Sweating For A Better Ian

At this moment, Ian is "walking off the pounds," accompanied by an inspirational video with a peroxide blonde leading a room full of women in gym suits, counting as she leads the movement, with insufferable pseudo-House music in the background, vintage 1982.

At various points, Daniel and Madeleine were joining him, although currently his work-out is solo. Both boys are appropriately attired in slick, brown Scooby-Doo pajamas; Madeleine is the belle of the virtual gym, in her Snow White costume. [Amy actually asked him to hold off on the workout until she could join him (in earnest), but I urged her not to ruin my Kodak moment (technically Canon).

Ian is sometimes counting as well.

When she directed Ian to start the side steps, he said, "Oooh - I love that."

I asked him, "You love what?"to

He said, "I love the side-stuff," and started doing these slick side-stepping moves, clapping with each second beat.

Follow-up: Now Ian and Daniel are doing "band-stretching" - extending the "bands" as wide as they can in front of their chest, as directed by the Leader. In th video, I think the bands are designed for that narrow function; Ian's band is a giant (popped) balloon, and Daniel's is a blue dog-leash, which is an abundant commodity in our house...

(December 11, 2010)