He was up at 8:35. When they came up I was finishing up a piece of toast, so I gave him the rest of it. Soon after, he was between gramma and grampa on the couch, looking for Celeste out the window. Carly filled up the wading pool so it would be ready in the heat of the afternoon. I took a shower, and came out to find him watering flowers with gramma. He seemed to be tiring of that though, as he kept requesting more watering, but wouldn’t do it. I went to talk to him, and he got more and more upset – screeching and pinching. I took him to the couch and made him sit with me. He ended up sitting at my feet, cuddling with Bluie for several minutes. I took him downstairs to change him and we ended up singing “A ah apple” a couple times while sitting on the bed. We went back upstairs. He has taken to closing the doors if he hears a loud truck or other noise he doesn’t like. There was someone using a chainsaw across the alley and he started to close the door, but I suggested we look to see what it was. That worked, as I held him out on the porch and we watched him trimming his bushes for several minutes. He didn’t seem bothered by it after that.
Carly had made spinach pancakes, so he ate those for breakfast. He was then playing with the mixing bowls, and my mom was nice enough to let him drop them on the porch. He kept doing this, and humming along with the bowls when they hit the ground. Meanwhile, I had found my old teddy bear in a box, and introduced him to August. We went inside and read some Mother Goose together, then he and Carly nursed. We were then getting ready to head out to a park in Manson. It was just going to be the three of us this time. He was playing with the lid to the big decorative milk jug and trying to put it back on. I helped him, and he surprised us with ‘otherwise’: “Otherwise fall into the empty.”
We left soon after, and drove out to Willow Point Park in Manson.. We first played at the playground, where he went down the slide with Carly once. He also played with Bluie a bit and was dropping sand on Bluie, then shaking it off. He saw Carly looking down at the water and asked what she was doing. I told him she was checking out the beach area. He replied with “checking if cold or deep”. We went down to the beach, but August wasn’t too excited about either the sand or getting in the water. Carly went and changed, blew up the inner tube, and went floating. He and I made one sandcastle, but then did some climbing on the rocks before going up to the playground again. He ate some strawberries and climbed on the ladder a bit. He was looking through the backpack and said “What else in there?” He was interested in the berries that had come from some tree, and I was explaining how some berries can make you sick, so we couldn’t eat them. He started talking about “like Children’s Grand Park…” and someone eating berries there. Not sure what he was referring to; perhaps I had given him the same talk about something there. He saw Carly out on the water and eventually decided he wanted to float with her. So I changed him into his swimsuit and he floated with her several minutes. Kind of different from yesterday with the big waves from boats. He did fine with it, but wanted to face the shore; he started saying “No, no, no, no” when she rotated to face him out.
It was time for a nap, so we started to get going. They sat under a tree and nursed for awhile, then we drove into town and parked and put him in the backpack. We walked east, and he fell asleep at 2:20 and headed for a coffee shop only to find it would close at 3. So we went to the sub shop and shared a Chelan Cheesesteak. Then got ice cream. Carly was sitting outside when he woke up at 3:11. He saw my ice cream and the first thing he said was “What dada got?” So he ate my cookies n cream blizzard thing, repeatedly pointing in it and saying “See bluish cookie.” Carly came in and he saw the cup from our lunch. I told him it was Pepsi and he said “Mama needs Pepsi.”
Put him back in the backpack and walked through town. Looked at the shops in the old Eagles building. At one point he said “What’s going on in there?” We then walked through Allisons and looked at art. He of course most liked the fountain in the middle.
We then headed home and got back in time to say goodbye to Paul, who left a bit later. Referring to fridge or something, he used ‘needs to’, saying “Mama needs to open it.” They went out an played in the wading pool. For quite awhile he would just stand in it, but then Carly got in her bathing suit and got in. A minute later he suddenly sat down for a few seconds. After that he was kneeling, and letting water out of the pool by pushing down the side. We ate dinner of the spaghetti that Carly had made and zucchini and green pepper from the garden. After dinner we were putting stuff away and August was looking at stuff in the fridge. He got out the container of salad stuff and asked what it was. I named off some of the things in it, then he repeated his “What else is in there?” question.
In the evening, mom went walking with us up to the cemetery again. On the way up, a cat with a short black tail came over to us and was friendly. We stopped and petted it, but August was too afraid to pet it, although he kept saying “Here kitty, kitty, kitty.” We finished our walk and came back down and the cat came running up to us. We are pretty sure it is the same cat that he petted last year from the carrier, although I haven’t gone back to the photos to check. Anyway, this time August was still afraid of it, pulling back his legs when it came close. But eventually he overcame it, and started touching the cat. I then got him to actually work on petting the cat and not just poking.
We came home and Carly gave him a bath. They went straight down to bed and he was asleep at 9:45.
New words/phrases: otherwise, what else, what’s going on in there?, needs to
Cuddling with Bluie at my feet:
Peek-a-boo:
Willow Point Park:
Hiding from the bug on my hand:
Eating my ice cream:
Wearing my glasses on the ride home:
Wading pool:
Evening walk:
