The Amazing Flying Human Pretzel

Daniel amazes all of us.  When we went skiing in Colorado at Thanksgiving, he would scamper to the lift and ski down with no prodding, more or less from the outset, while the other two took a long time to get a sense of it.  He loves to do the dance competition on the XBox, against any and all of us, because he always wins. The same is true with any XBox sport.  If he were a dog, he would be a circus dog.  And tonight, he discovered that he can do backflips, literally, on the bed in the master bedroom.  He throws himself up in the air, and does complete backwards-somersaults in mid-air.  This freaks me out, for obvious reasons, and it is officially verboten, which of course means that it will never happen again.

But Ian cannot hide his astonishment:  "Daniel is so good!  He's made of springs!"

(March 11, 2013)