I’m always trying to think of new ways to get Thomas up and
moving. Since he is part Lakota there is a higher chance of him developing
childhood obesity/diabetes. I’m a pretty
firm believer that exercise will help prevent this. Especially since I still
let him eat sugary treats. That and there are all sorts of good benefits from
exercise. My favorite is probably the
fact that he goes to sleep easier and sleeps better if I help him run off all
that pempted up energy.
1)
The newest way I have found is letting him chase
our geese and ducks. They can’t fly or anything yet, but they run away from
him. At least they did at first now they’re a little more used to him and just
kind of quickly walk away in another direction. But even if they do that then
he just sort of runs a circle around them – all while giggling.
2)
Kicking a ball around the yard. My sister and I
will actually kick it and then he will run after it picks it up and play a sort
of keep away with us. Put it down and kick it himself. He really gets into it
if you pretend run up to the ball with him and let him get to it just before
you reach it yourself.
3)
Follow the leader. If he doesn’t get to be the
leader then it’s a good source of exercise. If he does then you mostly just
walk around in a circle. But if I lead and he follows then I can get him to
scream, shake his butt, jump around, and run in a circle…or whatever comes to
mind at that moment.
4)
Yoga – I love doing yoga. It gets all of my ache
– y bones stretched out and feeling better. And after Thomas seeing me do it,
now he tries to mimic the movements. I really should record it while it’s still
cute.
5)
Dancing – Play some music (preferably what I
want to listen to) and dance around to it.
6)
Swimming – I put him in a life jacket and a
toddler floating chair type of thing, and let him kick his legs around to chase
me or my sister around. He giggles and “swims” and wears himself out. Sometimes
we take him out of the floater and we’ve been working on learning to swim.
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