Learning How To Counterbalance

My children have always ridden in cars in car seats.  It's the law, and it's safer.  But yesterday Uncle Jonathan and I drive my daughter to the pool in the car on his lap.  It was two blocks and I drove at a crawl's pace to be safe.   My daughter seemed completely oblivious to our blatant breaking of the law and unimpressed by the car trip overall.  Mostly, she was interested in what Uncle Jonathan was holding in his hand.

What I noticed was that she had no concept of counter balancing herself as the car moved.  She's spent her entire life, up to now, strapped into a car seat when in a car.  In those seats they can be little noodles of muscle and bone and the seat gently protects them.  Sitting up, sideways, on an adult's lap in a moving car is an entirely different story though.

She does know how to balance though.  We push her around in the blue car and the wagon and she sits up and balances quite well.  I expect she'll get the hang of this soon enough...say when she's ten or whatever age it is nowadays that you no longer need car seats.

The Big Boy Update:  The Veggie Tales Conversation.  My in-laws got my son a CD for Christmas that has the Veggie Tales characters talking and singing and using my son's name as they do so.  It's a great CD as it doesn't sound like his name is just plastered in and the same is done for three hundred other kid's names.  The main guy asks my son questions and uses his name when he does so.  My son understands now that he's being asked a question and he dutifully answers the voice on the CD.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  Not only did she work on her balance in the car as written above, she's also working on her pool skills.  She is still our little daredevil and will jump off the side of the pool into your arms.  She loves to be dunked under water and even likes being held there.  Oh, and she's good at blowing bubbles.  We're working on the kicking, but she's going to be swimming sooner than her brother at this rate. 

Fitness Update:  A little work in the fitness room last night with Uncle Jonathan and then back to the trainer this morning. 

Someone Once Said:  There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance to himself. Man was his own grimmest joke on himself.