A very happy wake up at 6:25. I was still in bed and he asked where mama was, then ran out of the room and found her. And when Carly left for work he was with me and happily said “Bye bye” and even said it a couple of times, quietly, after she had gone out the door. After my shower, he helped put lotion on my leg, and wanted to make it squiggly. He thought the lotion looked like “A worm…a broken worm…that Colin stepped on.” For the record, I don’t know of Colin ever stepping on a worm – or August, for that matter. We also played with his Teuni jungle gym pieces and turned the cube into a double cube/rectangle thing. He stood in its couple times, then escaped.
He wanted to go outside, so we went out in the stroller about 8:30. Over by the art museum, we ran into the guy in the straw hat that Cherie had taken a photo of last year. He was cleaning with a broom. Talked to him for a minute, and he remembered meeting her. Museum didn’t open until 10, so we walked around and ended up back at the playground. There, we played on the exercise equipment and ate letter crackers. I also helped him climb on the climbing wall. He’s getting a bit better, and a couple times was hanging on the wall by himself. When we first got over to the art museum I noticed that August had a red mark below his right eye. At the playground, before he got out, I asked him where it came from and he put his head down on the stroller, as if it was from there. It was still around in the evening, and when Carly asked he said something about bonking his head on the stroller. Interesting, because it was quite a mark, but he didn’t get upset about it. Also interesting because he is now starting to be able to tell me things I don’t know: A couple times now he has also been able to tell me where something is if I ask him.
Close to ten we headed home, stopping to get our iHerb package. Went up and opened it. August was most excited by the peanut butter and more vitamins: “Want to use peanut butter…want those omega-3 vitamins.” Hasn’t said ‘omega-3’ before, but has asked what his vitamins are in the past. We skyped with my parents for a long time. He spent much of the time using the toolbox, screwing and hammering, then working on his Duplo zoo. Really starting to look like a big kid when he plays with it.
We made a salmon sandoo for lunch. He has told me he prefers ‘water’ instead of ‘wawa’, but ‘sandoo’ is apparently still okay. Ate lunch, then watched YouTube videos, finding nursery rhymes and songs in Spanish. Then went for a walk in the stroller – up to Madeul Stadium and then back along the other side of the stream. No nap, so we continued on to the art museum.
There, he played with the locks on the umbrella rack for several minutes, figuring out how to use those. We went and looked at art, listening to the headphones one and catching the blowing things once, then went to the play area. He took off his shoes and on the tile, then on the padded surface said “it’s cold there, it’s warm there.” He climbed just barely further than he has before, but still has a whole section he hasn’t been in.
A little more art, then we headed home, then caught the bus to APIS. We got off and went to the water park across the street. But any hopes of playing there vanished when we had to take our shoes off to go in. August got upset when I took his off, and wouldn’t calm down (he’s kept his shoes on every time we’ve gone in the water). So out we went. Went to the other end of the park, where the playground is, and he wouldn’t let me set him down. He fell asleep at 3:20. I laid him down on the bench. At 4, Carly sent an email saying she was down with her meeting and asking if he was still asleep. I started to respond with ‘yes’ and he woke up. I took him to APIS, and he got upset when we entered the school, calming down when he saw Carly. For some reason he has decided he doesn’t like that place.
They nursed, then he played at her desk while she got ready to go. He particularly liked her Washington rain globe. He looked at it then said “I’ll just set it right there.” I had said it was of Washington and told him what all was in Washington, and a bit later he picked it up again and said “This is where gramma and grampa’s home are.” He liked her pushpins and asked how they worked. Carly showed him, and that turned into a game of him getting pushpins and taking them to her, then telling her where to place them on the board. While doing it he said “I’ll get another one. It’s helpful.”
On the bus home (and on the way there) he wanted to know the name of every stop. He also started talking about his favorite color, first saying “My favorite color is yellow” but then saying “blue…red…black…orange”.
Carly wanted to go to the art museum to see if it would work for a school project. So we went there and August showed her the blowy things, the gun piece, and the headphones one. We then went to the play area. Carly asked if she could slip away, and I thought she meant to go home. So when August decided he wanted to leave a minute later, that’s where we headed. Carly called as we got close to home; she had meant to go look at art. So we met her in the park. He and I had been coming up with funny juices, and had ended up on insects. He ran up to her and said “Beetle juice!” That is one he came up with all on his own. He then had fun asking her for ant juice and beetle juice as we headed home.
At home, we had a can of beer open, and at one point he picked it up and carried it to Carly and said “You need this.” This apparently goes back to Centralia and when he once grabbed Carly’s allergy medicine and she actually needed it and told him so. He has since brought stuff to her, expecting the same reaction. Carly wanted to go down and get bread, and August wanted to go, but then he started working on his Duplos. She asked if he still wanted to go and he said “Work on buildings first then (go).” They went down, then we gave him a bath and got ready for bed. He and I picked out a ton of books for reading in bed. Out of nowhere he started to decide that some books were daytime books: “That’s for day time. I’ll just go put it away.” He would then walk out, put it on a shelf, and come back. Spent so much time choosing books, that I only read half of Imogene’s Antlers and then he was ready to turn of the lights. They were asleep at 9:10.
Cube:
Playground. Crackers:
Climbing:
Art museum. Umbrella stand:
Sitting alone on the bus:
Asleep on the bench:
Visiting mama:
Headed home:
Evening: