What goes up, must come down.

Unlike his sister - no offense, Bii - Baryshnik is awesome at climbing trees, up as well as down. Or, usually he is. Yesterday, it seems like he left all his downward climbing skills in a drawer somewhere. He chased a squirrel up a tree - and then he was stuck.

My poor baby was squealing his most pityful "mommy help I'm gonna faaaall"-meeeeow over and over, giving me the most resentful look; I'm pretty sure it meant "you climb trees all the time for Biianka, what the hell are you doing just standing down there?!".

I thought to myself that a) Bii doesn't go off chasing squirrels, she climbs trees because the mean Sotis is after her and she's scared to death, b) she really doesn't know how to get down, and Baz sure does, c) I climbed up after her once - in complete darkness - because I was certain she was going to fall down and die, and afterwards I realized that I was extremely lucky not to fall down and break my neck myself, so I've promised my mom I'm not going to do that again. But of course I didn't tell Baz any of this, since he was genuinely scared and needed my support, not a lecture.

And eventually, after 30 minutes of hard thinking, he seemed to remember that he actually knows how to get down. So he did. I caught him in my arms and carried him inside where we did some serious mommy-baby-cuddling until he felt all safe and confident again. All's well that ends well.

Right - Baz also wanted me to tell you that the tree grows in a really deep ditch, so it is actually much taller that it looks. Which means that the whole thing was scarier than you might think. That's an important fact. Super important.