 |
| Multitasking Tilly: watching swings, and climbing net. (c) ^_^ 2012 |
I'm getting better at calling Tilly "Tilly".
Yesterday was a cold cold wet day. Today was a windy wet
windy day.
The best part was after Tiily's nap. He nursed to help
him fall asleep for his nap - he was unmanageable for unknown reasons prior to
nap. Sigh. Anyhow he napped.
When he awoke, it he ate his lunch very well - boiled
wontons with macaroni and peas, and soup, and grapefruit. He played very well
afterwards on his trike. He had a nappy change, and then we were off.
I grabbed his going-out bag, and then grabbed our wind
jackets. And then returned for the old towel (in case the swing etc needed
drying/cleaning off). Tilly walked a lot of the way, being carried for 100m or
so. Or less.
We were the only ones there at the playground! Score!
Swingtime4ever!
It was a lovely time. It must have been at least 30 mins
of swinging. And then other people started turning up. I was trepiditious on
his behalf. Would he have to give up his swing?
The first little girl was quite a bit older, and used the
bigger swing. The little boy and his sister were having eats with their mother.
The second little girl preferred the slide. Yay, Atilla!
We swung for a while longer. Then I asked if he wanted to
do something else, like climb the blue net. He said 'yes'.
He disembarked, but he diverted to another part of the
playground. He utilised his observation skills for a while, watching other
people use his swing.
***
He made a token attempt at climbing. But everything
around him was so distracting. He couldn't target himself vertically.
He decided he'd prefer to sit and snack and watch.
***
He took his box of raisins and went for a walkabout. It
was most pleasurable for me to watch him explore his environment.
He wandered away, he trudged up the small slope to the
trees, he stomped in the long grass and twigs and leaves, he sat down, he
trudged around the back to reach me on the park bench, he grinned, and
continued on his circuit again. Occasionally he would stop, take stock of the
Play around him, laugh, and carry on.
He stood and watched the playground play. He
shuffled-walked backwards as his wont. He had to re-balance himself when he
reached the edge of the pavement. He tried shuffle-walk on the grass and twigs.
***
He finished his box of raisins. I asked him to throw it
into the rubbish bin. He made his way there. He turned and looked at me. I
mimed 'throw in the bin'. Apparently my mime looked like 'Play with the Box'.
He used the box in his play and exploration.
He threw the box. Several times. Then he used the box
as...I don't know what. He dug with it, I guess. But it didn't dig very well.
He played Car with it? But it didn't roll at all.
So he just held it in his hand, and used it to interact
with the bark of the playground, digging into it.
He did this all over the playground, from the blue slide
to the baby swing, to the steps to the yellow slide.
He became more fascinated by the "big!" branch.
He left his box on the ground and started using the big branch to dig into the
bark. I picked up the box, for later disposal.
He dug here, he dug there, then he dropped the branch and
began searching for his box. He was delighted when I pulled it out of my
pocket.
He played with it again, digging it into the bark in the
playground, slowly moving towards the edge. He found another stick, and dropped
the box in the bark, and used the stick for digging and drawing lines. I didn't
pick up the box. He drew the stick in a wide circle. Then he discarded the
stick. He asked me for the box. I pointed it out to him.
He picked up the box and began digging ever closer to the
playground's raised edge. He climbed over the edge to dig the box into the bark
which had fallen on the grass out of the playground.
***
Not sure what happened next.
The box was abandoned in favour of other explorations;
Plant physiology - buttercup flowers, petals, stalk, twigs and leaves,
"big!" tree and the lichen on its trunk.
***
Dadee surprised us, and we joined him on his stroll to
the liquor shop. On the way home, it began to rain in earnest so we got home as
soon as we could.
***
Today Tilly played WiiPlay for the first time. Cow
Riding. I have hopes he may achieve with this.
Posts
