A Good Place to Hang Out

Our neighbors have been redoing the siding on their house and re-roofing as well. I didn't stop to think about what this might look like to Avril until one evening we were all outside playing with the puppies and she told us she wanted to get on the roof. Derek and I looked at each other like, "the roof?!"

So, naturally, we put her on the roof.Derek helped her up onto the roof of our shed out back and she eagerly climbed all the way up to the peak and gleefully looked back at us."I'm on the roof, Mommy and Daddy!"
"You sure are! You're pretty big!"
"Yeah!"

After a few more minutes of jabbering, she realized how high up she really was. And that she would have to get down. That's when the terror set in. It took us fully ten minutes to coax her down far enough that Derek could get her (don't worry, we have a ladder, she would have been fine. We just wanted her to do it on her own if she would). Derek kept trying to get her to walk down, but she was seriously crying, absolutely terrified. I told her to sit down and scoot forward. Then the ordeal started all over when she got to the edge and had to jump down into Daddy's arms. We finally convinced her to do it and when she got down, she just hugged her Daddy while he sat there grinning over the whole thing.