crocodile dance
Originally uploaded by michellanea
Here's Dylan "dancing" to the Crocodile Song (the one he's obsessed with that is on auto-repeat at our house 24/7) at a Tuscan food festival right behind our apartment at the beach. This song has moves and everything, but I never knew them. I guess we can practice at home so Dylan can participate the next time we are at such an event. This was the first song during the kiddie dance portion of the evening, and Dylan was not yet warmed up.
There are a lot of great kiddie things going on down here but, unfortunately, they all get started late. Tonight there's going to be a circus in the main piazza but it starts at 9:30 p.m.! Last night Dylan didn't get to bed until 11 p.m. - and was up at 7 a.m. as usual and cranky all morning. It is summertime and I'm trying to be free-to-be-you-and-me and go with the flow. I don't want Dylan to be the odd man out or have the "weird mom" who puts him to bed when it is still light outside and all of the other kids haven't even eaten dinner yet. But I think 11 p.m. is late for an 18-month-old. I was looking up information on appropriate bed times on the Web and all of the American sites say from 6:30 p.m. (the work day isn't even near being over here at that time so...) to 8 p.m. max.
Sleep is still our major issue, and I sense that Dylan is a kid who'd do better on an American schedule. But for now we are still "in Rome" and doing as the Romans do...
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