the consequences of marrying a hunter

Lately Jeremiah has been pretending he is a hunter. He talks about going hunting with Steve and talks about all of the animals he has shot. He makes animals out of blocks, pretends to shoot them and then has us mount them on the walls.

On the left is a duck and on the right is elk antlers

 

 

Then he started pretending he was a deer, elk, moose etc. and having one of us pretend to shoot him. He runs around with his fingers on his head like antlers, falls down and pretends to be dead and then he goes and stands next to a wall pretending he is hung on the wall. Jacob and Steve always "shoot him" on the first try, but whenever he has me do it I miss and someone else has to take a follow up shot. 

 I have been very successful at keeping dead animals off the wall in this house. But it appears I have been outwitted by a 4 year old. Jeremiah convinced Steve that he needed a real animal on his bedroom wall, so this is now hanging in his bedroom.

We went to Malad for Steve's grandpa's 80th birthday party and promised Jeremiah we would get him the antelope head while we were there (it was living at Steve's parents house). He was so upset that we had to go to the party before getting the antelope because he was convinced somebody else was going to get it.

 

 I made the cake for the party. It was so scary driving through the canyon with this on my lap. I was sure it was going to die, but it made it intact. Jeremiah was just in an uptight mood that day. After he got over having to wait to pick up the antelope, he fixated on the cake. It's kind of hard to see, but there is a fish on a fishing pole hanging over the side of the boat right in the center of the cake. He decided that he needed to have that fish and he was convinced someone else would eat it. So his eyes were glued to the cake until it was time to cut it. Anytime someone was standing in the way and obstructing his view he started freaking out because he thought they would take the fish.