Like a Penguin!

On Saturday afternoon we finished putting on hole 3 and my brother and I started walking on the path towards the 4th tee box.  Matty decided to take the road less traveled and ran down the grass embankment.  However, the slope was a little steep and his legs started moving faster than he had anticipated.  Suddenly, he fell facedown, arms extended, with legs flying up in the air behind him.  He skidded on his face and chest about three feet before coming to a stop.  I saw the whole thing.  

I knew he would look over at me for some sympathy.  I also knew that if I gave him some sympathy he would probably start crying.  So I quickly looked away (partly because I was already laughing...I know...I'm a bad dad).  When he didn't see me looking at him, he started to pick himself up.  That's when I looked over and shouted, "Whoa!  That was an awesome belly-flop buddy!"  I started to chuckle as he stood to his feet.  He looked over at me, fully recovered from his embarrassment and yelled back, "Did you see that dad?!  I fell down hard!"  We laughed all the way to the tee box.  

When we got home that night we were telling Michelle all about our golf outing and then Matty said, "Hey dad, tell mom about what happened when I ran down that hill!!"  After I told Michelle what happened and we all were laughing, Matty added to the story by saying, "Yeah mom, I was like a penguin...sliding down the hill on my belly!"

"Hold It Son"

I was trying to get Matty buckled up in his car seat this morning. 

 

Side Note:  He likes to bring a toy to school with him (as if they didn’t have a thousand toys already), but the toys he wanted to bring we didn’t want him to lose.  So we told him to pick something else from the little toy bucket in the car. 

 

Before he would sit still enough for me to buckle him in, he start rummaging through his toy bucket.  I asked him to wait until I was finished with the car seat, because it was raining outside (and my rear end was hanging outside the comfortable confines of our Camry), and because I was just impatient.  I told him, in night so kind a tone, to sit back and let daddy finish. 

 

He sat up and said (with all the sass in the world), “Hold it SON.  Just a minute.” 

 

Michelle instantly started laughing (not audibly…God bless her).  I was chuckling to myself and couldn’t even get the next words out of my mouth with a straight face. 

 

Matty 1, Daddy 0.

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