Flying High

If you're a four year old and your father is an has an obsessive climber you are going to spend a good amount of time out at the crag.  The trick for me as the father is to try to make our time in the dirt fun and fortunately Hammie is a great "crag kid" as rocks, sticks, plants, etc provide endless amounts of entertainment for an active imagination.  And lately Hammie has even taken to climbing as she lugs her own pad around and seeks out problems of her own.  I've got my fingers crossed that the climbing bug will stick. but the important thing is that we have fun, and Hammie is certainly good at that.

When climbing with a rope the appeal is mostly to swing.  Here Nalani takes flight.

Heading out to the boulders with her own crash pad

Nalani geared up for a day of climbing with a good friend along for the ride.

Poppin' Tags

For well over a month I've been promising Nalani that I'd take her dress shopping when we got to 'merica.  So when we finally got to Grand Junction the Aunties, Nalani and I when to a sweet thrift store to see what we could find.  I tried to be hard but how could I say no to my little girl when the sparkly dress only cost $1.  After all was said and done Nalani got one new dress, two skirts, and two pairs of shoes.  And I got some stuff for me as well.  Nothing like poppin' tags.

 Nalani presents the pile of dresses to try on

 Nalani's favorite dress of the day

 She wasn't as psyched on this on left it for some other lucky girl

 One of the skirts

 and the sparkly party skirt

We weren't feeling this one

Thanks to Auntie Dut Dut for all the help

What other cool stuff can we find at the thrift store?

What we do when we get to the boulder.

This is a little video that Aunt Autumn (aka Dut Dut) took last winter and I'm now posting after threats from the other aunts.  Hope you all enjoy.