The Tears of a Clown

Several weeks ago, we visited our first playground of the year. The boys greeted the slide like a long lost friend and played properly for a while, but as it often happens, silliness soon overtook Benji. First he started sitting on the top of the slide, which made Trey Davey wait. Then, after sliding, he attempted to climb back up the slide rather than going around and using the ladder, again tying up the slide for Davey. After being encouraged to reverse his backward progress, climb the ladder properly and then slide without delay, Benji thought it would be funny to go head first down the slide. Down he flew like Superman, but unfortunately, he forgot to extend his arms to soften his landing. Snot, slobber and tears from the cold temperatures mixed with the dirt pad at the end of the slide to create quite a sad face.