He woke up at 7:10. I was just up and heard him say “Question mark…Teuni Teuni…no…mama” as he woke up. Nice Sunday morning indoors, as it was low 30s and rain/snow outside. I made eggs with cheese and mushrooms for breakfast.
Eventually we went with Carly across to the pink building to do some grocery shopping. He was pretty attached to Carly for much of the day. When we got down to the basement, he wanted to go play in the movie theater area, but given the choice to go there, or shop with Carly, he chose the latter. He had insisted on the backpack, but when we were in the grocery store he wanted to get down to look at the colorful “tea” (actually the juices). We finished shopping, then went into the book store to look at notebooks. He was okay at first, but got upset when I wouldn’t let him pull out markers/pens and then he got upset. The arrival of Carly didn’t really help. So we headed home. As we were walking towards the stairs, he calmed down and said “settled down”.
He was tired, as he fell asleep soon after getting home, at 12:08, on the reading area in the parlor. He slept to 12:59, woke up, then slept about another 20 minutes on Carly.
Carly nursed and then entertained him as I contacted Apple support about my dying iPhone battery. He was then typing on my computer and starting to figure out where the letters are on his own. He was typing the alphabet, or parts of it, over and over. He would ask for my help from time to time, but much less than a few days ago.
Finally, I took him out sometime after 3. I was going to take him for a walk, then go to the Namu play area next door. But he really wanted to go to a coffeeshop. So we walked over to the stream and stood on the bridge, then walked up the street and turned back east and went to Coffeenie, where I bought a new mug and we shared a strawberry smoothie. He did some art maker and Dr. Seuss (he pointed out the words ‘in’ and ‘and’), then sat on my lap and we did some more art. We were there for close to an hour, then left and headed to Namu, getting there a quarter to 5.
Name was busy, but tolerable. He started in the ball area, and spent some time in the cooking area. He kept going up and down the colorful round padded stairs, counting them by their colors in Spanish as he did so. I then noticed he was leaking, so I took him over to the changing area on the cafe side and changed him. There, he saw the baby seats with toys (mainly buttons in shapes and with numbers on them) around them and played with them for about 10 minutes. I had found an English book on ‘actions’, and he wanted to read that. So we sat in a chair and read that three times. I think he also liked the calm of the empty cafe. But at that point he was ready to go back in.
Most of the time he refused to go in one of the push cars because the phone with the numbers on it was missing again. Finally, he got into one of the other ones and I pushed him around for awhile. At one point he was exiting the ball area, and a larger kid literally tried shoving August out of the way. I stopped the kid as August was bent over the bar with a hand on the floor. I then may have been a little slow in telling August to stop screeching at the kid. I think I waited until screech number three before I said anything.
We also played on the trampoline a bit, or mainly the edge of it, with me throwing balls up there and him throwing them off and then sliding down the incline. He was starting to find it really funny to throw the balls at me.
At another point he really wanted to play air hockey, but other people were using it. He was getting frustrated, so I picked him up. He said “Down” and when I didn’t put him down he said “All done holding.”
That was about it. Around 6:15 he started wanting a cracker and seemed ready to head home. We put him in the backpack and headed home. While we were gone Carly had finished making the delicious curry rice dish and had some time to work. We ate dinner, then gave him a bath. When he was done with his bath, he said “Bye Sophie…funny Sophie… ‘want get in the water’” – the last being a quote of what Carly says when she plays the role of Sophie the giraffe. August still won’t let Sophie get in the bath. He was asking for a ton of Spanish today, particularly in the evening. He is working on saying “cuidador del zooilogico” (zookeeper). Before going to bed he was reading stories with me out in the living room. He then wanted a Spanish book, found the one he wanted, and left and found Carly in the other room.
I helped take him in to bed. When he was calm and on his way to sleep I slipped out. I think he fell asleep about 8:20.
New words/phrases: Morado (purple), settled down, champiñón (mushroom), all done holding, ___ in Espanol is?, black beans, caps lock, amamantar (nursing), nurse and read is?
Taking down the animals so we can vacuum:
Carly took down her tree, so he is excited to have all of the door for his maintenance:
Shopping trip. Here he is looking at the ‘tea’:
Falling asleep on mama:
Heping him type. Although he can find a lot of the letters on his own, especially in the middle of the alphabet:
Smoothie at Coffeenie:
Namu:
Enjoying his “hot” tea:
Looking out:
Back home, having fun:
