Monday: Swim, Run, Gilad and Hair Drama

Of course I do not want to use this blog as a vehicle for complaints about the day-to-day nuisances of having an about-to-be-two year old. There is no doubt that I am blessed to have a child, and Ivan is both unique and special. HOWEVER, yesterday, I had another hair incident (not as bad as glue pad hair) but I felt it was clinically significant in terms of my irritation level.

Ivan has learned to unscrew tops and untwist wrappers, and it is very unfortunate. Two weeks ago I would have calmly watched him play with a screw-top bottle of arsenic. He could not have unscrewed it to save his life. He would merely look closely at bottle and shake them with a wonder that seemed to say "why would anyone make a sealed bottle? What could be in it? What could be its purpose?" Suddenly, however, he is on to this drugstore level level of adulthood. Luckily, he has gravitated towards the largely benign toothpaste and cough drops. Every once in a while, I will find him cloistered in the bathroom suckling down a tube of toothpaste like an alcoholic. Anyway, on Sunday morning as we were running late to church, I opened the door to the bathroom to see Ivan hastily dropping the toothpaste tube as I walked into the bathroom. I picked up my comb to untangle my bed head only to find that Ivan had dripped all the toothpaste into the comb and there were multiple streaks of Crest throughout my hair. I had no choice but throw it into a sticky bun and head to church. Luckily, this also happened on hair appointment week. The assaults on my appearance may be the hardest part of having a child.

Cough drops however, are Ivan's dearest love. He figured out how to twist open the paper wrappers, and he follows me about the house saying hopefully "hough hop hough hop". In fact, in another example of my stellar parenting, for his birthday I am giving him a cough drop to open and eat.

OK, so today, I had a great swim workout, though the showers were out at the gym. Hard times. I almost went home rather than immerse my hair in the pool water without wetting it first, and the further sin of leaving the chlorine in after I washed it. I keep telling myself it is hair appointment week. It is going to be OK. I have myself a hair treatment as soon as I got home.

Swim workout as follows:

• 200 warmup
• 8 x 50 swim
• 400 kick
• 2 x 300 swim
• 4 x 50 DIVE OFF THE BLOCKS AND I DID IT. I DID IT!!! (Steven splashed the water under my block so that the water did not look so far away. It was this crazy visual illusion that totally worked.)
• 200 swim
• 500 swim

At home I got in a four mile run, before heading into work and in to book club for the evening. Lots of fun!!!!

Pic of me diving off the blocks and my morning swim pool drinks!!