I hate the beach too, why do you ask?
June 18th, 2008Ok, so of the many reasons I was looking forward to the end of preschool for Duke was that I was hoping to separate him from the single worst, most horrible, icky thing at his school….
The sandbox.
Oh, how I loathe that thing. First, I live with four (yes, FOUR) cats. You can not tell me that there is a cover in the WORLD that will keep a cat out of a giant box of sand. (And yes, I threw up in my mouth a little just typing that out.) Next, the darling, near perfect child that I have LOVES the sandbox — to the point that he likes to bring home (you know for later) in his shoes.
Then we add to the joys of the sandbox in our shoes, Frankenhouse. Oh, you ask how can a whole house play into my hate of the sandbox? Well, you see we live on the second floor of Frankenhouse and there is no place to put your shoes on (or store them when off) by the front door. Yes, I blame this house, and no it is totally not crazy — stop looking at me like that.
So, I let Duke climb the stairs in his sand shoes, I make him take them off when he gets upstairs, but I’ve long lost count the number of times that the shoes full of sand get dumped out on a chair, floor, a bed, maybe a cat or two. I’ve tried a rule of getting to the top of the stairs going straight to the back door and emptying the shoes. It does not work.
With great joy, I said goodbye to that horrible sandbox at the end of April. With cockiness, I thought I’d felt the end of gritty floors and sand in my chair. I rejoiced for nearly 6 weeks of sand-free life. Then, then…I’ve been bitten in the butt for my bravado.
Summer camp has a sandbox!!! Dangit.
Niki:
June 19, 2008 at 6:35 am
Of course they do. Just to annoy you! Shea got in trouble exactly once in daycare - for biting a kid. When asked why she did it, she said “she wouldn’t stop throwing sand in my hair.” Which made Mommy mad, which caused her to have a bath and (horror) have to get her hair rinsed out. I totally understood the biting.
Romi:
June 19, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hee. They grow out of it. Honest.
Taryn:
June 19, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I am so glad that the pre-schools here have discovered the almighty colored rice and dried corn boxes in place of sand boxes. So much easier to clean up after.