Friday, August 25, 2006
Swingers
Looking at the playground pictures reminded me I’d never posted Sadie’s first time on a big kid swing, back on July 22nd. Here she is with my grandnieces Katherine and Julia:
The strange thing was that she propelled herself, as if she had been born knowing how to do it. Except it seems less strange after seeing how she operated at the playground, watching what other kids did and learning, or getting her nerve up, in the case of the metal mesh tube, from that. She probably saw one of the other kids pumping her legs to go and emulated.
The funky safe swings in the little kid (red) section of the playground were a step backward for Sadie, but Valerie didn’t mind. Sadie also didn’t remember how to make herself go. The weird seats made it easy to push them without unseating them, so that was good.
In the last shot you get a good view of the bigger kid equipment, which little kids were also using. Sadie took it upon herself to join them for the last little while we were there.