He was up at 8, and nursed for quite awhile. Once Carly got him up, she went and took a shower, and he hung out in the bedroom with me. He was watching his Korean videos and singing and dancing along. We then went outside, and his focus was on finding Celeste. We walked around the yard a couple times, but no luck. We went in, and I made toast. He apparently wanted some, as he took my piece of toast and walked off with it and ended up eating all of it: “Want the toast?” “Uh no…want more toast! Want 14 toasteds!” At some point, he wanted grampa to go outside with him and told him “Grampa get up!”
Carly played with him outside as I got sandwiches ready for our trip to Alta Lake State Park. We left a bit after 10. Up at the park, August initially decided he wanted to play at a spot on the path down to the beach. Convinced him to head farther down and we set up in the shade. Carly went down and started floating, and he and I ate some cherries. But then he put a big piece in his mouth and spit it out, and after that only wanted chips. When I put the chips away he got upset. Once he calmed down, we went down to the water. Put his swimsuit on. But then he got in the floating ring thing with Carly, and stayed there for a long, long time. While I was down there with them August started splashing people, starting with grampa, then he was singing what we called his boating song – a new tune of his own making, as far as I could tell. I went up and read and they kept floating. They got out of the water and were making sand castles when I came back down later. Carly went up and August and I did some more sand castling – we were building one and destroying it over and over in the same spot – then did some more wading. I thought his right arm was starting to look a little red, so we headed up to get some food. Carly went on the swings for awhile, then came back and tried to put him to sleep. He was mellow, but not falling asleep. I hadn’t brought the big backpack, so that wasn’t an option. So we got the keys from my mom, and headed home.
He fell asleep in the car at 3:18, and slept until 4:30 when Carly started waking him up. Took awhile to get him up, We then headed out to the Alpenhorn for dinner, taking Paul in our car this time. August was excited about going out to eat. He thought he might want a chicken burger. Carly got a chicken burger, and I had a hamburger. We shared a raspberry shake. August drank much of our shake, and mainly ate Carly’s chicken, and French fries. Carly and I then went and played mini golf (I won) and August stayed with the three of them and ate French fries and drank my mom’s milkshake. My mom then brought him over and Carly was teaching him out to golf. He had fun hitting the ball with her, and liked picking it up and rolling it and putting it in the hole. Apparently he had predicted that I would win when my mom asked him who would win. Also, while we were golfing he needed to have his diaper changed and asked gramma to do it. She said “I can’t get in your car.” And he responded with “Gramma’s too big.” At some point he confused us by saying something that sounded like “What do people do when they sit in the sticks? They’re frozen.”
We went home and Carly went to the store. He wanted to go outside and water with gramma; as they went out he heard grampa turning on the water. He got excited and was trying to look through the towels hanging on the railing, then rushed down to the stairs and looked through the bars there. They watered for awhile, then I took him in and gave him a bath. Carly got home as we were getting out of the bath. A bit later he and I went out and were reading Garfield on the deck. When it was getting too dark we went to go inside. I suggested he say goodnight to gramma and grampa who were sitting in chairs on the deck, and he went and got a kiss from gramma. He then said “From grampa” and went and got a kiss from him. He then said “Want a squeeze” and got a hug from grampa, then wanted one from gramma. Then one from me. We had also looked for Celeste a couple more times through the day, and as we went in he said something about saying goodnight to Celeste. We had heard her outside, but not seen her, so I suggested he could say goodnight to her and she would hear it. He said “Night night Celeste” and we went in. He also wanted to say goodnight to Paul, but didn’t want a squeeze. He and I spent 20 minutes or so reading Garfield and then our old fairy tales book, then he was ready for Carly. So we used my phone on speakerphone and called her, upstairs. I had him say “Come down, mama.” She came down and he was asleep about 10:15
New words/phrases: golf,
Morning:
Alta Lake:
Alpenhorn:
Home. The new gnome’s spot:
A trim:
