Bedtime geography

When Jon got his cast off last week, I was worried about our usual wild piggy back ride around the house and up the stairs to bed so I had to come up with something new to have fun with. My inspiration was the map of the world we'd put over his bed this summer. I'm certain that we'll resume the crazy rides to bed sometime soon but my new idea seems to have taken a firm hold.

We'd started with me asking him to pick a country he'd heard of but not found on his map. He picked Saudi Arabia, so I helped him find it and his task was to remember it for the next night. A few days in, he's really getting into it and we're both learning things.

He'd rushed into my office earlier tonight to ask how to pronounce the latest country (Afghanistan) and when it was time, was eager to run through the list we'd learned thus far. When I picked Nicaragua as the new county for tomorrow, he was a little put off (he wanted to go back to southeast asia) but once we'd targeted the new area, he quickly found a positive memory. I'd forgotten all about his report on Costa Rica last year, but he hadn't and I got an earful on Nicaragua's southern neighbor.

Kids can find fun in anything as long as someone else shares the bug. I think we're going to put a big dent in the world this fall.