Mr. Popular

You know those people who make friends everywhere they go?  I've heard of them, but never been one myself, probably because I generally find it annoying when people talk to me...Anyway, Theresa, my mom, and two of Theresa's kids came to visit last week and we went to Out of This World Pizza to get some energy out.  (The kids' energy, we were already out).  There is this huge play structure and Zay likes to climb up it and then go down the slide.  But he's about 2 feet too short to do it on his own, which means mom has to haul him all the way up and then slide down with him.  Repeat 27 times. 

So we were playing and this little boy, probably 8 years old or so (seen at right in blue shirt) came up and was talking to him.  Then he started following us, in a friendly non-creepy sort of way.  The HE started hauling Zay up the play structure and sliding down with him.  After a few times I let them go without me.  Then the boys' friends came over and told him they were going to play somewhere else and he said to them "Oh, I can't come.  I'm with Isaiah."  So all his friends stayed and they ALL hauled Zay up the play structure and down the slide.  The slide had three humps and they would even make sure they stopped just before the last hump and let Zay do that one alone, which he absolutely loved, and which had absolutely never occured to his boring mom.  Zay tends to like playing with kids, especially older ones, and mom tends to like it when other people do the hauling of the children, so it worked out great.  Later on the boys had gone to do something else and then they kept coming over to me to find out where Isaiah was so they could play with him again.  So thank you, mom of stranger boy, for raising such a nice son who helped my son have a fun day!