My New Favorite Toy

I found this double jogger stroller on Craigslist for $30 and I love it! We have taken it to the zoo, to the Mall, and I've tried to go walking with the kids as much as I can. My sole purpose of buying one was so that I could go walking (at my own pace, not that of a 2 year-old) with Ellie and Thomas in the stroller and Daniel in the backpack. This was one of the ways I'm hoping to shed some extra pounds. I figured that it was my pregnancies that packed on the pounds so those three little monsters can help me tone it down at little.

I feel sort of bad though...like I might be contributing to childhood obesity while I make them sit on their butts and offer them juice pouches and snacks just so they stay put. I justify it by telling them if they go for a walk with mom, then we can go play at the park. No really, they read books and play and run too as we go on our walks. We do what we have to, right?

And yes I know that Ellie is entirely too big for the stroller, she is the worlds largest 4-year-old. She is the in the 95% for a 6-year-old, but still as cute as can be!