He was up at 7. He and I read some Bob Books with Marshy in the morning, then around noon I took him out for a short park outing. He wanted to take the stroller. We swung by where the fountain was on yesterday, but it wasn’t on yet, and August didn’t want to stop to play in the faucets. We kept walking, and headed down behind the hospital, to the park we’ve been to a few times, but not since at least winter. There was major construction going on on the side street along the hospital, and we got to sit and watch all sorts of vehicles tearing up and putting down asphalt. Only stayed a couple minutes though as dust was everywhere. Got to the park and played there awhile. There was a group of girls practicing a dance routine, and August liked watching them, and actually started Qing them – something he hasn’t done on his own recently. We played in the sand for awhile. It was gravely, but moist, so decent for sandcastles. We made a couple and August had funs smashing them – he said something about “like the girls…at the park” yesterday. Pretty sure he was referring to the kids playing in the sand with him and Carly. Time for a nap, and August knew it. He requested a coffeeshop, even pointing across the street to what looked like one. But I headed home instead.
Got home and he napped from 1 to 2. In the afternoon he was playing the piano and wanted to see the ’S’ sound in it. So I got out screwdrivers and we took the top off. He liked seeing the inside of it and seeing the hammers, but he was unconvinced by our quest for the ’S’ sound, since there wasn’t one clear thing making that extra rattling sound.
I went over to the pink building to buy workbooks and sticker books and a couple snacks for the flight, then met up with August and Carly at Baskin Robbins with Megan and Torrey. August wasn’t impressed with Carly’s ice cream, so when I got a macaron cookies n’ cream sandwich he ate most of mine instead. I had a little though. Back in the house, he and Carly made a nice fort out of the bricks.
Then I took him out to the park. We first played at the playground, mainly on the elliptical machine. We then went over to the faucets and played in the water. There were bigger kids playing with water balloons, and one boy was convinced that August shouldn’t be playing in the area, but we were undeterred. So he had fun pouring water on the ground and watching the older kids. We went back in around 6.
During the day and while we were gone, Carly had been doing a ton of cleaning and packing, and we now looked very ready to go. I have written down that August said “That’s not ours.” and “Want to see more messy things.” I’m not sure what he was talking about, but the ‘messy’ sentence is one he uses all the time when we’re outside and he is looking for messy things. And at some point Carly was cleaning the sink and August pointed and said “Mama playing in it.” And I caught him putting his finger in the butter and said “Hey” and then he said, to himself, “You being uncouth.”
In the evening he wanted to do ‘patooie’, spitting into Carly’s sink. So he stood on the stool at her sink and brushed his teeth. But when it came time to do ‘patooie’, he wanted to do it together with me. So we did it together several times, counting “1 2 3 patooie.” He then wanted “lots of patooies” so we would do several in a row. He read with Carly and went to sleep at 9:30.
New words/phrases: basil, that’s not ours
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