Saw it up to 97 degrees when we were outside this afternoon. Only 95 when walking around the park to see if he would take a nap.
Today was the first day that Carly went to work before August woke up. He was not ready for that transition. He woke up at 7:32 and spent 10 minutes mostly saying “Want to go outside” and crying before he calmed down. About 5 minutes in I decided to distract him by making a smoothie. But because he wanted to go outside he fought me on that: he was trying to shove the freezer closed when I was getting out fruit, and once I had the bags on the counter he was trying to take them and put them back in the freezer. Finally, when I actually started to put things in the blender he calmed down and things turned around. He turned the blender on today himself. Once. After that he let me do it. Once the smoothie was made, we sat down and watched Zinnie videos. He actually wanted to see one of himself sad, so I’ll have to take a video of him upset sometime. While I was drinking my smoothie, he pointed to my glass and said “This is glass”. I took a shower and he watched YouTube videos – mainly Wheels on the Bus. I changed him, but he got up before putting on a diaper. He took the diaper in to the reading area and was lying on the reading area, naked, playing around with the diaper for several minutes, hugging it and what not.
Eventually, we headed out in the stroller. Tried to stick to the shade as we headed north and went to the park north of Madeul with the broken fountain. Was pretty sure we’d be too early for the fountain, but thought it would be a nice place to play anyway. We got there, and August immediately noted that the fountain wasn’t on. I pointed out we could play there anyway, but then he said “There’s no kids here.” We talked about heading to the spider web playground where there might be kids, and he got back in the stroller. It took me a minute to get going though, and he changed his mind and decided he wanted to play here anyway. He got down and played with a cup in the water fountain a bit, then went over and picked some green berries off the bushes. He asked for food, and we sat on the ground and ate a snack. He started eating crackers (the sweet potato crackers left over from Centralia) and asked for cheese and ate cheese and crackers on his own: clearly something he picked up from us as we do it all the time, but I’ve never had him do it.
We headed home, and made a teriyaki salmon sandwich for lunch. Twice during the day he told me he needed to pee in the toilet and did it. We were watching Yellow Submarine and developed a game where he would turn the volume down, I’d protest and turn it back up, and he’d laugh. He had a toenail coming off, and wanted the clippers, so I got them, but then he wouldn’t let me clip his toenail. He just kept saying “Zinnie can do it.” but doesn’t really know how to use them. He ended up joking about pinching me with them and I had to take them away. He then got interested in his wooden tool set, and really got into hammering – some good hand/eye coordination practice there. Also worked on using the wrench. Randomly, he asked where the “crunchy sprouts” went. I didn’t know what he was talking about and he said something about mama. I emailed Carly and mentioned it and she said they went in her pho. Several times in the day, August sang the first verse of “Yellow Submarine” by himself. He’s got the words down pretty well. We read The Wind Blew. I was sitting in the reading area and he was standing up when suddenly a drilling noise came from next door; he shouted “What is it?” and jumped onto the reading area and into my arms.
We went out in the stroller to see about a nap. We stopped at Mama Juice, the new juice place we went to the other day, and August got an apple juice and I got an iced cappuccino. We went over by the fountain and watched as we drank our drinks. We Then did three laps around our side of the park but no luck. So we went over to the art museum. First to the play area, where he went on the trampoline with a couple other kids and basically just jumped for ten solid minutes. We then went and saw some of the art, going upstairs. He liked one video piece that had text scrolling across the ground that you could stand on, and headphones you could listen to. Then went to the library and checked out three books. But you can only check them out to read out in the cafe. So we did that for a few minutes, but didn’t last long. Then we went to Home Plus. August got down to do the moving walkways and help with shopping. Got broccoli and onion for dinner, and August picked out a grapefruit. He spent several minutes smelling can’t in the bins. He was asking what each was (“What is this one?”), and I would say “I do not know”. So he started saying that himself after smelling each one. Finally had to drag him away from that.
At home, he helped clean and put food away and we started making the broccoli and onion for dinner. Carly got home, and then August was playing with his cube thing and sat in it. He kept playing with the fan and we were trying to dissuade him of that one. He wanted to watch more Zinnie videos, and he discovered the thumbs up/down buttons and liked pushing them and wanted to understand them. Carly gave him a bath, and he was sitting in the reading area with Carly and saw the light switch for the hall, and asked “What this light switch for?” That is something he is asking everywhere we go; in the art museum in particular he was noting all the switches around the building. Carly tried to get him to go to sleep starting sometime before 8, but he kept getting up. I took him out a couple times, and she fell asleep. He finally fell asleep with her sometime before 8:30.
Morning:
Park:
Home:
Art museum and Home Plus. Apple juice by the fountain:
Play area:
Art museum:
Home Plus:
Home:
