Sunday November 12, 2006
Working on PECs card for gymnastics sent me looking through the internet for pictures of people stretching. (I still haven’t found pictures of kids stretching, so if anybody knows of someplace on the web, I would love to hear about it). In my search I ran across this great website for fitness and anatomy. It shows different ways to exercise and stretch all the different muscle groups, and they also show the anatomy of the muscles. Pretty neat.
Quiet day around here. Zach worked on some school stuff, and worked on pulling some of the old videos of Zane off of our old equipment to put on DVD for the doctor. She wants pictures of him when he was little too, so we are working on that now. We did learn that Zane cried about as much as Zora does, but at a lower pitch. Her cry has a screech in it that is just ear shattering and very hard to listen too. She also isn’t as easy to console. With Zane, as long as he could nurse, he would calm right down and contently nurse. She gets really ticked if you even suggest nursing when she isn’t hungry. lol. So different.
One way they are the same though is that both want to be moving around all the time. Zane was happy if you held him, but only if you were standing and walking around. Zora added one more element to that…you have to actually be going someplace. If she discovers that you put her in the sling just to clean house, she gets irate and will attempt to launch herself out of the baby carrier. It is also harder with her because my back hurts a lot more and I can’t always pick her up and carry her for hours like I could Zane.
It was fun seeing old videos of Zane. He both hasn’t changed a bit, and has changed enormously. It is an odd dichotomy.
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My back hurts a lot more this second time too. With dd she could be in the sling all day and I was fine. With ds, part of my back actually falls asleep!!!
I bet that’s neat being able to go back and watch videos of when Zane was a baby. We don’t have a camcorder, but we try and take lots of pictures (I’ve been trying to get Matt to let me save up for one, but he’s not convinced we can save for anything at all, let alone something that big.) I don’t know of any place with pictures of people stretching, but I’ll look around for you
RYC: We only went to that church once. We can’t dress real fancy, but it’s not like we dress in work clothes either. We are going to the Methodist church now. There are more children Sophia’s age, and both times we’ve gone, people have been so kind to us. Instead of kind of passing us over like at the other churches we’ve gone to, people have stopped and sat talking to us, and actually talking. It’s kind of neat to me, because I’ve never had people at a church I just started going to actually stop to talk and actually have a conversation. (Until Matt and I moved, I attended a church I had been going to since I was really young, so everyone knew me and I knew everyone.) There’s so much opportunity for Sophia to make friends there too. They do Girl Scouts and have all different kinds of classes and meetings for kids. I think it will be where we stay for awhile.
I don’t think Jesus would be too happy either.