Making Jewelry at the Park

We had a playdate at one of the parks in our neighborhood today. It was for the kids to make little necklaces out of colored macaroni, colorful beads and foam pieces. It was such a cute craft. The kids had a lot of fun making crafts, playing on the playground and chasing the poor little dog behind the fence next door.

Danny surprised me today. My friend Carla asked me "How old is Danny?" When I answered her and told her that he was 5, she then asked "So when did he learn to do the monkey bars?" I did a double take and said "What?"

Come to find out, Danny learned how to do the monkey bars this week at school. I know that it was sometime this week because on Saturday when we were at the park for Abby's birthday party, he still could not do them and I had to help him across. He saw a little boy in a red sweatsuit at that park, that was smaller than him, doing the monkey bars so quickly and I think he was impressed. It reminds me of when I was 5 and learned to do a cartwheel for the first time at the Four Corners because I saw another girl doing it there and was certain that I could do it too. I guess Danny's got my competitiveness. But Kamal has that in him too, so Danny has it from both sides. Oh dear!



In the following video, Danny is trying to do the monkey bars and Austin has a hold of his leg and won't let him go across. He wanted to go before Danny. In the second video, Austin is crying in the background because he wants to go next and doesn't want to get in line. He is pulling at me trying to get me to go to the monkey bars and lift him up.

Here are the necklaces the kids (or mostly I) made. The green one is Austin's and the red one is Danny's. They were so cute and the kids like them a lot.