vonRoeschlaub Family News

Christmas came and went with a few big presents: Claire’s DS and Avery’s digital camera being big hits.  But the biggest hit of all would be Rachel’s gift: a Wii Fit.

We started by taking turns registering.  Claire had a Wii Fit age of 38 (+30 years) and I got an age of 30 (-12 years) .  Diana would kill me if I posted her progress, but we all set goals for Valentines day.  My goal, work down to the top of the normal weight range, Claire’s is to improve her balance.

After taking three games each, Claire continued to play for two hours (working up quite a sweat).  Diana and I rounded out our half hour last night, then everyone put in another half hour this morning before breakfast.  I’m going to try to alternate between yoga/strength exercises one day and aerobic exercises the next, rounding out with balance exercises (I scored very well on balance, but so did Diana).

The goal is to do half an hour every morning.

Last week Claire asked for a bento, but school was canceled before I could make it.  Today I made it for lunch, and Claire was pretty happy.  It consisted of a bologna and salami sandwich cut into hearts and stars, pretzels, carrot sticks, half a hot dog cut to look like an octopus, grapes, a baby bell, some munster cubes and apple cut into the shape of numbers.  It sounds like a lot, but the portions were small.
No rice, the traditional bento additive, but it would have been hard to make that and Claire probably wouldn’t have liked it cold anyway.

Victoria is currently teething badly.  The cure that worked best for Claire had been a drop of whiskey on the gums.  Sadly, when I suggested it Diana revealed we don’t currently have any.  As I walked Victoria about trying to comfort her I tried to think up an alternative, finally asking “Should I buy a bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label?”

Without hesitation Victoria nodded vigorously.