I'm an avid believer in blaming then moon when things don't go well. The souffle fell? Blame the moon! Car won't start? Stupid the Moon. The kid is nuts? Moon, I shake my fist at you.
The moon is really just an innocent bystander. But gosh, so easy to pick on. But only when it's full.
So the moon, it is full, here in Texas and things are a little crazy.
Parenting has been fun the last few days. JuJu is either so sweet and polite that I have to pinch myself or well, she is so much the opposite that I have to pinch her.
I don't pinch her. Much. Only in church.
So the moon is full and the kid is nuts and I'm refraining from pinching her because these words keep coming out of her mouth : "you're not being nice" followed by "that's not FAIR" and usually ending with "you guys are making my life sad"
Clearly we are horrible parents.
So horrible, in fact, that we made her go on an adventure with us.
To the climbing gym.
This is the face of a child who is clearly mistreated.
(Look at her tiny 5.10's (shoes) Shut up. They are so precious.)
She learned the climbing commands
(if you touch that wall before Mommy says "climb on" I will eat your fingers off)
And chalk!
(It goes poof! And it should stay in your chalk bag, especially with a kindergartner around)
She also has a healthy fear of heights now. This was right before she topped out.
On the way back down, with a huge grin on her face, she says to me "I never want to leave!"
But the climbing gym does close. And that's about the time she realized that Life Is Not Fair.
2 comments:
Once upon a time a nearby rock gym ( or an eversofancy gym that had a nice rock wall) had an open house I attended with husband and friends. We watched a pretty awesome climber clamber around doing crazy things. He later came to our group to tell us he had noticed us noticing his "assets". The airquotes were supplied by his waggling eyebrows. I do not think it was a full moon, although I would like to blame his behavior on something, and not believe that a grown man would say that to a group of strangers.
also her tiny shoes are just precious
wow. that guy sounds weird. Lets PRETEND it was a fully moon.
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