SPLITSville.....

Every now and then the athlete in my husband will jump into OVERDRIVE, thereby causing him to engage in activities which may be...well...HARMFUL to his health.  Take, for instance, last night.  We were having a pleasant evening (day two of the weekend with the children).  Caeden and I were sitting on the couch having just finished watching "Space Chimps", when in walks her father.  I could tell from the walk, alone, that he was in a challenging mood.  He had the gait of a male alpha lion in the wide open sahara of Africa, walking around looking for his next victim.  He came around that corner, and I HAD to look away.  I just KNEW something was about to go down.  Caeden proceeds to jump off the couch and slip into a split.  Keep in mind, she hadn't stretched, hadn't practiced, hadn't ANYTHING, and went into a pretty good split.  This somehow presented Peerless with the prime challenge material.  The next think I knew Caeden was running to the back to get P a pair of shorts (his jeans were just too constricting), so that he could demonstrate for us that he could get down into a full split.

So, here we are:  Caeden and Peerless on the floor in front of me, and Kai a little behind them too young to know not to try to imitate them.  Caeden steps up.  BAM. She falls into her split.  I tell her her back leg isn't all the way straight, and she just rolls up and straightens it.  She then gets up, looks at her father, and then back down at the floor as if to silently say "your turn."  I was laughing hysterically by this point, but it got even better.  Slowly, P inches his way into what he self describes as a perfect split.  His back leg was about as straight as a boomerang, and he is utterly and completely proud of himself.  He SELF DECLARES himself the winner, and then struts around the house for the rest of the night telling us how he did really good.  Did I mention his explanation for the boomerang leg?  He said that he did GREAT....for a 32 year old semi-retired athlete.....The laughs never stop in this house!