Surprise Miles!!!

Today we went to a playground that Avery had been asking to go to all week.  The playground has cool play equipment and a 'spray ground' area for the kids to get wet. 

At first Miles wanted to swing, then chase a boy on a bicycle and then play in the sandbox.  Once at the sand box I am surprised to see Miles sit down in the middle of a bunch of other kids sitting in the sand.  A typical scene is Miles sitting off to the side watching the other kids play together.  He is sitting right next to a girl wearing a Cindrella dress-up gown.  This girl has to be about 7 or 8 years old.  She is pouring sand into some sort of cone/bucket/not really sure and I see Miles with a hand full of sand and the girl says "HEEEYYYYY!!!!" From my angle I am not really sure but it looked like he was putting sand IN the thing.  I'm thinking either way if he was putting sand in or taking it out he was 'playing' with her and I was impressed. 

After she yells at him he stops and then he flipped over sprawled in the sand on his belly.  Maybe I was not paying attention, but I think I was, but the girl kept telling Miles to "stop it."  I was not sure what he was 'doing to her' but secretly I was hoping he was kicking up sand on her princess gown, she was covered in sand anyway.  If she did not want to be maybe she should not have been wearing the dress in the sandbox.  For some reason she kept making fun of him to her friends who seemed just to be ignoring her anyway. 

After Miles was covered in sand I took him to the water part to hose off.  This is where he stayed for the remainder of the park visit.  Miles is a little bit of a water hog though.  Most kids just kind of stay out of the way.  This is surprise number two.  There was a little itty bitty girl would was checking out the same water fountain as Miles.  Miles reached out and PUSHED the little girl down.  I have never seen him purposely push another child that was not his big brother!  When she fell over and cried he did look upset and I put him in a timeout and he sat there.  A small part of me was happy because, well that is what kids do. I wished it was not a little bitty girl though and I wished it did not make Miles seem like a monster child.  I was seriously shocked because that was so not like him.  The picture below is a few minutes before the push and the little girl in the white hat is the little girl.