~Ryder at a
b'day party this weekend~
The melting pot of people at the playground is fascinating to me. The vast array of kids and parents is something I find enjoyable and entertaining to watch. The spectrum is so broad... and you really can't help but think things... often impolite things of people. No matter how hard you try not to judge and make conclusions about people, ultimately you do...
atleast I do.
Today R. and I spent the majority of our afternoon at our local park. We took a picnic lunch and as we drove up to the park R. started screaming in excitement. He could hardly wait for me to unlatch his
carseat and escort him to the baby play area. He gets really psyched when he sees other kids running around and having fun. He wants to be playing with them at that moment and can not bare that it takes me 5 minutes or so to gather everything we need to take.
So as we got in R. played for a long time pushing his car around, "pretending to be me" I guess. The first friend we met was a dad and his 17 month old son. I'm glad he said something to the effect he was the dad because he was easily old enough to be grand-dad. The little boy was very friendly. He came right up to R. and immediately hugged him. It wasn't a quick hug either. He kind of threw himself on R. and was like rubbing his face all in Rye's. It was nasty. I tried to pull R. away but the kid was like a leech... stuck to R. as he clearly didn't like it because he started to squeal. They were from a city in Oregon, that only had 1 other child in the whole district except leech boy. I guess he didn't see children that often or something. This child needed to get out more I think. Remember I said I often think impolite things about people? Well, I wouldn't have minded
soooo much about this kid in
Ryders face if the kid was clean looking. He was just kind of dirty looking with straggly hair. Just not a "well kept" little boy. I know that's mean of me but I just saw a huge walking germ breathing all over my precious healthy R.
After our encounter with the leech child, R. crawled in and out of this huge hippo mouth. It is his new favorite structure there. He crawls all over the tongue and organs that are labeled in English and Spanish. Oh, I almost forgot! He climbed up a few steps today! That is a milestone. Don't know if he reached it on time... but I was impressed! I slid down the slide and then turned around to catch him. Then he watched and laughed at all the little boys sliding down. He loves watching other kids play.
After the slide we walked to the other side of the playground where the bigger kids play because there is this gear thing Ryder likes to turn and watch. The colorful gears go round and round and he thinks they are cool to watch. This is where we met "taint boy". Everything Ryder did the kid said "He taint do
that, he's a
bayyby" in the most southern accent ever. (If Rye ever talks that way, someone please refer me to a speech therapist) He came over to show R. how to turn the gear handle and gosh I
didn't want R. to touch that handle after he did! His nails were in need of a serious clipping and dirty, as if the handle wasn't dirty enough. But R. did of course, glad I brought the hand wipes!
I"m not a
germaphobe or anything. And I know kids are attracted to each other. I think that is what the real issue is here for me. I'm not used to kids being able to play with Ryder. It was just 4 weeks ago when he couldn't even crawl and was not interacting at all. So now that he is mobile and wants to play with other kids he is going to have all types of kids around him. Clean ones and not so clean ones. Some germs are good for them. I just need to get used to it. ~
That's all for now. My brain just shut down~ I'll have to continue with the playground stories another night!
