Pedroza Place

“These are my favorite pictures from the first of our two vacation picture files.

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Above and below are a couple of our many Disney pictures. These aren’t the first and they won’t be the last! (For example, the third one *grin*)

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This is AJ sitting in a high chair in Club 33 at Disneyland. In this picture you can barely see a white table cloth behind him. He is an unsure sitter at this point, and the Club 33 people brought a clean tablecloth to help him be more comfortable in his chair.

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My favorite picture of me!! It helps you can’t see much of me in this picture. We are, obviously, about to enter Zion’s National Park.

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AJ is just hanging out in the stroller, he LOVES to put his feet up. It frustrates him to no end that he can’t put his feet up in the supermarket carts. He tips to the side trying to get them up there.

Well, that’s it for that file. You can tell that John is mostly the photgrapher, and that we much prefer pictures of AJ to pictures of ourselves!

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“Denise ran the 5k on Saturday, August 9th, 2008. AJ and I did the Racewalk. Actually AJ got pushed in the stroller but it was all cool. As you will read in the article I got 1st place in my division 30-39. What the reporter was kind enough to leave out is that at my time of 47:59, the 76 yr old lady in the same race still outpaced me. Lucky for me she was not in my division!! Anyhow, this is my first win ever in a sport (well there was that Pinewood Derby win of 1985). Anyhow, it was even more suprising to see us all on the front page of the local newspaper the Crestline Courier (readership 5000?). Below is the clipping I made and if you click on it a link to the actual article.
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My weight loss is proceeding, somewhat slower than I would like, but that’s my own fault. I am not always good about writing down what I eat. When I write it down, then I can keep track and I stay under what I need too. However, when I don’t write it down, stuff gets away from me. Either I forget this bite here and that nibble there, or I don’t realize how bad bad is. (I mean, I was never under any delusion that homemade macaroni and cheese was low density diet food, but 16 points for a cup!) (Or the salad that I *did* think was diet food, but the 1/2 cup of nuts added mucho points that put me over the top.)

Anyway, that’s the way it goes. Supposedly the slower it comes off the longer it stays off. I hope so! That would be my only consolation.

I did finally get to my first 10% goal, that was 234lbs. Now the next big step is to get to 225lbs. That is when I drop my daily points from 28 to 26. Then down to 211, that will be the next 10% and so on. Happy Counting on this happy fouth you all!
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On Monday June 30th we took AJ to the Lake for the first time. It wasn’t exactly hot that day, 80F outside, so the lake was a bit chilly, but not unbearably so. Once he got used to the water AJ had a fun time splashing with Mommy and Poppi. I think he thought it was funny that Mom and Poppi were in the bath with him. We lasted a little over an hour or so and he was done, that was all the excitement the AJ man could handle. Grandma Jacobs was able to come with us and get out of the heat that was “down below”, she was ourphotographer.

“Well, we are finally pass holders again, and in June we made two trips out to Disneyland, one on June 16th and one on the 23rd. Unfortunately we only have pictures from the 16th, as we couldn’t find the camera on the 23rd. (Of course it turns out later that it was with us all the time, buried in the depth of the Diaper Bag, oh well.) We did enjoy a ride on the newest attraction, Toy Story Midway Mania in DCA, as well as the (new to us) Pixar Parade, but that was the trip without the camera. Overall we’ve discovered that going with a baby takes just a few adjustments. First of all, he’s much more sensitive to the heat than we are. We watch him closely and take appropriate precautions. Secondly, a baby means even more time apart than traveling with a pregnant lady. Not only do we have to separate for the thrill rides (doing baby swap pass), other times it’s not a matter of he can’t go on the ride; it’s more a matter of he needs a nap/quiet time in the stroller instead. It’s still lots of fun though, and I expect you’ll see lots of Disneyland pictures over the years on this blog.

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