My Adventurous Children

I have been reading several blogs and love hearing the stories about their kids. So I finally decided I needed to write a couple of ours. We have had lots of birthdays, well, two but that's plenty in a row. Sam had a "not so good" birthday. He didn't get to ride the bumper cars and hurt himself playing on the playground. But he will tell you all about it so it must have been somewhat fun, right?

On of the toys he got was a helicopter. He took it outside to play with the other day and of course it ended up on the roof. He came and told me and I said we would have to get later, when Dad came home, unless I suddenly felt like hauling the ladder out back to get it (not likely). When Justin came home I told him about it and he didn't seem inclined to get it. As it got a little bit later in the evening I thought it might rain and didn't want to ruin his new toy already. So Justin asked Hannah if she wanted to be thrown on the roof to go get the helicopter (he asked her because she was standing right there). She said she wasn't sure she could get it. He told her "I'll throw you up and you get the helicopter and then you jump back down." She looked a little unsure about the jumping down part and then a minute later said "Come on Daddy, let's go." And do what he asked her. She promptly said "Let's go throw me on the roof and get Sam's helicopter." She was all set on being thrown on the roof. We both just laughed because she was convinced Dad was really going to throw her up on the roof and she was perfectly fine with that. Fortunately they did find a stick/pole long enough to get it down without having to throw her up on the roof. That's my adventurous child.

Sam's latest adventure is just to build obstacle courses to challenge himself and his sisters on. Usually the obstacle course involves the kitchen stools and dining room chairs, while I am trying to cook dinner. Justin wonders sometimes why they are all over the place and tries to put them back only to promptly have them put back in their "place" and see kids racing around them and down the hallway. I just work around them. He also likes to build forts with all the couch cushions. He makes forts for Hannah to play in while he is at school.

That's pretty good for now. I am being summoned to be "tested" on the Wii. We'll see if I pass the test and am deemed worthy to play on a higher level with Sam. :)