on my face

2025-08-17

Kirby decided it was time to boulder again, so we went. Before that, we got him a pair of climbing shoes, due to his grandparents getting him a one year pass for the climbing place.
I should have gotten a pair of shoes too, borrowed a pair and while it was the same model and size as last time—when i was really happy with the shoes i got—, this time it felt like a four way bench vice. Still managed to crack a route that seemed almost impossible to do the last time. The Wife made it too, and then a few more. I was very happy for her.
Kirby played with a few of the other kids, even got them to talk with each other in his made up "ape language".
The parents of those kids weirded me out, due to them being ripped to the teeth, ascending those routes like they mastered the secret art of human flight¹, while i once fell flat on my face when i lost my grip.

We were beat for the rest of the day.
But we had to get some school supplies for Kirby. At the store, i had a look at the books, and saw that they had a few comics next to the pre-school and first grade books, kids titles like Death of Wolverine, Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe—with Deadpool holding a blood stained katana and a severed head on the cover—, the Joker by Brian Azzarello, and other stuff that made me wonder "Gee, we're discussing how we keep kids off screens, and put age inappropriate comics next to books that could actually make a difference in their lifes."
After that, we kept the day on low volume. Assembled some Lego, read a few things, watched The Lego Movie (2014), from which i pulled some trippy screenshots² of the vision Emet has when touching the MacGuffin of the movie. Kirby was moved by the movie, he did not understand why though. He's also in the weird place, where his dad has a lot of toys, but some of them aren't to be treated as such, and it'S hard to tell which.

#bouldering #parenting #screenshots #the lego movie