Thursday afternoon Jeremy went and picked him up from daycare early, brought him home, got him layered in head to toe camo and off they went. I snag one picture before they left....
When they got home I got all the details from their adventure, even details a mother doesn't need to know! Turned out they didn't see anything...but that was ok with Gavin, he was just so pumped about sitting in the tree stand.
Later that evening Jeremy gave me the full story, which goes back to the details I didn't need to know.
Jeremy had planned on taking Gavin to the box stand which is about 8ft off the ground, easy to climb into, a box that completely surrounds them, so no one can fall out!! My main question that I always ask or say " is this safe"!! Well the box stand was occupied by another one of the guys that hunt with them.
Well that is the only "safe" stand...and Jeremy couldn't come home, that would not fly over so well with Gavin. So off to Joey's farm to a deer stand Jeremy has back in woods. He said they get to the stand, he points up really high in the tree to show Gavin that is where they gotta go. Yea, it's about 15ft up a tree and very small, barely a one person stand, much less a stand for a 5 year old and his father!!
Oh but that's just for starters...Jeremy proceeds to tell me he ask Gavin to climb on his back so they could climb up to the stand. Of course, Gavin taking after me said "this is not safe daddy" and refused to get on his back!! He then told him to climb the steps and he would follow up behind him, Jeremy thinking this would be the next safest thing...Gavin again refused! Finally Gavin told Jeremy to go up first and then he would follow, this of course was the most unsafe of all, I was completely dumb founded, my mouth wide open and speechless by this point in the story. In order for them to actually go hunting today, he complied and Gavin followed.
They came home safe,all in one piece and Gavin was one happy little man!! That's all that matters....
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