Hiking with the Mordecai

My friend Trys had her second kid a couple of days before Xmas. They're both fine and all but her first kid Mordecai is seven and not really feelin' the whole New Baby vibe. He's high energy and sort of asperger-y (he has a diagnosis and an IEP, I'm not over here assigning diagnoses to people who don't actually have them.) and sort of hyper. And his mom is exhausted with a brand new baby. And he's butt-hurt that he's not getting 100% of mom's attention because of the baby.

( What else can you do in these circumstances but take a hike? )