Tidy around the house

May is nearly over and so should be the first peak tourist season of the year. During 3 months campers have been dropping in. It seems like more and more are finding their way to our camp site and many more nationalities as before.

The Dutch were well represented the last weeks. It was nice to speak my own language to adults. You do need more vocabulary then talking to a 2 year old.

Zakaria is not quite 2 yet. He needs a few more months. He too was very pleased with all these visitors talking the same language as his mother.

We had a Dutch family with 2 young children staying here for a three nights. The girl was Zakaria’s age, but hardly got his attention, except when she sat on his bike. Then he started yelling and crying while he grabbed it letting her fall on the ground.

Not that he was in the least interested in his little bike when the girl wanted to try it. He was busy riding her toy car and eying her 4-year old brother’s bike. He can take any children’s toy and play with it while sharing his own toys is an unbearable thought.

It is funny to see how sometimes he is a spoilt little brat while most of the times he is so gentle and charming. He is always happy to give away sweets to other children and is very tidy around the house. He is now able to open the fridge and likes to take something from it either to eat from or to just have a look at it. When he is finished he puts whatever he has taken out back.

He always closes doors and windows (also when I want them open) and asks me to put things back “on their spot” whenever the spot is out of his reach. His toys, however, have to be spread all over the place, even though I keep tidying them up.