Maybe it's a sign

Chris has the full day off Tuesdays and Thursdays. We really try to take advantage of these days and get out of the Hales. Last week we drove up to Haleiwa and hung up there for the day. We went to Sunset beach on the way back, but J was sleeping when we got there. We set up camp under some shade so the boy wouldn't burn in the sun.

He woke up after we were there an hour or so, and was so excited to be at the beach! He wondered into the trees (it wasn't a forest--simply 3 palm trees that stood side by side) that were shading us from the sun. We were no more than 5 feet away, watching him explore. It was only about 30 seconds later a very concerned man (stupid tourist) and his wife obviously had enough of watching the horiffics that were obviously going on. The man felt it was his civil duty to come and tell us, "If the young child were to fall, he would receive any amount of puncture wounds by the vast amount of sharp objects in the proximity of his body."

What the? Who even talks like that? Ok, so he was a doctor (he told of so...of course!), I get that. But what child in America is not allowed to play near trees!? Forget that, what child in the WORLD is not allowed to play near trees? You have got to be kidding me! I wonder what his children were allowed to do growing up? Maybe he never had children, and that was why he was so unrealistically concerned? I couldn't figure it out. But, of course, you can't just nod and say "thanks" to people like that. I just sat there and stared at him. Why does weird stuff like that keep happening to us!? Were children once not children?? Are we not getting something?

Nothing was coming to my head. Nothing. After a few awkward moments Chris jumped up and said, "Oh, that's true. Punctures are never a good sign," and brought J back to sit with us. Then, of course, after any situation like that, all you can do is just sit, waiting for the idiots to leave so you can go and let your kid be a kid. As soon as they left, we released the wild beast child, and he crawled as fast as he could. Chris and J enjoyed the rest of their time picking up rocks and throwing them... How irresponsible and life threatening. Right?

Those people would have been so unimpressed when Chris let J chew on all those sticks.