Bouncy Bouncy

The kids have been doing their fair share of driving me nuts lately, in the classic ways two-year-olds do: freaking out over inconsequential things, impeding progress of any activity with their dawdling, being fussy, being stubborn, refusing to sleep, refusing to eat, fighting with each other, whining, and so on.

But about half the time, they're doing stuff like this, so I can handle their cussedness.

 


Transcript of Video (I wanted to do subtitles, but that's hard.)

Both: [jumping on bed] Wild wild West, wild wild West [song from an Elmo video]

Butterbean: That's fun...that's fun...

Cobra: Where's the bouncy book?  I can read it.

Butterbean: Can I read it?  Can you read it? And I can bounce?

Cobra: Yes...on that book...yes...

Butterbean: No...I don't...that's not a bouncy book.

Cobra: This one...there's a walrus.

Butterbean: Where's the bouncy book?  Daddy?  Where's the [snatches book from Dad]...[to Cobra] can you read this?

Cobra: [points at picture of monkey] That's Daddy right here!

Dad: Here's the bouncy book.  Sissy's got the bouncy book.

Butterbean: You wanna read this?  You wanna read this?  This is the bouncy book.

Cobra:  Singing all together...la la la
              Running round and round
              Bouncy, bouncy
              All fall down!

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Here's your weekly clearinghouse of links to stuff I wrote elsewhere.

Surfin' Burt

• I wrote a lot for Man of the House as part of this "Battery Powered Kids" thing we're doing to try and encourage parents to build things for and with their kids this holiday season.  Here they are in the order of coolest to lamest.
• This one's about some miniature motorized surfboards I made, because what kid doesn't want a miniature motorized surfboard?
• This one's about a battery powered horsie I made from a kit.
• This one's about a mini-submarine motor you can stick on just about anything that floats.
• On Aiming Low, I wrote about how researchers say you should deal with tantrums, and how I have been going about it all wrong.