How to get in shape in just 2 weeks!!!

Well as you can see the P90X 11 disk DVD exercise program has begun in the our household after hearing that the Porter's have been doing it for 5 weeks. So Greyson and I have finished our first week and it pretty much sucked. It is quite intense.

But to back up, I found out 2 weeks ago that my old college was having a volleyball tournament and was puting together a bunch of old alumni teams. So I started running almost every day in hopes of not completely dying out on the court. If I had stuck with that I think I would have been fine. But then Greyson got wind of the P90X so we started that the week before my tournament. After the third abripperX workout the night before my tournament I noticed that indeed my stomach was feeling a bit ripped. And not in a good way, more of the slightly injured way. So I try to play at the tournament and the very first hit brings me to the ground as a searing pain shoots through my lower abdomin muscles. Determined to hit I tried about 4 more, each ending with me curled up like a baby. So it was tipping and blocking for the rest of the day for me. Those activities only slightly hurt.

Moral of the story: You can't go from a post twin delivery flabby belly to AbripperX without a little something inbetween.

Weather: Tired of the snow. Tired of the rain. Tired of the clouds. Tired of the cold.

Babies: Doing great except for the not figuring out how to sit down from a standing position. Much screeming now occurs every time we put Samia to sleep and she gets stuck standing up in her crib. Piper and I went out and did outside chores today. I can just leave her sitting in the grass and she just stays there and looks around or picks up a pinecone or pats the grass. I wouldn't even attempt that with Samia. She would be eating rocks, dirt, grass, anything and everything. Piper is finally getting better at feeding herself. She still insists on hanging on to whatever she is eating and won't just put the whole thing in her mouth.

Pets: One night Greyson says "Ada has a big red sticker on her leg". Then the next morning, "Uh Mel, that isn't a sticker". I go and look and it is this nasty big, torn open wound type of thing. I am guessing the neighbor dog did it but we didn't have her collar on for whatever reason so it is possible Ada was over on their property. She now has about a 5 inch incision on the her upper leg. They had to go in and trim away the edges of the skin and pull the skin really tight to get it all sewed back together. It didn't actually seem to hurt her much but it sure looked ugly.

Gardens: We have the rototiller from the Dean's but haven't used it yet. We are getting a bunch of raspberry plants for free from a friend so we will have to find a place to put those and figure out some sort of way to keep them upright.

That is enought catchup for now.
-Mel