Hiking at Raven Rock State Park

Hello to all. Today we wanted to do something fun. We had thought about going to the mall, but the last few times we've gone there, Nehemiah has chosen not to play well with others, specifically mommy and daddy. So, today we decided to go over to Raven Rock State Park (http://www.stateparks.com/raven_rock.html) and hike down to the Cape Fear River. Being that it is outdoors and the weather was so nice, we took Kubota the Wonder Dog with us, as well. Below you can see some of the pictures we took.

This one is Nehemiah demonstrating his skills as a crazy jumping boy. Notice the technique.

This one is called "Daddy and Nehemiah Breaking Mommy of Fear." Of course, the fear is probably justified and possibly rational.

Daddy: "Nehemiah, do you know what that is called?"
Nehemiah: "Water."
Daddy: "No, I mean where the rocks are."
Nehemiah: "Oh, those are bubbles!"
Daddy: "Yes, that too, but they are called 'rapids'."
... continued in the next photo.

Nehemiah: "Look, Mommy! Rapids!"

This one is Nehemiah in the post-meltdown phase.

And this one is pre-meltdown. He could not understand why we wanted him to catch up, so I had to tell him the joke about the baby tomato who lagged behind whose daddy went back to get him but stomped on him instead and said, "Ketchup!"

He didn't get it either.

These are dogwood blossoms. We have a dogwood tree in our front yard, except this year it didn't seem to bloom as well as every other dogwood in the state.