He was awake just after 8. We opened the new stamp pad and used it a bit. He was very aware of getting his fingers “messy” with the ink. Carly skyped with Cherie and Chuck, then made eggs and spinach and apple and peanut butter for breakfast. August made a game of opening and closing the door to the parlor and hiding; he has also figured out how to lock the door, so Carly double checked to make sure that the key to the door works. Carly went to Home Plus, and we played with the letters and he spelled ‘but’. We then got out play dough. Carly came home and they were in the parlor and August was hiding from me under his baby blanket (the one that used to be on the wall. He had spotted it on the shelf and I got it down and he was looking at all the colors, textures, and animals like we used to do). Finally, Carly got out the finger paints, sponges, and a paint brush and August got his first taste of painting. August enjoyed it, but he also enjoyed putting the paint tubes back in the container; he did it a few times.
He fell asleep and took a short nap from 1:40 to 2:19. When he woke up, he walked out and into the parlor and started playing. It is the first time he hasn’t wanted to nurse right after waking up. We did more spelling with letters, art on the iPad, and then play dough, then we all went out for a walk.
We stopped at that new Juicy place and got a strawberry juice and an orange juice. Nice and cheap and healthy. We will be going back. August certainly liked it. The juice is in those plastic cups with a thin plastic lid, and the lid was covered with juice. August said the juice was “hiding” in there. We walked along the stream, then went in the new apartment complex, which is now open. We looked around and found the playground. It was quite nice. August got very excited about it. Surprising, as he hasn’t really been into playgrounds lately. And he also wanted his coat off. He went on the swings with Carly, then we were at the spider web mesh thing. Carly was lifting him from one spot to another and he wanted to sit “Right here over garbage”. There were a bunch of girls around and they came and sat close to August. He sang to them and kept counting them. Carly got him to say hi a couple times: “Hi girls…hi over there (pointing).” He sat on the fake rock for much of this and I had been telling him that the pieces were made out of recycled plastic. He liked the texture, then was pointing from the rock to the slats on the bridge (made from the same material) and saying “same”. He then was pointing at me and Carly and saying “same”. Not sure if he was making some analogy about how we were made from the same materials or what, but it was pretty amusing. By the time we left he was crawling over and under the spider web on his own.
On our way out we stopped to recycle our juice cups. There is a lot of recycling there as everyone seems to be discarding stuff as they move in. So August wanted to look in all the recycling bins: “another one”.
We headed home and Carly needed to go shopping at the pink building for a few things. August chose to head home with me instead of us going with her. We played with Bluie, etc. and then he got on the iPad and watched ABC songs. Carly brought him some of the food she had made and then handed me the bowl so I could taste. August wanted another bite and she said I had stolen the food. So August started repeating “Dada stole the food.”
He played with play dough again. He has a funny sentence construction where he gets it backwards, saying “Yellow out of ball…play dough out of .” Carly made a banana you can actually peel out of play dough and he loved that. Carly gave him a bath and I did the dishes. After that, he walked into the kitchen saying “Milk…leche” but neither of us understood him at first, so he grabbed a glass off the counter to make his point. He was then opening the cabinet under the sink to “See the heating system.” He was getting tired and playing with the Duplos. Carly said he had his first stress out moment as he was trying to line them up and it wasn’t working and he put his head in his hands for a few seconds. Carly took him in to sleep about 8, but it wouldn’t stick so he came back out and was with me for awhile. He was kind of lounging and lying on the couch next to me, and he suddenly got excited because he managed to hold up two fingers without using his thumb. I then brushed his teeth, which went really well. He started to drink his water but said “Dada drink wawa” right before he did, so I stole it from him and he said “What you doing?” Finally we read Kipper A to Z, Little Houses, and Mac before he went to sleep a little after 9.
Stamp pad ink on his fingers:
New playground:
Home: