I hear ya Willy.

What I do is just small amounts of time.
Example, up at 4:30 eat breakfast and get little guy in truck by 5:30 a.m., 35 minute drive to the gamelands, walk in the woods less than a half mile, sit for an hour, then walk out *(unless we're lookin for blood incase dadda might of actually shot one), 30 minute drive back into town, eat an early lunch and be on the way home before 11 a.m. (we actually made it back just after 10 a.m. this last weekend).

We spend more time fartin around and gettin ready than we do for the "activity" it seems,, Your a dad, so you know everthing is a production/logistic type thing... ha ha ha ha ha.... ;D

There'd be no way I could have him out there longer than a couple hours, so what I do is limit our time, we'll just drive up for an hour or so. He still makes all his church stuff and friend stuff in the afternoons on saturdys and sundays, during the week after pre-school he's out playin in the yard with the neighbor kid lookin for bugs and usually diggin some kind of hole to china somewhere in the yard! :o I've got to show you some pix of his "NASCAR" project..... it's pretty cool.