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This is big news!! Why? Cos this is the 1st ‘fight’ which an official caregiver told me about. Other so-called ‘fights’ i was there to mediate.
So what happened? According to his carer at daycare & from what little Swiss-German i understood, Tobias was playing with a toy & then had left it to go get another. Another little boy came & took the 1st toy. Tobias went & snatched it back from the boy. The boy then tried to hit him & ended up scratching Tobias’ face. NO No nothing serious – just a couple of marks on his right cheek. See picture below.

Of cos, i scolded him for snatching after hearing about it. But he had already forgotten the incident. i asked if he was given a timeout – she said they were both made to sit down & talked to & then they played together a little later – so all is well – no hard feelings.

Walter is of cos proud of his son – not that he agrees with fighting – let me explain. Up to now, Tobias has generally let other kids just take the toy that he is playing with – no resistance at all. So now he’s learning to stand up for himself. i agree to some extend but can’t say i’m comfortable with him starting to ‘snatch’ & ‘fight’.

Sigh – the worries of a mummy.
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Both Tobias & Daddy recently acquired new toys – much to their delight of cos. Daddy got a new indoor remote-controlled helicopter & Tobias got a train set complete with tracks – his very 1st one!!
Here’s a couple of videos of them enjoying the toys:
Tobias jumping with joy while Daddy flies the helicopter – Tobias can’t fly it YET!

Tobias with his new train set.

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If u are wondering how the 1st snow day of the season went last saturday – it went ok – i think Tobias had fun .  But the snow was not really nice – it was cruchy snow – not good to make snowballs at all – i was trying to teach Tobias how to make one but the snow didn’t stick together. & Walter said even high up where he went snowboarding wasn’t nice either. So we have cancelled plans for this coming sat, considering that the snow on our little mountain has melted away already within 1x week!! i have been told that this is likely the warmest winter in 400 years!

Oh, a friend (u know who u are) asked that there should be more photos of mummy – she asked this knowing full well that i dislike photos of myself – sigh! so here’s one for u, my dear friend:

Mummy & Tobias lying in the snow.

Oh, talking about no snow (in case anyone is interested, there is snow, just not enough to stay at lower levels & not enough to make nice skiing or snowboarding unless u go above 2000m or higher even) – thot there is no snow on the mountains – a mountain resort here put something else on their mountain face – check it out. i’m not sure i agree with the whole arguement about light pollution but i can see where they are coming from & i completely agree that it will affect the animal life there. So what do u think?

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