afternoon tricks
This afternoon my middle girl was particularly wiggly, jumping on her sister’s back and begging, “Can we play a game, can we, can we?!” so I suggested, “Go outside and run around” the same way my mother must have suggested I go down in the basement to try to beat my jump rope record when I was too wiggly as a kid. 1,062 … 1,063 … 1,064 and before I knew it my dad was calling me up for dinner. Tricky.
So, when Rosie went outside to run around I shouldn’t have been surprised that she was literally running around the house, as fast as she could, with Sarah Jane timing her using the stopwatch. 18 seconds! “Do it again, Rosie, faster!” Then she ran 17 seconds. Next, SJ said, “How about a ladder, 1 lap, 2 lap, 3 lap, 4 lap 3 lap, 2 lap, 1 lap with limited recovery.”
Ha! Limited recovery. I guess she’s been listening afterall.
Rosie’s times were 18, 40, 58, 1:18, 58, 38, and 17.
“Time to eat!” I called and a very un-wiggly, red-faced Rosie sauntered in.
Tricky Sarah Jane followed, smiling, “What’s for dinner?”
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Hold on… So when my mother used to suggest that I go outside and practice my free throws, she didn’t really believe that I had a future in the NBA?
Comment by JOCKO — 5/15/2006 @ 1:20 pm
Joan,
Does this work for “kids” over the age of 25?
Comment by Tim Browder — 5/17/2006 @ 8:00 pm
Tricky tricky. My mum convinced me that washing the kitchen floor was fun because my sister and I got to slide all over the floor on a piece of wet cloth. Not to mention the game she made of taking the dry washing in from the bamboo poles.
“a ladder, 1 lap, 2 lap, 3 lap, 4 lap 3 lap, 2 lap, 1 lap with limited recovery.”
Hmm. That has captured my imagination.
Comment by mis_nomer — 5/17/2006 @ 8:32 pm