The conversation was short and it went something like this:
Cale: Cody, time to take a bath.
Cody: No.
Cale: Cody, who makes the rules?
Cody: Me.
Cale: Cody, Mommy talked to you about this in the car today. Remember what she said? Alright, so who makes the rules?
Cody: Me. Cody. (said with an inference that I might not understand who "me" was.)
Gotta love the stubbornness of this little guy. Took all I had not to fall down laughing. I did good though, kept my stern Dad voice and insisted that it was bath time and that he needed to listen before things got ugly. Cody would eventually cave and take his bath and all was good in our world again. It takes Codes several runs before he gets things. It's part of his diagnosis. He has problems understanding complex novel situations. Which basically means any time your having a conversation with him and it's a new subject and there is more than one party, he gets confused easily. So it takes us several runs through to get the our point across. It all comes back to what the Neuro-Psychologist said about Codes having to work twenty times harder to get through what we would consider a normal day. With that said the theme for our road to the Ironman is set, it's 20X (20 times). It stands for putting in twenty times the effort, twenty times the donations, twenty times the smiles, twenty times the determination, twenty times the work and twenty times the fun. 20X!!!
On the racing front, Triathlon Season is now over, until February of next year when some of the races start up again. I ran my last sprint race on the 18th of October. Finished 3rd in my age group and second place in my age group in the sprint triathlon point series. It was a great way to end my season. The end of the triathlon season marks the beginning of the running season here in Florida. I ran my first half-marathon this weekend. Won my age group with a 1 hour 44 minute and 58 seconds for 13.1 miles. That's a fairly big mile stone for me as it marks the first time I have won my age group in any form of competition, since I got started in the mess two years ago.
Think I'll hold off on the announcement of my "secret weapon" for next year until the next blog. I'm also going to only up date the blog every two weeks next year, instead of every week as I originally planned. It's hard to come up with enough to fill the page in just a weeks time, plus I want to make it somewhat interesting. Every two weeks should allow me to gather some good stuff on Codes and my training.
The picture was taken by my wife, Knikie Simmons. It's me holding all my medals for the events I have completed from November 2008 thru November 2009. You can't see all of them in the picture, but there are quite a few.
