Newest Discovery

I have recently discovered that Adi is part monkey. Yup. She is usually thought of as the softer one, the more scaredy-cat kind. Apparently not when it comes to heights. Actually, she really isn't afraid of much beyond fires and bears (she was watching the news with me one morning and they were talking about the dangers of bears while camping in the mountains. She is now afraid one will find her in her room).



Today we visited a park up in Daybreak. I need to now take a minute and explain this awesomely-cool neighborhood that I do not live in, but I really wish that I did. Here is a pic of a typical street in there:

Oh yeah. They have a giant lake where you can rent a canoe to paddle on it, several parks (we haven't hit all of 'em yet, but we're trying), a splash pad for kids, swimming pools, a gym, their own elementary school... EVERYTHING!!

Back to my kid, we get to the park that has this HUGE climbing-thingy (anyone know what they are called?) and Adi takes off running for it and has climbed up it, back down, and then back up it before I even get there.

She loves it. Not to be outdone by her big sis, Piper also starts climbing. She gets to where she is in the picture above and decides that she is too scared to continue up or to climb back down. Now, I have a belief that kids need to learn how to work through their fears, so I tell her that if she wants to get down she is going to have to do it by herself. That was before I stood underneath of her in the dome and realizedjust how high and just how posible it was for her to fall. Memories of her previously broken leg come to me. I figured that just this once I could go get her. I started climbing (which is no small feat for me- I am a little afraid of heights myself) and soon realized that there was a flaw in my plan: how was I actually supposed to get her down? I couldn't carry her down.

By the time I got back down and was ready to catch her from beneath, she suddenly decided that she was no longer afraid and had started working her way back down by herself. Figures.

Porter didn't much care for the climbing, he loves running in the grass and waiting for the opportunity to run into the street and catch one of the cool construction trucks that kept speeding by.

Oh, and his shirt says it all. If you can't quite read it, it says, "Trouble. Since Day One."