The Real Purpose of Couches

Have you ever been to a house that didn't have a couch?

Actually, I have. It was weird. It felt like it was missing something. Like a couch.

Couches are supposedly designed as something to stuff your ass at the end of the day. Or something like that. They're big (especially mine), usually living rooms are designed around them (that and the enormous tv that is the centerpiece of every household). 
 
I'm sure Martha Stewart thinks that couches are big ugly things that make living rooms less formal and ruins the tranquility and fashion of every household. I think Martha Stewart is ugly. 

Our couch is used for it's designed ass-stuffing services, sure. But it's also used for far more important things in our house. Like entertaining our kids. 


Camden would spend all day crawling from one end to the other, throwing himself limbs out onto his back halfway through like some sort of self-sacrificing Broadway dancer. 

Camden practicing for his audition in Les Miserables

He also likes the couch because it is the gateway to all the forbidden items that we store on top of the windowsill. Like remote controls, coffee mugs, credit cards, laptops, external hard-drives, etc. Which to any 12 month old spells a gold mine of fun activities.

Cam found a credit card on top of the windowsill. Score!

Calen uses the couch to leap into piles of blankets/pillows, drive cars over, and to play his favorite game with Daddy - couch flying. 

No, not like the couch is flying. Like Calen is flying into the couch. 

Child-Flying practice. Meanwhile, Cam is escaping certain annihilation

Calen will run to Daddy. Daddy will lift him up and heave him through the air into the couch. Half of the time Camden is still crawling from one side to the other so Daddy has to aim Calen around his brother. Calen flying through the air makes both boys laugh. 

I affectionately call this the Child Abuse Game. Because it really does look terrible in pictures. "Let's throw our kid across the room!" But really, he LIKES it. So I purposefully took a picture of Calen laughing to show that he REALLY does enjoy this. I promise....

Calm, gentle parenting

This game went on forever this afternoon. I can't believe both boys were still breathing after this. 


Though Cam did do a cartwheel dismount from the couch to the floor...on his head...and that pretty much ended the game. 

*disclaimer: no children were injured in the making of this blog (on purpose. Cam's header off the couch was not my fault. The kid threw himself off of it). If you think this is a form of child abuse, you should seek brain surgery immediately. 


 

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