Dancing like a crazy man

Jack sometimes likes to do what he calls, "acting like a crazy man." I'm not sure who first coined the term, probably me or Emily. It basically involves him making really goofy faces while running around or dancing wildly. It's pretty tough to explain beyond that, so this will be a shortish blog.

"Running around like a crazy man" is where Jack, after undressing for his bath but before getting into the bath, runs naked from room to room upstairs. He's been doing this one for, oh, I don't know, a year or so now. It's pretty funny. We tell him it's time to get into his bath, but he says, "But I haven't run around like a crazy man yet!" Or, "But first I need to run around like a crazy man." Or, "Can I run around like a crazy man first?" It's pretty hard to say no to that, so off he goes. His little knees and elbows flail about and he says, "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Woooooo!" As he runs from room to room. Even Kate doesn't know what to make of it, she just stands and watches and we try to keep her out of his way so neither one of them (or both) gets injured.

"Dancing like a crazy man" is where Jack dances, it's basically much like him running around with his elbows and knees flailing wildly, except his movements are confined to a single room. And he's not always naked. This morning he was half naked, just wearing jeans, showing Emily his "six different crazy man dances." "This is #1," he explained, running about and kicking his legs up. "This is #2," he continued, throwing his arms out and sort of boogeying in place. I walked in around #4, at which he had brought his stuffed puppy into the show. He ran about holding puppy by his front paws, making "Woooooooo!" sounds. #5 involved holding puppy by his ears, and #6 had him holding him between his knees. And dancing, of course.