Swimming #2

Swimming is going well...  I'm really don't think that I'm losing any weight, but at least I am getting out of the house, right?  To see results, I would have to do this cardio-poussette class every day!  

My problem is that I have done team sports all my life - well since I was 12.  I am severely lacking a competitive aspect in my life right now and have been since I stopped playing rugby 7 years ago. This individual crap does nothing for me.  Yes, I can run and yes, I can lift weights. But where to fit that into my life without Evelyn?  (that's a whole other entry that will be coming soon...)

Here is a picture of the little monkey in her floating fish.  She does really enjoy it, and I enjoy watching her enjoy it.

Long live the nice weather (and newly mobile moms)!

I bought myself a cadeau.  I was hating the stroller that came with the car seat.  It's okay for the mall or to go shopping, but try and walk on the sidewalk.  It's like driving over the Champlain Bridge:  bump, bump, bump...  Great for a sleeping kid (not).

I discovered Craig's list.  It's awesome.  Every day I checked the baby/kids site.  After a week, one showed up.  It was a Bob Stroller, I'd never heard of the brand so I checked it out on the web.  It looked awesome, so I called the woman who was selling it.  I bought it on the spot.  I LOVE IT!!! It's amazing and I got it for half the price of a new one.  Long live used baby stuff!

I am now walking for at least an hour a day with baby and dog in tow.  It'll help for the last 15 pounds I have left to lose.  I may even jog (!?!) with it.  

This is Evelyn after the walk today.  Notice how uncomfortable she is...

Yeah, really uncomfortable...

A good night's sleep

For the past 6 night, count 'em 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Evelyn has slept through the night.  Straight through from 9:30 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.  For this I am very thankful.  I no longer wake up in a fright worrying that she is not breathing in her crib.  I wake up naturally, no alarms, and laze in bed until I hear her talk on the baby monitor.  When I walk into her room, she is quietly sucking on her fingers waiting for me.  When I say good morning she gives me the biggest smile of the day.  It's one of the best moments of my day.

I am not counting my chickens before they hatch, I know it won't last.  But I will take advantage while I can.  Sleep...  Beautiful sleep...  How I love thee...

Lessons that weren't lessons...

Yesterday, Evelyn and I went to the indoor pool for what I thought would be her first swimming "lesson."  It turns out that it's a course for new moms to get back into shape (which isn't too bad considering).  Evelyn, by far, is the smallest and youngest kid in the class.  Most of the other kids are over a year old and walking.  The babies sit in this gigantic floating fish - there is a rope attached that moms need to keep attached to them at all times.  The teacher wrapped Evelyn in one of the 4 towels I brought so that she would stay warm.  You'd think that it would make them more cold, but she was a little oven! 

At first she was a bit of a winer...  But as soon as she saw I was having fun, she relaxed and just soaked everything in.  It was too cute to watch her sitting in her floating fish watching all the new things going on around her.  She lasted 35 minutes of 60.  Not bad, the teacher said, for a little baby.  

I guess the cool thing about this is that she's soaking up new things everyday.  It's awesome to see her learning something new every day!  Being a teacher, I thought I knew kids.  When I start teaching again, I'm going to be a new teacher.  Maybe a little more patient, maybe a little more understanding, maybe a little more sympathetic.  I now understand when people say that their kids teach them more than they could ever teach their kids.

Yea kids!