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Thursday, September 29, 2011

A Good Saturday for Hiking

Since the weather is finally cooling off a bit, and we had a leisurely Saturday with nothing major going on, we decided it was the perfect day for a hike.  The Blue Mountains are a quick drive from our house, so we filled up our Camelbak, made some sandwiches, and hit the trail.  We hadn't hiked that particular trail before, and it turned out to be one of our favorite hikes in the area.



When we got to the top, we stopped to have lunch and let K-Man take a break from being in the pack.  As you can tell from the picture above, he has discovered how to use the Camelbak, which is awesome!  He is growing up so fast!  Pretty soon, we're sure he is going to be racing up the trail ahead of us.  

We made some fun discoveries during our hike.  For example, K-Man thinks that blowing a dandelion is REALLY funny; and yelling in the mountains and hearing it echo is super fun (we're sure that all of the hunters in the area appreciated all of the noise we were making!).  Also, K-Man thinks that pretty much all of the animal sounds we heard were dogs (he would bark back at them), and he would crack up when Mike would run up the trail and give him a bouncy ride. 

Hiking does take it out of you, though!  So a nap was definitely in order on our way down the hill.



Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Scary Stuff!


How a relationship can change!  When he was a baby, and up until he was about nine months old, K-Man liked the vacuum.  In fact, if he was fussy, I could vacuum and it would calm him right down until sometimes he would even fall asleep.  Then came a period of distant curiosity.  He wasn't instantly relaxed when I turned on the vacuum, but he was interested in it.  He would follow me through the house as I vacuumed.  Recently, however, something has changed.  He is absolutely terrified of the vacuum!  So much so that I try to wait until Mike is home so that he can comfort the little guy while I vacuum.  Notice the look of terror on K-Man's face as he hides behind his dad from the big, bad vacuum!  What a sympathetic mom I am to grab the camera and take a picture of him scared out of his wits instead of comforting him!  In the end I figured I should try to show him there was nothing to be afraid of, so we vacuumed together.  But he remains skeptical.