The wheels of the bus

The twins went to school by bus today and it was the biggest treat for them. Their video of the month is The Wheels of The Bus and they have always had something for buses. Recently, it's evolved into Evan constantly asking us to tell him the numbers on the bus. So far, his favourite is 62 although there is NO bus number 62 anywhere near our house and I don't even know where 62 goes to or comes from. In my opinion, that's a perfect reason why he should learn his numbers soon. Just so that we don't have to keep reading out the numbers to him and he can do it himself.

Given a choice, they would rather take the bus. They would have not cared very much if we didn't buy a new car to fit everyone in and that would have saved us a pretty penny. Although I suspect part of the novelty of taking the bus is that they don't do it very often and if we subjected it to them everyday, they'd be begging to go in the car. As is, when three 95s, two 106s, one 61 and one 48 passed them by before our bus actually came, they were getting impatient and made as if they were just going to get onto the next bus, regardless of bus number.

But their sense of adventure soon came back to them when we sat separately on the bus and the two of them decided that it was going to be a big hoot yelling to one another across the bus aisle, much to my embarrassment but thankfully, much to the amusement of the other commuters on the bus. There really was no sense of lowering their voices and Baby J thought it was hilarious when I tried to muffle her by putting my hand over her mouth and that just made her yell even louder and Evan replying in kind.



















I think I can do this as a treat for them but not as an everyday affair because the trek from the bus stop to the school is a tad bit far and even though Baby J is light for her age and Evan is mostly game to walk, we still end up carrying them quite a fair bit. And all the women older than I am out there keep telling me I shouldn't be carrying anything heavy.



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