip - literally eating mud.

Eat My Daddy's Dust!

Good luck to Daddy on his bike race today!  We'll see you at the finish line!