PENIS POWER!

I had a really cool father/son adventure on Tuesday.

We went to Allison's uncle's lake house for dinner. It was thunder & lightning when we got there but then it cleared up, so Ian and Leah got their bathing suits on and splashed around in the water for a little bit. Then Ian wanted to "really" go swimming, so I got my bathing suit on, we strapped a life vest on Ian and the two of us swam out to an island about a quarter mile out.

He was so excited to be swimming in the lake! He just absolutely loved the idea that we were swimming somewhere other than a pool and that we were not near the edge of the lake. He just kept talking the whole way out there. He was talking about everything and everything. That's how you know he's really excited. Once we got to the island, we just sat on the rocks for a bit and talked about what we had just done.

About a minute after we got there, everyone on the deck at the house yelled in unison "Good job, Ian!". He LOVED it. I mean he was in all his glory. From that point onward he just kept talking about everyone yelling about him. We explored the island for a few minutes until I saw there were broken beer bottles out in the major area of the island. Since we didn't have water shoes, I steered him back to the edge where we chilled for a bit more and then started the swim back to the house.

He was just as chatty on the way back as he was on the way out. You could tell he was getting tired though. He was swimming at a MUCH slower rate and I had to 'pull' him along several times. We got back to the house, dried off and ate dinner. He fell asleep not 3 minutes after leaving the house, because he was so wiped out!

It really was one of the best father/son adventures we've had, in a LONG time...maybe ever. I know some pics were taken, so I can't wait to see them. But until those surface, here is a zoomed in picture of the island I took from my cell phone. The view from the deck is much nicer, but I wanted to get the rocks up which we scrambled (in the middle):

You would think that the title of the blog would relate to the above story, how the father and son had a great adventure and that they were unstoppable: "GO PENIS POWER!" Believe it or not, that is not the case. There is a story behind that emphatic title.

On Sunday we went over to Allison's parents for dinner, as we do most Sundays. Well, we were hanging around the kitchen table when Ian and Leah decided to run amok outside on the back deck. Before we knew it, Ian had stripped off all his clothes and was pretending to be a super hero.

The funniest part was him standing proudly, stark naked, with hands on hips shouting at the top of his lungs "PENIS POWER!" and then running full tilt across the deck.

I take that back. The funniest part was Leah mimicing him, yelling PENIS POWER and then HER running full tilt across the deck in all her glory.

And, no, you will not see any pictures of that!