rug rat: childhood memories.

sunday night while travis and i were lying on our stomachs on my bed talking about the upcoming week, he did the cutest little thing. he raised up off of his stomach onto his knees and put his head on the ground. {much like this woman}.
he began scooting his head across the bedspread flattening his hair against his head. he would do it a few times and then run his hand along his flat, slick hair. he realized what he was doing and started laughing. he said, "i used to do that all the time when i was a little kid. i would push myself all across the living room floor." i asked him if anyone had ever taught him to do a head stand because what he was doing reminded me of headstands. we were taught to sit on our knees, stretch our arms straight out in front of us until we were doing "the superman" {as our teacher called it}, put our hands on the floor, tilt our head to the ground, stick our elbows out the the side, balance our knees on our elbows, and then slowly push up to the sky. while travis had never heard of "the superman" position, he had learned how to do a headstand in a similar fashion. "do you know who taught me how to do it?" chuckling ensued, "my dad [steve]. he used to do all kinds of goofy stuff like that with us when we were kids." i couldn't help but giggle myself picturing steve and travis in the middle of the living room doing headstands! what a great memory.