So yesterday I took Aubrey in for her 4 year old doctor checkup with the pediatrician. She's doing awesome! Right on track for preschool, and she knows what she needs to know for kindergarten already!
He asked me questions about how much physical activity she gets each day and how much time she spends watching TV? I realized that we have hibernated quite a bit this winter and we need to get moving again.
I decided that we need to try and find fun things that keep us active during the winter. So this past week I've been trying to find ways to change our habits and have been trying to find ways to make our day funner.
We now watch an hour and a half of TV at the most during the day, and we try to spend half an hour doing learning and craft time, another half hour playing a game, another half hour to an hour cleaning or organizing, and another half hour exercising.
Hopefully by breaking up our day a little bit, I can get Aubrey a little more excited to do things besides sitting in front of the TV or iPad, while I am getting lost in how much time I have been spending getting our house in order when I could be teaching her better habits and she could be helping me.
Jeff and I have also decided to start tracking what we eat and exercising more frequently. Jeff surprised me with a cruise for my 30th birthday in May and so we have 3 months to get ourselves in shape and we need to make it count! It always helps having a date to shoot for in accomplishing our goals, and the cruise was a great motivator!
Hopefully we can start changing habits and getting healthy again!