The other day me and Mason were jumping on the trampoline and he was doing flips, forward. He then told me to watch cause he was going to land on his feet, and proceeded to do a backflip, which, when he landed, was clear he had no intention of attempting. He was so surprised to have done a backflip–especially since he had been attempting a front flip. It was pretty funny, but then he started doing them all over the place. He could probably land on his feet if he tried.
Later we got to playing a game where I try to make the kids fall down by bouncing them super high, or undercutting the trampoline by their feet. Whitney is very good at it–because it is a little harder to bounce her–and it tires me out. Mason also likes to get bounced so doesn’t try as hard to bend his knees to soften my big bounces.
Whitney got a brush from the dollar store as a prize at a birthday party. It was a round brush, which evidently can be dangerous in the hands of the unsuspecting. She got it all rolled up in her hair and into a tangled mess. Heidi thought she was going to have to cut the hair off in order to get it out. Luckily, she sprayed Pam into it to make it nice and slippery and finally got it out.
Yesterday it was a great day in DC. The weather was as good as you could ask for in February, with a nice bright shiny sun in the sky.
We decided to go to DC to the National Museum of American History. It is a really good museum. Whitney loves museums and could literally spend all day in one. If she had her way, she would read every single placard, play with every single hands-on exhibit and listen to or watch all the electronic exhibits. One of the things we went into was an elevated train car from Chicago. It was pretty cool; they had it set up so that a movie was playing on the back wall, making it appear as if the train was moving. They also had it on some kind of vibration system where it felt like it was going down the tracks, to replicate the experience.
Even though we weren’t really moving, the kids made us stay on the train car until it came to a “stop” in the movie and the voice said we could dismount. It was pretty strange, and interesting to note that we could perfectly understand the conductor’s voice, in stark contrast the the metro in DC where mumbling and poor sound makes it impossible to understand the conductor.
The picture with the dog is a picture of Bud, the dog that was picked up in Idaho during the first automobile trip across the country.
Mason has got a personality that attracts people. He is just personable and friendly. The other day he was in line at the store with Heidi and asked for some Tic Tacs. He probably had plenty of junk like that at home, so Heidi said no. He must have looked very sad because the guy in front of them turned to him and said, “Come on, get some Tic Tacs, I’ll buy them for you.”
And Mason is such a good kid that the guy probably felt good about it because Mason is very polite and probably got a huge grin on his face and thanked him excitedly.
