DDR is Life!

Give the crowd some eye candy!
I love DDR. (Nope the picture here has NOTHING to do with the post. I'm just experimenting and having fun. This was Rose about 3 months ago. She looks a lot older now at 9 months. But she is still a cutie.)
So, like I said, I love Dance Dance Revolution. I'm getting pretty good at it. Super Samurai is crushing me, but I try it two or three times every morning, and I've gotten it down to 20 Boos. Yay! Then I switch to workout mode and songs that I can handle pretty well.
It's pretty good exercise, too. That's another big reason why I do it, since baby weight always seems to come off of different places than it went on. (I'm back to my pre-Rose-pregnancy weight, but still have more of a tummy than I used to. Where did it come from? Ack!)
Spitz played DDR with me for a while. But since he found out about his herniated discs, he's supposed to stay away from impact activities. So I dance all alone with an infant audience until she gets tired of watching and demands attention. Actually, there's usually a middle stage in there where I add a slow song and dance with her in my arms. Then we both decide it's time to stop.
Spitz and I have taken dancing lessons in the past and really enjoyed it. Nothing like DDR; we've done a bunch of ballroom dancing. In fact, I think we both intend to take it up again once Rose is old enough to leave with babysitters/child care rooms easily. Last night we ran into our old ballroom dancing instructor, Phil. He was an awesome instructor, a bit intimidating, but cute (of course, that's a very important trait in someone you end up dancing over and over with! lol) We were at Target, and he came up and said hi. We talked long enough to find out he gave up dance instruction (after like 20 years of it) because he wanted a more steady paycheck. Now he's a mall security guard. Something about that is so, so very sad.