Photo of the Day: Snazzy Hiking Pants & Shoes for Kids . . . and Laughs

Camera: Canon 5D | Lens: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM | Setting: f/4, 1/2500, ISO 100
Chloe takes on Boulder Canyon Trail at Canyon Lake, Arizona

I really don't have any clue as to where we get her clothes like this.  Check out those pants, man. Can you really buy these things in stores in exchange for money?  Is the American dollar that weak? And more importantly, think I could pull off wearing something like that? Only a cute toddler can do it. My . . . how they grow up.  There was a time when she'd walk up to the Kelty kid carrier and try to climb into it while moaning in a manner only we knew how to decipher.  "Put me in and LET'S HIT THE ROAD!"

Now?  Well, we started this hike on trail #103 (Boulder Canyon in the Superstition Wilderness) right at the Canyon Lake marina.  Brooke went for a swim, Chloe and I a hike.  She started out riding on my back in the kid carrier, but just a quarter mile into it she (quite predicatbly) goes, "Wawk awound! Wawk awound! Wawk awound!" and kicking her feet.

I wonder if she'll grow out of this demanding-in-fragments stage or just continue on until she's 16 and sound like this: "Car keys! Car keys! Car keys!"