Saturday, May 22, 2010

PT and parenthood

I graduated from PT! I'm not exactly back to new, but it'll do. I am trying to build the core I never had and REALLY didn't have after 3 pregnancies. It's humbling, to say the least. I learned lots of really torturous exercises. Fitting in all the PT stuff has been really time consuming, and I have been running very little.

But today I ran twice! I'm not usually in to two-a-days, but apparently my four year old son is. He heard the Supportive Husband and I talking about going for a walk/run, and decided that not only did he want to come, he did NOT want to ride in the buggy. So he and I ran while the Supportive Husband pushed the toddler in the double stroller. We ran and ran and ran. For some short little legs, we went quite a ways. And Max got tired out, too. ;)

Later in the morning, he had his penultimate swim lesson, just in the nick of time as the pools around here are opening next weekend. He floated and bobbed and glided and jumped. And when it was over, he begged for more time in the water. He recently got a snorkel mask, and I helped him float around as he snorkeled around the pool.

After we got home, he ate a huge lunch, and begged to go running again. So we put the baby in the buggy and took off. We ran and ran to the neighboring neighborhood's playground, where he ran and climbed and slid and jumped. Then we ran home, just beating the rain clouds coming over the mountains.

He then refused to nap, and was later heard telling his sister, "Let's run around!"

He went to bed early, and without a single word of protest.