Just after 7. Nursed, then I changed him and we went back in on the bed where he wanted to play ‘sit up, lie down’. I did that for a bit, then laid his head on a pillow and said he could start sleeping on a pillow if he wanted. He said “Like mama!” Then he turned his head to the side on it and we both lay there for 4 or 5 minutes. Very cool.
A bit later we were playing with the rocks on the floor upstairs, sliding them on the floor. We then went out for a walk around the yard. We found Celeste hiding in the bushes in the back corner, then watched her run across the yard and around the front of the house. August really liked.
Carly then took him out for a walk in the rain. Not sure where they went to. After that, it really started to pour for the next few hours so we were stuck in the house. I was putting the backpack back together, after washing it yesterday. As I was putting everything back in, August made what I’m pretty sure was a pretty intentional joke. He was looking at the backpack and said “Where does the water go?” Before I could point to where it would go, he said “In the tummy!” And patted his tummy.
My mom then got the metal bowls out for him and they were making music with them. They started spinning/dropping them on the floor, and August was stomping and spinning with the bowls, something he came up with entirely on his own. He needed to have his diaper changed and said “Someone needs a diaper change.” I changed him, then realized I hadn’t taken his photo for the one-a-day thing. I said “I need to take your photo.” Before I could take it, he said “1, 2, 3” then flipped his legs off the changing pad to the right, landed on his feet, and said “Escaping!” This from the boy who is always concerned about falling off of them.
I cut up a plum and he ate all of it. His first plum. He then went down for a nap – the first in a few days – and slept from 12:20 to 1:43.
We ate lunch and brushed his teeth, then he was playing with the rocks with Carly. One rolled under the TV stand, then they were mainly studying them and finding his favorite rocks: “Want more favorites.” “Orange in there.” “Hole in there…the ants like to go in.”
3:30 or so the rain let up and we all went for a walk into town and got coffee at The Vogue, then walked back to Habitat for Humanity to look for books. August was in the backpack. At the coffee shop August was messing with me, first saying he wanted to go outside, then immediately wanting to go back in to see mama. Then back out, then seeing mama. Did that a few times. He also spotted the straws and wanted to play one, and he spotted a little watering spray thing in a plant that I didn’t see. On the way back we walked along RIverwalk Park and he saw the wind on the water. Pretty sure he was calling it “crying water”. We got to the thrift shop just a few minutes before they closed at 5 so I looked quickly and got 10 books or so. We couldn’t find the books at first, so as we walked around with him in the backpack I started saying “maybe…maybe not” and rocking back and forth. August liked that. When we did find books, he got out and my mom watched him while he looked at the toys. He did something, and another little boy gave him a thumbs up.
We came home and ate dinner – basically leftovers from the last couple days – then my mom and me went to Safeway. We got back and August was in the bath, playing. He liked the new shampoo and soap I’d brought back, as well as the new big kid toothpaste. He went to bed a bit later at 8:45.
Dancing bowls:
Plum:
Rocks:
Spotting grampa:
Rocks in the puddle:
Wrapped in his towel:
