“What’s SteelyKid doing for amusement now that the weather is all nice and stuff?,” you ask. Well, here’s your answer: she’s giving her sky-bison rides on the swing in the back yard:
“Wait a minute,” you say, “isn’t it, like, 80 degrees there? Why’s she wearing a coat?”
Look, man, when the Empress decides she wants to wear her coat, she’s going to wear her coat. There’s no reasoning with a willful toddler.
Fortunately, she’s pretty darn cute. And swinging is highly entertaining:
Of course, at some point, you have to call it a night, pack up your sky-bison, and head in for the night:
(It wasn’t actually pitch dark when I took these– it was barely twilight. The sensor in the camera doesn’t have the same sensitivity to light as the human eye, though (and the flash exacerbates the effect), so it looks darker than it did to us. So don’t go reporting that we’re terrible parents for letting our kid play outside in the middle of the night…)
Look, man, when the Empress decides she wants to wear her coat, she’s going to wear her coat. There’s no reasoning with a willful toddler.
And goodness help the eardrums of anyone nearby when her mom decides that she’s all sweaty and takes her coat off her. Oh my.
Ha-ha! I am learning the strength of a toddler’s lungs and voice too..
The now 14-year-old refused to wear short sleeves when he was 2.5, no matter how sweaty he got. The reason (and I quote): “because Jimi Hendrix never wore short sleeves.” How he came up with that we’re still not sure, but for a couple of years he was unmovable (and sweaty in the summer).