The Wall

This is a follow up post to the farm day…we actually had to leave Dayspring Dairy after lunch to race to a birthday party for one of Noah’s school friends from Creative Montessori. It was a rock wall climbing part at a local sporting goods store. I wasn’t sure how this was gonna go over since Noah is not a fan of the climbing wall anywhere. It is sorta strange to Eric and I since Noah is freakishly strong and would be very good at this. Plus, Noah climbs way higher in trees without a harness on. Anyway. Noah did try the rock wall a couple times but never went higher than about 8 feet up and then he wanted to come back down. Again strange because they have a free climbing short wall that Noah was climbing while waiting…he went higher on that wall without a harness on. At any rate, apparently Noah mustered up some courage and gusto and actually pulled his way to the top of the wall, it’s a good two stories high. It isn’t a small wall. Eric and I were shocked! We were so proud! Lots of Atta 'boys and high fives to be had! After he conquered the wall once, then he did it like 4 more times, but he could now do it in record time. She scurried right on up that thing. When we left the party he was very proud of himself and said that he actually really enjoyed climbing and that he’d be interested in doing that  in the future.  There is a bigger facility in the city that specializes in rock wall climbing, First Avenue Rocks, that we are going to try out sometime in the future. So proud of my boy!

While the party was going on we had to entertain the girls in the sporting goods store for 2 hours…shockingly it wasn’t really that hard. Yaya took a liking to a silver body mannequin that was disturbing. Eden had to try on shoes. Both played in the tents and flipped around on some of the climbing wall mats and tired to “climb” a wall. The stairs were the most fun and watching the boys climb also entertained them. We all got cupcakes to take home and we called the day a huge success!