Thursday, November 02, 2006

Aack! The Jumping Thing...Again!

Most moms of mobile children will talk to you with longing about the days BEFORE their child could walk. After all, it's just easier to keep Jr. from getting into naughty, dangerous stuff when they're stuck plopped in the place where you left them. Well, I'm now looking back at the pre-knowing-how-to-jump days with much longing. It's just a continuing issue over here. I feel like a total grouchy Mom having to constantly be going "No, we don't jump on the couch. No, we don't jump off the couch. No, we don't jump off kitchen chairs. No, we don't jump off...." I remember..she couldn't jump properly for the longest time. She would go "ooph" and bend her little legs, then stand straight back up again quickly. But, her feet would never really leave the ground. Oh, how I long for the days when both her feet would stay on solid ground all day! As it is now it's like having a little Mexican jumping bean, or a hyper-ative frog. Use whatever jumping metaphor you want! Bree even described herself and said.."Look at me! I'm boinging like a kangaroo!" I wish we could get this jumping thing under control so she only does it safely! But ya know, if wishes were fishes then....there'd be a lot of fish dinners at our house. (I dunno. Does anyone know how the rest of that "If wishes were fishes" saying goes? Obviously, I don't.) At least today we sort of got to work it out of her system a little. We went to Edinborough Park this morning, the indoor play place (since it was frigid cold and snowing out!). And, they have one of those air-filled jumpy room things..ya know? So, Bree spent quite a bit of time jumping around in there. That, and also running around, going down the slides and pretty much anything you can think of. (It was like having a toddler on speed in there!) It did make me laugh though...at one point while we were there, we were riding the elevator when an elderly lady got on with us. Bree was jumping up and down in the elevator (shocker!) and babbling on about her shirt and her wrist band and so forth. So, the lady looks at her and says, "My, you've got a lot of energy don't you? You've got a lot of pep in you!" Which, I've decided was the nicest understatement of the year. Peppy doesn't even begin to cover it! She's exhausting! :)

1 comment:

taylorcast said...

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets.