Wednesday November 9, 2005
This afternoon all the neighbor kids were out. For some reason, our porch was the gathering point. There was a group of 4 or 5 girls in the 8 – 10 year old range with a collection of stuffed toys who made a “house” defined by piles of leaves. (it was so cool to see kids playing like kids…I loved it). When they saw Zane playing with bubbles, they asked if they could join in. I ran inside to grab my bubble ice cream cone collection and other various bubble things and all the kids blew bubbles (or made bubbles with the bubble mower toy from my brother). Eventually, the twin boys from the next building came by (dad was getting mail) and we invited them to join us. They are almost exactly a year older than Zane (within a few days) and it was actually sort of good for me to see them be a bit shy about joining in for a bit. Made me realize that Zane isn’t the only kid that is slow to warm up. It was fun.
The few pictures I took of the kids on the porch didn’t really turn out, but I got a few shots of Zane trying to follow the oldest girl up a tree, then going back to climb again later. He actually got a few branches higher, but I spotted him for safety when he got a little higher.
