Planking

We had a follow-up today at the Children's Mercy Special Care Unit like we so often do, and while I was talking with our good friend and Nurse Practitioner, Jocie kept distracting me with her new "trick." I kept saying to her "Do you want to sit up?" and she would look at me with this tremendously excited face and her body would go berserk. I couldn't tell if she was just being silly, or proud of herself for doing something new and different.

Jocelyn was PLANKING!

At first I thought maybe I was just imagining things because she only did it twice (take a word from the wise --- just because you only see it once, or even twice, doesn't mean its a fluke, 'chance' or 'luck.' If you see it, if only once, it truly happened!).

The rest of the day Boogie didn't do it again until in the evening when daddy came home. We were just hanging out, relaxing and talking about our day when Boogie again became super excited and started planking over and over. She could only hold the position for about 2 seconds and couldn't lift her hips at the same time, but HELLOOOOO!

SHE WAS ROCKIN' THOSE FEW SECONDS!!!

She gets super camera shy (shocker I know), but the second you turn that sucker on, she stops whatever she's doing.

Being the quick and sneaky mama that I am though, I caught her awesomeness in action!

A few times she even got higher off the ground than this but my crappy camera just wasn't fast enough.

I know that a lot of the healthcare providers want Jocelyn to learn the "correct body movements/mechanics" and trust me, I do as well, but I'm a huge advocate of the idea that you can't learn movement if you aren't allowed to learn to move with what you have. You've got to start somewhere and build upwards.

Justin and I were so excited when she kept doing this over and over! Seriously, you would've thought Jocelyn won an Olympic race! We couldn't help ourselves because she was working and trying so hard and besides, it's a fantastic way to build strength and endurance in her upper body, abs, back and stabilizer muscles.

On a side note, we found out today during our check-up that Jocelyn is in the 89th percentile for height/weight ratio for her age. Can you believe that?? She's one heck of a hot mess --- a super cute, healthy, hefty hot mess!