He was nursing at 5:50 but fell back to sleep until he woke up at 6:10. When I got up a little later he was lounging on the reading area. A couple minutes later he unscrewed the water pen and spilled it, but then wouldn’t wipe it up when Carly asked him to. A couple time outs and then some separation from Carly while she got ready. But he was calm by the time she left and just asked for a kiss and said bye. We spent a good long time playing with GarageBand. We then played with play dough. He said that one of the balls was going to Safeway. Then called a squished red one a “kimbap spicy worm” and joked about eating it. I changed his diaper, but didn’t get a new one on right away, so he had some naked time. We did the puzzles on the floor and found all the pieces. Then got the box of animal dominoes out of the toy box and took them to the living room and was teaching him to play dominoes. He was quite into that. We played on the piano, then played the “More sad” game, inspired by singing The Wheels on the Bus.
I’d been in touch with Derek, who was bring the kids over to our park at some point. August was ready to go out though, so I figured we would walk to Toys R Us. But on the way there he surprisingly fell asleep a block away. The earliest he’s fallen asleep after waking up since we’ve been back. So I turned around and sat outside the coffee shop at the corner of 2001 Outlet and he slept from 11:40 to 12:40. At that point, Derek had been in the park for awhile now, so I started to push August over there and he woke up. We met up, and first went to the playground, where August was still waking up and wouldn’t get out of the stroller. So he sat in it and watched Logan play with his bubble gun while a couple of bigger kids came over and batted at the bubbles. At 1 the fountains turned back on and we went and played in that. Logan was all about the fountain, whereas August was most fascinated with Logan’s bubble gun and played with that. He also liked talking to and playing with Kayla in her stroller. August did get close to the fountain with me holding him, and we both got pretty wet.
THe fountain turned off at 1:30, and we went with them over to Burger Ton, where Derek got lunch for him and Logan. We stayed outside the door with Rosie and Logan while Derek ordered food. August wanted to go in, and twice went in with Derek while I stayed outside with one or both of the other kids. That was pretty big for August. In fact, Derek was pretty excited by how August wasn’t scared by him this time.
They then came up to the apartment with us and we’re here about an hour. Derek shared his French fries with August and the kids played. At one point August got in his cubes thing and was acting like it was a bus and was then singing. Eventually they took off, and August actually seemed a little sad for a moment. But then he went and played with his Duplos on his own for a few minutes. We then got the set of wooden shapes blocks out and played with them for awhile.
We then headed out again, to Toys R Us again. On the way he started saying things like “What is six twenty-six?” If it was a time, I would say what I thought we were doing then…sleeping, playing GarageBand, etc. That went on and on and I was running out of things, so I asked if he wanted to do math instead and he said yes. So we started chanting addition tables, and he was counting along from 1 plus 1 to 1 plus 4 on his fingers, and also roughly hitting his back against the stroller in rhythm to the chanting.
At Toys R Us he got out and spent quite awhile trying out the big toys: like a bus that is a play house, little slides, and a tricycle. We wandered around a little bit, then looked at the books, but didn’t find anything worth getting. We headed back, and went to Home Plus to do some grocery shopping. We were running late, so he stayed in the stroller until we got up to checkout, then let him out to help put things up and take them off. Got him a new pair of sunglasses, red, as his blue ones disappeared after Saturday.
Got home at 5:30, after Carly. He sat up at the table with Carly to eat dinner, and told her “more talk to me”. After dinner, he played more GarageBand, then Carly gave him a bath. We read Kipper together, then Carly attempted to put him asleep. That didn’t work, so he was back up. Started a ‘cleaning the squares’ game, where he asked what was on each playmat square and would then pretend to clean it: I said things like drool from Kayla, ketchup from Logan, etc. We then did more of the pretend soup making using a pot, then they nursed. He was asking what each flavor was as he nursed, and said of one “This is gum. I’ll save it for later.” He played Duplos on his own a bit more and was singing, then eventually headed off to bed, about 8:30.
Morning:
With Derek and kids:
In the restaurant with Derek:
French fries:
Blocks:
Walk to Toys R Us:
Back home:
