Walking to the mailbox

Gayla suggested that Jonathan and I go get the mail today. Jonathan is getting somewhat heavy so I decided that it would be better if he walked. He walked the entire way and had many adventures along the way.

Right out the back door he discovered a stick. He's a big fan of sticks so he picked it up. Then we walked a few more feet and he discovered a leaf that he had to pick up. Then after a couple more steps, he found a bigger and longer stick so he picked that up and dropped the leaf. A little while later he dropped the little stick and started swinging the bigger stick at leaves. He broke it in two, but a piece of bark kept the stick together. Then he swung the end stick around in circles and it broke off completely. So he had to pick it up. At this point we were about 1/4 of the way to the mailbox.

Once we made it to the mailbox, Jonathan decided he wanted to play on the sidewalk next to the street. I wasn't too excited about the idea since I was hoping to read the new Model T magazine that had come in the mail so I managed to persuade him to walk back to the start of the driveway. Then he discovered a black walnut with its husk still on and picked it up. Then he found another one and picked that one up too. At this point he was on top of the old irrigation canal and having a bit of trouble walking in high grass so he gave me one of the walnuts for safe keeping. He walked a bit further to an old apple tree and picked up a dessicated dried up nasty old little apple. I was hoping he wouldn't try to eat it and he didn't. I kept trying to get him to walk towards the house, but he wanted to walk towards the old fruit trees and high grass.

Eventually he got to the grape vines beside the driveway. He saw a bunch of grapes and made his "Please get me some of that" noises so I gave him a bunch of grapes after picking off the nasty ones. He promptly sat down and started eating them. This gave me a chance to read the Model T magazine I'd picked up earlier. Once he was done with his grapes, I thought he'd want to come in, but no. He wanted another bunch of grapes. After the 2nd bunch, I had pretty much finished the magazine and told him I was heading in because it was cold and while he was welcome to come with me, he could hang out outside if he wanted to. Our little walk to the mailbox had consumed 1 hour at this point.

Naturally, he headed straight for the barn. Sensible kid if I do say so myself.
I procured a jacket from the house and went back out to find him and brought a stick of cheese because I figured he might be hungry even after the grapes. He was playing with fun metal
pieces by the barn and I gave him some cheese and he ate it right up.

While he played, I checked out the carpets that were drying from the garden and picked up around the firewood stack for about 30 minutes. Then Gayla hollered "Dinner's Ready" from the back door and again I asked Jonathan if he wanted to go in and warm up and get something to eat. His response was to walk away from me, towards the barn, and play with more sticks and metal pieces. I picked him up and we went inside to eat.

All in all, an entertaining time with the kid. Funny thing is after all that, he wasn't very hungry and didn't eat all his dinner.