Hueco Scenes
This year at Hueco is a 180 from last year. Last year’s scene: Paul or April is climbing (with no spot and strategically placed pads) while the other shuffles around, hunchbacked, holding Silas’ little hands, helping him balance and negotiate Hueco’s uneven (and sometimes deadly!) terrain. It was exhausting to say the least, but thanks to Hueco being…well…HUECO, we persisted in our trips there anyway and sucked it up.
This year’s scene: Sturdy Silas not only can fend for himself on the uneven terrain, but he climbs, eats his snacks on his own, plays quietly with his diggers, dinosaurs and trusty screwdriver while we climb (and spot one another or move pads), and listens when mama and dad say “Get out of that cactus patch!” or “Don’t put rocks in the spider’s house or he won’t be able to climb out!” or (the most common) “Off the pads please while dad is climbing” – for some reason every time dad chalks up to pull on the boulder is the time Silas thinks dad needs a hug.
This Hueco season is absolute bliss for us and our little guy. He loves being out at the rocks and so do we. And him yelling “HUECO!” from the backseat with legs bouncing and arms in a triumphant Rocky pose makes Paul and I beam with happiness. Maybe we’re just lucky. Or maybe all that hunchbacked suffering, er, shuffling, paid off. 🙂
Silas with his big boy water bottle. Conveniently, his sippy nalgene got lost in a Hueco windstorm in November. Maybe it’ll end up an artifact someday.
Diggers. Yeah.
Paul on Rogered in the Shower, v10/11
More of Paul on Rogered
A poor spider’s home
Our little Hueco lover
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