"I shared all my sand toys, there was a girl that stumped on our sand castle and the boy that did bite me, though it did not hurt much" - Now here is the full story:
Jonte shared his sand toys with other (smaller) kids on the playground, negotiating everything in English. He seems to stay much much calmer with his temper when he is in 'English mode': one girl stumped over and over again on their sand hill and Jonte just kept telling her 'don't do it', 'no, don't do it' - she never stopped but luckily lost interest in the sand soon and moved on.
Another boy did bite Jonte in the hand in the moment we wanted to leave the playground to head for the beach, since he did not want to give the bucket back. He stayed calm and just said 'NO'. I guess he was too surprised about the boy to really get angry at him. At home he regularly gets angry on me and needs my hands - I have to hold out my hands and he tries to clap them as strong as possible to get rid of his agressions, until we both crack up laughing because our hands hurt a little bit.
Anyway there was not much trace of a bite on Jonte's hand, thus I expect it wasn't really strong. Down on the beach we were just by our self, the kids digged some channels and had a lot of fun with a stream running, or rather dripping across the stones. We had lunch between piles of driftwood and enjoyed the cloudless sky until Narne got really tired and we headed home.
And here are the corresponding images:
Jonte with Olympic Peninsula in background.
Narne tired already.
Theda collecting stones.
Narne digging.
Watching seagulls.
Always plenty to do and see on a beach!!
Lucky we did enjoy that perfect day - back to Seattle winter weather tomorrow, a couple degrees above freezing and rain, rain showers and drizzle are the forecast for the next 4 days.
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