Cereal (with banana): and now the sun is shining. Weird day.

We have cake today because it's our intern's last day (we are a cake-happy department), but she's not here yet, and I am impatient. Want cake now.

Thanks for the link sumi. There is a good link to a short article on the care and feeding of one's balance ball.

There is also a pretty hilarious photo showing how you can truss up your ball to turn it into a solo-flex. Can you say empire building?

My ball is just like yours (except blue) but sadly, I have the ball; I have no dvd.

Ima bet I run into it at a yard sale in the near future.

Stephanie, clearly we both have good intentions. Let's check in on our progress in about a month. Happy crunching to you!

Mine is green. You choose your ball by your height.

I want cake, too. And if the evil vending machine elves ever get around to restocking our Source o' Carbs, I'll probably buy something not entirely unlike cake. Broadly speaking.

Bummer. I actually need a purple ball for my height. Ah well. We shall overcome.

Woke up sick in the middle of the night.(I guess a woman can have Too Much Candy for real sometimes...not that my stomach needs much reason, though.And I wanted to be like Margaret Mead...I'm guessing not.) On the plus side, I guess I have had the Horrible Thing I've been fearing.Tomorrow will be haircut day, too.

Steph's getting her haircut, which means it's nearly time for me to get one, too.

Stephanie, we have the Graco Quatro travel system. Yeah, the stroller is large and can be cumbersome, but when O was very little, transfering the car seat to the stroller saves loads of misery (and let him continue to sleep). Now that he's bigger, I enjoy the sturdiness of the larger stroller when we're out at the park. It carries more, it's more comfortable and has a tray to put snacks and toys in to keep O happy when we have to be out for long periods of time. It's also nice when we're picnicing, serving as a defacto high chair.

That being said, we also have an umbrella stroller for tighter spots, quick trips and when I don't feel like dragging the behemouth out of the trunk.

And I use a hip sling now that he's too big for the Baby Bjorn front style carrier.

We used only lightweight strollers. The big ones were bigger than we wanted to haul around with us.

Our good stroller is a Maclaren TechnoSport, so basically a large, sturdy umbrella stroller with just enough extra features and areas of adjustability to justify its costing 10x as much as our cheap umbrella stroller, the one we use on planes, at the ballpark, and anywhere else we don't want to risk the fancy one.

We never had the combo kind. When Annabel was wee, for short errands I just carried the bucket (and got nice strong arms), while if I intended to walk any distance, I put her in the Baby Bjorn. Also, I put her in the Maclaren when she was just 6 weeks old, and got lots of comments from nosy shopping mall grandmas on the "tiny little baby in the big girl stroller," but Annabel was Advanced WRT head control and was perfectly happy in it.

Yesterday was Annabel's first bus ride, as we've decided it's too expensive to pay for parking at each and every baseball game. For most games she and I will be meeting DH at the ballpark, with him taking the bus direct from work. I've already decided carrying her cheap stroller, like we did yesterday, won't work when it's just me. (I really wish mothers were issued a third hand!) So I'm going to try the sling again, something I haven't used since she was a wee newborn (I could never find a really comfortable way to carry her, and she didn't seem happy, so we dropped it in favor of the Bjorn and the stroller.)

We also have a Graco travel system and we love it. We also have a Bjorn and love that too.

Which reminds me, I have to call Graco. Our swing motor is kaput.

Yes, we've changed the batteries.

Rechargable batteries are a parent's friend.

Is it just me or does it make sense that I might feel awkward in a chruch group studying "The Purpose Driven Life" when I don't believe? My wife seems to find it strange that I would feel awkward.