The recovery process for my wrist surgery involves, of course, stretching exercises. These exercises are quite simple: I move the wrist to what should be a pain free position and hold it there for a count of ten. I do each one ten times.<\/p>\n
As you might imagine, the boys are fascinated by the whole process. This morning, I asked if they could do the counting for me. They were thrilled both to help out and to show off their counting.<\/p>\n
N, however, had a little trouble. He’s only 3 and counting to 100 is slightly outside his range. After I finished, he was looking a bit frustrated – so I asked if he could count situps for me.<\/p>\n
What the heck, I figured. I had been wanting to start an exercise program anyway. This way it would be a bit more fun.<\/p>\n
I layed down on the den floor and hooked my toes under the couch. N stood on the other side of my knees.<\/p>\n
“Okay, count when I’m up,” I said, sitting up. “Like this. When I reach my knees. Okay?”<\/p>\n
“Okay!” He said, giving me a thumbs up.<\/p>\n
I started doing the situps. As I finished my first one, he shouted “1, 2, 3, 4, 5!”<\/p>\n
I stopped and explained that the first one should be 1, the second 2, and so on. He agreed. I started over.<\/p>\n
“Two,” he said as I sat up, and we were off and running. He counted all the way up to number five, and then, as I was doing number 6, he said “one”<\/p>\n
“No,” I said. “That was six.”<\/p>\n
“No, I missed one. So I had to go back and get it.”<\/p>\n
“But that was six!”<\/p>\n
“Okay, okay!”<\/p>\n
I sat up again. “Two,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Hey! Wait!” I shouted.<\/p>\n
“Nope. You’re on number three.”<\/p>\n
I’m not so good at situps that I can afford to restart the count every time we get to five. I started counting them out loud. N, of course, started shouting over me. Then his older brother came running in to join the game, shouting random numbers as I did each situp.<\/p>\n
I think my exercise program may have to wait a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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