Flying Kites

During a short trip to Target I let the kids pick an item from the dollar bin.  They both picked these little kites.  At first I didn't want them to pick the kites, since I am very tired these days and I knew it might mean lots of trips to the park when I would rather be laying on the couch, but we ended up getting them anyway.  Right away they wanted to fly the kites.  Scott helped the kids put them together and Grandma Guptill took them outside for some flying.  We didn't have any wind that day, but undaunted, the kids decided they would run around to make their kites fly.  Here is Anna with hers.

Grandma helped them get started but then they had to run to keep it in the air.  Sounds like a lot of work to me, but since they have a lot of energy anyway, it was a workable solution.

 Matthew did pretty good with his.

 Here's Anna winding up her string.  She kept hers on a shorter leash.

 

 Here's Matthew after running around for a while with his.

He had fun though.

 Grant so wanted to be out there with him, but I made him stay inside.

He was very sorry about that.

Eventually he got to go and check things out.  He was even wearing his new shoes that day.  Such a big boy!  Someday you can fly a kite too buddy...but probably not these kites.  I don't think the dollar bin kites are going to survive too many days of being flown or run around/dragged on the ground.  We'll see.  :)
See other kite flying adventures HERE.