May 30, 2010

• Boys will be boys.....at least mine will be

  Ever since he could walk Matthew has been climbing.  When he was about 2 years-old he climbed up the back of the toilet in our bathroom, fell and hit the toilet tank on the way down.  Knocked his front tooth out in the process.  That accident didn't have the desired effect of breaking him of the habit. 

  

  This morning he announced that he had to climb unto the roof of the house for some reason that I, as his mother, cannot fathom.  He also announced that he could climb the tree in the front yard to accomplish this feat without using his feet.

  

  He did indeed manage to climb the tree using only the strength of his arms and abs.

  

  I guess that he takes after his father who I have seen do the same thing on the frame of our hay elevator.

  

  From the tree it was a simple matter to step onto the roof at the front of the house.

  

  He did announce to his father that it was a bit slippery up there.  Combat boots on a steel roof probably do make for a slippery combination.

  

  The up the slope he walked until he could see off the top of the slope.  We only have a single slope roof on that half of the house with a 25ft. face on the back of the house.

  

  You wouldn't catch me that high up but there he is at the top of the slope of our roof.

  

  I hope he managed to accomplish what he intended.  Thankfully he came down the way he went up and not the fast way.

  

  Later in the afternoon he was found sitting in this maple tree which hangs out over our valley thinking.  Melissa and I dubbed it his thinking tree.  He does spend time in trees when he has to do some serious thinking.

  

  If he isn't up a tree then he is usually burrowing under ground.  When he was much younger he announced that he was going to burrow under the garden and the driveway all the way to the house.  He did manage to get in about 4 feet, with some shoring up, before circumstances caused him to quit.  (a mother who thought it might be a bit too dangerous)  Now he has a steel tank laying on its side half burried in the ground with a cement block opening at the front that he plans on using for I don't know what.  But if this makes him happy and he is safe then I don't care.

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