After a cold beginning to 2010, and a rainy weekend, we finally have some sun. Monday anyway. It’s definitely getting harder to have a toddler (ugh, I have a TODDLER) inside in this crap weather. She’s a busy busy kid and is ON THE GO. Paul and I can be pretty lazy people so this ON THE GO thing is really exhausting. We joined Gymboree for the winter months, the open gym thing, so we can get out of the house and Courtney can get a little exercise. Turns out that all of Atlanta has done the same thing. Or maybe the rain is driving everyone crazy. We went on Sunday morning and it was total mayhem. Courtney seems to like it though and it gives us a much needed change of scenery.
Monday while the sun was shining, we loaded up the car and headed to the Zoo. (Remember the days when you could just grab your purse and go? Yeah, not so much.) Being a holiday, it looks like all of Atlanta was there too. I’m not really sure what Courtney liked better, the other kids of the animals. She did wave hi to the orangutans and seemed intrigued by the giraffes. But mostly, the other kids, running around, jumping with excitement and squealing at peeing giraffes that really held her interest.
Our house is laid out in a big circle – you can go from the front door, through the playroom, into the kitchen, into the tv room, through the dining room and you’re back at the front door. I think that if you laid down on the floor, you could see the indentation that Courtney is wearing into the floor as she runs laps around and around the house. She goes. And goes and goes and goes. That Energizer bunny has nothing on this kid. She will go go go, sit in her chair for 12 seconds and then go go go. In the meantime, Paul and I are laying on the floor, panting, our old knees and aching backs just crying out for her to STOP MOVING FOR A MINUTE. You’d think I could quit the exercise altogether and just chase this kid and lose 20 pounds. I can only imagine what we have in store for us over the next 10 years.
Being lazy isn’t going to work much longer. My beautiful girl wants to see the world, whether I’m keeping up or not.
