We have been busy with ball and work and Relay for Life and a host of other things. I just have time for two quick stories of antics Levi has provided this week.
First, we took the kids to Relay for Life Friday evening and was to be there until noon Saturday. We left at 7:00 AM as our team made up about half of the entire relay at that point. Of the 15 or so teams that began the evening on Friday, most left. Maybe it was the 37 degree temperature. The kids made it until about 2:30 AM but went in the tent and snuggled inside warm sleeping bags. We adults froze to death in our "comfortable" lawn chairs. Anyway, Levi was passing ball with a college student from church and threw the ball over the 8 foot fence. The only way to get it was to walk around the fence. While Danny walked around, Levi decided he could scale the fence and beat him to the ball. I was about 25 feet away talking when I looked up and saw Levi laying on the other side of the fence and then I heard him crying hysterically. I proceeded to take my camera from my neck and lay it down, sprint to the fence and hurdle over it. I don't know if I even touched it. My concern was that this was an old fence with the barbs at the top. After crying for 15 minutes and finding no sign of injury except a scrape on his chin, I asked him what he was thinking. He didn't realize that the ground was so far away from the top of the fence. Those watching were very impressed with how quickly I made it over the fence. I still got it.
Yesterday I was changing clothes to go to AC's ball game when I hear the neighbor girl holler for me. She said, "Come and get your son." Then I heard the hysterical crying again. I went across the street and found Levi about 15 feet up in a tree barefooted and stuck. He was frantic. I quickly scaled the tree and grabbed him before he let go and fell. When we were walking back home I asked him why he climbed the tree. He said the other kids told him to. What!? The kids were impressed with how quickly I climbed the tree seemingly without effort. What they don't know won't hurt them.
Levi is starting out early this summer in being a boy. I look forward to many such antics. Hopefully neither of us end up in the ER.
3 comments:
hehe...what goes around comes around. Not sure of your antics as a child...but if he's anything like his mom...LOOK OUT!
LOL! Still got what? How's the fence doing? You didn't say anything about its condition. Did you injure it?
LOL...I was thinking the same thing, Clint. Still got what? I was just being nice for once.
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