Hop on Pop

A couple months ago when Tino & Phoenix came over we played a game where the kids jumped off the side of the couch and I caught them. I'd sort of forgotten about it but apparently they had not because they came over again last week and when I got home from work the whole crew accosted me demanding to play again. LT said it was kind of like that book Hop on Pop but a actually little bit different. I was getting pretty tired after my hundredth or so catch so eventually decided to rework the game a little. We put a bunch of pillows on the floor for them to land on and I got my camera.


Tino is a natural.


And Phoenix has some skills too.

LT and Adler were a different story. Adler just sort of fell face first into the pillows and then did his best to get in the way of the other kids. LT, being somewhat gangly and uncoordinated like his father, isn't exactly the picture of grace and poise as he jumps though the air. Also he somehow ended up jumping in only his underwear. So I didn't get any decent photos of them that night.


But we did decide to try again the next day and Adler started to get the idea.

LT's style didn't improve much but at least he managed to keep his pants on this time.