little yellow energy

I would like to draw a simple comparison between my son, and Rock star energy drinks.  Over the last... Well I hate to say it, decade, I have become a connoisseur of energy drinks.  Over the last few months I have discovered the Hydration Rock star.  I love lemon aid, and this is lemon aid flavor.

The thing is, they really fail to capture the “essence” of energy.  I however think there should be some way to inspire it into people, instead of drinking it in a can.  And I think I found it...

Today, I went with Shea, his class of Kindergartners, and the kindergartners of 17 buses from 10 schools.  at 35 people a bus that is a whole lot of energy packed up in little spaces.  I ran the whole Zoo, and had a lot of fun.  And after that, I decided to take Shea to Multnomah Falls for a hike.  After the Zoo, Shea fell asleep in the car.  And when he woke up at the falls he literally exploded out of the car saying “Where is it, where is it”. 

He spent all day at the Zoo, and then ran up the falls.  I mean RAN.. My fatness couldn’t keep up with him.  Darn near killed me that kid.  The worst part was, I figured he was tiered.  So I kindly explained to him.  “You know Shea, I know your tired, so we will go up tell you get tired, and then we will head back down OK” 

He replied, “Ok Dad, when I get tired, we will come back down”.  Now, if it stopped there, that would be OK.  But he then turned to me, and with that sweet six year old voice said, “and dad, if you get tired we can turn back to”.. I laughed, and told him I have climbed it before, and am sure I can make it. 

Well, about half way up I was struggling to keep up with him.  I have been getting into shape, but apparently not fast enough.  Half way up I said “Shea, we need to stop, I need a rest” 

This was the first of the four brakes that he allowed me to take.  And, I would like to point out that he asked me how long I needed, and I said just one minuet.  He then started counting.  One time I said, alright lets go, and he said I still had ten seconds left. 

He was thrilled to go all the way to the top.  We looked around, walked up the trail a little farther, and then he ran all the way down.  But he was nice, he stopped at every tree to wait for me to catch up. 

My lesson learned today, energy cannot come in a can, it comes in having kids.  They are a hoot, and the fun never stops.  In my effort to be a good long distance father, I have been trying to do special activity's with each of them one on one.  It isn’t the reason that I am getting into shape, but getting to climb Multnomah Falls with my six year old is a blast. 

I would like to point out the similarity between Rock star, and my son.  Just look, it’s there...

Need a hint.  There both yellow, and in my case get your heart pumping, and the Adrenalin flowing.  I simply love my kids.