If You Give a Kid a Spring Day

If you give a kid a spring day, they will want a bike to go with it. So, they will rummage around in the garage and take out every wheeled thing (minus the van). They will ride up and down the streets. Riding to the top of the hill they will see the weeds they used to hike around in before there was snow. So they will drop their bikes somewhere in the neighborhood to be collected later and head into the weeds. Wandering around in the weeds will make them remember all the snow that used to cover everything. Remembering the snow will remind them that it has melted leaving huge puddles. So, they will come inside to shed their tennis shoes and don their rain boots. They will head back outside to jump in the puddles until they are soaked from head to toe and laughing happily together. Laughing and having this much fun will remind them of how fun it is to swing. Now that the swings are no longer frozen to the ground and have been rehung they will quickly head over to the swingset. All four big kids will hop on a swing and get as high as they can all at the same time, causing the beam to sway and bow as they laugh and enjoy the butterflies in their stomachs. Getting butterflies in their stomachs will remind them of how much fun it is to ride their bikes as fast as they can down the hill so they will quickly run through the house dropping rain boots and putting on tennis shoes and head out the front once again. They will make sure to take a different wheeled item from the yard because they all need to be ridden in one day. Riding as hard and fast as they can down the hill with the wind blowing in their faces will make them forget completely that they were ever stuck inside for five long months waiting for this perfect spring day.
     And that's what happens when you give a kid a spring day.