Okay, here’s a question. Does anyone know how much sand a person can safely ingest? Because we’re really not sure how much sand Morgan actually swallowed earlier this week. It’s funny all the little things you forget that you have to teach these little ones….for instance, if your piece of peanut butter & jelly sandwich falls in the sand, it’s best to just toss it & reach for a new piece instead. You assume that the child will see that it’s “dirty” and just hand it over like she does everything else that falls on the floor lately. But, to a hungry 18-month old child….all they think is “Okay, my sandwich fell onto that grey stuff…I’m hungry.…give me my sandwich back…..NOW.” So….said child reaches down and shoves the sand-coated sandwich in her mouth faster than we can lunge at her to grab it. Sigh. What do you do? Hope for the best it seems. And guess what…the mouth full of sand wasn’t enough to deter her either….the attempts to grab sand-coated food away from her resulted in a lot of screaming…but eventually she was so fascinated by playing in the sand, that she no longer cared about the food!
So the fun part….she LOVED playing in the sand! Macy was having fun searching for sea glass and throwing rocks in the water with Dad, but Morgan was all about the sand, the shovels, the bucket, and the mountain that we were making in the sand. And you know what…I really get why it was so fun. After snapping several pictures, I put away the camera, kicked off my shoes, and started digging right alongside Morgan. And you know what? It was so relaxing, and mesmerizing for some reason. We must have dug in the sand together for the better part of 45 minutes. Digging and digging, and scooping, and dumping the sand….we made some really big holes and some really big sand-mountains. Who knew that playing in the sand was so fun? Actually…I think I *knew* that it was, but sometimes it’s good to just jump in and get dirty, and remember just how fun it is to be a little kid. :) It was a fun afternoon.
Hmmm...I wonder why this tastes so crunchy?
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