KampKrug

Watching the day float away.

We decided to head out on a hike today after school – Tues is for Trails. So we went ahead with an adventure even though I was totally spent. It was a busy day getting Sam to school, cleaning up the house, doing some paperwork, entertaining Ben who misses Sam, then back to Sam’s school to visit for lunch (fried fish – couldn’t resist!) and then home to nap Ben, cram in some work, then back to school to pick Sam up, and off to the hike. I am really glad we went, though, despite being tired. It’s always good to be in the woods. Sam did some pretty incredible math again today and stumped mommy. He found a long bamboo pole which he said would be “Good for a measuring stick.” (Literally, right?) It was like having three kids along on the hike, though, with Tall Tom the pole bobbing around nearly stabbing Ben or me. I got bonked on the head once, and so did Sam. So anyway, the pole is two Sams tall plus two inches, so that led to lots of good math about ways we could say that. At one point we figured out it was 8 ft 6″ tall, so I asked Sam how else he could say that. I thought he’d say eight-and-a-half feet, but he said “two and a half yards plus a half foot”. It wasn’t until much later at dinner that Dave helped me out with my math and we realized we were six inches off. Oh well! It’s the mental gymnastics that counted, and to my credit I’d been bonked before I started the hike (tired, hungry), then bonked with Tall Tom the pole. We also came up with a little jingle for the kids at school “Stand in line, tall like pines!”