Proud Mom

Sunflower
Originally uploaded by tracyg00

At the end of kindergarten, Megan brought home a little sunflower plant in a cup for Mother's Day. We planted it (along with a pack of seeds) in the alley behind our house. Her plant grew to be 13 feet tall!

But that's not the reason for the title of this post. I'm excited that Megan ran her first real race. On Oct. 24, she ran the Frank Lloyd Wright races Youth Mile in Oak Park. Here she is getting her number pinned on:



She also had a cheering section:





But here's the good part. She ran it in 9:27. They only gave awards to ages 7-12, but had they given them to the 6 year-olds, she would have been the first girl. They had about 240 kids participate and she was 161 overall. She likes this finish line photo (courtesy of dad), because she's in front of all of those big kids!