The Boss

We brought the kids to the play area at the mall today, where J ran into one of his classmates from school. Then the madcap playing began.


We gained a few insights into J's character by watching him with his peers.

• He is a natural leader. While playing with his friends, and some other kids he doesn't know, he set the tone (even though he was the shortest kid!). He decided that they were going to be dinosaurs, and everyone else roared along with him. He asked his dinosaur friends if they wanted to eat leaves, and everyone play-pretended to eat leaves with him. Then he decided he was a race-car, and everyone became race-cars too. Mad running and scrambling up and down the play structures.
  
• He is very sociable. After playing a while, he told the kids, "I'm having a tea-party tonight. You want to come?" To some degree of alarm on my and K's part.

The photo is a blur because yes, they are moving that fast.

Now he's insisting that his friends from school should come over to our house to play with him. I tremble at the thought.