This weekend, I visited with son Roy and his family for a couple of days. Friday night we came home from dinner and 3 year old Lydia wanted to play airplane. This is a 'game' in which I lie on my back, the kid rests their belly on my feet, and I lift them into the air.
Basically, it's the yoga pose called viparita karani, grounded by 30 pounds or so of squirmy grandchild.
Lydia stayed up a good long while, enjoying the view while I enjoyed a gentle hamstring stretch and the feeling of femurs solidly grounded into the hip sockets.
After a while Lydia wanted something more active, and the game turned into lifting her up and flipping her over to the floor behind me. This quickly attracted the other two children, Rachel and Colin, ages 6 and 20 months, respectively.
For the next 15 minutes, the kids cycled through the flipping machine in constant motion. I got a pretty good workout.
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