SuperGirls!*

We've undertaken a new sport at our house. Couch-jumping (and/or falling). The rules are such:

• Get a cape. This will usually involve begging your mom to tie a blanket around your neck. She may or may not do this for you, seeing how it terrifies her that you will somehow manage to strangle yourself.
• Climb to the couch arm. This may be done by simply climbing it, or you may climb straight up to the back of the couch and walk all the way around to the arm. either way is fair.
• Proclaim loudly to anyone who in a 3 mile radius the room "I'm Superman" or "My do my!"
• Bend your knees, spread your arms, and jump as far as you can
• Then get down and give your sister a chance.

There are new rules that get added and discarded almost constantly (like putting toys or books on the couch and you "win" them if you can jump that far or you must sit here in this chair while waiting your turn. No you can't sit there. WAH!!), but these basic ones stay the same. It has provided hours of entertainment. And the laughter has almost convinced me it's worth it to let you tie something around your neck then climb around and try to kill yourself.

Need some visuals (These were shot pre-cape discovery)?

Also, I have re-learned that kids trying to jump before they are physically able to are just hilarious and cute.

SuperAnya from Katie on Vimeo.

*Although Ally won't let me call her that. Superman is Superman - no matter whether he's a girl or not.

Comments

[Erin]

Yeah, I'm a mean, mean, mean, mean, mean mommy. Couch climbing is limited to climbing up so that you can sit on the couch. Jumping? Not so much. Jumping happens on the floor in this house.

I know, mean mommy.

It's just that she gets up to do something like jump off the couch and I have visions of frantic races to the emergency room for stitches or casts or ... something and her life flashes before my eyes and I just can't help but say no.

[Gma Darra]

Just think, the couch now and then in the summer it might be the pool...

[MBooth]

I'm with Erin. No couch jumping in my house - can I send my kids to yours? My fear is not for their bones, it is for my couch!! ;)

[Uncle Rick]

You wouldn't believe what kids are allowed to do at my house. Flying onto the sofa is tame.

[Jan Williams]

my kids were always big on taking the cushions off the couch and using them for big blocks or stacking them and jumping off them to the floor if they stayed stacked or putting them on the floor in a path and jumping from one to the other. guess you got this one naturally.

[Cousin Valerie]

Well this seems tame enough. We're you around Grandma's when we would slide down the big stairs in the slippery sleeping bags? I know you were there for sliding down through the laundry chute to the basement :)