Plans to go to Dream Forest with Derek and the kids were scuttled when he wanted to come over here instead. Rain in the afternoon then forced us to do a short walk, and we ended up at the art museum.
He was up at 6 with Carly. I was up sometime later. She made stovetop and rice cooker lasagna this morning that turned out really well. He and I did puzzles, starting with one of the sticker puzzles we got last spring at City Hall, then real puzzles. He continues to tell me to go away when he is about to finish a puzzle, even if I was barely involved with the puzzle before that. I had on the live stream of a Dresden Dolls concert from Coney Island, so we watched that (and the opening band PWR BTTM) as we played. He asked about the songs a few times. Got out his iPad and we played with the Arctic app for a good amount of time. When playing with the musk of he said “I have not seen one.” Then played Classify It, completing a few levels together, and the car app, which I hadn’t seen before.
Derek had headed our way around 11. I was making banana bread and still watching the concert, so wasn’t planning on going out until noon. Around 11:30 though they came up as it was raining. August was shy at first, first hiding in the parlor. Got him out for a couple minutes, and he helped me get cars out for Logan. He was also intrigued when Rosie was upset. Then nursed for awhile, after which he came out and played. We did more puzzles, and after they left August just worked on puzzles on his own for a few minutes. He then took a nap, and it was a long one, from 12:20 to 2:17.
After he woke up and nursed, he and I played with the musical instruments (there was also a lot of piano keys today). I showed him how the sound of the cymbal changes depending on how you hold it. He really liked that, and was demonstrating himself. I was playing a rhythm on the cymbal with a drum stick, and he grabbed the tambourine (which we hadn’t used yet) and started playing along.
Eventually, we headed out. Planned to go to the parks north of Sarang Children’s Park, which Carly has never seen before. But then it started raining. Steadily. When we got out, August wanted pants on, although he refused a raincoat, choosing the stroller instead. We walked over to the art museum and went in to the play area. He wanted his pants off to play, so I took them off. As he went into the play area he said “Thank you dada!” He was jumping and singing 14 little monkeys. Carly went to look at art, and when she came in I asked him to jump and show mama. He said “Noooo. I’m full of 14 little monkeys.”
When he was done we ended up looking at some art. Hung out in the lobby for awhile, as it was raining hard. I went up and looked at some of the photographs, and they were looking down at the progress on the new exhibit downstairs. The blowy things turned on once. We then went upstairs so he could use the headphones. Up there, I found a room with projectors projecting colors on the wall and floor. He hadn’t seen that, and spent several minutes in there, watching the colors change. Headed home, still raining. He didn’t want his pants back on before we left, but that changed once outside.
At home, he played nest with Carly. Then he and I played Musyc and Figure. More nest and nursing. Then we stacked blocks and did some matching, before spending a lot of time with Figure. He wanted me to play Wheels on the Bus, and I made a mistake and said something about a wrong note. He kept wanting to know “where the wrong notes go?” Spent several minutes explaining and demonstrating, but a difficult concept to grasp.
He peed on his own a couple times, although I think once it ended up on the floor of the hall as he didn’t make it down there in time. I gave him a quick bath – he took in his old toy that went on his high chair, and pretended to wash the lizards and monkey and bird and insects. The toy wasn’t actually in the bath, but we would pretend the animals would crawl or fly in one at a time and then wash them. After his bath, he took me in to bed for “Zinnie and dada bird” Eventually he wanted mama bird though. I said something about mama and baby bird. He stood on the floor and patted his chest with both hands and said “Zinnie is baby bird”. He was asleep at 8:40.
Puzzles with Rosie:
Walk in the rain:
Art museum:
Wet boy:
