Lesson learned

If you are going to do a trust fall with a 4-year-old - which I don't recommend in the first place - don't neglect to tell him to wait until you tell him you're ready before he falls. Sam was cleaning the library which somehow turned into doing trust falls with Frankie and Charlie while I was making supper in the kitchen.

Not aware of what I was interrupting, I asked Sam a question about his upcoming science fair. He then left the library to come talk to me. Suddenly we heard a huge crash followed by a cry. Not noticing that Sam had left, Frankie climbed up onto the desk and went through with the trust fall with no one there to catch him. Fortunately he was more scared than hurt and got over it pretty quickly.

We also had an interesting time playing Sorry! with Frankie for the first time. It start off a bit rough, of course, because it was taking awhile for him to get a 1 or a 2 to get started. He got a couple of Sorry! cards, though, so he was able to get out that way. Pretty soon he hid under a blanket and said he didn't want to play anymore. He seemed a little upset and we were encouraging him to keep playing. It finally came out that he thought he was getting in trouble every time he got a Sorry! card because we were telling him to "say sorry."

And here's a video of Frankie eating spaghetti through a straw. He did successfully get a few through, surprisingly.