Wynona Studios

Somehow….no one is claiming responsibility…the blue hula hoop from WWKIP Day ended up very high up in one of the trees in the parking lot adjacent to the studio. It apparently was a spontaneous thing…someone was hula hooping so fast it amazingly flew 10 feet in the air onto the branch.

The boys tried very hard to retrieve it before letting me know it was good and stuck. They tried throwing baseballs at it, trying to lasso it with the jumprope, and then resorted to trying to yell it down. After giggling from the back door at Ethan throwing the jumprope and repeatedly hitting himself in the back of the head with the handle (I know…not a nice Mom. But it was FUNNY!) I sent Emma out to help them and went back to work on the bookkeeping.

I vaguely noticed when she came in to get the broom, then started to pay a little better attention when Ethan came in for the roll of packing tape and then got up to go see what was going on when he came back in again for the step ladder. At the back door I saw my brilliant children solving a problem in a….creative way. Emma was on the step ladder and Ethan was sitting on the legs so it would not wobble. She had the jumprope and was throwing it through the bottom of the hula hoop. She got it through the hoop and then used the broom to move the handle down to where she could reach both handles and then tugged hard enough to get it down. We all cheered and someone walking on the sidewalk looked up to see what was going on.

I can only imagine what they thought. So…if you ever need to get a hula hoop out of a tree you know who to call. (Ethan would like me to also let you know that if you need to get a hula hoop into a tree to let him know. He knows a guy that knows a guy. At least, thats his story…and he’s sticking to it. )