Remember that thing I mentioned in my last post, about Gabe getting stuck in the rocking chair? And do you remember the other stories of daring-do involving Gabe? How he suggested that jumping down the entire flight of stairs would be fun? Or how he used to fall off the back of the couch during his "Finny and Yon!" stage without first looking to see that he had something soft to land on? Or . . . well, you get the point. He plays pretty fast and loose with his own safety.
Norah, not so much. Trying to get video of her doing something that is funny isn't that difficult, but it's a completely different kind of funny than with Gabe. She's cute funny. Gabe is dangerous funny.
But we did finally get some video of her after she got herself caught in something. While you're watching this, keep the excitement of one of Gabe's adventures in mind and contrast it to where Norah is right now.
This is about as "exciting" as it gets with Norah. A foot caught in the cup holder of a chair. EXTREME sitting!
One of the kids' favorite shows right now is "Peppa Pig." It's actually pretty amusing. And it's been rather interesting watching the non-American English slang that the kids have been picking up from it. Norah now refers to our trash cans as trash bins. And she named one of her stuffed animals Cheeky Cat. But the phrase that Libby and I have most enjoyed comes from the school teacher (who also moonlights as the dancing teacher in the show). Peppa is taking dancing lessons and the teacher often repeats the phrase "Grace and Beauty" while the kids are practicing their dancing.
And we've transferred that over to Norah. With some regularity, actually. Because we're ironic and stuff.
Over the past couple weeks she's gotten into a bit of a dancing phase of her own, and some of the stuff she does is pretty priceless. Her best move is when she tries to do one of those ballerina poses where they grab their foot and pull it up to their heads. Not only can she not raise her foot to her head, she can't grab her foot and lift it up. Or really stand on one foot. Sadly, we haven't been able to talk her into performing that move in front of the camera yet, but we did get some videos at different points in the past week or so of her showing some of her other mad dancing skillz.
And we've transferred that over to Norah. With some regularity, actually. Because we're ironic and stuff.
Over the past couple weeks she's gotten into a bit of a dancing phase of her own, and some of the stuff she does is pretty priceless. Her best move is when she tries to do one of those ballerina poses where they grab their foot and pull it up to their heads. Not only can she not raise her foot to her head, she can't grab her foot and lift it up. Or really stand on one foot. Sadly, we haven't been able to talk her into performing that move in front of the camera yet, but we did get some videos at different points in the past week or so of her showing some of her other mad dancing skillz.
You can tell that she's TRYING to grab her foot in this one, but she never quite got around to lifting her leg as she did it. All the same, we'll keep trying to get that on video because it will be well worth having for posterity's sake.
Libby's commentary sort of reminds me of the happy little painter. Maybe you should try and pitch these videos to PBS.
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