Fact: Alexis gets attacked by the floor. Often. She's klutzier than klutzy and will happily tell you that she knows exactly why - she has itty bitty feet and a big ol' noggin. She has no shame around these two facts because they are facts which she has no control over. Instead, she's damn proud of them.
Seriously. Ask her and Alexis will gleefully tell you that she loves her giant head. For what it's worth, I do, too. It suits her, somehow. And the tiny feet? The tiny feet help keep her shoe game strong. She can take everybody's hand-me-downs.
The fact that Alexis is a klutz is a never-ending source of hilarity because she's also an incredibly graceful dancer. It makes no sense, right? She can also throw down some fierce tumbling runs. I've often said the safest way for Alexis to make her way across a room is doing back tucks between tap combos.
Or, I could wrap her in bubble wrap.
I threaten it often. If I were to wrap the kid in bubble wrap, she might manage to make it through this world unscathed, even if just for a day. She would be infinitely safer while wrapped in bubble wrap.
Mila, she of all things contrary, is somehow a graceful little bowling ball. She can climb the highest of ladders, swing from the biggest of chandeliers, and generally act a fool and walk away without a single bump or bruise. I don't understand this flavor or kid either, the flavor of kid who can do all sorts of crazy things and never manage to sustain an injury.
Seriously. It's weird.
Mila has only ever had a Band-Aid following shots. She has never had a scratch or boo-boo or anything that I've treated with a cartoon-covered Band-Aid. She doesn't even know that Band-Aids can be fun.
Mila is a different kind of dangerous, of course. She's the kind of dangerous who doesn't believe anything bad can happen, so of course it doesn't. At least not to her. She is fierce. The world better stay out of her way because she's ready to plow through it all.
Fortunately, even a fierce little bowling ball can be distracted. This weekend, I opened a package and found a piece of bubble wrap inside. It wasn't quite big enough to wrap around Alexis, so I handed it to Mila. A moment later, I showed her how to pop one of the bubbles. For hours afterwards, literally HOURS, Mila fixated on that bubble wrap.
*POP!*
*giggle*
*POP!*
*giggle*
*POP!*
*giggle*
*POP!*
*giggle*
It went on and on and on and on. For literally hours.
So, basically I've figured out that bubble wrap will solve all of the problems. I can use it to protect Alexis from the world while I can also use it to protect the world from Mila. It's a perfect plan.
