On Friday, after many requests, I made cookies with the kids. I had the hand mixer going, with both Sienna and Colby standing on stools at the counter “helping”. Ashley was holding onto my pant legs but let go and fell flat on her face, screaming. So I quickly turned the mixer off to bend and pick her up. I set the mixer on the counter, still with a lot of cookie dough on the beaters. Not missing a beat, Colby grabbed the mixer and switched it to on, with the beaters still in the air. Result: cookie dough everywhere! All I could do was laugh.
(This was actually taken last Sunday when it was Colby's turn to help with treats for Family Home Evening.)
Yesterday we went to Dunbar Caves State Park, near Clarksville, Tennessee. It was 36 degrees outside, but it was sunny and felt nice and we had cabin fever. So we needed to go somewhere. It was a small park. We started by feeding the geese and ducks at the lake. The caves were actually closed for the winter. The kids probably would have been scared anyway. So we kept walking around the lake.
We’d been there about 20 minutes when Bryan decided to walk on a tree that had fallen over onto the lake. It was hardly in the water at all. Then he got Sienna and Colby to climb out on it.
Three minutes later...
It was all great until Colby decided to walk back by himself. I was dancing around on the sidewalk with Ashley, afraid to watch but couldn't not watch. He actually did really well and made it almost to the end, but then turned around and fell in. It wasn’t deep and Bryan pulled him out, but he was soaked and cold and quite upset. It was so hard not to laugh, and I'm afraid we didn't try very hard. The best part was Sienna’s line immediately after: “I told you we should have brought our swimsuits!”
So that put an end to our outing. We went to a nearby Walmart to get him a change of clothes, then to Applebee’s for lunch. It was a nice outing, dip in the lake included.
2 comments:
I SO love that you can laugh at things like that!!! I think I'd be a gnarled mess, not to mention ornery. It really is funny. I need to learn to laugh. You're great. You're kids are so cute.
What a brave little kid! Kudos to you for not freaking out.
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