And Then There Is This

"Do you want to dance with me Mom?"

How can I resist?

"I'd love to dance with you Elias."

"But I need faster music."

"What do you want to dance to?"

He stands in the middle of kitchen. It's bath-time but Nick offers to finish up with Olive so I can dance with my son.

"7,8,9," Elias answers, stating the first track of the Bare Naked Ladies' kids album Snacktime.

"Ok, I'll put it on."

When the music starts, Elias bounces and jumps in place, almost moving his body in rhythm with the instruments. I jump around with him. When the second track, The Ninjas, plays I snap my fingers and step forward and back.

"What are you doing Mom?"

"Dancing, try it, step backwards, now forwards, yes, back, now forwards..."

Elias takes big steps, arms out for balance, but he mimics me, and we dance together. Back and forth, back and forth.

I spin. He swings his arms and spins halfway around, catches himself, and spins back to face me.

"Nice spin!"

He does it again and then reaches for my hands and we spin around together, until his legs slide out and he ends up on the floor, laughing, "I don't know what I'm doing!"

Either do I, Bud, either do I! But I'll drop everything to dance with you.

Happy Friday All!

Run, run from the waves!

 

Comments

[Corinn]

Awww! :-)

Psst, the Neighborworks Anchorage video from a few months back seems to have gone private for some reason... I found another copy of it, though! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdklwleIRUw

[Christy]

Thank you Corinn! I will change me link:)