Fun with Children, Part 2
Somehow, I forgot two items from yesterday’s recap.
When we went up in the Ferris Wheel, Matthew kept asking if I were afraid. I answered honestly: “I’m a little bit concerned because I don’t like how high this goes, but I can manage. Are you afraid?”
He was thoughtful. “Maybe a little bit. But I don’t need to get off the ride.”
As we were ascending, I pointed out the I-5 and the general direction of our house. “Wait, that’s the road we were on? It’s so small!”
When we got to the top, he yelled, “I can see the whole damned world!”
”I’m sorry, can you repeat that?”
”I can see the whole damned world!”
I don’t know where we heard that particular construction. I couldn’t stop laughing.
It’s no secret that Matthew is going through a super clumsy stage/year. He falls for no reason and regularly drops things, bumps his head, and hits his body parts (hands, arms, sides, chest, legs, feet, knees, ankles) on door frames, countertops, doors, chairs, and all other obstacles.
Yesterday we went through the Fun House and looked at ourselves in a fun mirror.
Immediately after these mirrors, we went through a mirrored maze. He dashed in at full speed and faceplanted into every single wall in that maze. At one point, he just stopped, so I nudged him along. “If you can see yourself, that’s not the direction.” “Papa, this is hard. Me no like this.” Indeed. The joke turned out to be on me, because we were on the second story of the structure, and the only way to the exit was to slide down a slide. He was at the bottom to catch me, but of course, my fat ass slowed me down anyway. The indignities of my age continue to pile up.
I mentioned yesterday that I ate a sausage sandwich, and then we stupidly got on a spinning teacup ride that rose up and down. I was positive I was going to throw up. Here we are at the beginning of the ride as I was spinning us only in x- and y-dimensions. We had not yet added a z-component and thus had not added the 𝘷 (vomiting potential)-component to our travel. Trust me when I tell you that it seemed like 𝘷 was getting big fast.
But we had a blast, and he was still talking about it today on the way to school.