He was sleeping in this morning, and at 7:50 Colin got upset about something and started crying. I ran to the door of our bedroom and, sure enough, a second later I hear August asking “What is he crying about?” Morning was mostly about getting ready to go to the beach. I did spend some time with him, looking at the San Diego Zoo books. He really liked looking at all of the animals, and decided he wanted to tickle them. The best was him saying “Want to tickle the snake in the exhibit.”
We left at 9:40. I was sitting in the back, next to August. Carly was driving and Cassie was up front with her, with the two other kids in the middle. Chuck and Cherie drove the other car. We sang some songs along the way, and Colin fell asleep. August wanted to see, but he couldn’t really see Colin, so I took a photo. August wanted to take photos then, and took a decent one of his legs. Vivian was needing a break from the drive, so in Aberdeen we planned to go to the Scoops ice cream and coffee place. I asked what flavor of ice cream August wanted, and he really thought about it: “What flavor in the ice cream you want?…blackberry…want the strawberry one.” Once there, he was most drawn to the bright ones, like sherbet and bubble gum, but really he was open to a lot of them. Carly got bubble gum for her, and I talked August into blackberry revel, which we shared, and I got a latte.
As we continued our drive, we sang more songs, and August started making up songs. He sang about all of the people in the car, and Mama and Tia Cassie being his favorite, etc. Around 12:30 we made it to the cabins at Iron Springs. We went in and said hi to everyone, then all walked down to the beach. Claremay came down with us for awhile, then headed back up. Colin basically threw himself down in the sand and started playing. Cassie stayed with him and the rest of us went down closer to the water. Carly and August started making a sandcastle. Vivian got the bucket and took it down and brought up some buckets of water to pour out. Then she started collecting jellyfish in it. August walked over to the water with Cherie. He didn’t really get wet or anything, but suddenly he started hugging her legs, and stood on her feet. She didn’t know what had happened, but would take the cuddles. Very, very cute. Cassie did bring Colin down for awhile and he was playing with a shovel on the sandcastle, but eventually just decided he wanted to run out into the ocean and got upset when he was told no, so they went back up and I believe nursed and took a nap.
August and Vivian spent a long time in full jellyfish collecting mode. August appears to have really learned ‘yucky’ and ‘ooh’ from Cherie as she responded to this activity, but it didn’t deter him and Vivian from picking up the slimy jellyfish bodies and putting them in the bucket. We had one ‘rogue’ wave that sent us all running back. Cherie had picked up August and run backwards with him. As I ran, I realized it would have been an awesome video, alas did not catch that.
I wanted to try to get August to take a little nap, so I put him back in the backpack and we walked through the entire resort area, and saw all the cabins and viewpoints. Chuck and Cherie and Vivian had headed up with us, leaving Cassie, Colin, and Carly down at the beach. Carly was finishing up her complex of 3 connected sand castles. There were berries along the walk through the forest (which August really liked) and we looked at those a bit, but couldn’t look them up. Anyway, he fell asleep at 3:15 and I put him in the bedroom of the cabin. They had prepared a full meal, so we ate and were stuffed.
He woke up at 4:10. They were about to sing happy birthday to Claremay in the other cabin, so Carly missed that as she was nursing August. When he was up for it Carly brought him over and he had a spicy ginger cookie, which he liked except for one spicy bite, and dipped it in the frosting of the carrot cake I was eating (but he wasn’t too impressed with the cake).
In front of the cabin, August hit Colin again. Vivian is trying to take care of it, and sternly said to August “Go home August. Go to Korea.” Which was frankly very funny.
We drove back the same route. Vivian had heard August playing the Cookie Monster/Elmo letter/word game on the iPad on the way there, so on the return we let her play on our iPad, and August and I watched an episode of Daniel Tiger on hers. Cassie and Carly switched seats in Aberdeen. We were almost home when first August started to get upset. That set Colin off as well, I pulled out the animal crackers again, and August was fine, but Colin could not be placated. He was pretty upset for the last 3 or 4 minutes.
While we got stuff out of the car, August stayed in, playing around in it. Carly got in and put on my sweatshirt and hat. She asked August who she was, and he said “A triangle”. He was wondering what the buttons in the car do and started speculating, but couldn’t decide “Maybe, maybe for if want to move but…woof woof woof.” Like he couldn’t think of anything, so decided to just bark instead.
Inside, he hit Colin again and I took him into the bedroom for an ‘actual’ timeout; ‘actual’ because August actually got upset about it and didn’t find it fun, and had to be upset for awhile when I wouldn’t let him out of the room until he agreed to say sorry to Colin and Cassie and say he wouldn’t hit Colin again. Unfortunately, it still didn’t have a huge impact as he did still more hitting later. Cherie had suggested giving the attention to Colin instead of August; not sure how that will work though, as August seems to be doing it as a game (Colin has yet to get upset) and not out of spite, etc.
Anyway, Vivian had a bath and August watched/played but wouldn’t get in today, then Carly gave him a bath. About 9:30 Carly realized that August hadn’t eaten in quite awhile, so he and Vivian both had cereal while sitting at the island. He was asleep by 10.
On our way:
Ice cream:
The beach:
At the cabin:
Home. Not getting out of the car:
Evening cereal:
