I took Oliver to a new park the other day. He was so excited when he saw the playground from the parking lot. Right away he spotted the train in the middle of the playground and said "I want to go on the train!" Even though there was plenty of other things to climb on and run through, we'd always return to the train. While he stays in the engine, I was asked to sit in the caboose.
This park had a lot of great features. It has a sand area which backhoes you can sit on and scoop sand. A play area that looked like a castle, a ship, and an airplane. Then there's another area that had roads with stop signs and a little gas station. There was also many slides, swings, see-saw (which he's never been on before).
Oliver loved this park and would run around and want to show me his discoveries. He also found the perfect bench for us to stop and have a snack: a box of raisins.
Another boy there had left his motorcycle toy in the road area of the park. So we borrowed it and Oliver rode it around like the coolest 2 year old boy. Especially with the jacket he wore that day, he looked like a real biker.
So we spent quit a bit of time at this park and it was almost time to go. Oliver returned to his favorite spot, the engine. For a minute, he had his back turned to me and hanging his body out the window. All of the sudden I heard him scream. The first time I actually thought he was just playing, then the second scream I ran over there. I saw there was a wasp stuck to his finger. Normally even if nothing was on him he'd get very upset, it must have hurt a lot. I remembered a while back looking up what to do when you get bee sting, so I quickly scraped off the wasp. As it was flying away, I saw a string of sticky venom coming out. Luckily there was no stinger left in Oliver's skin. He was crying and wanted to go home, but moments later he was fine and wanted to play more. It didn't look like he was getting any allergic reaction, but I was looking up on my phone/internet to see if I needed to do anything else. After washing his hands, we left the park and I saw a park ranger. So we made a detour and the ranger was able to tell me that Oliver seems ok, and gave us an ice pack. I think because the wasp was removed so quickly that Oliver only got poked, but didn't get any venom. He was totally fine and even the red mark disappeared by bath time.
Tough kid!
Another interesting interaction that day was a lesson in sharing toys and making friends. We were playing with someone else's sand toys. Another boy was nearby so I asked if Oliver wanted to play with him. So I taught him to say "Play together?", the boy didn't respond. Then later Oliver divided up the toys between the 3 of us. The boy still didn't respond. So I told Oliver that it's ok, he's not ready to play with us. So after a while, Oliver took the "assigned" toy right to the boy and left it in front of him. The boy didn't respond, but Oliver didn't push after that. When we were all done playing, I asked Oliver to collect all the toys and return to the mom who let us play with them. He did pick up each one and put it on their blanket. And later said thank you to her. I was so proud of him for doing that. And I hope he'll remember this lesson and do it on his own sometime.
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