April 25, 2011

• .....because our work is play

  Some kids were born to stay on terra firma others were born to spend the better part of their lives off the ground.  Matthew is one of those kids.  When he was about 2 I heard him calling me from the kitchen.  I went in to discover him hanging by his finger-tips from the shelves that used to be way above our island (shelves that I had to stand on a stool to get onto the island in order to get anything off of them).  That kind of thing never phased Matthew.  When I got there that day his only statement was, "I was just hanging here waiting for you to come."

  Several months later I was summoned to the bathroom by his screams of pain.  There was something on the top shelf over the toilet.  This time however, he had slipped and fallen and hit his mouth on the toilet seat on the way down.  He knocked out his two front teeth.  I put them back in, held an ice pack in until the bleeding stopped and tried to pray that this incident would be the one that taught him that climbing was not a good idea.  Silly me!

   

  In the past few weeks we have been experiencing some serious wind.  Because of that wind one of the big doors on the back of the shop came off the track last week.  Ian mentioned that it needed to be fixed before that night fell since more high winds were being forecast.  Matthew was changed and out there before his father could even get a plan in his head about how to accomplish the task.

  

  Of course Matthew was out there, climbing was involved!

  

  He scaled the inside wall of the shop.

  

  He perched half in and half out of the window at the top and pried up on the roller of the big door while his father lifted from the bottom and muscled it into place.

  

  Once it was on the track again it was no trouble to slide it along and fix it so that it wouldn't come off the track again. 

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