Day 4: May 4, 2010

Oh my, today was ALL over the place.

I keep thinking I should try to do my dancing practice when Xander's not up, but he gets SO excited when I say it's time to dance. Then, inevitably, he wants to go upstairs or get water or read a book or, today, nurse twice (he's getting a cold and it makes him a boobaholic). Did you know that it's possible to dance while nursing? Technically there are two ways to do it: there's the physically challenging "pick up the toddler while he's latched on and dance around while holding him" and there's the less-exhausting but more-imaginatively-challenging "dance with your arms while sitting cross-legged." As I, too, am getting a cold, I chose the latter. I need to work on this because I actually ended up doing jazz hands at one point. For some reason I find this fact deeply embarrassing.

Today's soundtrack was "Ten Seconds to Sunrise" by DJ Tiesto followed by three different versions of the "Wee-ooo" theme (known as Doctor Who in households not containing a Wee-ooo obsessed two year old). Tiesto was, as always, easy to dance to. I found myself morphing through different shapes and sustained movements during the slower parts of the song and then letting loose with the party dance during the faster parts. Xander, meanwhile, started off by running full tilt at the wall and smacking into it. He did this repeatedly (he thinks it's hilarious...and it is). Then he moved on to the classic "stand with feet spread apart and bob your head" routine. I tried that too -I can see why he likes it!

The Doctor Who theme in its second-most-recent incarnation is actually extremely difficult to dance to. I was at a complete loss, so I sort of just bopped around. I had much better luck with the second version I played, which was from 1985 and very electronic-bouncy. I played around with the idea of being a goofy robot or a spastic alien, and I got on very well (I know you're trying to picture that, and yes, it looked just as bizarre and silly as you're thinking). By the time we'd gone through a second rendition of the more recent version I was completely spent.

So...what did I learn today? Dancing with your toddler is always challenging, but at least you get good stories out of it. And, for the sake of my sanity, I should probably schedule one or two sessions a week sans-baby. Oh, and I need to get on the yoga train...I HURT.