On the Dean's List

We went camping and hiking as a family this weekend, including Boss. There are two stories, one from each of the boys, worth telling about our hike to Ruth Lake (pictured below).

1. While we were hiking Isaac talked or made sound effects almost every moment of the entire hike. We were getting a pure stream of thought from Isaac which was very entertaining. Our favorite part was when he started narrating for Boss.

“If Boss could talk he would say this, ‘I wish that I could climb up these rocks as fast as Samuel and Isaac. Maybe I shouldn’t even be doing this.'”

2. While hiking back from Ruth Lake, Samuel had an epiphany about hiking.

“I figured out what hiking is. Hiking is just walking.”

Well said, Samuel, well said.

 

Playset complete. Here is the tally.

• 2+ days of effort spread out over a week
  • I expected that it would only take an afternoon, but boy was I wrong
• A few delays due to incorrect assembly
  • Yeah, the instructions were very clear (note the sarcasm)
• Another delay due to an under-sized/incorrect cargo net
  • Frustrating couple of hours struggling to get the cargo net to work
  • Additional 4 day delay waiting for a replacement net from the vendor
  • Answering the boys’ continual questions of when are we going to finish it
  • Connecting the right net once it arrived
• Two little helpers who soon lost motivation and decided that water guns were more fun

Now I understand why people pay to have these things installed.

 

Isaac on the slide

 

Samuel pushing Isaac in the swing

 

Samuel laying on the grass after swinging and sliding

 

Help came to an abrupt stop as soon as the slide and swings were up