Full Speed

When the competition season starts it just explodes. We have been running on all cylinders since the second weekend in January. I have been on the road a ton, at least every weekend for five weeks. Aspen, Telluride, Winter Park, and Copper Mountain. It has been very rewarding and full of good experiences. At the same time it is also very tiring and makes me miss Katie and Kai like crazy.

Around the home front Katie and Kai have been busy. Kai, as always, is in to everything. He keeps getting faster and more clever about getting into spots he probably shouldn't be. He communicates better than ever and is always eager to interact. He also has a great independent streak that allows him to play on his own without fuss. Katie is still balancing work and being a mom - the later being super heroesque. She is starting to feel the discomfort of her late term. Little Hercules is pretty rowdy and spends a lot of time poking and prodding her.

We haven't made much physical progress on preparing the house for #2, but we are definitely trying to get a grasp all the changes we will go through. Chasing a toddler and trying to be as gentle with a baby as we can. Two babies in diapers. Will we sleep? Will we remember to embrace each other and have a balanced relationship between the kids? With Kai everything seems to have found a natural equilibrium. I am sure #2 will find balance in our little world.

With winter more than half way over and the massive banks of snow still looming all over the valley, the runoff is going to be madness. So much snow on the ground and we are still in the meat of winter. Running down the backside of winter - with events, storms, and short days - but still aware that there is a lot of cold and snow still to come. The change of seasons also marks the due date of number two. April 17. We'll see if he decides to show on time or not. It has been an unusual winter, we will see how the spring goes.

I am on the road right now. In Breckenridge. Katie has a sinus infection, Kai is on a nebulizer for a horrible sounding chest cold, and I am sitting in the living room in the vacation house of one of the kids from the school listening to her uncle Steve play the acoustic guitar and hacking away on this machine. I would like to be home with my family, but this is not the worst place in the world to be.