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Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Here is a picture Sean took of me on Thursday at 22 Weeks. Can't believe Baby McZimm will be here in just 4 months!!!

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Sean and I went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park yesterday.  We went on the tram ride that simulates a safari through Africa and saw flamingos, rhinoceros, giraffes, and all sorts of other crazy African animals.  Then we stopped by the gorillas, checked out the monkeys, and walked through the aviary.  We got a membership so we can go to the Wild Animal Park and the San Diego Zoo as many times per year as we want to.  It was a perfect day, in the sixties with a slight breeze.  It can get really hot inland and in the summer there are lots of tourists, so it was nice to get out there in the winter time where the crowds weren't so bad.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/73688/Sean_Eileen1.jpg http://posterous.com/people/1bd9Fh0vanL Eileen & Sean Sean&Eileen Eileen & Sean Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:37:00 -0800 It's a Boy!!! http://eileenandsean.com/its-a-boy-80 http://eileenandsean.com/its-a-boy-80

Sean and I had our 18 week anatomy ultrasound on Wednesday and were so excited to find out that Baby McZimm is a boy!!!!! More importantly than that, however, the ultrasound tech checked all of Baby McZimm's body parts and organs to make sure he is developing correctly and she said Baby McZimm looks very healthy! We saw his spine, the bones in his arms and legs, his stomach, kidneys, and all four chambers of his heart which was beating like crazy! She also measured his head, his abdomen, and his thigh to make sure he was growing proportionally, which he thankfully is.

Once again our baby was moving around during the ultrasound, but instead of turning to face the camera every time, he was apparently camera shy and turned away from the camera every time the tech moved the ultrasound wand. When she tried to look at his spine he flipped around and showed his belly. So then she'd try to get a picture of his heart and he would flip around again. Fortunately the tech was very patient, and we got all the pictures she needed. The only picture we weren't able to get was a good one of his face. We have a couple profile shots, but every time he faced the camera directly he would put his little hands up in front of his face and block our view! At the end he decided to use the placenta as a pillow so we couldn't get a 3D photograph either. That is ok though, I always think those are kind of creepy. I guess he wants to keep his cute little face a surprise until we meet him in person which is fine with us! :)

Check out the attached ultrasound pics for photos of Baby McZimm at 18 weeks and 6 days, or approximately 4.5 months!

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Hello friends!

Sean and I are so excited to announce that we have a baby on the way! Baby McZimm is due on June 17, 2010, and we couldn't be happier. I am currently 17.5 weeks, or about 4 months pregnant, and we will get to find out if we are having a boy or a girl a week from Wednesday. Here are some ultrasound pictures taken back in December at 12 weeks. Baby McZimm was doing a lot of water aerobics during the sonogram! He/she kept flipping around to face the camera, so it took some patience for the ultrasound tech to get these pictures. We got to see the heartbeat, and our baby was wiggling around, putting her/his hand up to his/her mouth (presumably to suck it's thumb), and jumping and stretching around in general. One minute Baby McZimm was facing my stomach, the next minute Baby McZimm flipped around and was facing my back! It was so amazing!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/73688/Sean_Eileen1.jpg http://posterous.com/people/1bd9Fh0vanL Eileen & Sean Sean&Eileen Eileen & Sean Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:27:32 -0800 Good day for a walk! http://eileenandsean.com/good-day-for-a-walk http://eileenandsean.com/good-day-for-a-walk Eileen and I decided to venture over to Balboa Park today, taking advantage of the warm weather. Can't believe it's so nice here and not so good almost everywhere in the US. We are truly lucky I guess. Anyways, Cleo came along to get a much needed walk, and enjoyed every minute of it. See for yourself!

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/k44LFdTqed seanzim seanzim Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:49:27 -0800 Merry Xmas from Spoon http://eileenandsean.com/-merry-xmas-from-spoon http://eileenandsean.com/-merry-xmas-from-spoon Eileen and I decided to go out for some good holiday fun. Spoon headlined an evening of bands from all over the place. A definate good time!

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Guitarist from the band Calexico

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/73688/Sean_Eileen1.jpg http://posterous.com/people/1bd9Fh0vanL Eileen & Sean Sean&Eileen Eileen & Sean Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:20:53 -0700 I Saved A Starfish This Morning http://eileenandsean.com/i-saved-a-starfish-this-morning http://eileenandsean.com/i-saved-a-starfish-this-morning This morning we went for a walk that started on Torrey Pines State Beach and ended on top of the bluffs at Torrey Pines State Reserve. We were on the beach at about 7:30am and I found a starfish that was washed up a little past the wave break. I picked him up and put him back in the waves. We didn't see him again so hopefully he got back into the sea. He was blue, that was kind of weird. I've never seen a starfish on the beach before.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/73688/Sean_Eileen1.jpg http://posterous.com/people/1bd9Fh0vanL Eileen & Sean Sean&Eileen Eileen & Sean Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:27:09 -0700 We've (Finally) Moved! http://eileenandsean.com/weve-finally-moved http://eileenandsean.com/weve-finally-moved Well, a year after we thought we would move to San Diego we finally made it down here. We moved to San Diego on September 1st, and we love it already. We have been making an active effort to go watch the sunset as often as we can. We don't make it every night, but we do make it most nights. Last week we even saw a herd of whales migrating south for the winter. We could see them blowing water into the air way out on the skyline. Amazing!

We hope you will come visit us soon!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/73688/Sean_Eileen1.jpg http://posterous.com/people/1bd9Fh0vanL Eileen & Sean Sean&Eileen Eileen & Sean Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:36:00 -0700 Thank you! http://eileenandsean.com/thank-you-1351 http://eileenandsean.com/thank-you-1351

Well, this post is long overdue, but the past couple of months have been CRAZY! Unfortunately while we did raise over $2,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society we did not raise enough money to meet our minimum commitment with Team in Training to run the Nike Women's Half Marathon. We were going to run the Big Sur Half Marathon instead, but it is already sold out :(. Looks like we may have missed out on this season of half marathons, but we are still running and training so we will look to run one when the season kicks off again in April! Thank you so much for all of your support, your donations will really help a great cause.

Eileen & Sean

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/73688/Sean_Eileen1.jpg http://posterous.com/people/1bd9Fh0vanL Eileen & Sean Sean&Eileen Eileen & Sean Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Rockin' the iButt http://eileenandsean.com/rockin-the-ibutt-0 http://eileenandsean.com/rockin-the-ibutt-0

This morning Sean and I went for another 6 mile run at Crystal Springs. The thing you don't think about when you hear mileage is how long it actually takes to run longer distances. Six miles takes us about an hour an fifteen minutes (I run really slowly), so that is a lot of time to kill. Today at about fifteen minutes I decided to bust out the iButt to keep us entertained.

What is the iButt you ask? iButt = Hydration belt + iPhone + Music Playlist. I usually carry my iPhone in one of the zipper pouches on the hydration belt just in case something happens. What might happen? I don't know. But just in case. Today it was just in case we got bored I guess. I put the iPhone on speaker and we jogged along to my 80s mix. This must have been pretty funny to other people cruising by, some joggers were laughing at us as they ran by and realized my behind was busting out Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, and Simple Minds. But it helped us get through miles 3-6.

When we finished our run, our favorite Bagpipe player was out practicing again. He was there the last morning run we did a few weeks ago. I was very confused last time and thought maybe there was a funeral or something, but Sean informed me that the guy was probably just practicing. He pointed out that no one would want their neighbor practicing the bagpipes in their neighborhood, so probably the guy comes out to Crystal Springs to practice his bagpipes in the woods. I took a stealth picture of him, and recorded a snippet of him playing the bagpipes for your listening enjoyment.

  
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Finally, I've included a picture of some deer we came across this morning that I took with my iPhone, as well as Cleo refusing to get up as we got ready to leave early this morning. She is so funny, she will barely make eye contact when we wake her up too early, and this morning she just put her arm over her face to keep the light out I guess ;)).

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/73688/Sean_Eileen1.jpg http://posterous.com/people/1bd9Fh0vanL Eileen & Sean Sean&Eileen Eileen & Sean - Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0700 8 Miles at the Stanford Dish http://eileenandsean.com/8-miles-at-the-stanford-dish-0 http://eileenandsean.com/8-miles-at-the-stanford-dish-0
Well it has been a few weeks since we last posted about our running, an update is long overdue.  Sean and I have been keeping up with our training, and have been consistently running 4-6 miles every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.  Even though we have had to miss a few track nights we have gotten up early to run four miles instead to make sure we keep our endurance up.  On Saturday we accomplished our most impressive feat to date.  We ran 8 miles from a couple miles past the Alpine Road exit off 280, over the foothills to the top at the Stanford Dish, down the backside of the foothills almost to Page Mill Road at Stanford, then all the way back up the hills to the dish and back to 280.  We truly couldn't believe that we finished ourselves.  I was actually pretty psyched out for the run, I had heard that the hills were ridiculous.  As such, I was imagining some of the most treacherous climbs in San Francisco as what we would be up against.  Frankly we were told that there were two huge hills that matched those we would be running in San Francisco for Nike and then numerous rolling hills throughout the run.  Because of this, I was expecting the worst, and therefore was prepared mentally for the challenge.

The coaches said to just focus ten feet ahead up the hills rather than staring at the top.  This is certainly what got me through the climb.  I really couldn't believe it when we got to the top because I had anticipated much, much worse.  The cardiovascular endurance we have gained was very clear on Saturday.  I would have been out of breath just walking these hills a few weeks ago, and now here I was running them.  We made it to the top in about forty minutes, and began our descent back down the other side.  Imagine my surprise when I realized that the loop went downhill for a couple of miles before it looped back around and started the climb all over again to get back to the satellite dish from the backside!  Twenty minutes later we were back at the top again, only to have to run back to 280.  It took us nearly two hours to finish and by the end everything below my belly button felt like jello.  I'm not sure how Sean managed to drive home, but we felt fantastic that we had finished.

The funniest (scariest?) part of the run is that when you get to the start of the trail you have to go through a gate.  The sign on the gate states, "This is a mountain lion habitat".  Hmmmmmm.....  Check out the view of Silicon Valley including Stanford's Hoover Observation Tower.  It was a bit hazy, but you get some perspective on how far up the hills we ran.  

 

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