A Family of Clappers
Once upon a time I shared with you mommy’s attempt at teaching me how to clap my hands. The outcome was not quite what mommy had expected. Instead of clapping my hands, I grabbed onto mommy’s hands and clapped those instead. I have been clapping other people’s hands ever since.
Now that I’m such a big girl, I know how to clap my own hands. I love clapping my hands! That doesn’t mean that I have abandoned the notion of clapping other people’s hands. I still love doing that. The ability to clap my own hands has simply given me more clapping options.
Clapping is a lot of fun. It feels funny, it makes a sound, and people pay attention to me when I do it. The only thing better than clapping my hands, or the hands of other people, is when we all clap together at the same time. That’s the best!
Most evenings after we clean up the mess we made at dinner mommy, daddy, and I spend some relaxing time together in the living room. Sometimes we watch TV, other times we play a game together with or without my toys, we might just sit around and talk, or we could do any combination of those things. I think I like the games best of all.
Lately one of my favourite games to play is the clapping game. I walk over to mommy, pick up her hands, and start clapping them. Eventually mommy catches on and continues the clapping on her own. I then go over to daddy, find his hands, and get them clapping until daddy takes over on his own. Then I stand in the middle and clap my hands too.
I love it when the three of us are clapping at the same time. I get all excited about it. It makes me so giggly! It’s such a great family activity and I do love family time.
Mommy and daddy have short attention spans and they often need a little reminder. When one of them stops clapping I come over and get their hands going again. Sometimes it’s difficult as there are two of them and only one of me. I can’t be everywhere at once!
There are times when I find myself running from one to the other and then back again trying to get both mommy and daddy clapping at the same time. It can take a little while and it can be an exhausting process. If mommy and daddy are unusually uncooperative I sometimes get frustrated about it. I yell and that often gets mommy and daddy to smarten up and pay attention.
After a particularly difficult time of getting mommy and daddy on the same page, once I do succeed the rewards are even sweeter. I run back to the middle and start clapping with a grin. Then I giggle and stomp my feet in excitement. I just love the sound of six hands clapping!
Sometimes my feet get so excited that I have to do a lap or two around the baby zone just to get some of that exhilaration out. I race around clapping and laughing as I go. Sometimes I get so carried away that I go plunkers but I just pick myself back up and run around some more.
The problem with mommies and daddies is that they get tired pretty easily. They don’t have boundless energy like I do. After a while their clapping begins to get sluggish and half-hearted. I always try to get them motivated again and sometimes I succeed for a while, but there is a point when I know I’m pushing them too far.
It’s always a bit sad when the game comes to an end. Sometimes it makes me a little upset but a cuddle, a toy, and the promise of playing the game again real soon help me get over it. I wish we could just clap our hands forever but I know that I have to be realistic. There is more to life than clapping.
So Sweet! Love how you wrote it from your child’s perspective! #BloggerClubUK
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Awww… such a sweet post. I remember when my E&E started clapping – it was such a sound and scene to see! 🙂 Thank you so much for linking up with us on #FabFridayPost xx
When Peachy first discovered clapping her hands would move but no actual sound was produced. Now there is a definite clapping sound and it’s so cute. Thanks for reading.
Oh I used to love the clapping games!! Mine have grown out of that stage now but we all used to have a lot of fun making as much noise as possible! And i think the world might be a better place if we all just clapped along 🙂 Nicky x #Blogstravaganza
Peachy loves being noisy. I guess that’s why clapping is such a big hit. Thanks for visiting.
I remember my excitement when my boys first learnt to clap! You don’t think that you will get that happy but you really do 🙂 lovely post. #fabfridaypost
For the longest time Peachy simply refused to clap her own hands and would only clap the hand of other people. If I tried to clap her hands for her she looked at me like I’m insane and pulled her hands away. So when she finally clapper her own hands I was super excited! She was pretty excited too as this meant that she could now clap without having to rely on the hands of others. Thanks for reading.
My littlest has recently discovered the joys of clapping, we often need a reminder to join in too! Thanks so much for sharing with #Blogstravaganza xx
Peachy has us trained pretty well now. She just stand up and starts clapping and if we don’t join in she gives us a look. If we’re still stubborn about it she comes over and claps our hands for us. Thanks for visiting.
It’s wonderful to get excited about the little things. Life is made up of them 🙂 Thanks for linking up with us at #FabFridayPost
When you’re little the world is full of little things to be excited about. Thanks for reading.