He was up early, about 5:40. He saw Carly’s quesadilla and wanted it, so we started the day by making a quesadilla. We then had a little extended iPad and Sesame Street website time, since he hasn’t done much the last couple days. I took the door off the cabinet in the reading area, and he was fascinated by the screwdriver. Luckily, it was a short, stubby screwdriver, so I could let him play with it a bit.
We used one of his little brooms to do some sweeping, and when he managed to get some in the dustpan, I said “You did it.” He replied, changing the pronoun like he did yesterday, with “I did it”.
We then had some music time with the xylophone and drum and what not, then skyped with my parents.
We were hanging up laundry when the woman came to spray the stuff down the drains, something they do every few months. That kind of freaked him out, and he started crying.
We were finally going to leave the house when a delivery man rang the bell. So we waited for our iHerb package. After 30 minutes he hadn’t shown up, so we headed down. But no package for us at the security office, so I decided to go back up once more to check. We met the guy at the door.
Finally, about 10:40 we were off, headed for Dream Forest. August fell asleep as we went under the underpass. I looked at the map for a place to stop and realized there was a park we’d never been to back on the east side of the tracks. It was behind an apartment complex in the space where two sets of train tracks come together. So we went there and he slept 40 minutes.
He woke up and played for awhile with his shovel and sand and with a faucet. And he ate his sandoo. I asked him if he wanted to stay and play or go and see the deer. After several more minutes of eating and a little playing, all the sudden he started saying ‘deer, deer, deer’. So we were off.
Walked to Dream Forest and straight to the deer. Spent a long time there. First, he was fascinated by the work crew working with shovels and other tools. So we just hung out on the bridge and he entertained himself and watched, and occasionally watched the deer. Then we headed to the north end, where he started to play with an old fence post, putting grass and rocks into it. The deer were getting closer and getting more of his attention. He spent a lot of time practicing going up and down the set of seven steps at the corner. He did a lot of talking and babbling to the deer.
Finally, we were off. We went to the playground, where another family gave him a peach jelly stick. Basically liquid candy, but very good. He loved it. He did some more eating, and watched kids play, but needed to be changed. So we went inside and changed him.
While changing him, we heard a baby crying somewhere. He looked at me, and with a very serious look on his face, said ‘Baby crying’. He was very proud of himself for the sentence. He would say it a lot during the day.
We went back outside and spent the rest of our time playing in the wading pool. He played a lot with our set of toys and sat down a lot in the pool. When I changed him before we left the diaper was incredibly full and heavy.
We took the bus home and beat Carly by about 30 minutes. He played in the sink, we finished off the day’s snacks, and we did some straightening and cleaning.
Carly came home and nursed him and fed him spaghetti. She blended broccoli up to add to the sauce, and that worked really well. I gave him a bath. As expected, he was tired and went to sleep before 8. He was really hyper as Carly took him in to bed, but he crashed pretty quickly.
New words/phrases: antlers, spots, fence, baby crying
Park:
Deer:
At the playground:
Wading pool (aka mul area):
Eating spaghetti never gets old:
