Rock Climbing!

I am sharing this experience without pictures because I forgot my camera, but I still have to share! I'll take pictures next time though!

On Saturday I took Nick and Tatiana to the indoor climbing center over at OSU. This is the same place Nathan and I took Nick last weekend. Nick loved it so much that he wanted to go again and Tatiana really wanted to try it.

Nick made it all the way to the top of one wall twice and another wall once! That is climbing 30 feet three times! He did so good! Then Tatiana after several tries and making it a little further each time made it up the one wall all the way to the top! I was so proud of her! She is only 7 years old and was surrounded by college kids and her older brother and she did it! She was so proud of herself and we were very proud of her! They also had fun bouldering, climbing without ropes. I belayed them both and because it takes time to tie the knot properly I let them have three climbs on each knot and then they traded.

The best part was to hear my two children cheer each other on and offer advice. It was really sweet. Tatiana would shout, "Go Nick! You're almost there! You can do it! Don't give up yet! Use your legs!" And then when it was Tatiana's turn, Nick would shout, "Put your left foot up on the orange hold by your left knee, there you go! You got it! Keep going! There is an easy blue hold above your right shoulder, yeah right there, grab it! Yeah! You got it! Keep going! You're almost there!" Oh how precious!

I got a lot of compliments on them and how well behaved they were, what good climbers they were, and how sweet they were to each other. Yep, I have fantastic kids!

Ben and Andrew? They hung out at a friend's house being babysat. Ben had fun running through their tunnels and going down their slides in their super-cool upstairs playroom. Ben had a blast too. Andrew was being doted over and everyone was happy. A good day!