A long but good last day. August was up at 6:20, which was quite early. He nursed a lot and was then pretty clingy to mama for much of the morning. Cherie skyped with Cassie, and August was very excited and making a lot of noise. Vivian told him to go tickle Opa, and he did, chasing him around the island. He would then go back to Vivian and suggest himself “Go tickle Opa” and then go chase him again. He and Carly did art on the big paper, writing ‘Z Z’ and ‘Zinn Zinn’. He read ‘Z Z’ then patted his chest. He then wanted to play in the bedroom while Carly started packing, so I watched him in their. He ate cereal and toast for breakfast, then played with Oma while we packed. They first went down to the sandbox, I think, then went and picked a peach. Brought it back in the house and he ate the whole thing. They went upstairs and he played with the buttons on a fan, and helped her take apart her feather board (should have gotten a photo of that one before she took it down). He wasn’t interested in the feathers, but loved the pins, and finding out which color was on the head of each. He then carefully put all of them in the pin cushion.
We were going to go visit Steve and Claremay, so got in the car. He played in there for quite awhile before we left, pretending to drive. He would pretend he was driving somewhere “Turn to the ocean” and then drive some more and say “Now we’re back!” We did go to Steve and Claremay’s, and Carly went in and started talking to her grandpa while August played longer in the car. I took him in at one point, but he didn’t want to play with the toys inside and we ended up back in the car. But eventually he wanted to go in. Claremay gave him a fresh green bean, and he wanted to go pick things in the garden. We went out and he picked a pea, but rejected the green bean. We then picked an apple and he ate part of that. We took a photo of Carly, August, and them before we left.
We had thought about picking up lunch at La Tarasca, but decided we were running late, so just went to Safeway. Did our shopping there. – Carly and I confused each other when I thought she had said ‘graham crackers’ and she had actually said ‘garden burgers’, but then she didn’t remember saying that to me when we entered the store. Anyway, confusion solved, we headed home and he went and fell directly to sleep. And slept and slept, 12:40 to 3:40.
After he was awake, we went down to by the sandbox with Carly and Chuck. played with sand a little, but mainly did other things. Got the little ball, and he threw that around, sort of working on overhand. He asked Carly what ‘beer’ was in Spanish. I took him down and we picked a peach and a plum. Back in the house he ate the plum, and much of the peach. Then we had dinner: a delicious pasta dish (had bitters in it), and fresh squash and green beans that Claremay had picked while we were there.
After dinner, I went to the store because we had forgotten a supply of medicine for August. I told August I was going and he said “Okay. Bye.” Listened to some of Hillary Clinton’s speech on the way down. Came back to find Chuck and August rocking in the rocking chairs on the deck, singing a nonsense song. Apparently they’d been doing that since I left. Got to see the end of it, as August then started to tip it over.
We went for one last walk with Chuck and Cherie – perhaps are last through the wooded area down the street. August was in the backpack. He started yelling “Safeway!” at cars as they passed. Totally his joke. I think after the first one he said something about “maybe going to Safeway.” We walked through the trail area and came out the other side, then walked up the road and picked a bunch of blackberries. August finally ate the ripe ones! And kept eating them and eating them. Several from Chuck and Carly, then I had a whole hand full of them as we walked back to the house, and August ate all of them.
We got home and ate apple pie (Cherie made it from apples Claremay had picked) and ice cream. August had his fill. A really good day of eating fresh food. I gave him a bath. He wasn’t happy about it, but Cherie saved the day by pulling out a frog hand puppet washcloth thing and using that. He really liked that, and the rest went fine and I was able to wash his hair. Took him down, and he was asleep about 9:45.
Morning:
Claremay and Steve’s. Picking and eating an apple:
With Seve and Claremay:
Nap:
Sweeping:
On a walk:
Evening: