A play-by-play of the excellent parenting exhibited in our household as evidenced in our “campout” on the trampoline tonight (which lasted from 5:30pm until the ever-late 7:03pm).
1. Jump around on the trampoline with our favorite stuffed animals amid piles of sleeping bags and blankets.
2. Four-year-old son hits Dad on the head with his beloved dog, Blaze.
3. Plastic dog-nose whacks Dad on the head . . . hard.
4. Dad gets mad, restrains from saying anything ugly or hitting anything.
5. Instead, takes his aggression out on the fluffy dog by throwing him up over the netting of the trampoline–half-angry, half-jokingly.
6. Blaze gets stuck in a pine tree. Way up there. Really.
7. All three children immediately scream and wail in betrayed despair. And keep screaming and wailing, beyond consolation. (Mom snaps picture quickly, not taking the time to focus it, so as not to capitalize on her children’s grief, too much.)
8. Kids continue crying until Dad gets out the big ladder and a broom and knocks poor Blaze back down to the ground.
9. Boy and Blaze reunited.
10. Dad and Boy and Blaze make up.
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Okay, that is the funniest thing I've read/seen all week!
I'm with Christie, Logan, and Asher!!
Totally.
Love the play by play. You capture it all, Laura. Love it, love it, love it.
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