Rebecca headed off to an all-day conference in Tacoma today, and Jonah had been begging me to take him to the skate park. We headed down there early because we knew it wouldn't be busy with the professionals until much later. It is like when I used to work mental health. We would go out for visits into the inner-city first thing in the morning because all of the drunks were asleep. if you went later in the afternoon and evening, that is when you could run into trouble. So, we had the whole place to ourselves for awhile, which was great. Now, I did look at the graffiti pretty close and there was only one or two words that were woven throughout the park, but they were hidden from the kids. I had the aerial view and they didn't, thank goodness. They did first get to watch two older adults skate when we first arrived, but then they headed off to work. We labeled them as the long time skaters who now have respectful jobs, but still need a fix of skating every once in awhile. This picture was taken in what Jonah stated was the "bowl".
Now Jonah hoped that he could go down the first hill and he would have all of this down pat. First run, he flew off the skate board and landed hard on his hip. It was a big one. He screamed out in pain and he now has a huge bruise on his hip. Within minutes, he was back at it and a little more aware of how he wasn't a professional skater.
They both looked like they knew what they were doing in this picture, but this was only one frame of many. There were a lot of falls, but they always got up and tried again. They then moved to their scooters which was more fun and provided a bit more stability.
If you look in the background, you can see the word "slick" with a crown over it. Any thoughts at what this means from those of you who have a a skating past? We couldn't figure it out.
Noah, who always jumps in and says he can do anything his brothers do, made sure they knew that he never fell once while we were there. In this picture, he was doing one of his tricks where he lifts one leg for about 10 seconds and toodles around. He thought he was awesome, and quite frankly, he was doing better than I was.
After recovering from the skate park, we went home and put together Jacob's new rocket that he got from Grandma and Grandpa LeRoy. We went out to one of the elementary schools and launched it twice. It was very cool. I started getting all of these non-adult ideas of hooking things to the rocket or adding more boosters, but I had to refrain since I was trying to teach the kids safety. It was great to watch the thing launch.
We also went t6 pick blackberries, but didn't bring the camera along for fear of dropping it in the stickers, down a ravine. At the end of the day, Marna and Pappa were putting in a concrete step for the clubhouse, so all the kids wanted to help. Noah did a great job pouring water for the cement
Jonah wanted to help smooth things out. At the end of the day, they got to put their hand prints in the cement with much help.
In the middle of all these activities, I was able to mow the lawn and clean the gutters out. by the time we put the kids to bed, I was exhausted. It was a great day and we sure did have a lot of fun. Thank goodness Monday is coming, because I don't think I could keep this momentum up every day.
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