Saturday, September 10, 2011

stop touching each other!

In mid June began a new sport around here that I am not a fan of...wrestling. This is not a nice, regulated wrestling like you are picturing. This is rough, mean, and loud wrestling. Piper is often the instigator and oddly enough the one to always get hurt. I don't know how long it's going to take for him to learn this. Probably about as long as it has taken him to learn not to touch the DVD player, DVDs, computer, printer, etc., which, by the way, he still hasn't learned! 

I wonder how many times a day I tell them to stop touching each other? I held out as long as I could with it thinking that they had to settle down soon, but they've only gotten more rough and loud so I finally just told them not to touch each other. This works quite well and this is how it plays out...Finn chasing Piper and getting as close to him as he possibly can without touching him. Piper loves this and the only time he gets hurt playing this way is when he turns around to see how close Finn is to catching him and he runs into stuff or trips. Of course, Finn is running so close to Piper that when he trips or runs into something, Finn ends up 'touching' him as he falls all over him, but this way is still so much better! 

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