Things we actually said while hiking today with our family of 7.
(I’m not making this up.)
At Castlewood Canyon in Colorado:
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Josiah: “Paul, get away from that edge. It’s not an adventure if you die doing it.”
Paul: “It is an adventure. It’s just the last adventure.”
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Kiersten: “Ooh, you have to go number 3? That’s gross.”
Mom: “I didn’t know there was a number 3. I thought there was only a 1 and a 2.”
Bekah: “One is pee and 2 is poop. Three is diarrhea.”
Kiersten: “Yeah, and 4 is barf.”
Mom: “I always learn something new when I hang out with you kids.”
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Dad: “Paul, keep singing those songs from Frozen so we won’t lose track of you.”
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Josiah: “See the cool lizard I found?”
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Zack: “Hiking is FUN!”
Dad: “Of course you think hiking is fun. I’m carrying you on my shoulders.”
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Mom: (coming out of the outhouse) “Sorry, kids, I clogged the toilet.”
Kids: “Haha, Mom, very funny.”
Paul: “Mom, did you pee or poop in there?”
Mom: “Paul, let’s add this to our list of things you don’t ask a woman. Don’t ask her age, don’t ask her weight, and don’t ask if she peed or pooped.”
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Kiersten: “Congratulations, Zack. Now that you’ve peed in the woods you’re a real man.”
Paul: “I peed in our backyard last summer so I’ve been a man for a long time.”
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Dad: “Hiking with our family is like The Blair Witch Project. You never know who is going to come out alive.”
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