Get Up and Get Out!

"Just keep swimming...Just keep swimming..." I feel like Dori from Finding Nemo. I am always trying to "Just keep swimming" or in a more literal sense, just keep MOVING! I could have easily just played around the house with Carter this morning. We could have watched Disney movies and lounged around. I could have just kept on cleaning up the house while he starred into the TV, but I chose NOT to do that. It was a choice. I got into the car and we went to the park at 10 am. Instead of parkin' it on the bench I joined in on the fun. I used this as an opportunity to burn some calories.

I was running around, climbing up the slide the wrong way, up and down the rock wall, playing on the swings, and squeezed into the little bouncy car the rocks back and forth. Yes, I was THAT parent.

We played for only 30 minutes, but that 30 minutes was great quality time with my child and it burned at least 100 calories. An added bonus was that it wore him out and he was down for a nap at 11:30!

So get up and get out! Your kids and your thighs are waiting.

(Any other flexible schedule parents around Midtown that would like to join? It would have been safer with more people. Please let me know!)