Daily Journal Entry #9

His light blue shirt has little spots on it already, even though the family has only been at the splash pad for a few minutes. His little denim bucket hat is emblazoned on the front with a green "Osh Kosh BiGosh" and little droplets of chlorinated water drip off the side onto his chubby shoulder. The boy squeals in delight as water shoots out of the ground. He holds his arms out wide and watches the water reach two, three times his height. His cherub cheeks pull upwards at the corners of his mouth like stage curtains at the start of a show to reveal his toothless grin. With another cry of delight the boy shoots forward into the stream of the upward-shooting water, and in a second his blue and yellow Hawaiian print swim trunks are soaked. His shoes squick squick squick as he waddles back towards his mother only to spin around halfway and splash right back through the water again.