Comments | sharya: Bat-Baby?

sharya

Bat-Baby?

Sep 07, 2009 23:48

We went to a wedding this weekend. Sometime during the evening, I went looking for my three-year old daughter, Alex. I found her in the coat-check room.

She was hanging on to a vertical pole, climbing up scaling the wall like batman, until she reached the top of the horizontal coat-hanger-bar-thingy. Then she hung on and shimmied along the coat- ( Read more... )

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sharya September 8 2009, 21:44:18 UTC

No kidding!

phaedie September 9 2009, 01:46:08 UTC

Start her up in a tumbling/gymnastics thing for toddlers, you may have an Olympiad on your hands.

sharya September 9 2009, 03:48:23 UTC

She is in one... but frighteningly enough, those are not the skills she's been learning there!

I'm not quite sure where she gets it from... maybe daycare...?

phaedie September 9 2009, 14:58:49 UTC

Hmm maybe she sees someone like Dora or Boots doing something on tv and doesn't realize she can't do it so she does?
You have an amazing child either way.

virtual_geisha September 9 2009, 22:47:29 UTC

I found that as my girls aged...the scarier it was to watch them play. They'd become braver with each encounter...push themselves more...and although I didn't want to be one of those worry wart parents and prevent them from discovering and pushing their own boundaries, I also wanted them to be safe, so many a time I'd watch close by while cringing while they were facing away, but all smiles when they'd turn around, asking me to watch them :D

It's not easy being a parent :/

sharya September 11 2009, 06:42:05 UTC

I can totally see that story being my future. Seriously.

spot_mcdog September 11 2009, 04:36:57 UTC

That is amazing. My kids will do anything on the playground, but to hang from something and move across it? Not in the near future... 3yr old can hang for a while. With help holding his legs he will go across the monkey bars.

I (about 30) have this thing where I go across the zip-line, cross the monkey bars and back, then back across the zip line w/o touching the ground. Sometimes in the opposite direction I go up the fire-pole first.

sharya September 11 2009, 06:43:49 UTC

She has zero sense of self-preservation. Unless there's a carwash involved, and then she's terrified.

Acrobatics oldcookieman September 14 2009, 12:55:18 UTC

Sounds like she may take after you, with your athletic past (baton twirling).