In the Woods

Two topics to talk about today - one I've been meaning to write about for a while, and one more current.

First, golf. If someone says that golf is boring to watch, they didn't watch the US Open this weekend. I've never been a fan of Tiger Woods (too dominating, too much of a following, too whiny about the Phoenix Open...), but after watching him play on Saturday, I jumped on the band wagon (albeit just for a weekend). For someone to be playing in such pain and end up in the rough/crowd so many times and then make 3 Eagles and end the day in the lead was just fun to watch. I've had my share of injuries, including to the knee, so I know how much it affects your game, (whatever that game might be), both physically and mentally. How he could bounce back from the pain and still manage to win a tournament that ended up being 19holes longer than normal, is crazy. The TV crew showed a slow motion replay of one of his tee shots and said that they could find absolutely nothing wrong with his form. How in the world do you do that with a bum leg???

Now, don't worry, I still rolled my eyes when they announced that you could check out every single shot that Tiger made this weekend at NBC.com. And by the end of Sunday I was kind of hoping that Rocco would win (how could you not like his personality and the fact that at 45 years he was the oldest guy there?). But for a while there I bought into the hype.

Now to a different woods - Owen and I went to Flagstaff with my parents May 31-June 3rd. My parents own a time share in Sedona and traded their week for the Wyndham resort in Flag. I was worried at first that Owen would not like being away from home and that the elevation might bother him. But apparently he enjoys going on vacation to a cooler clime. He didn't cry hardly at all, and slept better than he had ever slept before. By the second day I was able to relax myself. It was a very laid back vacation, as we didn't feel like we could go out for more than 2 hours at a time (Owen is eating every 3 hours during the day). We had lunch downtown, went to Walnut Canyon National Monument, walked around the Flagstaff Arboretum (where we saw a really neat bird show), went on walks around the resort, and enjoyed the hot tub (my first time being in one since before my pregnancy). Owen cried a little on the way home and then wailed when we got home - it was like he knew vacation was over!!

In other news, Owen is sleeping better now - he is close to "sleeping through the night" (the books define that as sleeping 5-6 hours). After the last feeding at 10 or 11pm he sleeps until 3 or 4am. We're still trying to figure out what to do for daycare, so I'm still working part time. The Grandmas come over a few days a week to let me go into work a couple of hours. Owen is getting bigger and bigger, and is smiling & talking more and more!