He was up around 8:30. After a lot of nursing, he wanted to go to see the motor home. They visited out there for awhile, then we were inside and ended up playing catch with Marshy, and throwing him back and forth to Cherie and a little to gramma and grampa. At some point he said “Want to see the motor home again.” And when Cherie was holding Marshy said “Oma is hugging him.” Carly made blueberry pancakes and my dad did bacon for breakfast. So we had a nice, big breakfast. But August’s favorite part was the plain yoghurt. And at first he said he didn’t like the blueberries in the pancakes, but ended up eating it. They then nursed, and played outside while I took a shower. I think they did sand castles.
I went out, and Carly went in to start doing some work. He and I picked Oregon grapes, and spit them out. He enjoyed putting them in my mouth, generally doing two at a time, then telling me which direction I should spit them in. He dropped one and said something like “Can’t do patooie with that one” and then rejected another, saying “Not the spider web ones.”
Back inside, we ate a bunch of cherries with grampa. He used ‘I’ll’ for the first time when he said “I’ll put the pit in there.” I was trying to tell him just one more cherry, and he kept pointing out that there were more in the container. When I told him I was putting the rest away, he got upset, and then didn’t actually eat the last one I had given him. He went back down and nursed again.
Back up, Carly was doing more work and I was going to take him to Long Park down at Chelan Falls. We were getting ready, and he started playing with Chester, the big bear, and said “Want to throw Chester (to) uncle Paul.”
Me, Paul, and mom took August down to the park. Waded in the water a little, then headed down to the buoy thing to play with it. Got distracted by a sand castle, and used a plastic cup on the sand and our shovel to make sand castles. There was another little boy, Mason, who was slightly bigger and made sand castles with us. He was using the spray bottle to spray them, and August was telling him which one to squirt next. When they fell down, we quoted Kipper: “Crumbled at the corner.” We eventually made it over to the buoy line and he stood on it, or tried to, holding my hands. All was fine until we saw a couple kids with blue boogie board sorts of things. I said that was something he could play with when he was older and could swim, and he got upset that he couldn’t play with them now. Screeching and crying. Ended up sitting down up where Paul and mom were in the shade, and he calmed down. But he wanted to “Head back to gramma and grampa’s to see mama.” On the walk back to the car, he was singing and joking around, and I asked him what he liked to be called. He decided on ‘Zinnius’, then finally came up with “Call me Zinnius Salta.”
He was very quiet on the way home, but made it. He took a nap from 2:40 to 3:40. When he woke up and Carly brought him upstairs, he saw gramma napping on the couch. He said “Want to sit on sleeping gramma.” There was some more playing outside, and reading of Garfield downstairs, then Carly and I took him out for a walk. We went and got iced coffees at the Riverwalk Inn, then intended to play in the bench area at the park. August and I were racing around the paths with the stroller, and quickly discovered that all the shaded areas were full of gnats. So we reversed course and walked the path back to the ball fields and finally went to the little playground there. He climbed the structure with Carly, and sat on her lap on top. I got out Bluie and we were playing with him/her. August was then throwing Bluie of the structure and seeing how dirty Bluie got.
We headed home about 6:15 and had sausages and rice for dinner. More playing outside with Carly, then he was sitting on grampa’s lap and playing solitaire on the computer. August really liked the mouse wheel – something he hasn’t experienced before with our trackpads on our laptops.
We went for a little evening walk, heading up the hill to where you can see the Chelan River. August did more singing on the way up, then was quiet on the way back. At the top, Carly took our photo as we looked at the river. She took our photo in the same spot last year, and they turned out good again this year.
We came home and I then gave him a bath. He didn’t want to play, just wanted to get washed and then go see mama. He was opposed to washing his hair, but we went really slow to try to keep water out of his eyes, and he made it without crying. He went down with Carly, and was asleep at 10 again.
New words/phrases: i’ll, pit, Oregon grape, Chester, yoghurt, abuelo grampa,
Backing it out:
Long Park:
Walk and play structure:
Home:
Above the Chelan River:
Wearing my glasses:
