Operation Tie the Knot!

The Dreamer was given converse tennis shoes for first grade; however, she lacked the key ability to tie these new Chuck Taylor kicks. Thus ensued Operation Tie the Knot.  

The Dreamer's initial attempts at tying ended in frustration due to the shoes coming equipped with very short laces. Her tying skills, while accurate, were very loose and the ends of the short laces had an annoying tendancy to slip through the   knot during the final stage of tightening the bow--this caused unnecessary grief for the virgin knotter. Mister replaced these with 54" adult length laces which came with the added bonus of color variety, so as to allow for her to learn with ease. 

I vaguely remembered the existence of a rabbit themed step-by-step for tying shoes, but I lacked the recall skills required to conjure up this tutorial from the recesses of my brain, so I made up a rabbit-themed story tutorial of our own: 

Step 1: Rabbit sleeps in his burrow--

             over and through

Step 2: He hears a noise and sticks out   

            one ear--a loop

Step 3: Rabbit turns in a circle to look  

             all around--wrap around

Step 4: He sniffs with his nose but can't 

            smell a sound--poke tip through

Step 5: Then Rabbit decides to pop both 

             ears out--pull loops