I think I'm back...

I am not going to make any excuses about why I haven't blogged in forever - I'm busy. I am just going to blog when I can and when there is something truly worthy of shouting about.
Lately, after we get home from work and school, I have been taking Diana and Amy for a bike/walk. Diana rides her Princess bike and I put Amy in the jogger and we do three laps around the block. Mostly, it's two, but there was one day it was three laps and I was super fired up for the exercise (something else I am not doing these days).
I decided that I wanted to give Diana some variety in her workouts so I asked her yesterday if she wanted to go for a run with me after school. She said "oh yea!" I knew she would because she knows I run on the treadmill, has seen me run on the treadmill and in person and loves to run.
When we got home, we got changed, got back in the car and headed over to the track across the street for a little jog. (Matt was at home so I left Amy at home. It was too windy for her to be out).
We got to the track and did some stretches. I thought Diana would see how big the track was and immediately turn and run the other way, but it didn't happen. I asked her how many laps we should do and she said "12." I don't know where that number came up, but I thought it was funny that 12 laps equals three miles on a track. Strange and very ambitious.
"I think that's great,D. But let's just do a couple and see what happens," I replied.
She said OK and we started out. We ran the first two laps and as she slowed down on Lap 2, we decided to walk Lap 3. I told her that we would do one more lap and head home. As we approached the start of Lap 4, she wanted to keep walking but I wasn't having it. "C'mon D! Let's Go!" I cheered. I started skipping sideways for a little bit and she followed.
We eventually got back to running and she finished the lap with a big smile on her face. She ran a mile!
When we got home, I told her to tell Daddy how many laps we did and he was shocked. He said, "She really ran the whole four laps." "Well, she ran two for sure and a large portion of the fourth." He was beaming with pride.
The girl loves to run. She does pretty good on her bike too...loves to go over speed bumps. We just have to get her back in the pool and we will be secretly training her for a triathlon!