'Explorers don't give up!'

The though of going home and watching Scarlett's Barbie Rupunzel DVD (the TV remote has been missing for a week now and all we can watch is DVDs) filled me with impending doom, so I looked at the dark clouds and to Scarlett who was in a pink party dress as she wanted to look 'pretty' today and she has only worn it once (thinking about it, she hasn't had an invite to a party in a while, maybe I should stop saying she will attend and then forgetting to go on the day...no one sue me) and said:

'We are going on an adventure!' 

I told her we were going to the woods:

Scarlett: 'Like the film into the woods?'

Me: 'Yes, but unfortunately we won't bump into Johnny Depp.' - though I did pray really, REALLY hard that we would.

I scared her at first by telling her to look out for wolves and foxes (note to self: 5 year olds scare easily) but she got into it in the end and came up with the saying:

'Explorers don't give up!' 

When stinging nettles got in our way...

'Explorers don't give up!' 

When we came across a fallen tree (you may recognise it from my previous post)...

'Explorers don't give up!' 

When we came across a slope...

Yeah, you get the gist. 

She was really into our adventure and it made me realise that times like these are important. It's these times that she will remember, not being sat in front of a TV.

After considering stopping 365 days of fun as I was rushing to do things with Scarlett and basically, because I was being selfish (look at previous posts for 365 days of fun)...today I have realised that making more of an effort with her is the most important thing in my life.  

We all need to explore life a bit more and as Scarlett says:

'Explorers don't give up!'