Kite-flying day!

The many storybooks we've been reading to Benji contain characters flying kites, and he's seen pictures of kites everywhere, so he seemed to show some interest in this kite-flying thing. His uncle recently bought him a kite to play with but we have not had a good windy day to play with. Well, that changed on Wednesday. It was a good windy day. He woke up from his nap and mommy told him we're going out to fly a kite. Oh! He was ecstatic! He ran into the living room saying, "kite! kite! kite!" Didn't even care for a routine papaya snack!

Laurel didn't want to miss his first experience with kite-flying, so we did it in the front yard instead of a big, wide open space. Suffice to say, the trees didn't bother him one bit. In fact he wanted to kite to get entangled in the trees. His idea of kite-flying, I suppose, since all the books he read seemed to have kites stuck in trees all the time. He thoroughly enjoyed himself that day. He was just beaming from ear to ear. It was a great day!

And we're off to a good start! He was pretty good actually. His pace was fast enough for the kite to remain in the air. He was busy running so he didn't really get to see the kite go up

And here comes the tree.













See kite fly!