I belatedly realized that my last post didn’t include any topics outside of Calvin. While most of my world does currently revolve around Calvin, I’m starting to have more of a life than I did a couple of months ago.

I use to be a rabid exerciser. I got up faithfully at 5:30 each morning to give me time to exercise before leaving for work. Since having Calvin, I don’t drag myself out of bed until he wakes up. As a result, my exercise routine mainly consists of taking Calvin on walks 3-4 times a week. However, since we started putting Calvin to bed earlier, I’ve started doing about 15 minutes of my favorite abs video. I couldn’t believe how out of shape I’d become. I’m still out of shape but am slowly working on containing my postpartum belly.

Due to lack of exercise and a lack of careful eating, I haven’t lost my pregnancy weight yet. About a month ago I went down to 140 (10 lbs from pre-pregnancy) but I’ve gained 2 lbs back. This is probably because I’ve finally figured out a way to eat supper around Calvin’s evening routine. I know I should work on losing the last 10 lbs but I’m finding it hard to make it a priority.

Around August, I managed to give my wrist a repetitive stress injury due to carrying Calvin around too much one day. I keep hoping if I ignore it it’ll go away but so far that hasn’t worked. It doesn’t interfere at all with my typing and only moderately with piano playing but it is annoying when I try to pick Calvin up. I should probably go get it checked out but that would take time I don’t want to spend and they’d probably tell me that I need to stop using it and let it heal which isn’t very practical.

In somewhat related news, I’m scheduled to play for church next week. This will be the first time I’ve played since January. I’ve been practicing each day before I pick Calvin up from daycare. I use to slack off until the week before I was scheduled to play and then frantically practice to make up for my laziness. I’d also go into church really early to grab the church piano for practicing the day I was scheduled to play. That was useful because the church was a very different feel than my piano. However, with Calvin that won’t be very practical. Another church member has agreed to watch him during the service and I guess I use prelude as my warmup time

I’ve been reading a fair amount after Calvin goes to bed for the night. I just finished Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller and Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas. I enjoyed both books immensely. For non-fiction, I’m reading Einstein Never Used Flash Cards. It’s all about how we’re too focused on making forging our children into genisuses at the experience of playtime which is when real development occurs. I strongly suspect I have a tendency toward trying to be an overachiever so this is a good book to help me keep perspective.

A couple of weeks ago, Jaeger pointed me toward a new parenting website called moms4mom. It allows parents to ask questions and other parents to post answers. The most popular answers appear at the top of the list so you don’t have to wade through a lot of junk like some other sites. Also, participants acquire “reputation” when their answers or questions receive positive votes. It’s a pretty new site but so far I’m impressed by the lack of spam. I haven’t asked any questions yet but I’m sure I will sometime in the next couple of months.

In a brief Calvin related tidbit, he may be getting sick. For the last couple of days he’s thrown up and had diahrea at daycare. Today, he is refusing to eat. We’re not sure if he’s coming down with something or this is just a result of teething. Jaeger’s probably headed to San Diego next week so I suspect Calvin will get sick to add some excitement to life.