The house as a whole was pretty much up by 6:30 (except for Thatcher who kept sleeping and sleeping). August woke up once, but Carly nursed him back to sleep, then he was up again a little after 7. Carly played with them down in the sand area, then she went to take a shower. Chuck was down by the sand area, but August also wanted to go see Oma, and he sand a little “Oma, Oma, Oma…” song. We walked up into the house and saw Eddy, then went into the bedroom and brushed his teeth. We heard someone crying and each guessed who it was – I said Kayla and he said Kayla. We were both wrong as it was Colin. But it was kind of our first guessing game. August and Colin ate a snack together on the floor, then everyone ended up out in the driveway and played there a lot through the morning, using the water guns, scooter, butterfly thing on a stick, etc. We went inside, and he played with the noisy ball thing on his own for awhile. We ended up playing outside again, and August touched a moth and it flew away. We spent several minutes finding moths and flies and butterflies on the side of the house and studying them and touching them.
He took a nice long two hour nap in the afternoon, waking up around 2. There was more playing outside, then he sat at the booster chair and ate some pisole (sp?) and did a lot of talking about it. Everyone was then on the deck, playing, and they got to taste Cherie’s yogurt, which he also liked. He nursed, then we took the kids for a walk in the forest.
August took the play syringe with us, so he was giving me shots in the neck and shoulders as we walked. Also, Derek and Andrea had brought our pink water bottle down from Seattle, where we left it, so we used that again, much to August’s joy. We stopped to pick blackberries, and August was focused on that, so we did that for several minutes. We caught up with everyone else and walked back with them, stopping at the big pile of gravel so that Vivian, Thatcher, and August could climb and run down it several times (August holding my hand). We were then walking back along the road, August holding my hand, when we saw Andrea walking towards us, with Kayla. August got really excited, but then was looking at them and stepped on the edge of the pavement and fell, scraping his left knee. Bled pretty well, and I carried him back to the house and we washed it off in the sink. Carly nursed him while I dried it off, and she was able to get a bandage on it later. While he was in the bedroom, Vivian and Thatcher ran around cleaning up and decorating and put together a couple plates of snacks for a surprise party for August to make him feel better.
He came out, they surprised him, then I got him soy milk. Vivian wanted the same cup with emoji faces and got upset when she couldn’t happen. But later, sitting at the table, we were acting out and defining the different faces on it. I fed him som pisole, then we were playing out on the deck, and Vivian once again got upset when August was using the butterfly.
We ate dinner, after which I changed him, and we started talking like robots. August liked that, and has a pretty good robot voice. Out in the hallway, August started pushing the buttons on the big toy cars that then drive back and forth rather randomly. He stood up on the step of the living room, saying “Don’t like it, don’t like it, don’t like it…You DO like it.” Vivian and Thatcher were sitting on stools at the island, eating veggies, so August wanted up too. Got him a chair and he climbed up next to them and actually ate a couple of pieces of carrot – he’s getting more into crunchier foods. Cherie noticed the rocking chairs outside rocking on their own and joked that it was ghosts. August first asked what ghosts were, then thought it was really funny to watch them and kept wanting to see the ghosts.
He was then upstairs and watched Vivian and Colin take a bath. Out in the hallway, he sat on Colin’s lap, which was funny and Colin didn’t seem to mind. A bit later August and I started to fill the bath, but then he was off, following Vivian and Thatcher. Eventually, Carly got him back upstairs and gave him a bath. I came up at the end and rinsed his hair. In his bumblebee pajamas, he then pretended to sting Uncle DD and Eddy, using one of Vivian’s shoes as a stinger. He was asleep somewhat earlier this evening, around 9:30.
Snack with Colin:
Squirt guns:
Kayla with the banana:
Sideways:
Giving me shots:
Green blackberry:
Walking:
Scraped knee:
Sitting together at the island:
