Week 7 experiment- Ab Ribber before workout

I am fighting a cold that has me seriously reconsidering why we decided to have children. I never get sick and I've rarely had a cold in my adult life but now I have two little germ sponges that I kiss, share food with, and wipe dirty noses all day long. This makes it tough for parents to stay healthy. Anyway, I'm sleeping in a little later 5:30 to try to fight the illness and give my body time to repair itself. I woke up and decided I wanted to mix it up a bit. I also feel that my ab workout was always suffering because I did it when I was fully fatigued so I decided to do ARX before my chest shoulders and tris workout. I figured that this along with my cold would diminish my results during the chest workout. While it was definately harder to do the normal workout today I was able to maintain my numbers from last week's workout. I was able to get 17 clappers in today. I may have been able to get 20 but I was bushed! I'm still doing 1 arm pushups on my knees but those are crazy.
The dog days of this program are about to be on me and I feel good about where I am in my stage of progress. In just the right light, you can actually see some abs.
In the back of my head, my wife's question keeps ringing as motivation, "Have you ever had abs?" Read that how you want, I know I take it as a direct slap in the face!
Drink your recovery drink people!