Chrishan - Chris, Shannon, Jasmine, & Kai

Saturday, May 10, 2008

The legacy continues

My parents introduced me to shooting archery when I was about three or four year old, therefore I have been shooting for the better part of my short life. I love the sport and have missed not shooting for the years I took off from doing it. Chris decided to go on an elk hunting trip this year so it spurred us to start shooting again. I dusted off my bow and Chris borrowed a bow from my father. We joined a range and decided it was time to start teaching the kids how to shoot.

I called my dad up on the off chance he still had the bow my brother and I learned to shoot on and sure enough he had the little, once yellow, bear bow Sean used to shoot. I nabbed it from my parents house and here we are shooting at our local range. We have to capture our kids first real shooting experience; we grabbed the camera and we were off. Kai was done with shooting after about the first five targets and being a twenty eight target course he had to keep himself entertained for the rest of it. Jasmine shot at almost every target and did a really good job. Over all it took us four hours to get around the course but it was fun "hunting" with the kids.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Below the banana moon

Picture this 5:00 am this morning, I was driving home from Rhinelander, kids packed into the back of the car. The moon was still brightly shining (well reflecting) in the sky.

I hear Kai from behind me say "Look mom a banana!!!" I looked over confused in my morning daze trying to figure out what he was talking about.

I said "The moon?"

"Uh huh, in the sky." Kai replied very excitedly. He had noticed the crescent shape and just had to express it the only way he knew how.

Jasmine proceeded to pipe in just after that in a matter of fact voice "There are all different types of shaped moons.... circles, squares..."

Again I chucked and replied there weren't any square moons. I love the ages the kids are at right now. People say you get to learn everything again when you have kids. I guess they are right; I get to rediscover things through their point of view and it amazes me what they understand and see.