Rare Mosquito Tuesday

Our little cowboy was out enjoying the early morning sunshine yesterday playing at Mimi's house.  He was out in his usual spot which is occupying the sand box.  He constructs large buildings, ponds, farms, and just about anything else his imagination can think of, and of course, water is involved.  His favorite love is to dig a pond the entire size of the sand box (which is huge) and rig up tunnels that have old scaps of pipe for the water to run through and the water then ends up filling the pond.

At about 30 minutes into his new construction site he picked up his lime green fly swatter and took a few swings at the winged guest that was interupting his building time.  He hit the target and with a crash the insect came flying smack down into the sand pile.  He then decided to run up to the patio to show his kill to Mimi.

With his silver pliers pulled bravely from the holster on his side he picked up his kill in the grips of the pliers.  He ran to Mimi and said with excitement, "Mimi, look at this.  It is a very rare mosquito."  Mimi looked at the dead insect in the grips of the silver pliers ~ trying to hide her smile and giggle as she recognized the "rare mosquito" as a wasp!  She didn't squelch Ethan's excitement to add the rare mosquito to his summer bug collection to be displayed proudly for Ms. Clover's 2nd grade class.  

Enthusiasm is infectious ~ when you're excited everyone's excited!

My exercise routine was like that last night.  I wasn't excited.  In fact, I was flat tired.  Our little cowboy is the great encourager.  He said, "Mom, I'll do Zumba with you."  And he did.  We salsa'd all over the living room and laughed and giggled as we did it! 

Light bulb moment again. 

Exercise is more fun when you have someone to do it with.   



My challenge to you this week is to find an exercise buddy or walking partner to share your exercise time with.  I think you'll be just like me, you'll find that the time went by so quickly and you were having such a good time that you didn't feel like it was exercise.

Have a great week ~ Stephanie