Maybe it was the hours spent sitting in church or something but Caleb and Annika hiked really well for over a half mile up and then came back down just as well. They loved it and we all had a really good time! I put these on facebook but wanted to record them on the blog as well. I tried to take them up again last Saturday to recapture the feeling we all had on this walk. However, the kids were tired and it was hot and we went with my parents and some of my dad's favorite students so they ended up leaving us behind and I'm just not as interesting for the kids. I kept trying to get them to walk, but I should've just brought a book and let them play in the dirt. Oh, and Annika LOVES peeing in the dirt. Only because she really likes it she says she needs to go all the time. Then I totally didn't think about bringing toilet paper (this was on our really pleasant Sunday walk)...and Caleb had to go number two! I'm sure you all love that information. But it was not cool. How does a mom forget TP? Isn't it like the most important item to carry? No water, no toilet paper, but I did have changes of clothes for Annika should she need them (which she didn't--she's so amazing with her potty training, and again, like I said, enthralled with the idea of peeing in dirt) which I carried around in that lovely plastic bag until near the end when Annika realized what it was an insisted on carrying it on her own. She loved carrying her clothes around in her 'purse.' She is such a funny girl!
They were both really good hikers.
Oh so happy to be carrying her 'purse.'
When we need Annika to get moving we often ask if she wants to walk or run. She always chooses running and she ran a good deal of this little hike.
The kids love this 'blue sand.' It is bluish grey sand and they can play it forever and getting them to move from that spot is really hard. Somehow we missed it on the way up and I think Caleb was so excited about his binoculars and going for a hike in New Canyon with everyone that he forgot about it. But on the way down we had to really coax them away.
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