Up at 7:30. He only slept eight and a half hours. He then played with Kayla and wanted to “Tickle Opa!” Everyone except Vivian was up and playing in the sitting area by the kitchen. At some point I mentioned Glecy and August said “Want Auntie Glecy teach you how to play…” Later, when playing with Colin, Colin said “tru tru” and August looked across the room, went and grabbed a truck on the floor that Colin seemed to be looking at, and said “Truck please” as he brought it back and gave it to Colin, as if telling him how to ask for the truck. I took Kayla for awhile and carried her around for about a half hour. She did a good job slobbering on my shoulder as we watched August, Vivian, and Thatcher play with water balloons. Glecy was up, and making delicious flan, and August wanted to get in her car. We got the keys from her, and Carly and I played with Vivian, August, and Kayla in her car.
Derek and Andrea and their kids left for their week down on the coast. Vivian got upset as they left, and I was holding August on the deck as we watched them drive away from the lower driveway. August got his really sad face and had to go to Carly. Back inside, about 11, Carly got out her old eraser collection and August and Vivian looked through erasers with Glecy and Cassie and Cherie.
Close to noon my parents arrived and we played with them for the next couple of hours, including with more water balloons. August played with and sang to Colin as he sat on Cassie’s lap, and then sat with Colin on the step and they did a forehead kiss. It was then time to say goodbye to my parents, which involved a lot of high fives. I walked them out and said goodbye.
Cassie then skyped with Jeff in Eastern Europe and August said hi to him and played peekaboo with him from the side of the screen. Glecy was the next to leave, and the last of the goodbyes for the day. After that, Carly tried to get him to take a nap, but he was too wired. So I put him in the backpack, and he fell asleep after just a few minutes. I walked through the new set of lots down the road and finished listening to a Planet Money podcast before coming home. He slept from 2:10 to 3:15. Carly nursed him back to sleep, but he was back awake at 3:40 when he heard Colin crying and we heard him say “what he crying about?” Carly then took him up to see Colin. I ended up with Vivian and August and we were smelling the shampoos and conditioners in the shower, then Vivian put a couple of bandaids on me.
Cherie had made her yummy green soup, and August had some for an early dinner. He decided he wanted to put pepper and salt in it, and hilarity ensued as he kept wanting to put more and more in. He ate it when it was amazingly peppery, but I dumped it out when he managed to grab the salt and dump a bunch in. Cherie filled a shaker with rice so he could pretend, and he kept at it.
In the evening Carly and I took August and Vivian down to Borst Park. Carly started out following Vivian, and I had August. August was in the swing for a long time, and Vivian came over and pushed him. He started chanting “beetle” for no apparent reason and other people nearby joined in. I pushed him pretty high, then Carly helped him hang from a short bar by his hands a few times. We then went over to arched climbing structure. Vivian went up a couple times, but got stuck on the top and was a bit scared. But then I suggested she needed to figure out how to turn around and then she could go down the other side. I spotted her once and she did it, then she climbed the entire way by herself 3 or 4 times. Meanwhile, August wanted to do the same, but Carly couldn’t reach him when he got above the 4th bar. So she made the rule he could only go to the 4th. But then he kept trying to climb higher. Carly took Vivian to the bathroom, and I took over. I was explaining why he couldn’t climb to the top yet, but he argued “you’re ready to go to the top.” We went over to one of the play structures and August went down the slide on Carly’s lap. We then went and pushed Vivian on the swings together. Finally, a little after 7 we headed home. August had really put up a fight getting in the car seat to come over, but did a better job on the way back and had fun sitting next to Vivian.
At home, Carly and Cassie played a little horse with the basketball, then we headed inside. August and Vivian took a long bath together. Vivian was very nice to August today, and when she heard that he didn’t like bubbles or toys in the water she agreed to do her bath that way. Once they were in, she started to slowly add toys in and he ended up having a lot of fun. Carly then read some stories to the two of them, and Vivian headed to bed. She started crying, and August could hear her and kept asking “What she crying about?” Cherie had suggested acting these sorts of things out with dolls, after August’s difficulty getting to sleep last night. So Carly used her old teddy bear and acted out Vivian being sad, rocking her to make her feel better, and then Vivian going to sleep, then getting up and playing in the morning. August really liked this, and would have the bear cry, rock it, then put it down to sleep. I left about 9:30 when August started nursing and was cuddling with the teddy bear. He was asleep about 9:40.
Morning:
Eraers:
In the backpack for a nap:
Putting on a bandaid:
Playing on the bed:
Green soup and pepper:
Headed home:
Horse:
Reading:
