Slept until 8:30. He played around the house in the morning. He wanted up on the back of the couch again, with my help, and laid down there looking out the window. He was then sitting between gramma and grampa on the couch and they were pointing to the owls on his pajamas. He said that the brown ones were poop.
Carly and I then took him to Safeway on a pretty monster grocery shopping trip – getting food for dinner and beverages and whatnot. Definitely much larger than out usual car-less trips.
After we got home, August decided he wanted to slither like a snake. Don’t know what the inspiration was for that one. He wanted me to get down and do it with him. We slithered together, then he climbed on my back as I slithered on the ground.
A bit later, Chuck and Cherie showed up in the motor home. We got it to fit in, eventually, and it just fit. August enjoyed the spectacle, and liked watching grampa cut branches of the tree with the saw and chainsaw. At the end, we were picking up the branches and leaves, and August helped pick up leaves – although his real solution was to cover them up with sand.
We were then all sitting out back on the porch, and August was playing in the sand and with the water. Cherie brought out a box for my parents and August. It was a garden gnome that reminder her of August. Eventually, he requested a nap, and was asleep form 2:50 to around 4. We had to wake him again. When he woke up he wanted to find everyone, Oma and Opa included. He found Paul first, and squealed and said “Right there!” and pointed.
We then found everyone else. The plan had been to do barbecuing on the grill today, but it was really windy earlier, so we decided to switch and go to the restaurant today. We went in two cars, with Paul riding with us. We went to the restaurant at Howard’s on the River – next to where we had stopped for ice cream yesterday. As we got out of the car August said something like “Ristorante a comer”. They first sat us inside, where it was very air conditioned. We requested to go outside and made the move. It was much nicer. August poured out the crayons they had given him, and I asked him to clean them up. He did a bit, but was then playing around and said “That’s not helping. That’s not a clean up.” He did well during dinner, just sitting in a booster seat. He ate a little of just about everything, from everyone. From my fish and chips, to fish and sweet potato fries from Cherie, and other things. He liked dipping the fries in the tartar sauce. Oh, and he really liked my clam chowder, which he ate almost all of.
After dinner, we went down to the path and walked under the bridges to the boat launch. We spotted a marmot on the way. Where we stopped Cherie taught him the “Jack is jumping” song and did it with him a couple times. On our walk back he was touching everyone and they would say “I’m not a tree, I’m a person.” We started it with my brother, then he did everyone else. We did Chuck last and he said “I’m a tree.” August got a kick out of that one. He wanted to go down on the dock, but Carly told him he had to be picked up for that. He initially asked grampa to pick him up, but when he didn’t move fast enough towards the dock (he didn’t realize why he was picking up August), August asked to be transferred to Oma.
We returned home, and he played outside with the water. We then had dessert. He first ate a cookie with Carly and wanted to go eat it out on the porch on the bench – that’s where they had eaten dessert the other day, so it is now his dessert spot. A bit later gramma agreed to give him some ice cream, and he took her out to the same spot. When he came back in I said “Tell the truth. How many bites of ice cream did gramma give you?” His reply: “15!16!”
I took him downstairs to change him. He was shaking his head and doing the “silly thing to do” line. He then changed it. To “That’s a silly thing to do…that’s a silly thing to say.” We went and read Garfield together for awhile, then started reading the Skippyjohn Jones book that he had really liked the other night. He was asleep just after 10.
Poking owls:
Like a snake:
Trimming the tree:
Gnome:
Dinner:
Quick walk:
Back home:
Rocking with Opa:
