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Jeremiah likes to climb.
Yesterday, he climbed all over.
All over the tree house.
Up aortas.
Down aortas.
And all over….
all over…
THE Big Red Dog.
Apple Town get away…day 2
So many fun moments today.
So many not fun moments today.
Both boys woke up grouchy. Gabe is having a very hard time taking responsibility for his actions…any actions….and we are seeing a lot of regression right now. He acts 12 more and more lately, which is not good when your son is almost 17. We have friends who have a son who is about Gabe’s age who is also adopted, but he has some developmental delays, so he really does act like a 12 year old. This is not the case with Gabe. Gabe is fully able to act 16, and he does most of the time. He seems to like to make grown up choices quite a bit, and has been lately, unfortunatley. Unfortunately because adult choices come with adult consequences that a 16 year old is not capable of handling. Nothing life altering as of yet. As. of. yet. We are praying on that one.
Anywho, I majorly digress.
So both boys started out with the grouchies, but I told them I was determined to have a great day with them, and so we moved on. I had to reassure Jeremiah many times that if he was feeling anxious or scared, that all he had to do was let me know and I would do everything I could to help him calm down and feel more secure. I used the powerful line I’ve been hearing more and more about, “I’m right here.” It helped. He told me it did.
We ventured off to the local children’s museum, which was AWESOME!!!! We played together for a good three hours, after we found parking, which was an adventure in itself. There were many cool exhibits, if you can call them that. My favorite was the frog exhibit. There were frogs from all over the world. My favorites were these cool critters, Vietnemese Mossy Frogs. There was a challenge to find all 9 that were hiding in the exhibit, and we were very excited when we figured out that there were three hiding in a single corner.
Another cool exhibit was an electromagnetic crane that you could use to pick up steel marbles and drop them into funnels and tubes and such. I was surprised that the boys didn’t play with it longer, but their wonderful ADHD brains were already off to the next thing.
Gabe’s favorite thing was a series of tracks that you could send golf balls down and try to get them to land into specific targets. He really got into it and started experimenting with different variables, such as height, speed, and how many balls were used at a time. Jeremiah had to sit out on that one for a little while because of some unapproved wandering, but he enjoyed it too.
Jeremiah’s favorite exhibit is a toss up between the ball machine and the tree house. The ball machine was a series of suction tubes and funnels that you could send balls through and try to get them to specific destinations. There was a bin up high that collected balls, and when the red light flashed it would dump all the balls on the head of the person standing below. He loved standing below it and letting the balls fall all over him. The tree house was a series of cargo nets and platforms that went all over the two story museum. He said he thought it would be really cool to have something like that in your house. I agree. 
After a crazy afternoon of shopping craziness, including some wonderful scrapbooking successes, and Jeremiah’s first trip to Toys R Us, we had dinner with Hubby and came back to the hotel. The boys wanted to go swimming, and since attitudes had improved, I was more than glad to oblige. I needed some hot tub time anyways, especially after a long day of walking and climbing.
One of my favorite parts of the day was wrestling with Gabe and Jeremiah over two pool balls. Gabe was trying desperately to get the second ball, and it took all that Jeremiah and I could muster to hold him back. Two guys came in while we were wrestling, one was trying to read, and I thought about how glad they would be once we left, but I didn’t care, I was having fun with my boys. Jeremiah and I eventually won the war and successfully obtained both balls. It was a wonderful victory. Boy oh boy, Gabe’s legs are strong. I reminded him that on land he would have no chance, as I weigh nearly twice what he does. The water was definitley working to his advantage. Anywho, it was fun.
They are sleeping now. Tomorrow will be another adventure, hopefully without the grouchies.
Blessings!
Hannah
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