Bedtime = Playtime

Our boys' internal clocks must tell them that when it's close to bedtime and they're getting tired, it's time to go crazy. Second wind I guess...

The craziness has become slightly ritualistic in the last 2 months or so.

One part of the process is to run back and forth across the living room and crash/jump-crash into the large chair at one end. This gets interesting as they do it together and sometimes Carson crashes in a way as to not allow Avery to clear him on one side. (Avery's pretty good at maneuvering around Carson so as not to hurt him) Sometimes this means Carson gets jumped on a little, sometimes Avery manages to do a flying leap over his head onto the chair.

Of course, there's also just the traditional chasing of each other as well.

Another aspect of the ritual is Carson teasing Avery. Carson has figured out that messing with Avery's "pooh bear blanket" is a great way to incite him into playing.

I want to back up and give some background to that. We went to 2 Brewers baseball games this season. Since the first one back in May (read here) Avery has been dragging his blanket around the house "raking the dirt" just like the "guys in yellow" do to the infield occasionally throughout the game. For some reason he just thinks that's really cool. Carson, seeing Avery run around like that, pretty quickly got the idea to try and catch the trailing blanket.

So that's how the blanket bit started. Now Avery enjoys trying to get Carson to catch it, sometimes running circles around him and wrapping him up. They also play a bit of tug-of-war with it. Since all that is great fun, Carson knows he can pick up the blanket when not in play and tease Avery a bit with it to get him going.

So here are pictures of the 2 of them in action this evening, including Avery chasing Carson, collapsing together to get a breather, Carson catching the blanket and being drug by it, Carson taking off with the blanket, and some tug-of-war.