We lived in Kansas City from 2009-2013. There was this great little neighborhood park that we would visit several times a week. The park had a curved set of monkey bars that Ben could never quite fully scale. Now granted he was only 4 years old at the time, but he would make it just shy of the peak, then get unnerved before he could go over the top and down the other side. There is video evidence of these demoralizing defeats here, here, here and here.
When we visited KC over Christmas, we took the kids back through our old neighborhood. We showed them the house where Landon was born and then drove around the neighborhood. As we pulled towards the park, Ben spotted the monkey bars and before he could remember they were his former nemesis, shouted out that he wanted to climb them. We were running late, but I really wanted to see him conquer that green beast once and for all! We hopped out of the van and you won’t believe what happened next…
