At the park

On Saturday, just before dinner, we went to the park near our house. It was surprisingly nice, and very green! One of the things I miss from home is the abundance of lush greenery. Back in Singapore or Holland, we are overwhelmed with greenery that we so easily take for granted. Here in Doha, we are pitifully without it, thus we have to search far and wide for small patches of greenery.

In this park, we found a field of undulating soft grass, dotted with the occasional date palm tree. It was a very welcoming sight. If I were a kid, I would be running and rolling in the grass. So how come our daughter wasn't showing much enthusiasm? Why wasn't she crawling frantically on the grass? Strange ... ?

So being laid back parents that we profess to be, we decided to MAKE her enjoy the park. ha ha. Johan carried Sera, about 15 metres, away from the mat and plonked her on the grass. We waited, waited .... and waited for her to crawl over to us. She however, seem very content just sitting in the middle of the field, picking and talking to the blades of grass and just enjoying the 'enforced solitude'. And when she decided to start crawling, she went the other direction. Ha ha. She was abandoning us! This pair of parents plus oma, started calling out to her and waving our hands like complete loonies, just to get her attention. A quick parenting lesson for us ... don't give her unnecessary freedom, she'll take it and run.



Sera placed at a distance


Abandoning her solitude, she decides to crawl back to us


On her springy motorbike