August was up at 7:15, before me. They skyped with Vivian and Colin. August was talking a lot, and in particular kept calling them “naked” as they weren’t wearing clothes. Later, he would see Chuck wearing a tank top and call him naked as well. They were then reading Kipper and other books when I got up. Carly took a shower and I went to the bathroom in the other bathroom. August came in and tried to reach in the toilet and I said pee was dirty, to which he asked “How pee dirty?” He had used ‘how’ a few days ago – the start of how/why questions. We then worked on our mosaic we had been coloring on the paper and wrote letters. He then did more reading and nursing with Carly. They were surprised when a bee was flying around the parlor. August was very excited by it though and wanted to touch it. I caught it in a tupperware container. August and I looked at it, but he kept wanting me to open it. Then, while they skyped with Chuck and Cherie, I did recycling and let the bee out by the bushes down below. August would later remember it and want to see it again.
We eventually headed out for a walk before the rains were supposed to come. We walked up the stream, getting coffee drinks for us and a cookie for August at the women’s business center. We walked a bit farther up the stream, stopping to see the fish jumping, until we got to Junghyeon Children’s Park – one we’ve never played at, but only walked through. August sat on the structure a little, then came and sat right next to me and played in the sand. He ate a little more of my ice, until an ant crawled in my cup. I got the shovel and he played with that, then went and played with the faucets with Carly, and then recycled our cups before we left. We walked back and smelled some flowers along the way. We got back just in time, as it started raining soon after.
August climbed on the table and knocked the long crayons from the shelf below. He got down and started picking them up. When he was all done, he dumped them out again. Repeat. He dumped them out a third time, but of course got distracted after that and I had to finish the clean up job. He fell asleep and napped from 1:10 to 2:08.
In the afternoon we went to Home Plus. Down at the clothes, August decided he wanted out of the backpack. He suddenly became Mr. Independent, as he wanted to walk everywhere and not hold our hands. Mainly he was focused on clothes and looking for names. He has been fascinated by all the brand and store names, and has started saying “Lots of names!” In the first couple minutes of looking at clothes he surprised us by reading “wild” on a shirt, then sat down with Carly and read the inside of the basket, then surprised us by reading “never” and “black” on another shirt. He also saw a sign and says “Says ‘Home Plus’.” We went downstairs to do grocery shopping. I managed to carry him much of the time, but only after he had walked across half the store but then realized mama wasn’t around. Carly shopped and August got a couple samples. We then paid (August reluctantly gave up the sponges he was carrying for a minute), and on the way out he rode the moving walkways by himself, me poised to grab him at the end, but he did a good job of stepping off. He almost fell backwards getting on the second one, but kept his balance.
He walked out of the store, but then I was trying to pick him up when we were on the sidewalk, when we ran into Jeff carrying Garvey. I got August up and we all walked across the park – they were headed to the dinosaurs. August impressed him by spelling ‘gargantuan’. It was raining, and when we got to the playground I put on our raincoats and hats. August complained a little about the coat, but not much. We walked around much of the north end of the park, August leading the way. He was talking about walking to the play area, but it was a couple minutes to 6 and probably closing. He picked up one piece of garbage to throw away, but lost interest in it before getting to the garbage can, so I had to do that as well.
We came home and dropped off the groceries and big backpack, then headed back out and to Burger Ton, the new place that opened in the pink building a few weeks back. We ate there, August eating some fries and most of the teriyaki mushrooms off my burger. We then came home. Carly drew a bath for August and I gave him his bath while Carly started making soup. A usual bath: a lot of letters on the door (‘saxophone’ was the big one – particularly since it also has ‘phone’ and ‘one’ in it), then he said “wash” when he was ready to be washed and finish. We then put all the bath letters away (he finished this job), except for 6 he set aside for further washing in the sink. He then stood on the stool and washed the six letters in the sink for a few minutes before declaring them done and putting them in the bag as well.
He then moved to the kitchen sink, bringing the stool out, and played in a pot with a measuring cup for quite awhile. Only one scoop ended up on the floor. He and Carly then were on the couch singing and spelling words. He was standing against the back of the couch in just a diaper and I sat on the table to get a photo. I didn’t, however, as he came and sat next to me on the table. Sat with me for a few minutes, then went back to Carly. He was still pretty high energy, but didn’t put up too much of a fight and fell asleep around 9:30.
New words/phrases: naked, spelling yummy cold wawa water, reading ‘world’ ‘room’, spelling ‘nose’
Park:
Home. Cleaning up:
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