tunnels - the final chapter

Ada's dislike of tunnels has been documented at length so it is only fitting that I write the final chapter of Ada's relationship with tunnels.

Last night as we were getting Ada ready for bed she was scrambling, trying to find SOMETHING... ANYTHING... to keep talk of bed and nighttime at bay. She had already gone through just about everything in her room and was starting to think about venturing out to the hallway to find something to distract her parents with when a brilliant idea popped into her mind. You could almost see the light bulb pop out above her head. "There is that orange thing under my crib that mom is always trying to get me to play with, I'll bring that out and she'll get totally lost in the moment!" And we did. The orange thing is Ada's pop up tunnel. She dragged it out from under her crib, commanded me to open it up, and then spent the next 25 minutes(!!) running around it, climbing through it, demanding that Elliot and I take our turns squeezing our bodies into the tiny tunnel so that we could squirm around like live sausage links. It was a blast. And through all of it, Ada didn't show one single inkling that she might be TERRIFIED of the tunnel. She has finally conquered that cagey beast, and even liked it so much she dragged the tunnel from her room, down the hallway, and into the living room.

As it turns out the reason we moved all the way out to the living room was because the lighting was better there. Once we had the tunnel situated between the coffee table and the love seat, Ada grabbed Elliot's fancy camera, handed it to me, and started posing for shots in and around the tunnel. I guess once she discovered that tunnels can be used to accentuate her action shots, she stopped fearing the possible eating capabilities of the tunnel and embraced the true contrasting backdrop capabilities.