I will never be able to tell this how it really happened.
The afternoon here was just gorgeous. We went outside as soon as everyone was awake from nap. We had a lazy snack outside, with groups having little picnics all over. Then the children were running and yelling and blowing bubbles and it was just fantastic.
Some of the older children tried to get a game of Ring Around the Rosie going, and after a few attempts, it was perfect. The whole playground was quiet as we watched the happy, loud group make their last circle. They didn’t ‘all fall down’ at the end, they just stopped in the eerie quiet…. not noticing that Elijah had appeared beside them with a purple dinosaur puppet. He took a beat, then roared a tiny, high-pitched ‘rar’.
They all screamed gleefully and scattered.
It. Was. Hilarious.