Meltdown at the zoo

Today I took Henry to the zoo. We had a great time until he took his shoes off on the spiderweb rope thingy and somehow they got lost or stolen because they were nowhere to be found. We searched and searched, even enlisting some older kids to look, but after they announced the zoo would be closing I told Henry that he would have to walk to the car with no shoes on and he started crying because we were leaving them behind, then he fell and scraped up his toe really bad and was screaming, "I need a band-aid" over and over again as he followed me to the car. I was trying to make an impression in his mind about not taking his shoes off without giving them to me, but it backfired. Ugh. He cried himself to sleep in the car and I took him to the hospital where Justin was waiting with some surgical equipment and fixed it up while he was passed out. He now has a gigantic wrap on his entire foot, appropriate for someone who has just had a foot transplant. I've been trying to get him to go to sleep for about two hours now, but he's still humming the ABC's under his door. What am I going to do with this boy?

Hiking Master and Ladies Man

Henry went hiking twice in less than 24 hours this week and he's loving it! Justin came home rather early (5pm) from work on Monday night so we went on a fun hike at the National Audobaun Society of Western PA reserve. He went inside a mud wigwam, swung upside down (or upside up as Henry likes to call it) on a vine and played with pond scum while he looked for tadpoles. We tried to catch a frog but they were too fast. Then that next morning we went with a group of people from church, which happened to be a gigantic group of girls and Henry. He's a lucky guy! One of his best friends, Thomasin, is so fun and darling. They really enjoy holding hands together. We're excited that we'll have all these fun photos to show at their wedding someday. lol.