Christian Becomes a Monkey

January 28, 2008

Christian is really a monkey.

He decided the other day at Friendship Park to try the monkey bars. For real, as they say. He has been fascinated with them for a while but was too scared to swing out.

So after swinging for a while, he wanted to try again. Shar picked him up, and held him up so he could grab the first bar, and then she said, “Go fast! The faster you go, the easier it is.”

Taking the advice, Christian began swinging. First he went to the first bar, and then the next one, and all of a sudden, he was across!

He was so excited that when they came home, he dashed up the stairs and said, “Daddy! We want to show you something! It’s a surprise.” We all went back to the park, and he showed me how he had become a monkey. But he only did it once for me, because, being January, he commented, “The monkey bars are SO COLD!!!”