He Really is as Wild as His Hair

Ella has an obsession with Doc McStuffins right now and sometimes she asks to watch an episode at bedtime in place of reading books. Sometimes I let her. The other night while I was getting her settled in on the couch to watch, Dave said, "Look at Super Cat." Luke was coming down the hall with his folding Mickey Mouse chair and his Allstar baseball cap. Then he set it up and sat down to watch like he was at the ball park watching baseball rather than in our living room watching Disney.

Super Cat, ready for the ballpark or Doc McStuffins.

Here he is gettin' ready to ride with Ella's sunglasses, toy camera, and Sleeping Beauty high heels and Dave's mother's pink plastic rolling dog. Yes, it's old and a little creepy. He loves it.

Ready to Ride

And here he his all discombobulated after his first attempt to ride the pink dog. What? That doesn't look like a riding toy to you? Me either, but apparently anything with wheels that's big enough for him to sit on is a riding toy.



The Spill

He gave it another go, sans sunglasses, high heels, and camera. That face tells you what kind of noise the pink dog makes when it's rolling.

Back in the Saddle

Dave and I have been sorting and cleaning and putting away Nana's things all weekend so our children have been sort of... free range. Yesterday, Dave said, "Amanda, you have to come in here and see this!" And this is the "this". That's a Little Coupe he's sitting on. He is apparently just light enough that it doesn't roll over when he scales the side of it like he's part monkey. A monkey that wears an ugly blue cap on a regular basis. As you can see, he was very proud of himself.



Large Riding Toy

It's Olympics time again. Dave and I love the Summer Olympics. We are diligently working to indoctrinate Ella and Luke into our two-weeks-of-late-night-TV-watching-sports-overload-every-four-years love. It's so serious that we even broke our own "no TV at the table" rule so we could watch the US women's synchronized divers win silver. I'm trying to teach Luke to chant, "USA! USA!" So far, they both really love diving and gymnastics (which Luke refers to as "nasties"). When the divers dive, Luke yells enthusiastically, "Jump HIGH!" or "Jumpin' on the bed!" We've told him it's water. He doesn't care. Ella stayed up until nine tonight to watch the women's gymnastics and then asked me to save the rest so she can watch it tomorrow.

This is how they watched synchronized diving this afternoon. Luckily, the arm of our couch is multi-functional. Shortly after I took this picture, it turned into gymnastics equipment as they took turns vaulting off the ottoman and back flipping over the arm of the couch.

Future Olympians? Circus Performers?

 Yes, they can both back flip over the arm of the couch.