Hooping!

I'm grateful for a lot of things these past few weeks. We had another round of sickness last week, and it was inconvenient, but we got through it. Friends of ours have had far worse sicknesses such as pneumonia and what appears to be the entero virus or something similar.

I did try my hand at taking some pictures on K's old 30D, and it was a lot of fun. In the last two weeks I've taken over 1000 shots of the kids, a birthday party, baseball game, and the school walkathon. I'm learning a LOT such as experimenting with whether to control the aperture versus shutter speed. K is excited for me to try his shoe flash but I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet!

In the midst of everything I'm constantly being entertained by the kids. The girls have hilarious things to say most days, although they are often very loud, talking constantly, trying to talk over each other, and then yelling at each other, which results in me feeling like I may be going deaf some days. Many days I must sound like a drill sargaent, barking out orders on who is allowed to talk next, such as "A stop talking for a minute! C you go first but keep it short so A can have a turn!"

Ry and I have also had some crazy fun together. One day we played basketball at his school playground with a bouncy red ball and it turned into a full court 1-on-1 game. I would say our skill level is comparable, even given my height advantage. Then we decided the other day to pick up some hula hoops. I've always wanted to be able to hula hoop and could never do more than 2-3 rotations. We watched a bunch of youtube videos and practiced a lot. I got a larger one (that's actually weighted for working out) and finally got the hang of it! I got up to 3 minutes of hooping today. I'm sure that I'm quite a sight to behold. But I feel like it could be a great indoor fitness activity we could all do together. Or perhaps I'm just reverting to things that I never really experienced in my childhood!