Learning Balance

With the weather being almost 50 degrees and rainy today making the ice to climb melt but still too chilly and wet to make climbing outside any fun and a day off from teaching class we stayed in and played. Merek loves his train push toy so we had a good time scooting that all around the house. The train definitely is helping him find his balance, his center of gravity, and control while walking since he is still learning those skills.  He is not taking steps on his own just yet and he gets stiff in the knees meaning he gets excited and wont bend his legs lol but he relaxes and is comfortable when he is pushing around his train so today that's what we did! :)

Nic started him out with his car to push, this toy was the girls favorite toy when they were learning how to walk.

 

The car is a bit too fast when it rolls however

So Merek got his train and watched Nic do it

Whoa there!

Ok, I got this!

Here we go!

Oops!

Merek figured out he can move faster while on his knees pushing it lol

Merek looking back after he ran into the tv stand lol

ok lets try this again

Merek so happy and having a great time!

After an hour of walking around Merek was done and enjoyed playing with his activities on the train as well as pulling himself up from sitting down to standing before being done with that to explore the house and get into everything else:)

heres where the letter blocks come out...

Nic & Merek

Natalie and Merek

Natalie and Merek

  

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Victor Creek Febuary 2015

Today we made a trip down to Victor creek. The creek was finally solid enough to get and climb, we were still pretty apprehensive about whether the ice would be in, but we were excited to see none the less. Too our delight the climbs were in fact in! Although most of them are still very wet, slushy, dripping and quite scary! It was very warm today and we roasted in our tech gear for sure. Every time we make a trip here we always dress down a bit much and it always ends up being warmer then we thought. But towards the end of the day we were glad we layered up as the sun started leaving us it definitely got cooler. Over all most of the climbs need some more cold weather or boulder souls then us, but we got a great look at this gem of an area, and made a send of what I believe is Victor creek 5.

Natalie and Merek as were heading in to the canyon

A look back down the creek after we passed a bit of a tight spot

Our first glimpse of ice! This gave us hope to continue along the creek even thought parts were a little sketch

Merek and Nat pressing on

We came around the corner and saw Kings Beard, what a sight to behold! the picture doesn't do it justice, this thing is a beast!

We went a ways up the lower slope to get a closer look and it looked insanely wet and some random talus flew off the canyon so we decided it was best not to go higher

Here we are! Oh yea!

Nat and Merek passing under the ice gateway to progress further up the creek to the other climbs

Juicy Route, Not looking so Juicy unless you count the amount of water running off it

Victor Creek 3, the left side is real mushy and wet, but over all this is sendable if still a bit thin, if we get another snap of cooler weather it should be looking good 

Walking almost to the tight spot in the creek by the smooth face, Victor Creek 4 is right in front of Nat

Looking back through the tight spot, Victor Creek 4 center Pic

After we decided to climb VC5 we just peeked around the corner but didn't go any further on this trip, you can see a couple pillars up there and things may be more solid up that direction, hopefully we will check out further up and give a report soon!

Victor Creek 5, all this stuff was pretty solid, it did get more mushy up top, and the left side of the lower section was mushy as well