Balancing Act
I made my goal again last week with 60 minutes on the elliptical yesterday evening. Started off this week with a 4 mile walk today and topped it off this evening with 30 minutes on the elliptical. I weigh myself next Sunday.
Bobbin had no nap today. Woke up at 6:45pm and went to bed at 8:15pm. You'd never have known it. No implosions, even when I left for my walk, or when we were over at our friends' house this afternoon and evening. She was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow though.
Yesterday, however, was The Big Event: Bobbin's BFF from school turned 3 years old. Bobbin has been eagerly anticipating this birthday party for 3 weeks - ever since he handed her an invitation at school. She had her dress picked out the day before - white with green and pink embroidery and a little pink eyelet petticoat underneath. Same one that she wore to her own birthday party. As we walked up the steps to his front door she stopped, swished her dress, and said with a smile, "[BFF] is really going to like this dress". Oooh boy :-) She had a total blast at the party and so did BFF. I managed to capture a few moments with the camera.
Her imagination is really blossoming these days as well. Her climber outside frequently turns into a castle, a hospital, a fire station, and a sailboat among other things. Her favourite is to slide down the slide with her fire fighter's hat on and yelling "WOOOO ooooo OOOO oooo" to rescue Kitty, whom she has tossed off the top of the climber. Once rescued she hauls him back up to the top of the climber which has become a hospital, and gives Kitty CPR and gets him breathing again and checks his heart. I caught her in the act a few days ago and took this series of photos
Finally, I leave you with Bobbin's latest passion: Balancing. She doesn't realize it, but she has a lot in common with her Mommy that way. Metaphorically speaking, of course :-) She starts Gymnastics next saturday. We decided to give Soccer a bit of a break for a while so it doesn't become old; she was starting to have a harder and harder time staying enthused for the whole class. So next week she starts the "Mini Munckins" gymnastics class for 3-4 1/2 year olds. "Girls and boys will learn gymnastics concepts through movement exploration. Concepts will include body, space, and motion awareness, as well as developing social skills and creativity. Balance, strength, coordination, and self-confidence is enhanced through manipulative and non-manipulative gymnastic drills." is the blurb on their web site. We'll see what she thinks. Right now she's pretty excited at the concept that there's a whole class whose main purpose is to let her jump and tumble and hang and balance. We'll see how she fares in a more organized setting (as opposed to the free-for-all at the local playground :-)). If she doesn't like it, we'll go back to soccer; try and find out which class BFF is in if he still goes. Or we'll just continue our morning saturday routine of hitting the playgrounds at 8:30am (bring a towel if you go that early. two towels if it's a big climber :-))
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