But I want muddy pants too - a photo on Flickriver

            A shot I grabbed of Owen earlier this year just as I was about to slide down half the muddy trail to Abiqua Falls on my butt.  Actually I only slipped once...

Owen wanted so much to come with me.  But it was chilly, snowy, rainy, windy, and muddy and that was just a few too many "y"s for him.  So I did want any responsible parent would do, I locked him in the car for an hour... just kidding.  Wendi had opted to wait at the car with him, where he cheerily passed the hour ejecting the CD from the CD player repeatedly.  

I, on the other hand, got wet from the knees down and muddy from the knees up, funny how that works.  But we all had a blast doing are separate things.

Actually though I look forward to when he can start hiking, and not just because I get tired of packing him around in his backpack.  In truth, he currently weighs nearly as much as my camera backpack does anyway.  I figure any extra weight is just resistance training.

It has been quite an adventure though (I mean fatherhood, not the waterfalls, though those are often adventures too).  I have also found it amusing.  Namely in that every time I tell someone I know who also happens to be a parent about Owen's latest escapades they always caution me.  "Oh look out for when he starts doing that..." or "Oh boy, then they become a handful"  or something similar.  Yet each time he gets to that phase, ie. crawling, then toddling, then walking, picking things up and carrying them, just becoming more aware in general, the whole thing that is parenthood just gets better.  I have never once watched him take off across the living room for the stairs once he has figured out the gate has been left down and thought "Drat, I wish he wasn't so mobile".  Or watched him pull himself up on the toilet so he can pull himself up into the bathroom sink (which he has just learned to turn on) and thought "Aye, what a headache he is."  I guess it is all perspective.  Or maybe I just feel a kindred adventurous spirit in the making.  I hope so anyway.  I look forward to the day he can go sliding down that muddy trail with me, and not just so he can carry some of my camera gear...  ;-)

Taken in: United States / Oregon (show map)

Taken on: November 2, 2015

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