Thursday, April 24, 2008

Baby Crossing

We've managed to teach Joy that she's not supposed to play in the street, but our clever girl has discovered a loophole:


The crosswalk.

She's figured out that if she walks to the corner and starts crossing toward another corner, it's somehow OK for her to be in the street. I guess she gets a thrill out of this narrow gateway into forbidden territory, because she often crosses back and forth ten times or more before finally moving on to another activity.

You know, I used to think kids had short attention spans, but I now realize that kids and adults are just interested in different activities. Joy loves crossing the street and I love typing at the computer, but we each tire of the other's favorite activity after about 1.7 seconds.

4 comments:

Nicole Shelby said...

course the crosswalk seems so much cooler once you've seen the beatles do it synchronously (sp?)...

interesting how even when they are so little they have their own preferences...personality...etc

Jodi Jean said...

ahhhhh abbey road ... yeah aidan hasn't learned that lesson yet. we're working on it.

Serena said...

Sofia loves to try to sneak into the street and giggles when we guide her to the sidewalk again. hahaha

Janie said...

I laughed out loud at your last comment about how we tire of our little people's favorite activity like being in the street when they surely tire of our activities just as fast. Joy has one of the greatest smiles!