Dancing Queen

Sometimes it's funny what kids pick up on. When we moved into our apartment it came furnished and the couch that we got with this place was probably the most uncomfortable couch I have ever sat on. So at some point we ended up starting this thing where at night when we wanted to watch TV we would bring a spare mattress in and lay it on the floor. We recently bought a new couch, but have continued to lay on the mattress at night. Probably more out of habit than anything else. Now the first thing JoAnn does when she sees one of us grab the mattress is run to our bedroom and bring a pillow off our bed to the mattress. Then she usually lays down on the pillow before anyone else has a chance to. It is so cute to see her coming around the corner with a pillow that is larger than she is in one hand and her bottle in the other. This picture is from a couple nights ago after she got the pillow for us.


Notice the crutches is the background of the picture? What happened? I tried to run. Evidently that wasn't such a good idea. With soccer season in full swing, I have been trying to get out on the field and do some of the stuff with the girls and it usually takes about one long sprint before I feel like I am about to fall over. So I decided to try to run before practices in order to try to get in better shape. Like maybe I could do two sprints instead of one. Anyway, I got to the end of the first mile I was trying to run and I realized two things. One, my lungs felt really good as if I could run forever. Then the second thing hit me...I could barely move my leg without extreme pain. Somewhere along the way I had pulled a ligament in my hip. So now I have been stuck with those crutches for the last week. The crutches themselves aren't really that bad. A week or two doesn't seem so awful after the 6 weeks I spent on them in college after I broke my leg. It's the part where I can't pick JoAnn up and walk with her that makes things a little difficult. Luckily, I have a great husband that has been so wonderful in helping me do so much. Seriously, sometimes I think he has more patience than any person I have ever met.

On a different note this video is one of my favorite videos of JoAnn. She has been really into dancing lately and has come up with a new move that Daniel has referred to as the "rooster dance." I think it is pretty cute.