I posted a little while ago about this nice backpack for carrying Ryan that a friend gave us. I have been using it to take Ryan on little hikes (in the woods and to the nude beach). Today, Ryan was very excited to get out and run around in the woods and kept trying to say the word “tree”.
At one point we came across a wooden bridge (about 2 feet off of the ground). Ryan loved the sound of his heavy footsteps on the wooden bridge and must have walked back and forth on that bridge at least 50 times!! It was very difficult for me to convince him to continue on past the bridge. When I finally got him about 20 feet away he turned around and started running back for the bridge. So, I carried him about another 100 feet (the bridge was nowhere in sight now). Every time I put him down he would turn around and run back for the bridge. I didn’t know what to do, so I covered his eyes and spun him around 2 1/2 times and faced him towards the bridge. Well, it worked! Ryan was convinced that I was taking him away from the bridge and immediately turned around and walked (in his mind) towards the bridge with confidence. The only problem was he didn’t figure daddy would place him in the direction of the bridge!!
I didn’t capture that on film but I did get a clip of him walking shortly after this moment. I took the video with my cell phone so the quality sucks. I’ll post it anyways.
