Twins' Friday - The Bubble Dance

How did Bear and Gorilla get our coats on?

How many times and ways will a child try to pop bubble wrap?  We haven't reached a limit, yet.  We were busy making Gramma's Christmas tree bare.  The boys removed the ornaments from the bottom of the tree and threw them into a box.  Then they took them out of the box and wanted Gramma to put them back on the tree.  Game on!  Gramma did the high ones plus the ornaments that were landing on the floor.  She mnaged to only break one ornament.  I usually wrap my fragile ornaments in layers of bubble wrap.  Game two on!  Nathan and Andrew were deeply involved in making discoveries with bubble wrap.  Andrew wrapped it around his waist, and tried repeatedly to fall hard enough to pop the bubbles.  Not much luck, though.  They did learn stamping on the bubble wrap works better on hard, rather than carpeted floors.  You can create a dance if you stamp really fast.  And if Grampa stretches the bubble tight, it's easier to pop a single bubble.  Andrew's technique was to snap it really fast, which worked very well.  Nathan's technique was to pinch the bubble, which sometimes made a snap and almost always left you with a remnant of plastic on your fingers, which was easily wiped off onto Gramma.  Later, I repeated Grampa's bubble game, having the boys take turns.  They bordered on angellic waiting for their brother to have his turn.  When Nathan's pinch technique failed, I told him to take another turn.  He responded in surprised delight, "two turns?"  Earlier he told me I had two flowers on the counter.  He either understands the concept of two or everything is two.

Their math is a bit untraditional.  Andrew can now count 1-2-3-4-5, although he uses a quintesimal number system, because after 5 comes what sounds like a random assortment of digits from 1-5.  As future engineers, they will have to start working on "nothing."  All engineers do nothing well.  The boys never use zero, yet.  It will be hard to do computer work with no 0. 



Translation of language in video...  balloon......Doo-doo balloon.....Baby (their name for Rebecca's cat).....Daddy.............1, 2, 3..........up..........up, please

I bet you thought I create my stories from a moment here and there during my day with them.  From the video you can tell they are a glimpse of a few fleeting minutes in our day.  Notice the pace. This was taken early in the day.  I lose the energy to hold the camera as the day goes along.

Has anyone seen Andrew?

I'm just hanging out here with Bear and Gorilla.