the ultimate exercise

I read once that an adult person could loose weight by simply following a two-year-old around all day and doing everything they do.  I'm not sure if it leads to weight loss but it for sure leads to exhaustion. Twice a month a group called MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meets at our church and once a month I'm one of the grandma aged volunteers who watch the toddlers (we call them moppets) while their moms enjoy their meeting. For two hours we watch, referee, play, read, rock, serve snacks and generally keep watch over a room full of perpetual motion machines. Today it was four of us against 13 of them - pretty good odds since we are bigger. Also today we didn't have much crying. The really little ones seemed to be too busy trying to keep up with the bigger kids to take time to cry. Busy was definitely the operative word here.  There was one pleasant surprise. I was watching a three year old building things with the large size Legos, then taking them apart and dropping the blocks all over the floor. After watching this for a while I said "Ok now let's pick up." and lo and behold he started right in and picked up the blocks. Congratulations Mom, you're raising a good boy there.