Okay, so this first piece is not altogether "new" news to me. I know that Karis enjoys, really enjoys climbing and jumping and being reckless in many ways. Recently, Lena and I have been talking about investing in a bounce house (and renting it to friends to offset the cost) because we think Karis would love it. And, selfishly, I thought it'd be an "easy" way to watch her and have her wear herself out. Today, Karis went to cousin Jessi's 3rd birthday where they had a bounce house.
So we have confirmed that she loves the bounce house. We also heard that the versions sold for home use are not industrial strength and quickly give out at the seams. =( But, the main thing we learned is that even after much bouncing (I cannot in good conscious call it jumping because she never seemed to get good enough footing to jump) a bounce house DOES NOT wear her out. We went to another party later today and, without a nap I might add, she continued ahead full steam. Where does this child get her energy? I had someone mention tonight that if our world was re-sized to match the ratio our kids experience, we'd be wiped out very quickly. I cannot imagine going up and down our stairs multiple times a day if each stair step was 2-1/2 feet.
The other thing I learned about Karis today was quite painfully personal. For the past 19+ months I have sung to her at bedtime. The past couple of months she has repeatedly requested that I sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." I noticed that she asks her mother to sing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." Anyhow, I'm not a great singer, but after the hundreds of time repeating this song, I think I'm starting to sound good. Well, tonight Karis again asked me to sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" but shortly after I started, she moved both of her hands towards both ears and simultaneously placed one finger from each hand into each ear. And then she left her ears plugged until I stopped singing. If there is any good out of this, she did then ask me to sing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and didn't make the same gesture. Time will tell if I'm again allowed to sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to her.
And if you have a Facebook account, you can see two videos here:
LINK TO Video 1 of Karis in bounce house
LINK TO Video 2 of Karis in bounce house
