Captured by a Bear

How fast he grows... Not necessarily in height & weight, but in attitude, vocabulary, muscle control, and confidence. And confidence is scary. He loves to climb. The mall has a play area, in the middle is as small bridge. Here is challenging a bigger kid to the crown.

He just weaves through & about the bigger kids, not fazed at all. He's happy doing this for about 15 to 20 minutes, then the sprints begin - out into the mall. He'll eyeball me, and begins moving faster towards the exit, and then ZOOOOOM. Usually he doesn't look back, just runs through the mall. It's funny, he almost always goes to the right, but once he went left and made it four storefronts before being captured by the Build-A-Bear workshop. He stopped and was glued to the floor by the sight of all those bears - it made for an easy capture.