The Proctor Post: Bridal Veil Falls

The last Thursday that I was home on maternity leave coincided with the last day of school. My good friend has established a tradition of going to visit Bridal Veil Falls with her kids on this day. I was lucky enough to attend. We packed a lunch and then met up. Sadness that her older two kids chose to hang with their friends at an ice cream party than hang with us at the falls. They missed out!

Little Man loved climbing all over the rocks and trunks in the falls!

Mike and I have been very lax and have only been to the falls once with Little Man. This is something we will need to remedy as they are only 10ish minutes from our house. We just barely didn't fit into one car, so we did the caravan thing. Little Man doesn't fully understand this caravan thing yet. He thinks that when we are going somewhere with somebody they will be in the car with us. The whole drive I kept hearing, "Where Amy mom? Mom, where W? Where M?" I had to pull up next them at a stoplight to show him we were with them.

We got to the falls and boy, was it busy! We walked up to falls, Little Man ran, and the kids LOVED playing in the water. Brrr...it was so cold though! By the time we left the water, Little Man's legs were bright red. He looked like he had been sunburned, but as his legs warmed up, the redness faded. {grin}

Do you ever look like you are enjoying food this much?

Gott pick the perfect rock!

What is it with toddlers and rocks? Little Man and his bestie (Miss M) spent most of their time playing in the bottom of the falls moving rocks from one place to another. They had to be reminded not to throw them, but they seriously entertained themselves this way for quite a bit! And they were walking bare foot on the rocky bottom in the freezing water to do this! They had a blast though.

After playing in the water, we headed down to find a shady spot on the grass to eat. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have turned out to be Little Man's favorite food of choice lately, so of course, lunch was a hit. Add in eating lunch with friends, sharing orange and apple slices back and forth, and eating "chipees," Little Man was in heaven!

Check out that air!

After lunch, the kiddos moved pretty quickly to jumping off things. They started with this cement block that was pretty low to the ground. They quickly decided that wasn't high enough so they moved to a picnic table. First W, the 5 year old, jumped off. Success! Little Man and Little Miss M just had to do it too! First in the lineup, Little Man. He jumped off, landed on his feet and promptly fell on his bum. Then he tried to stand up. He immediately started to cry and fell back down to his bum. I can't even tell you the thoughts that started to run through my mind! He started to crawl to me as I ran over to him. After hugging him on my lap and some gentle prodding and moving of his foot, I determined that it didn't appear to be broken. I encouraged him to put some weight on it, which he did. He limped off to try to jump off that table again! After being banned from the table, the kids were right back to the low cement box and Little Man was jumping off with the best of them. Whew! No broken foot!

The foot with the toes just barely touching? That is the foot I was worried about. Obviously he has recovered here.

Baby K either slept or cooed and kicked throughout this event. He LOVES being outside! We all love doing things with friends. It is a blast and I love that Little Man already has others he considers his friends. Sometimes, all I hear is when he can go see this or that friend, or this or that cousin. {grin} I love my little boys sociable heart.