one of the most two-year-old things that I have ever seen

[rushthatspeaks]

Earlier today, we were all sitting on the couch, when Ruth forgot there was a cup of water on the arm and knocked it over, spilling it on the couch seat. Ruth promptly got up to go get some paper towels.

And Fox, who had been chilling contentedly on the other side of the couch, rushed over and promptly stood on his head in the middle of the spill.

(He has been working on somersaults in circus class, with the result that while he can't actually do a headstand without his feet down, he is certainly going to try.)

Nowhere else, of course, was suitable for headstands at that time, and we were informed of this with great certainty. I am glad it was just water, as I suspect he would have tried to stand on his head in any spilled liquid that happened to be around, and possibly melded his hair irrevocably with the couch, if there had been stickiness.

Comments

[conuly]

He's going to grow up listening to this story, isn't he.

[msilverstar]

Uninhibited!

I've had to cut hair that got stuck to things, we all forgot about it in a week.

[nineweaving]

Fox is magnificently two.

Headstands in water seem quite a reasonable way of cooling down in weather like yesterday's.

Today Fox took some construction toys (a skidsteer and a bulldozer) into the grass, and played briefly at harvesting, which was heartstoppingly beautiful. He wore up grass to fill the scoopy thing, "to make bread." Later he collected baby acorns driven down by yesterday's storm, wondering how the squirrels had missed them. He spun my globe: "Where does Nana live?" And when that was pointed out, he plunked his finger down at random. "I live on Neptune."

Nine

[asakiyume]

Some cat genes in that fox--a need to be on the One Special Spot.

[larryhammer]

Ah, that. Yes, it is Very Two.

[alatefeline]

Aaaaaaaaaa cute.