Day 294/365: Climbing Wall Birthday Party: Success

Day 294/365: Climbing Wall Birthday Party: Success - Sauntering Vaguely Downward

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[20181021|21:33]

Mad Scientess Jane Expat

[	Tags	\|	climbing, humuhumu, keiki, milestone	]
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We spent the entire day preparing food, cakes, and party bags for, and then attending/catering, Humuhumu's birthday party. It was at the local clip 'n' climb wall, and I think I can safely say it was a resounding success for her and her buddies. There was a competition to find four stickers placed around the walls. Humuhumu found two of them and one of her non-school mates, who is also very athletic, found the other two.

The main thing I learnt is that I have given birth to two of them. I turned my back on Keiki for about a second and this happened.

Keiki, about a third of the way up "Amaze-ing". Apparently he got fed up with waiting for me to help him and decided to go for it.

My hair might as well just all turn white now.

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melissa_maples
2018-10-22 06:09 (UTC)

The world's first brother-sister bouldering team!

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nanila
2018-10-22 10:51 (UTC)

They would totally go for that, haha!

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lindahoyland
2018-10-22 06:16 (UTC)

My heart would stop with fright watching them! A cat on the roof is bad enough! Happy Birthday to your daughter.

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nanila
2018-10-22 10:52 (UTC)

Thank you! She could barely wait through the safety briefing before getting going.

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alice_mccoy
2018-10-22 07:09 (UTC)

Yikes, but well done Keiki. Having a sibling does set challenges. :) My older brother didn't get me into climbing but I was reading his books years earlier than I would have done on my own. Reading Dune aged 10 was eyeopening and much more interesting than Enid Blyton.

Hope you are all recovered now.

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nanila
2018-10-22 10:55 (UTC)

Keiki is starting to realise that his elder sister casts a long shadow. He's beginning to work quite hard to be recognised for his own accomplishments.

Recovery is stalled at "not getting worse", but I think that's all I can manage until Friday, when I actually have time off work.

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