Levi's latest

So, Levi is very cute all the time. I've been telling him stories about my family's pets at bedtime, which he LOVES. Today before his nap I asked him if he wanted to hear a story about a dog, and instead of saying, "No," he said, "Meow," meaning, of course, that he wanted a story about a cat instead. So cute! 

Also, today he helped me wash dishes! He did a really good job, and got the whole pan when I pointed out the spots he'd missed. He also helped me rinse.

City dwellers are so cute

"There's  nothing to do in [small town]," she said.

"Huh," I thought, "nothing to do? I wonder why she couldn't have done the things I did when I was growing up? There was plenty to do in my small town."

You're going to visit a small town. It doesn't have a lot of interesting shops and the movie theater plays only one or two movies a night. Are you planning on being bored because there's "nothing" to do?

I have to say, anyone who says there's nothing to do in a small town needs to learn a little bit of creativity!

What about visiting with the people you know in that town? Isn't that better than any shop you could go to?

Could you go outside and appreciate the beauty of the nature that is so close to this small town?

Do you know how to read a book?

Do you enjoy playing board games, card games, or video games?

If any of these sound enjoyable, then there is something to do in that small town you think is so boring.

I grew up playing outside, watching nature, learning to entertain myself. Family vacations were spent at the rural location by a lake where my grandparents lived. We always had enough to do, although the closest town was tiny--its main attractions were a grocery store and maybe one restaurant. I don't ever remember being bored there, and there's only so much time you can spend swimming in a day.

All I've got to say is, "That's cute, city dwellers. So cute." Keep saying that there's nothing to do in small towns. ;)

Exercise, take 2

So, it's been about 3 weeks since I started exercising, and my heart is definitely in better shape. My body is a slightly better shape than it was when I started, but I'm still working on that. Not that it's a bad shape; it could just be better.

Anyway, shortly after my last post about exercise, I started to get tired of the video that I'd posted. I still wasn't up to speed on it, but I think my body was ready for a different kind of exercise. So for the past few days (except today), I exercised without a video, doing skip rope, sit ups, crunches, jumping jacks, and my favorite exercises from the Tae Bo video, with stretches before and after the whole thing. My goal was to keep my heart rate up for 20 minutes.

Since skip rope is a more demanding exercise than the one I was doing before, I would do sets of 60 skips (30 with either foot leading) with breaks of less-strenuous exercise in between to catch my breath. I'm no exercise expert, but I'm definitely in better shape than I was when I started this exercise late last week. Today I decided to work out to my Tae Bo video again, and I was able to keep up the whole time! I was hot and sweaty at the end, but I had done every exercise (except the ones when Levi needed my attention).

Wooo!