This might take a while.

When she isn't thinking about Christmas (which is big in her mind right now.  I think she's finally figured out that with Christmas comes presents), Boo had discovered pbskids.org.  Her current favorite is Dinosaur Train, but Curious George and The Cat in the Hat Know a Lot About That are right up there in the running too. 

 

This week, the Cat built a kite and made it fly with his Huff-Puff-a-Tron.  So Boo made herself a kite out of a piece of cardstock and rope, and she's been trying to fly it all weekend.  Since there isn't any wind inside, she hung the kite from a hook on the banister and ran up and down the corridor shouting "Whoosh.  Kite flying."

She was determined that we were going to take the kite to the park while the wind was blowing, so we bundled up and took the dog for a walk.  I couldn't make her understand that the rain would be bad for her cardstock kite, and I wasn't going to try to explain that rope is too heavy.  We ran around the park for about ten minutes, dragging her kite through the puddles and over the leaves.  Then, when the cardstock was so soggy that the tape that was holding the rope in place wouldn't hold anymore and the cardstock itself was coming apart in soggy bits, I convinced her to go home and build another one.  We put it together with cardstock, sticks, tape, and yarn.  Then she took it for a test flight. 

It's not much better than the previous version, but she was happy with it.  We took it back outside when the rain stopped, and by the grace of God (I seriously think He was getting as big a kick out of it as I was), we had just enough wind to tug at the kite and keep it perpendicular, even if we couldn't actually get it off the ground. Each gust of wind came from a different direction, so Boo was kept running this way and that shouting, "It's flying.  It's flying," even though it wasn't really.  After a half an hour, she still didn't want to come in.  Only the promise of more Cat in the Hat (I was cold, okay?) managed to drag her indoors.