After dinner and birthday cake, we headed back outside for a bit of play. The sun was still out and the air was beginning to warm for the season. (We had no way of knowing it would still be a few weeks before it arrived properly, and there was great joy in that ignorance.) After a winter spent mostly indoors, everyone was happy to be out and about.
Children will always find ways of entertaining themselves. Only boring people get bored.
I’m not sure what the game was, or what I was supposed to be refereeing, but I did my best.
Most games are simply an excuse to run around and exert some energy.
Those aren’t high on my to-do list, so I mostly watched and encouraged. I can be very encouraging in place of running around.
As the birthday dinner wound down, the sun gradually lowered itself in the sky. Soon it was time to go.
But this was just the very start of the fairer weather, and soon we’ll be having them over for pool days and barbecues and party sleep-overs.
