CC is taking a ballet intensive this week, so it's been just me with Little Man and Sweet Pea. Today we decided to go rock climbing, which was a nice indoor event to beat the heat.
It's been a long time since I've taken the kids rock climbing, and their growth is obvious. Not only are they stronger now, but they're much less fearful. In the past, they haven't gone past the halfway point, yet today they both easily scrambled up to the top on every run. They raced each other on several side-by-side runs, then set time records for each run that they'd try to break.
The climbing gym has a rule that because they're under 16, I have to be the one to click their carabiners on and off each belay. That frustrated them to no end, because there were two of them and only one of me. Plus, it wasn't hard to operate the carabiners, and all the (younger) kids who were there attending day camp were allowed to do it alone. So after a few test runs to make sure they could do it correctly, I stopped insisting that they follow that rule. Still, I had to be supervising them while they climbed (even though there were more employees than climbers on the floor), so I followed them around and obeyed about a million "Mom, watch this!" commands. Safety first.
(I shouldn't have bothered bringing a book. It didn't get touched. I spent the whole time "supervising" them and being their official timer.)
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