2006
smile and ride your bicycle
maura @ 9:40 pm
Today was obsessed with fairy tales day. I guess they’d read Hansel and Gretl in school this morning. When I got home this afternoon Jonathan and Gus were reading it in the REAL Grimm’s, having made a gingerbread house out of cardboard and poster paint. Gus likes villains and also “stories with a problem” so of course those old Grimm’s are right up his alley. We followed that up with Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White and Cinderella, and he did not flinch at all when the stepsisters cut off pieces of their feet to try and get the shoe on, or Snow White’s stepmother had to dance in heated iron shoes to her death.
Then we watched the Disney Cinderella, thus fulfilling one of my longstanding wishes: to have my child watch Cinderella with me. Why do I love that movie? I don’t rightly know, it is so incredibly girly and princessy and I am so not. But it was the first movie I ever saw in the theater, plus I am a suckah for those twee old Disney songs. He thought the cat + mouse chasing was hilarious so maybe we will even be able to watch it again someday.
Anyway, it’s a welcome change from making up stories about the characters in the video game.
Also today I am the winner of ice skates on eBay, huzzah! Friday’s lovely Bryant Park photofest reminded me that there is FREE skating there through Xmas. Plus there is a rink in Prospect Park. I am such a dork but I loooooooooove ice skating, just love it. Gus is fixing to like it too, though I need to get his skill level up because right now it’s all about him hanging on to me and me bending over at a back-killing angle to hold him up and then he falls and laughs and I get crabby. Plus I like to skate fast.
