I was up at 6. Carly slept until much later. August was awake at 9:40. He had been stuffy through the night, but was up pretty quickly and exploring everything in the house, including the vacuum cleaner. He spent quite awhile playing with the shells and rocks, first with Cherie, and then with me. Tana showed up to take photos of the house; at first he was shy, but then he was happily interacting with her. I was then playing with the rocks with him, and we were making Qs – he didn’t like it when I tried to add rocks to his Q part. When we went upstairs, he wanted to play with the “Messy ribbon” and Tana played with him a little. He then blew me away by saying “Want to hold the rope…like the kids” When I asked which kids, he said “…in pink…in Uijeongbu.” He was remembering the group we saw on May 25th, first on the train up there, and then later as we walked to a park.
Chuck came home for dinner and August played with him – Chuck was pointing out the spots on his pants. After that, he was outside with Carly. I started finding all of Carly’s boxes in the garage, and brought her big stuffed dog Barney down to them on the back patio. August loved Barney, and played “Barney sees”, kissed Barney several times, and sat in Barney’s lap. Carly was cleaning out those boxes quite a bit today. August and I played on the patio, then started to check out the books that Cherie brought up from Mexico – so far we’ve read the Richard Scarry counting book and Pat Hutchins What game Shall We Play? book. August also spent a fair amount of time standing/playing in the doorway out to the garage, watching Carly. He didn’t seem to like the garage much, or at least walking in it.
Monique came over with her two sons (Rowan and Ellis) in the afternoon. August really liked following after them as they walked around the driveway and picked flowers above the house. August picked a couple to show to mama, although he didn’t quite give them to her. We walked down to the O’Neill path area and did the loop down there to the stream and back. We got hit by rain and hail – luckily we had brought a big umbrella and waited it out under there. He also got to see a slug and a couple snails, which he quite liked. We played by the stream for awhile, watching the other two boys throw in rocks. When Rowan threw a big one, Carly said “Is it a fish?” and August liked that, so he kept saying it when they threw in rocks. August wanted to go in the pond, and later in a puddle in a drainage ditch on the way home, and wasn’t happy when we said no to those plans. He walked most of the way, and was carried by us the rest of the way. I had the backpack with me but didn’t use it.
We came home and Carly did more organizing. I asked August if he wanted fruit, and he got really excited when I mentioned blueberries. I got out a small container of them and he ate almost all of them. Oma then played with the big shells and pieces of coral with him, and Carly showed him a yo-yo she found (he’d wanted one from some book – maybe the Spanish vocab one).
We went over to Steve and Claremay’s for dinner. We went up to the toy room for awhile, and August took the little train down to the living room. The other toy he really liked was the (real) Etch-a-Sketch. At dinner he primarily sat with Carly and ate a good amount. Some from me as well. After awhile he got down and wandered a bit, then got up on the bench at the end of the table with Cadence. He really liked Cadence and Hattie, and asked their names several times. After dinner he was playing with Brad and Hattie and Henry and a couple of other kids. He got tickled by the two teenage girls – which he seemed to like for awhile, but I stepped in a little and suggested they stop, after which he was saying “No tickle”. He escaped and went up to the toy room, where Hattie came up and joined him, playing with the car track thing. She was playing with some blocks and would put them together, then hold them out for Carly to see. Carly asked if one was a flamingo, and she said yes. August then wanted to see the flamingo, but didn’t seem convinced.
Back home, he and I sat on the little couch and he talked about being tickled. He first said he liked it, then switched his story. He also talked about yelling “A” on the bus yesterday and making mama sad. We gave him a bath, Carly starting, and I Skyped with my parents so they could see him in the bath. After that, I took over and played with August in the bath until he was done. Both days now he has peed on the big toilet, and talked about pooping on it, but hasn’t yet. After his bath, he went to sleep at 8:40. He was sleeping kind of restlessly, and Carly had to go in 2 or 3 times between then and when we finished watching Game of Thrones around 11:30.
Rocks:
Finding Oma:
Messy ribbon:
Lunch with Opa:
Meeting Barney:
With Carly’s ‘baby’ from an 8th grade play:
With Rowan and Ellis:
Dinner. Etch-a-Sketch and caterpillar:
With the other kids:
Asleep:
