August and I went to Wenatchee with my parents today, leaving Carly to have some alone time to work on her classes, He was up at 7:45, and spent about 45 minutes nursing and reading with Carly. Since I was taking him later, she played with him in the morning while I did some work. They played outside a lot and did sand castles. Back inside, I found out that August knew exactly how to move the cursor to choose and send emoticons in Skype, sending them to Vivi. They then skyped with Cherie. Carly fed him some spaghetti before we left, and he again requested pepper in it. Finally, he requested that Carly blow bubbles in the milk. Don’t know if I’ve mentioned that, but they’ve been doing it for several days.
We headed to Wenatchee at 12:30. I sat with him on the way down. He got upset once on the entire trip, and it was as we were reading the Richard Scarry counting book and there was a picture of firefighters spraying water; I mentioned it was like the hose he watered flowers with, and he instantly got sad because he wanted to spray water and knew he couldn’t. He ended up cuddling with my teddy bear, which he had brought with him.
We made it to Wenatchee and to the clinic where my dad had an appointment. There was a toy area and he started playing with my mom with the train. He hasn’t really played with a train at all, and really liked it. He particularly liked pushing it through the tunnels. At 2 my parents went in to the appointment, and we played a little longer. I got him away from the train as he was overdue for a nap. We found a book of colors in Spanish and went out to the couches and read it a couple times. He was rolling around and lying on the couch, and said “Sorry dada for pinching”, which happened yesterday morning. I took him in to the bathroom to change him, and he wanted to see the faucet on. I turned it on, then started to set him down and he said “See lavender soap.” That surprised me, as I hadn’t even noticed the soap. Not sure it if was the picture on the bottle or the word that he noticed. Later I asked and he said picture.
We went back out and got in the backpack and started walking in the 100 degree heat for a nap. Tried to stay in the shadows. After about 10 minutes I thought we were good and went in Hastings, ready for the AC. But August’s head came up. Walked in the shade of the building for another 5 and went back in only to find that they have permanently closed the coffee shop. I consulted Google, and found a pottery/coffee shop a block away called Inspirations. Went there and got an iced latte and sat down and listened to Christian music for the next hour+. My parents showed up and got drinks and we waited for August. He had fallen asleep at 2:30 and woke up at 3:18 but then fell back to sleep. At 3:45 I started to try to wake him up, and at 3:50 he started to slowly wake. It took awhile, and he clung to me. He especially didn’t want to get in the car, which he was afraid would be hot. Eventually we got in and drove over to drop of batteries for recycling, then headed down to the park by the river.
Got out and started walking. August walked on the gravel on the side and in the bark in the flower beds. He was fascinated with the flowers and learning their names from my parents: begonias, petunias, geraniums, and especially snapdragons. My dad showed him how snapdragons work, and August wanted all of the flowers to snap. Eventually he understood it was just the snapdragons. We kept walking and found a place in the shade with some river access. Got out the picnic mat and ate our peanut butter sandwich and strawberries. He wrote ‘lavender’ and other words and letters in the sand with my mom, and he sat on a log in the air that we could shake. I had taken some photos, and he wanted to look at them. He would look, then turn the phone so my parents could see. He would say “Do you see this?” and “Oh my goodness.”
We walked a bit further to find the stream by the boathouse. He saw a dog coming the other way and had me pick him up: “Uh-oh a doggie…might tickle it…it’s okay…not barking.” At the stream, he sat on the railing and we watched a mama duck and 4 ducklings. We then went down and he threw little rocks in the stream. On the path he had also hidden from a family walking the other way and said “Hiding from kids.” As we were leaving, there were people by the kayaks and you could tell that he was deciding whether he should hide or not as he had his hands at the ready.
We walked back to where the car was and he liked the sculpture of a frog and pointed out its body parts. I changed him, then he went with my mom to see a tortoise sculpture. We then left, although not taking the red or blue cars like he wanted.
We drove to Pybus Market and went in to look at restaurants choices. Something about the place – the big room, the people, the woman singing on a stage – was overwhelming for him and he kept saying “Go outside.” So we settled on a place called South, right at the end by the car, as he could see there were windows and outside seating. We sat outside. At first, August was concerned about closing the door to inside, but we convinced him it was okay. He sat on a regular chair and did just fine. The sever gave him this little bendable sting-like toys, and we had fun making shapes and letters and things out of those. He shared fish tacos with me, and ate the rice, beans, fish, and tortilla. He got a few spicy bites or rice, but he just grimaced and requested water, and then would eat more rice. Really starting to handle some spice.
We was fine walking through the market after that. Then headed home, sometime after 7, He sat in the back with gramma this time, although at first he didn’t want her to read the books and wanted me to read them instead. On the way down we had read the Wheels on the Bus pop-up book several times and he wanted that again. Got out the water writing thing for him and he was fine after that. He had also really liked the tunnel on the way down, and remembered it as we got close and my dad asked him what we’d be going through. He was also really trying to figure out place names and what they were, particularly ‘Wenatchee’ and ‘Chelan’, asking “What Chelan look like?”
At home, he was most interested in following Celeste in the yard, but was thrilled when Carly came out. They nursed, then I gave him a bath. He surprised me again by this time pointing out the coconut soap on the counter. I mentioned this to Carly later, and she said he had done it the other day, although neither of us remember pointing out what it was. I gave him a bath and washed his hair, which went well. He was studying the shampoo bottle and asked where the penis was on the girl on the bottle, even though you could just see her head anyway.
Got him ready for bed, then he was learning to stick his tongue out with Carly. I then took him up to say goodnight to gramma and grampa. He showed them how he could stick out his tongue. He also wanted to say goodnight to Uncle Paul, but we reminded him that Uncle Paul was gone. Took him back down, and he was asleep about 10.
New words/phrases: snapdragons, coconut
Asleep on the floor:
My glasses again:
Sad with Teddy:
At the clinic:
Awake in the coffee shop with a mark on his forehead:
The park:
Up the hill with grampa:
Playing at dinner:
Headed home:
