I run and she knows that. Sometimes she sees me or me and Kevin doing circuit type work outs. She generally joins in to the best of her ability and well......Emily just runs around in circles laughing.
Victoria asks why I work out and I tell her it's good for your muscles and your heart. It is. I'm not going to lie.....I do it for that...but I also do it for sanity and for weight control. I like to eat. Yummy chicken wings, ice cream, fudge rounds......I've gotten better lately....since I have too. My metabolism is apparently not what it used to be. That's okay.....I need to eat well so the girls see how to eat well.
Anywho.......I was going some where with that. I tell Victoria that it's for your heart and muscles because I don't want her having weird or bad body image. I had that. I have that. It's not fun. I just want her to work out because you should and I want her to eat healthy because you should and then body should be a okay.
She loves it.
She is dying to run with me. I told her when she can run 1 mile I will start letting her do races. I have started working with her but ummmmm....she runs straight up and down with a lot of movement. She runs like a girl. I don't know how hard to push her since you know....she's 4. I just tell her that she has to believe in herself and not say "I can't." I'm going to go running with her as often as she wants to though because I am not going to try to talk her into being lazy. I do try to get her to run the entire time we out (a whopping .37 miles). She doesn't. That's okay.
It does make me super happy though that she likes to work out. I was putting Emily to sleep and Victoria was making a lot of noise....so I look over and what was she doing...Burpees, wall sits, jumping jacks, and high knees. LOL! She cracks me up. She was driving Kevin crazy but that's okay. I told her she could work out but just try to be as quite as possible.
Kiddos are crazy :-)
