The World Needs More Ninjas

Pretty much as long as Kaelyn’s been walking, one of her favorite games is “Daddy chases me repeatedly from the living room to the family room and back”. The latest instantiation is Kaelyn is a mouse and I’m a squirrel (if I happen to carry Evie with me, she becomes Evie Bunny…for inquiring minds, Leigh Ann becomes a Croc-craisin which we have no idea what that is).

So, the other day I decided to up the ante so to speak by maneuvering our couch cushions such that they became a mouse hole, complete with a blanket as a door. She’d run to her mouse hole, get inside, and I would hide, then she’d start running out of the mouse hole and I’d jump out and get her.

Great fun for all involved. In fact, Leigh Ann decided she wanted to join in, so when we were in the other room, she snuck into the mouse hole and shut the blanket-door. When Kaelyn game back, she started trying to get in the mouse hole, but couldn’t since something seemed to be blocking it. All of a sudden, Leigh Ann popped her head out. Kaelyn just threw her arms back and had a look of sheer terror for a second before the fell straight backwards and landed flat on her back, crying hysterically. All she could say through her tears was how she wanted Mommy to run away and she didn’t calm down until Leigh Ann went upstairs.

Some other Kaelyn-isms that you may have seen on Facebook:

• One morning, right when Kaelyn woke up she told me, “My tummy growled…it said it wanted blueberries!”.
• On Sunday, I caught her randomly singing, “I’ll spin you right round, baby, right round” a couple of times. Hearing your 2-year-old singing 80s lyrics is kind of surreal.
• “I’m going to play Candyland and celebrate Jesus.”
• “Jesus is going to help Baby Evie walk.”