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Race Recap….
….but not from my race. Saturday was the Longfellow Puddle Jump and the Durand Road Race. Nikole ran the 5k race and I rode in Durand. Nothing unusual about the day…except.
After Nikole’s race there was a kids 1k race. Ayden saw the kids lining up and wanted to be a part of it. And that as the last of it. Ayden raced his first 1k race. He came in dead last and loved it. In fact, it sounded like he was more into the people who were cheering for him. He ran the whole 1k and only took one digger.
After the race Nikole couldn’t get him into the car seat because he wanted to “race more.” So now I guess there will be weekends where the three of us have a race.
Oh yea…and if anyone care HERE IS MY RACE REPORT.
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The Sturgis Family
Tandem
It gets pretty tough balancing work, family time, school, time with Ayden, and training. There is a fine line. It seems that when the balance is off, just a bit, everything else seems whack. But Ayden came up with an idea that helps with “Ayden time” and “training.” He figured he would just jump on the bike with dad. It actually worked pretty well and he put in his first 20 minutes on the trainer.
You take what you can get so that you can find that sweet balance point!
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Sturgie & Ayden
The Journey
Croaked
RIP Poopie
So we THOUGHT that it would be fun to get Ayden a fish and two frogs. They told us at the store that it would be really super easy to maintain and that our son would enjoy years of having this fish and two frogs.
Fast forward seven days. We lost Clifford just three days due to a fungus. Nikole ran to the pet store and they handed her this $12 bottle of solution that we are to put into the bowl. Each day we are to empty half of the bowl, refill it with new water and then put a full cap of this solution into the bowl.
We thought that all this tedious work was working. Well, two days later Potty bit the dust. The next day we went out and bought another Beta to replace Clifford with. The following day after that Poopie passed away.
In seven days we have lost one fish, two frogs, bought another fish, bought salt tablets, bought chemical drops, bought different food, and spent hours emptying-filling-emptying-and filling the bowl. What are we left with? One fish that is covered in the fungus (again), many wasted hours, and $67 less.
Conclusion – dogs are way easier.
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The Sturgie Family
As if three dogs were not enough…Ayden got a fish and two frogs. We named the fish Clifford and we asked Ayden what he wanted to the name the two frogs – he came up with Poopie and Potty. You obviously know what we have been working on with him. The life of a two-year old is just grand…
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Aaron
