Showing posts with label Walk to Empower. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Walk to Empower, Happy Mother's Day!

We are passing on the toilet training to her parents who returned this afternoon from their Cruise to Bermuda. Still no poop in the potty but she's happy to tell everybody she needs to go whether she needs to or not and then call out happily, "False Alarm!" This could get old pretty quickly if it wasn't so darn funny.

Art got up at 5:30 this morning when the temperatures were 39 degrees to pick up a neighbor and head down into Chicago for the Breast Cancer Walk to Empower Race. The plan was for all of us to go but I couldn't see waking KC and going out into the cold to walk when she still has a cough.


The 44 story CNA building had a huge ribbon. That's the Sears Tower on the left. Oops! I mean Willis Tower.


Art's mom had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. She eventually passed away of throat cancer way too soon. She was the sort of mother-in-law paragon you wish everybody had.


Art and our neighbor, Alvin ran for the United Airlines team.


Art says although the temperatures were cool, it was a sunny day and no windchill. There were a reported 50,000 participants in the walk/race.

It was a lovely start to Mother's Day and it ended especially happily for KC who got to have her mommy and daddy back home.

I hope you all had a terrific Mother's Day!