Zumba... aiieeee!

You'll never believe what we did yesterday morning. Straight off a midnight arrival home from a conference in Colorado, Mark accompanied me to the grand opening of our new gym. The promise of free food and a raffle can do amazing things (ie. getting him out of bed before 9 on the weekend.)

The plan was to drop Jessica off in the Kid's Club and hit the 9:30 Speed Fitness class. It was supposed to be a 5 circuit demo class showing off some of their new programs. After asking at the front desk, she waved us off in a general direction... apparently we did not follow her vague wave correctly and found ourselves in a fitness studio with something like 50 women and 3 men. Mark looked at me, I shrugged back.

Enter the instructors... super buff black guy and a tiny cute Hispanic girl in a short skirt. See Mark? There's a male instructor. You'll be fine. Ahem. Two second later the lead instructor turns to the girl and she rips his pants off to reveal the tiniest hotpants ever. Mark looks at me with eyes the size of saucers and expression that says, "where have you taken me?!" Between the instructor's accent and his effeminate voice I can't understand a single word he's saying but the music starts and away we go!

I've never been to a Zumba class before, so honestly I still believed we were just in a really bizarre speed fitness class... Mark had no such illusions, but I have to give the guy credit, he danced his heart out and stayed the entire time. It was fabulous!! It lasted an hour, we were exhausted but had a hilarious experience to add to the memory file. Don't hold your breath for it to be a regular outing though!

Afterwards we headed out for the raffle and Mark won a $60 gift card to the spa at their gold club out in Cary. People did the reserved clapping you get at raffles but when he walked back and very blatantly gifted it to me, there was an eruption of "awwws" and more clapping. My husband is awesome.

4 months, 16 months, 28 months!

I haven't done a Jessica update in forever so I thought I'd do a little time-lapse comparison post today.

June 18th 2010 [4 months old]

She was finding her toes and sitting up like a pro (well perhaps not a pro compared to adult humans but she was definitely in the advanced baby category!) Weigh-in 14.11 lbs photo June 17.

June 18th 2011 [16 months old]

Running proficiently and really getting the hang of expressing her very own personality. Weigh-in 22.4 lbs

June 18th 2012 [28 months old] 

She's got the basics down when using toddler scissors.


She can say just about anything if she puts her mind to it. You should hear her say rhinoceros. 


She seriously thinks she can swim. Even in the toddler pool she lays on her stomach and walks around on her arms while she floats. I think she's trying to give me a heart attack.


Due to her Daddy's influence she's seriously into superheros. The other night while watching The Animated Superman (courtesy of her Uncle Daniel) Superman was in trouble (much like he always is) Jessica turns to look at us and with a concerned expressed, plainly states, "Batman, help Superman!" Now we all know who Jessica thinks is more awesome! Last night she put the cat bed on top of a box and fell into the box, after meowing for a bit (I think she's decided that because Leeloo gets attention when she miaows that she will too) she asked for help. After extricating her from the box she looks lovingly at me and says, "Momma save me. Momma superhero." Okay, all together now... "awwwwwwwww!" (It's a couple days past the 18th now but I'll see if I can get some photos of her today to add for the June update)