So Many Stairs

Many years ago I lived in a ranch house.  When I moved into a two-story house I thought I wouldn't make it through the first two weeks climbing stairs.  I didn't think I was in terrible shape; in fact, I'd lost a decent bit of weight packing and moving us in.  But those blasted stairs would wind me--even when I wasn't tired.

Three weeks after moving in I realized I didn't notice the stairs anymore.  My body had gotten accustomed to the specific activity of climbing stairs versus doing other types of physical activity.  In this house I seem to be climbing stairs more than ever.  And while I'm used to stairs, after fifty flights in a day, I'm tired. I blame the basement.  Or maybe it's the children. 

I don't know how you count flights of stairs.  If you climb up a flight and then go back down them, is that two flights?  You traversed a flight of stairs twice.  You "climb three flights to your dentist's office" and you "have to go down four flights of stairs because the elevator was out of service."  So if I go up two and then back down two, do I get credit for four flights?

I eagerly look at the scale in the morning to see the results of all this stairing.  Okay, I anxiously look at the scale.  Still, it's not moving in a rapidly downward fashion.   So, I'm going to have to either do more stair climbing or add something else to my daily calorie-burning routine. 


The Big Boy Update:  He throws food.   He loves to eat.  Loves food.  But he drops a lot and some of it is intentional over the side of the chair.  At what age should I be correcting this?  I suppose I should start now, but I want to find out how to do it in a positive way.  I'm going to ask my mom expert friend for advice.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  So interactive.  When she's awake, she loves to interact with people.  She smiles, coos, wants to look at you and hold her head up on your shoulder.  She doesn't demand to be held like I've heard some babies do, but she does want to have a human to look at and do her baby-best to communicate with.