He was up at 7:30. Carly was up early, and working on her paintings for him. When he was up he was playing with her Q, Z, K , and 14 paintings and being really funny about it. He was reading with her for awhile, then just sitting on his own on the reading area in the parlor for a few minutes. He and I then read Under the Sea with Me and Dot and Mit.
We went to his 5-Touch class at 10:20. It was the first time Carly got to see his new teacher. He spent much of the class sitting on Carly’s lap, much like yesterday. He did the stickers, then today’s class was about cars. He liked the steering wheel circle thing, but then didn’t want to be pulled around in the basket cars. In between, there was a song that they danced around to, and August didn’t like something about it, as he would later talk about being “Sad about song.”
From Home Plus we headed to the subway. Got to Children’s Grand Park and got some food at GS25. August wanted to eat lunch by the children’s museum, so we sat on one of the C-shaped benches and ate lunch. After that, he was walking around, holding Carly’s hand, looking at the flowers: “Daisy in espanol…dada look it up.” “Mama look at the flowers…holding mamas hand” Looked at the fountain that was on for the first time this year as well. We found a bench in a nice spot east of the children’s museum and he nursed and was falling asleep. Put him in the backpack, but then he didn’t sleep. Carly went on in to the cafe to start doing some work, and he and I kept walking. He was quiet, but at the 23 minute mark he started asking for fingers (“6 fingers…7 fingers…”) So we went in at about 30 minutes. I got a berry smoothie for the two of us. He played some iPad and nursed in the coffee shop.
I took him out to play – he cried for 4 minutes or so, wanting to go back to Carly. I set him down by the empty wading pools and he started to walk back to Carly, but he went up a little set of stairs and saw the playground and got distracted. I got out his water bottle and he played with that for several minutes, using it to dump water on the ground. A mom there let us borrow some of their sand toys and he used a watering can and shovel. He didn’t want to get messy though, and wouldn’t step in the sand himself (he pointed at the boy with his shoes off in the sand several times and said “Messy!”). When the watering can got sand on it we had to wash it off – same with the shovel. But then the wet shovel just had sand stick to it, so he stopped playing with that. He recycled a couple pieces of plastic that e found, then we played on the numbers for a few minutes, then he saw a girl making little sand castles. I tried to tell him we could make our own (I was ready to get a cup out of recycling and wash it out), but he would have none of that, saying “Want to hold it” then “Knock it down!” I picked him up and took him away and the meltdown started. He calmed down a bit and said he was “Sad about the knock it down”. He wanted to play on the numbers again, but another boy was playing hopscotch. August started getting upset again and I had to set him down. When he calmed down a little though he grabbed my hand and pressed it against his cheek and head. We stood there under a tree until showed up a couple minutes later.
She took him up to the outdoor theater and changed him and nursed. Unfortunately, he didn’t want to stop nursing. There was a lot more crying and screeching involved until we finally made our way to the subway. This is what a no-nap day is sometimes like. Luckily, he was fine once we were at the subway. He played on the iPad with Carly, doing art.
At home he ate a ton of cold (that’s how he wanted it) enchilada for dinner. We had a good bath, with a lot of nonsense singing and “That’s a silly thing to do.” He hung out with Carly after that and they were reading. She was trying to get him to make it to 7, but at 6:30 he really wanted to nurse and fell asleep.
With Carly’s paintings:
5-Touch class:
Children’s Grand Park. By the children’s museum:
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