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My little monkey climber
Sam is a climber. I think he’d be thrilled to live in a tree and climb all day long.
Last week, I caught him climbing the back of a dining room chair just as it began tipping backwards. The disaster was averted, narrowly. If the cat had not been sitting in the chair acting as a counterweight, my efforts would have come too late.
Yesterday, Sam’s class was playing on the playground when I arrived to pick him up after work. Sam was coming down the slide as I approached, and he noticed me almost immediately. A big smile swept across his face and he came running toward the fence to meet me. Apparently I wasn’t moving fast enough, because he began climbing the fence. By the time I got there, he was nearly to the top and his teacher’s had just noticed what he was doing. I picked him up off the fence and raised him over to my side.
It scared me a little, but his climbing was excellent. His feet never faltered.
I fear that in the near future rock climbing walls are going to attract his fancy and we’ll have to take up that sport. It’s not something I ever longed to do. Nor do I want to go on mountain hikes.
But somehow I fear my little climber is going to want to do it all.
Comments
By Jodi
July 15, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
I can’t believe he scaled the fence! You do have a climber.
By robin
July 15, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
My neighbors kids used to scale the cabinets and climb onto the top of the refirgerator (where the snacks were hidden). It was always funny to watch - from a close catching distance. Have fun
By Reggie
July 15, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
More photographs please! :-) I love picture #7 of Sam. That is a royal hoot! Why was he crying????
By Nathan Wade
July 16, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this
He wasn’t crying in photo #7. That was shortly after we brought Socks inside after “rescuing” her from straydom. Sam likes to carry her around and “talk” to her. I caught him in mid-thought, with facial expressions to match.
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