What happened to my flexibility!?!

Wow! Let me start by telling you that my ever so loving Mr. C has been doing the workout video program P90X and it is sooo extreme. His brother's come over everyday to do it with him but yesterday they didn't arrive till he or shall I say we were almost done.

I thought to myself "maybe I will try this workout with him, after all it is yoga day"
I love yoga and being as big as I am, "I'm not too bad at it" or so I thought. Poor guy was doing it all by himself so I decided to join in.

We started out with easy deep breathing and light stretches, "this is going well and hey, I feel pretty good" as my confidence increased I increased my stretching abilities. Child's pose, cool.
Downward Dog, "I got this". Cobra, Warrior 1,2,3, exhalted warrior.

Whoot! Oh yeah! Yoga postures you're my B_ _ _ _!".





Then it got not so easy. I thought I would attempt the Triangle poses, "UuuHH there it is!" Pigeon, "Ha ok right". Then comes Crow "how about no"
here we go with Childs Pose instead. Now that is over Bridge Pose, "mmm hmmm Downward Dog here I come again".

Confidence descending and really fast! Crow Pose, "Ouch, What the Hell!".


Confidence completely lost. My spirits semi lifted with a Sun salutation and Tree Pose but not by much.


As I lay there in Corpse Pose
feeling like I got dragged down the street by a semi truck, what muscle tissue I had was completely shredded, confidence obliterated, I realized after giving birth and being hacked in half from the C section my body will never be the same and I will have to start back at square one, again. Then here come the boys fit and

supremely manicured men with perfect skin and chiselled abs. I hate 20 year olds!

I lept to my feet, defeated by my inflexibility I huffed off to get ready for work and to get a lil' sweet lovin' from my baby girl, after all I am her Mama right, wrong! She see's me and cries like I am trying to kill her. Not a great self esteem booster and to top it off she's muddy. Thanks baby girl.

Today as I write this I can feel my mid section, it reminds me of the feeling I had in the recovery room after the C section. Where is the Morphine!

I wonder if my personal trainer can help me with a bruised ego.

The Lil' Swimmer

The other day my lil' family went to my work for Zoey's first swimming adventure. The difficult part was in the locker room. She decided to have her 2nd public explosive diaper which is not a problem, I cleaned her up like a pro. I put on her lil swimmer panties and Pluuuoop Squish!!! Ewwwey! Not again! Not in her new swimmer panties.. and she looked soo cute! So not only did she get it all out this time but I had the pleasure of introducing her to the shower where I got to wash her off and her new panties and me. No one told me how slippery naked babies are in the shower. They really should make a tub to wash off lil babies for circumstances like these. She did great in the shower to my surprise and why wouldn't she...she had emptied her bowels all over the place and she had a quite satisfied look on her face.



So now that baby girl is showered with newly broken in semi new swimmer panties its out to the pool where Daddy/ Mr. C is waiting for us. Thankfully I washed us off because she was the only 3 month old lil baby out there and everyone was staring at us for this new experience. It was so quiet you could've heard a pin drop.

We got in the warm water and I held Zoey afraid and terrified that she would freak out when the water touched her but instead she smiled with a little skepticism to the new sensation as I submerged the lower half of her body. I swayed her from side to side then it was time to go for more. By now the older ladies in the pool were oooing and awwing at her and asking a ton of questions but Mr. C and I were too engrossed by our lil wonder baby to pay too much attention to the onlookers.



I tried to submerge her to her shoulders but its easier said than done. Apparently babies are really very buoyant and she floated right up. It was the strangest thing. Daddy C had to get in and take over the reins being his baby girl was in his eyes about to drown my mama and he held her and tried to submerge her and found out how she naturally floated with no effort at all. It was amazing. She acted like she was right at home. I heard how babies take to the water pretty easily but I didn't think my child would be one that did. She never ceases to amaze me.



Mr. C and I were both afraid to let her go completely in fear that her head may submerge and that it might be too much for her at this time. But tomorrow we will try again. I think I will start looking for Mother and child swimming lessons so I don't drown my Lil' Swan by accident.

I wonder if she will be an Olympic swimmer someday...Hmmm I wonder.