Sunday, August 24, 2008

Olympic Fever

As I write this my kids have just barely gone to bed, having stayed up to catch every second of the closing ceremony. My kids have become completely obsessed with the Olympics. Possibly fueled by my obsession with Michael Phelps, but no one can prove it.
Here are ten signs your children may have an unhealthy obsession with the Olympics
1. they cheer wildly whenever Michael Phelps, or anyone else they think may be him is on tv
2. when they accidentally fall off of something, they jump up, yell hooray and throw their arms in the air like a gymnast
3. their favorite commercial of the Olympics is the one where the sumo wrestlers run down the street forming an airplane that takes off. Whenever this comes on they cheer wildly and start laughing their heads off about "the underwear commercial."
4. they dance around the living room, half dressed, singing along with Chinese pop stars like crazed apes
5. after marathon late-night viewing sessions, they recreate the previous days events using furniture and household items as props. (I only lost one laundry basket to the "gymnastics course")
6. walk around singing the Olympics theme song, it has currently replaced singing of Dragontales and Sesame Street songs
7. tell you all of their dreams are about them being in the Olympics
8. the second the tv flips on they ask for the Olympics channel, not the Hannah Montana channel
9. won't do anything unless you yell on your mark, get set, go! first
10. ask you worredly what they're going to do now that the Olympics are over

For those of you who caught the closing ceremonies, did anyone else think the "memory tower" reminded them of the movie Ants? With all of those guys climbing up and moving together? My kids picked this up right away. This tower was hysterical from start to finish. When they white painted guys started dancing Greggers started yelling "naked dancing" and fell over laughing. Those crazy silver/red suited tower guys had the girls in tears. Then started the Chinese pop stars, that my children tried their hardest to sing right along with in uh, Chinese I think. I'm pretty sure my new downstairs neighbors are really regretting their decision to move in yesterday. Lucky for them its over.

5 comments:

Porter Family said...

Oh, man, Liz. Lucky for us, the kids were mostly in bed around here during the peak crazy sports viewing hours. Plus, you know how often sports are on in our house anyways, so I don't think they even noticed any sort of difference in their lives whatsoever. How sad is that? Oh, well. Regular life can now resume.

Nikki Peterson said...

Your stories crack me up. Mostly because I know your Hailey. We too were crazed in this house with the Olympics. Tanis even asked me if he could go to the Olympics and play video games. Pretty funny. I just thought the whole closing ceremony was weird. Take care. Nikki P

Shaila Lou said...

Hilarious Liz. Sounds like a good thing for the kids to watch!! Entertaining enough.

Heather said...

So humorious! We too had a but of the child Olympian here at our house. Mason didn't care about any of it, but Emma loved a few of the events she saw. She was watching rowing, when the Chinese team won, they fell out of their boat and she yelled, "GET BACK IN YOU BOAT!!" I just started laughing cause I knew she had no clue they just won gold.

Lou and Jamie said...

Liz I would have had way more fun watching your kids then the olypics! I really pretty much missed the olypics this year minus what I could catch on the internet. Please tell Dave and the kids I said hello:)