Perspectives: Child vs Parent

Yesterday was our busiest day in a while. Ronan had a full day of kindergarten and I had to pick him up from school to get him and Latham to t-ball practice on time. T-ball practice ran till 4:45pm and then we had an hour for dinner before we had to be at Ronan's swimming lesson. For dinner we went to McDonalds which had a play place, so the boys ran around for a half hour. Then it was swimming lessons. Afterwards when Ronan was changing, I reflected on the days activities (recesses at school, t-ball practice, running around McDonalds and swim lessons), and said to Ronan, "You'll sleep good tonight because of all the exercise you got today." He looked surprised and said, "Exercise?? What exercise?!?" For him, the day's activities weren't exercise - they were fun!