Who knew

- The goal of this morning's spin class was to keep your heartrate at 80% - not 85%, not 75%. 80. Today I learned I could control my heartrate and keep it where I wanted it with concentration and breathing. Who knew?

- Meg has always hated being wrapped in a towel after her bath. She particuarly hates having it cover her head. Last night I put the hood part over her hair and set her on her feet. I told her to run and show Daddy super baby. Apprently, Megan loves her new cape. When it was removed from her head so her PJs could go on, she lost track of it. She came searching for me, turned her little palms up to the sky (elbows bent in and tucked neatly to her sides), she shrugged and said "Mama? Towel? Air go?" We found it. She demanded "Hat peas!" (say it outloud it'll make sense) and then took off down our hallway yelling "Ooper Baby!" All it took to get this 16-month old peacefully dried was a little imaginiation. Who knew?

- As a typical three-year old, Logan has the tendancy to over-react to things sometimes. And as your typical, sometimes frustrated mom, I have a tendency to repeat the same matras when he does so. Last night Logan took a walk with his grandparents. Papa, although an incredibly hands-on gentle grandfather, can be a bit impatient and sometimes forgets what's like to be three. Logan's walks have two paces - run ahead of everyone or dwadle behind. That frustrates Papa. The trip around the block included my father repeating himself several times: Logan! Don't run, hold up. Logan! Come on, stop dwadling. Let's go! He snapped one of those phrases off within 5 houses from home. Logan stopped. He put his hands on his hips and he said, "Papa, you really have to learn to relax." Guess sometimes he listens to me more than I realize. Who knew?

- One of my hobbies, one that consumes me sometimes, is taking photographs. I'm a digital hold out. Honestly, I adore my Nikon SLR and I very much don't want to part with it until I can afford it's digital counterpart. And then today I read that Nikon is backing away from film - as are so many other companies. I have to be honest, while I don't consider myself an early adopter of technology, I'm rarely one of the ones left holding onto the dinosaur in denial. For some reason I have with digital photography. I've joined onto every other technical revolution before getting shoved out the door - but perhaps not this time. Who knew?

- There are roughly 33 days left until pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training. They think it's going to snow here this week yet the new baseball season is just around the corner. For me that's a sign - more than red breasted robins, more then early flowering bulbs - arms warming up in Florida so they're ready for an April opening day. Winter feels like it's just begun sometimes and yet it's nearing an end. Granted there's a lot of bluster and cold, perhaps even a lot of snow, left in the old man, but at least there's light at the end of the tunnel.