He was up just before 7. At 8 we walked Carly out to her bus stop. He got sad when the bus came and I held onto him, but after the bus left and we started to walk back into the park he calmed down right away. In the park I got out the new spray bottle and he played with that. He did keep talking about “Mama coming home” but he wasn’t acting upset. Sprayed with that by the floor fountain, then went over to the playground and helped him on the climbing wall. Then we went over past the dinosaurs so he could push the buttons on one of the signs. That was by the rock garden, so he ended up climbing on the rocks for awhile before we headed home.
At home I took a shower. He played outside the shower and did just fine. I came out and he went and grabbed a USB drive out of the little box under my laptop and brought it to me. I said “Thank you”. He walked away saying “Mama said ‘No, you can’t play with dada’s things.”
We got ready to go, and headed to the water park up by Madeul Stadium, him in the stroller. Along the way we stopped and watched a couple of cicadas low down on trees. We got to the water park and headed in. There, he didn’t want to put on a swimsuit or swim diaper, and barely touched the water. It was really crowded though, and the wading pool area is full of spraying things and big kids bumping into you and splashing all the time. Eventually though he did stand one step into the big pool area, and jumped in the water at the edge of the wading pool. But the big thing for us was the new spray bottle; he walked around sucking water from it and spitting on the ground, and by the end of our time we were both using it to spray each other quite well.
Eventually, he decided it was time to head home. We got home just after noon, and right before Carly walked in the door. He was happy to see her. On the way up, I had been asking him what he wanted for lunch, and he said “cereal”. So he and Carly had cereal. Then she tried to put him down for a nap. But he was just too excited. He kept popping back up and talking. I tried to help a couple times, and took him out of the room so Carly could rest. He would try to sleep, laying down and closing his eyes, but then would start talking again. So, no nap. It was funny though seeing how attached he was to Carly; at one point she got up and went and got a Pepsi. He got up, followed her to the kitchen, grabbed his water when she got her Pepsi, then followed her back to the bedroom.
I was working on an online class for recertification of my teaching certificate, and August was helping Carly clean and kept wanting to find more crumbs. We then did some art on the iPad, and watched some video. I was then spinning him on the office chair, getting him really dizzy. He nursed, and we were talking about going for a walk to the park. He said “Go to the park and nurse.”
We went for a walk just around the park, and to show Carly the stream area that is on. We looked at that, then ran into a woman who is the new 5th grade teacher at APIS. We talked to her for a few minutes, and August found little rocks and threw them in the water. We went to Home Plus, and he was really into stepping on and off the moving walkways all on his own. As we entered the second basement we passed all the plastic food at the food court and I asked him “which should we try next?” His answer: “Anything!” He was holding up his pants a bit as we did our shopping, as they were a new pair of shorts. Reminded me of when he used to do that all the time. Before we left, we headed up to the second floor so I could get a flyer with class times on it. August saw the airplane ride things, and sat in all of them, and pretended to drive/pilot. That entertained him for a good 5 to 10 minutes.
We finished our shopping, then headed home. Carly was carrying the big box of diapers and walked ahead, as August was going slowly. August and I then got stopped by a total of 6 different people on our way home: two people handing out flyers for things, a mother with two kids on the bridge who wanted to know where we were from, a couple women on the bridge who said he was cute, Preacher by Dunkin Donuts, and a guy that said August looked like a doll. Very strange.
At home, he had some spaghetti for dinner. Carly took a shower, and August really cried. When Carly got out she took him right in and he was asleep before 7.
Morning outing:
To water park:
Water park:
In the park:
Home Plus: