Cave Exploring

Gage had the best time with his Dad yesterday! It was so neat to see how much he learned. I did not regret in any way not having “regular” school yesterday. He told me all about it yesterday in his ultra-excited way that I love. He is so passionate and describes everything in such great detail. What’s really awesome is that we have book about caves that we picked up at the library book sale a few weeks ago, and so we looked through that when he got home and he showed me some of the very same things he had just seen with his own eyes. He knew about the zones of a cave and what kinds of animals you can find. We read in the book about how stalactites and stalagmites sometimes join and form a column and he got all excited b/c he had just seen the very same thing. We literally spent an hour talking about caves and he was loving it! To get to this cave, they had to crawl through a small opening and continue crawling on their bellies for about 50 feet. Jared said he doesn’t think I would have liked that part, considering that I can be claustrophobic at times. They saw bats sleeping and Gage said they were really cute. I can’t even tell you how much I learned about caves just from the hour I spent talking with Gage yesterday. It was quite an experience for him. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be going on a little family vacation, where I am told there are caves to explore. We just might have to do that.