Hold On! You Catch Him
I wanted to share two KidWonder anecdotes before we run out for yet another great kids event (pics to come).
On our way out yesterday to the Mamaroneck Lollipop Fair (MomWonder will post the pics, I keep hogging that privilege), I had to gas up the car. On the back of the front passenger seat is an old purse strap MW uses to rig up her iPhone when KW wants to watch a movie–other times it just sits there, within his reach.
I left the radio on while gassing up the car, and come back to realize he’s holding on to the straps for dear life! I say “What are you doing?” He replies “I’m holding on Dad!” OK, well, alrighty then. I get in the car, and start driving, and he says “Dad!” “I REALLY want to stop holding on!” right as the chorus hits. And then I realize–the song on the radio is the Wilson Phillips “Hold On”. So I say “You can stop holding on”, and he says “No. Can’t”. I turned to another station, and he let go of the strap and breathed a sigh of relief.
While playing at the local playground, KW was chasing a boy twice his size and speed. The boy was running him in circles, with KW desperately trying to catch him. He stops by me, panting, and I say “Buddy, you can’t catch him on foot, he’s too fast. You’ll need to be more strategic than that.” He takes off, races around one more time, and comes back to me. He looks at me and says “OK Daddy, YOU catch him.”
Now THAT’s my son. Alright interwebs, off to the next event.
