This past weekend, Kai and I got in one more time sledding before the warm weather melted all the snow. When we went, there was actually very little snow on the hill – because it had all turned to ice.
Conditions were very fast to say the least. And not only did we fly down the hill, we kept sliding well past the bottom of the hill where it flattened out.
We made several record-setting runs, and then it happened.
We crashed.
As Kai put it, it was an “absolute failure, waa, waa, waa, waa.”
And yet, our failure on the sled was a huge success.
In years past, a crash like this would have terrified Kai and caused him to never want to go sledding again. But this time, he laughed it off and could not wait to make another run.
And when we made it all the way down the hill without crashing, it capped off our most successful sledding outing yet.
Makes me almost wish for more snow so we can go again.
haha....wow! Thanks for taking us all along for the ride! We can hear the ice crunching...brrrr! Rain melted all of our snow away, too! I'd rather see snow than the barren ground!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how fast all that snow melted. But after all the severe weather we had, I'm enjoying the barren ground for now.
DeleteMy favorite part was to hear Kai's full belly laughs.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had great fun. Kai sounds so mature!
Yes, it was so wonderful to hear him laughing the whole time instead of screaming in fear. That made it a lot of fun! :)
Deletewow, great fun! and as you say, a major step on that he is enjoying such a thing now when it would have meant never doing it again when he was younger. Our girl was crying real tears at bedtime tonight because she wants snow (we've not had any over here!) and she can't understand why we don't get it, it's Winter and we had it last year...! Difficult to explain nature (she loves seasons so much though!)
ReplyDeleteSteph, I hope for Sasha's sake you get snow soon. So hard to see your child disappointing, and very frustrating when it is over something you cannot control.
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