In the Forest

As we were driving to the petting zoo last saturday we passed a thick patch of trees alongside the road. Tobias said: "Look Papa, a forest, I love the forest!". I of course told him that it was in fact a thick patch of trees and not a forest, and then suggested we'd go to the forest someday. He yelled: "Yeah!!! Let's go tomorrow!". Since I was with the kids by myself this weekend (Lisa and Shelli are off to the octoberfest in Munich...) I thought: "Good idea Tobias" so, this past sunday we went to the forest.

In this picture Tobias is holding baby-bear, a bear he has been carrying around for the past two weeks or so. He talks to him, takes him to bed with him, shares his meals with him etc. So, baby-bear also had to accompany him to the forest. Tobias was our "pathfinder" meaning that he would find the arrows we had to follow. He did a good job at that. Also he had to find leaves, acorns, pine-cones, and, in this case, mushrooms. He was actually quite excited. This afternoon (it is not my daddy-day, but Lisa is still in Munich today and will be home tonight, so I took the day off) we are going to collage his collection onto a piece of paper... or at least that's what he said he wants to do before he left for school this morning. That would be nice :-).


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