Little Cheetah Girlz

Last week, Luci and Roan went to Target. They walked over there, but Roan likes to ride in the shopping cart and the one they grabbed had a CD in it. Luci hid the CD in the bushes (he didn’t want to carry it in the store without a receipt) and picked it up on their way home. The CD was the Cheetah Girls, which is some Disney produced tween pop group. Roan came home and was all excited about it. Of course, she had never heard of them before. The kids have a boom box in their room, but the cd player has been broken for awhile. I finally replaced it a couple of nights ago with a lovely pink Hello Kitty boom box. The only cd played on it so far has been the Cheetah Girls.

Roan is really into it. She makes up these weird dances and pretends she’s on stage. She said she used to sing, but now she just dances. Sage gets really into it too. She dances a little bit, but mostly just spins around and around until she gets dizzy, starts stumbling and then laughs. Roan calls her “the little Cheetah Girl.” We need to video tape it. I’m pretty sure there will be another performance tonight. The music is pretty horrible, by the way.

Sage is big enough to play Ring Around the Rosie with us. I’m not sure if that’s a blessing or a curse. After about two times through the Rosie, I get way too dizzy. Fortunately, kids never like to do the same thing over and over (sarcasm).

Lately, Sage has been trying to take down her big sister. She usually does this when Roan has a banana or something else to eat in her hand. Sage wraps her arms around Roan’s waist and tries to pull her down. It’s insane. Roan is usually a good sport about it. A few nights ago, though, they were playing with their dad. I think the game was that the kids would stand on a baby blanket on the floor and dad would throw a pillow at them and see if it would knock them over. (That sounds kind of horrible as I type it, but they loved it). Roan was standing on the blanket, facing her dad and I was sitting on the couch behind her. Sage got on the blanket and Roan slapped her on the back. It seemed like Roan just couldn’t control herself because she wanted the attention even though she knows it’s wrong to hit her sister.