The Day

Today we started off with gymnastics at 9, then playtime, lunch and bike ride with the delightful and nutritious Porterfields, and then I broke down and took them to the playground instead of coming home for a sensible nap. It was such a nice day, I would have felt even meaner than usual if I'd stood firm on the nap issue. So, Sadie went down the slide a million times and Benny fell in with gang of children in some kind of after school care. Well. Those children were a little rough around the edges, I must say. And Benny was richly, thoroughly, absolutely entertained.

First there was the sand throwing, which seemed to be ignored if not sanctioned by the caregivers (I hollered a little, just to be officially opposed) and then there was a golden moment: Benny was down at the bottom of the slide, having made a sand pile, and he looked up to the top of the slide where there was kind of the ringleader of this gang of boys.

Benny: Hey look down here at this sandcastle I'm making.
Ringleader: *cavernous burp lasting like 30 seconds*
Benny: *gaze of total instant adoration*

He just loves being in a big herd of kids. They didn't seem to be... actively killing each other so I just let him join in however he could. It was pretty funny. Sadie stayed clear, thank goodness, so she was just giving me faints trying to go up and over those half-circle climby things that she insists she's big enough to do. She's not. Leroy ate a bunch of sand. A good time was had by all.