Health and babies

Cindy and I have both committed to leading healthy lifestyles, if only to be good examples for the kids.   This isn't easy, in a super-sized, high fructose corn syrup world.  We are also never lacking for a reason to skip a workout or activity, especially when you have a newborn.   The good thing is that we've done a pretty good job since Nate arrived.  

I have done well by maintaining regular trips to Lifetime.  I have this big advantage in health, given that I didn't deliver two kids in the last 23 months.   Still, I started sitting on a ball at work this week....it forces me to sit upright and really does work out the abs & back (the 'core', as they are now called).   The only problem I have had has been all the comments/jokes from co-workers, in my male dominated workplace.    I also joined a hockey league this week - something I haven't done in a few years.

Cindy has done even better.  She was going to the gym regularly before Nate arrived, and has been even more consistent since.  She went back to weekly work outs with her friend.   She has also been a big force in making us eat better and eat at home more often.

We can't go to the gym together till Nate is old enough to use the daycare, which is a couple months away.    What we can do is work out at home and we've done that twice in the last week - a practice we'd both like to continue.  

Even Lily and Nate are in on the action.   Lily will likely start her first soccer league in June.   Nate likes to work out his neck muscles and does regular tummy time workouts without complaining (unlike Lily at the same age).