Move Back - Mommy’s exercising

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Since the weather this past week was terribly hot and humid then rainy and dreary I didn’t want to couldn’t go bike riding as usual.  So I dug out my Pilates DVD from the bottom of the stack.  As I prepared to pop it in the portable DVD player I was suddenly surrounded by all three of my children. 

“What are you doing, Mommy?  What are you going to watch?  Can we watch?  Can I help?  I can’t see.” 

“I’m going to exercise.  No you can’t watch we only have one player.  You can sit beside me and exercise.  There’s nothing to see.”

The DVD starts and the one year old goes off to play, but returns in time to sit on my stomach while I’m trying to do roll-ups (just crunches with a different name).  The Instructor Lady says, “Now to extend the work-out…” She ought to try it with a toddler bouncing on her stomach!

The two older ones decide to sit by me - very close by me - so they can exercise too.  Well, having a child within six inches of each side of you does not work to do Pilates; believe me, I tried.  Telling them that they needed to move away resulted in multiple choruses of “I can’t see.”  [It is only a portable DVD player.]  Why do they need to see every minute of it?  It’s just 2 women on a beach waving their arms and legs around.  Somehow this so enthralled my almost 3 year old daughter that she sat and watched the whole 25 minute work-out.  This is the same girl that can’t sit through a 15 minute cartoon!

My son decided to exercise with me, and I hope that I did the exercises more like the Instructor than he did.  After “exercising” for two minutes he just decided to play in the background and keep an eye on the DVD and I.  Until I did the Plank move…then he managed to army crawl underneath me about five times until I collapsed.

On the third day of doing the exercises they weren’t quite as interested and I only smacked each one of them once.  One during the arm circles, one during the windmill exercise, and one during the leg lifts.  Hopefully over winter they will get bored with my exercises.  For now I’m thankful for a nice sunny day because we just skipped the Pilates and went for a bike ride!

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