Don Morse Park
We woke him up at 10:45. Over 13 hours asleep. He sat up and whispered “Go outside” twice. Carly asked if he wanted to do that right now and he replied “Nurse then go outside.” They then nursed and Skyped with Cassie and Vivi. August was then with my parents and met Celeste – they were holding August and Celeste, and as they brought them closer, both Celeste and August leaned back, afraid to get too close – August is probably still remembering the dog licking incident that he occasionally talks about. He was then out back playing with the sunglasses and the gnome and we ate some banana bread. He was being talkative and said “Where grandpa go?” And “Where the energy come from?” We were all outside and my dad introduced him to watering, using the hose. August loved this and they watered the flowers, then much of the garden. The only hiccup was when they spotted a huge black widow spider.
We ate lunch, sharing a sandwich, then my dad took August out front to see the gnomes (my dad had made the door into the trunk of the tree out front, but the gnomes had just shown up, likely placed there by a neighbor). After that, August saw my dad weeding the driveway and wanted to help out. We did that for awhile, then I needed to go inside, but August wanted “More weeding!” and got a little upset. I got him inside and he took a little break with Carly.
In the afternoon we took him on a walk downtown and my parents stayed home to wait for the window guy to show up and replace a window in the kitchen. August was in the stroller. We walked through downtown and went to the bakery and got lattes, then walked out to Don Morse Park, where August went in one of the swings for little kids and loved it, then did some climbing. We walked back to Safeway – the two of them went shopping, and I went to the post office and picked up my package from Amazon.. I then met them at Safeway. On the way there we had seen the lavender in front of Safeway and I had shown him how to smell it. But on the way back we were already a block away from Safeway and he wanted more lavender. So we told August he should tell grandpa to plant lavender. We walked through Riverfront Park on the way home, and stopped at the farmer’s market, where August liked a couple chickens in a cage and we watched the guy play guitar and sing for a couple minutes. We then walked home via the baseball fields. August requested the “Hasta Manana” song in English, so we started singing it that way.
Back home, Carly introduced August to shucking corn. Did it with her, then one more ear with me. He then really enjoyed eating the corn and ate a bunch of it for dinner. During dinner he said a couple of pretty random things: “Everyone likes to scream in the coffee shop.” and “Go outside…Thanks, I guess.”
We played outside again for a little while, doing some watering and playing in the sand. He was then with Carly and they nursed and he accidentally fell asleep at 7:50. Sometime much later – 11 or so – he woke up and Carly tried to nurse him but he got back up. He came out and walked to me and I realized he was whispering “Dada come.” I think we were both concerned it was going to be a repeat of the other night. I followed him and he climbed up the stairs and got upset when. He just found my mom sitting at the computer. I don’t know what he was looking for. I picked him up and he cuddled on my arm and I suggested we all go to bed. We went down, and I laid him on the bed and he curled up next to me. Carly came in and they read for awhile and then both went to sleep. So not nearly as bad as the other evening.
He has been weary of the back screen door after bonking himself yesterday.. He still goes in and out, but he is very attentive to it and prefers someone else deals with it.
Also, I don’t know if I mentioned that we invented the ‘high one’ the other day after. I had tried to give him a high five and he only held up one finger.
New words/phrases: weeding
Gnome’s glasses:
Watering:
Gnomes:
Signing his art and writing:
Smelling the lavender:
Climbing:
Chickens:
Corn:
More watering:
