When he woke up in the middle of the night, I heard him whisper several sentences. Didn’t catch the specifics, but he said ‘Opa’ several times. He was then up close to 8, and excited to see Oma. They explored the office supplies drawer. I measured him with a tape measure, and he is 35 and a half inches tall. Cherie was then teaching him to use a stapler, then they ate yogurt together. Then, the first deer of the day as he and Carly watched a couple off the deck. I took a shower, then after that he was playing with the bubble thing again, and watched Mary Poppins videos with Cherie, particularly “Love to laugh”. I finally got him downstairs, and we played in newly-filled-by-Chuck sandbox for a good long time. Back inside, Carly used the word ‘tempting’, and he wanted to know what it means. She explained, and he caught on, then started listing things that are tempting: “That’s a tempting thing”, he would say. Apparently throwing things is very tempting to him, as he listed sever of those: throwing chalk, throwing water, throwing grass. Chuck got home, and August absolutely screeched as we talked to him through the door. Carly was eating a salad, and someone asked him “Do you like salad?” He replied with “Not much”. Finally, he amused me when he climbed on a chair and said to himself “You can sit here, if you want.”
He slept from 1:45 to 3:55, but woke up and fell back asleep twice in there. After he seemed to wake up I skyped with my parents. He enjoyed seeing them but was having a rough afternoon; the ‘tempting’ thing of throwing the shells down the air vent was too much for him, so eventually we put the shells away. Finally, I got him outside again. We just walked around the property, starting with the new driveway for the motor home. We got up there and startled two deer. We then started following them around the property, finding a third along the way. We continued to follow two down the hill, watching them eat and poop along the way. He wanted to find the deer poop, and we did and studied it using a stick. After about 40 minutes we made our way back to the house.
We had pasta and mushrooms and salad for dinner. He ate a ton, and did pretty well with a fork, although still tends to wipe his hands on his shirt, so we still had to change him at the end. Cherie mentioned something about him jumping like a monkey, so he wanted to do ‘Five Little Monkeys’. So he and I went into the bedroom and acted that out a couple times. He was then back out with Oma and Opa and they started doing one and two finger hugs, and cheek and nose and forehead rubs. He would do these a bit later at Steve and Claremay’s, and then as he was telling them good night. Chuck and Cherie left first to make sure Steve and Claremay were at home (they didn’t answer their phone), and August got sad, saying “Want to go in” while pointing to their car as it left. Once we got the call they were there, we headed over as well.
At their house we hung out outside. He remembered the monkey-faced pansies, and found a spiderweb and did some entertaining, running around between us. He went inside to find toys at one point, but went downstairs instead, where he got fascinated by the baseball that was left playing on the TV. Then, he figured out how to turn the channels, and kept asking “What is this?” I finally got him away from that, but it was funny as he hadn’t shown much interest in television at my parents’.
Back at the house, we spotted some deer while getting out of the car, and he and Carly watched them. She then went inside, and I watched them with him for a few minutes. I gave him a bath, and he was really into smelling soap, as usual. He used their bar soap to wash himself, then at the end of his bath Cherie let him smell a bar of sandalwood soap. He said nice goodnights to Oma and Opa, then we took him in and did some reading. I read him the Strawberry Shortcake book that is around, then he took awhile to drift to sleep about 10:10.
New words/phrases: safeway, tempting,
Our walk studying the deer. Deer poop:
Steve and Claremay’s:
Forehead rub:
Watching the deer before we went in:
