Day 38, 39, and 40

Day 38
Bike riding up/running and down our street with the neighborhood kids before the Superbowl.  45 min.

Day 39
It appears that this may be a "together" week rather than an "active" week.  Our youngest developed a limp yesterday and appears to have a problem with her hip.  X-rays showed nothing, so we're not sure what's going on.  Probably best to reduce her activity for awhile.  3/4 of the family had lots of time together in the Dr's office and watching the X-ray tech do her thing.  We did have some family time hot tubbing and using the pool noodles the girls got for free at the boat show.  By the way Bayliner, world's worst kid freebie - giant pool noodles they can use to assault themselves and the general public while walking through a crowded event center.

Day 40
Kindergarten concert at the school - family togetherness and fun for all!

Day 37

The Boat Show the Boat Show, the Big Seattle Boat Show - 2 1/2 hours.  It's a lot of walking - trust me!  Also some bike riding and car washing back at home.  Two more "new" rummage sale bikes were aquired this weekend.  We now have 2 extra bikes to leave over at our cabin, so it will be easier to get some exercise out there. We also now have a next size up bike.  I love getting a bargain.  I'd rather pay $6 now for a used bike than $50-$100 next year for a new one and for now, the girls don't care that these are all actually boy bikes.

P.S. Grandma - these are the new haircuts

Day 35 and 36

I'm much too tired to write, but if I don't do it now, I'll start forgetting things.  Not that there is much to remember. 

Day 35
Thursday was one of those separate active days - gymnastics for the girls, a walk with a friend for me.  No time for us all to be together due to an evening meeting.

Day 36
For the girls 3-4 hours of play out in the church play yard while I was setting up for the church rummage sale.  Whatever I was doing was tiring enough that it called for several hours on the couch to recover.  Daddy had a long day at work.  The girls (mommy included) bonded watching our newly aquired Nutcracker Barbie video.

Day 34

I feel like a broken record on wednesdays, it's church night, so no free time in the evening.  This is the day out together time is usually a long story time.  That's what we're going to do right now.

Day 33

Had to get in a quick together time before Mom ran off to a meeting.  Bike/Trike ride in the dark on our street.  30 min. Took the training wheels off Hannah's bike.  Why we did that in the dark so we could not get good video of the occassion, I have no idea.  Have we broken the cardinal rule of parenting by not capturing wonderful pics of her very 1st ride without the training wheels?  Well, technically, she did try her friends' bike (Amy and Katrina) without the training wheels last June at our cabin and I do have pics.  Let's just say we have a LONG road ahead of us before she'll be able to ride the bike on her own.  There were a lot of "I can't"s from her and a lot of "don't say I can't"s from me.  I felt like I was channeling my father.  She was also optimistic, several times she was only up for a nano second, and she'd say rather proudly, "I was up for 1 second"

Speaking of bikes and the cabin, I was able to score a bike at our church's rummage sale.  We hope to get two junker bikes to store out at the cabin to make it easier to get out and excercise out there.

Day 32

Neighborhood bike ride for the girls on a drizzly Seattle afternoon - 30 min.  Daddy skipped out to go to the Boat Show.

Day 31

Together Time +3  Activty Time 0
OK, so we didn't do so well today on the activity front.  Although all of us (some of us more than others) spent a good deal of the day cleaning up the house.  We did enjoy together time, eating ice cream sundays, watching America's Funniest Videos, and storytime.

Today is day 31, I've heard it said before that to establish a habit, you need to do it for at least 30 days.  We're one day past that and well on our way.