Taking a Walk

Micah was feeling kind of crazy Monday night so we took a walk together. First we went for a jog. Apparently his water shoes are magic running shoes and make him go super fast. We ran and walked around the block. He turned the corner to go home, but I suggested we go a little farther and have some Mama and Micah time. We walked to Fulton school, climbed the tree, and he sat in my lap there for a little while. He was worried that a teacher would come out and tell us we weren't allowed to climb the tree, so we climbed down and he searched the grass for some dandelion leaves for his caterpillar. We walked two more blocks, found some enormous leaves for the caterpillar, found some clover and flowers we wanted to offer the caterpillar as well, he found a hair tie in front of the school and put it up on a railing so the person who lost it could find it, he found a "perfect" pencil (a very stubby but sharpened number 2 pencil) and we took it with us. We stopped at home to drop everything off and then continued walking. We walked past all our mulberry trees to see how they were doing. We agreed that it's a good thing we planted our own mulberry tree since it seems like the ones in the neighborhood keep getting cut down or heavily pruned. Micah told me a story about a man who took off his sock and threw it on the sewer grate (apparently he saw a sock on a sewer grate somewhere). He theorized that the man must have wanted to kill the fish and must have been a bad man. I suggested that he probably didn't think about the fish when he lost his sock. We stopped so that Micah could check out some interesting mud in front of a house that was recently remodeled. He ran his fingers through the mud and considered taking some home but decided against it. Micah wanted to just keep walking but I was worried that we had been gone too long and so we went home. It was just a very nice evening.