Saturday, February 13, 2010

Poke & prod the whole way

All smiles at the beginning of the hike

This morning we went for a walk on the Bruce Trail. Given the options this was Jason's choice, but honest to goodness after about 20 minutes it was a constant "when will we be back at the car?" Sydney was running ahead with Brad because she wanted to be the leader & find each of the markings, but Jason kept finding excuses to stop. We had to make snow angels, pick up leaves, pick up sticks & any other distraction that he could find to justify stopping. Each of these would have been fine if they were not coupled with the whining about getting back to the car. I finally told him that the only way to get back to the car was to keep putting one foot in front of the other...he got that, but he figured it would be much faster if I carried him. Fat chance!

I just caught up on Carrie's blog & her comment about Mallory's phrase "Oh my gosh!" reminded me of the note I made of some of Jason's sayings. However it seems to me that we seem to have already left Jason's phase of "Oh my goodness!" and "Holy Smokes!". Both phrases were made all the more funny since he said them in his deep voice.

Sydney likes snowball fights when she throws at you,
but don't you dare bump it back at her!

Brad's version of the Olympic torch

Follow the leader



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