He was up at 7:57, saying “Mama’s not going to work.” They nursed and read a few books from school, the dinosaur book, etc. A little bit later, I found a peanut butter stain on the play area and washed it. August said “Maybe it is Ligo…or Justin’s.” He’s already used the name of the other brand we used with me, but I asked what the name of the crunchy kind was and he said “MaraNatha”. He knows these from the times he’s eaten peanut butter with a spoon and he will ask what each kind tastes like, and want to mix them.
They did some more nursing and reading, then I went and played with him. We read part of a Bob Book, then he wanted me to read books in his funny language, so did that. We did the piano keys together, then he left and went in to find Carly. They pretended to talk on the phone. Back with me, we tried to skype with my parents but they weren’t online. We put stickers on the paper, emptying a couple of sheets. He made a big shape out of square stickers. Then he did a little drawing of shapes, and then some block art out of the blue counting blocks and some random blocks I found. Then he went into the changing room and put the floor tiles back together. He remembered the shapes app, so I got that. Started it up, and he reminded me to change it to Spanish. A little more nursing with Carly, then he was doing the Elmo alphabet app and a couple others.
We all went to the pink building. He helped me with the shopping, and wanted to get another slurpy thing. I think he got peach again. At the end, we were waiting near the front and he saw hair band things with colorful beads on them and was looking at those, and working out how to put them back on the hangers. Then he found the bracelets and was trying them on. He really liked those, and asked if we could get them, but when I said not today he put them back. Oh, and he talked to the bracelet. We stopped on the way home and Carly got a baguette at Mainz Dom. We tried that when we got home and had little sandwiches.
He took a nap from 12:45 to 2:09, and got up to nurse after 40 minutes. After he was up, we read Frog on a Log. Carly had made peanut sauce, and made her veggie rolls, making a small Zinnie roll. We ate those, and he ate most of his roll and dipped some carrot and cucumber worms in the peanut sauce. She also made sweet potato fries, and we dipped that in. We had got also got cranberries at the store, and I was saying it with a hard ‘cr’ at the beginning. He picked up on that, and was repeating it. We were going to go outside, but before we did, he wanted to do a robot clean up of the crayons on the floor. He was then talking about the ‘student’ game with Carly, where he helps with her seating charts, and talked about “P z o o is my student.”
We headed out, with the stroller, and got drinks at Mama Juice. We learned we could order his without sugar, so he had a banana one, and drank it all. We walked north, then got down along the stream and walked up almost to Sanggye. Saw a dead frog and a living moth like the one we saw crawling at the youth center along the way. And he remembered the broken tile piece, so we had to keep our eyes out for that and found it. We went up to walk along the street on the way back, and spotted a coffee shop across the street to check out. Went across, and August stopped on the bridge to see the duck. He sort of stood up on the edge, with Carly behind him, and was then making fun of her fear of him falling, saying “Jump jump jump fall” and “pretend fall”.
We walked back parallel to the stream then turned off towards Toys R Us and went to Lily Children’s Park. Played on the play structure, climbing and going down slides. We sort of took turns with him and each did some reading. It started to rain, not too hard, and we sheltered under the play structure for a minute. We saw the exercise equipment seemingly moving on its own and he liked that. Carly said it was a ghost, so then we were shaking the sitting toys, four at once, and he said it was a ghost. He then wanted the ghost to practice the climbing wall with him, so we did that for several minutes. It was getting towards dinner time – just before 6 – so we headed home. On the way home he was talking to every car and tree and bush we saw. Carly helped out with the replying.
At home he wanted the shapes app, so he did that. We ate dinner, more of the rolls and peanut sauce. He ate quite a bit. He and I did some Duplo art. He pulled the green base to the middle of the carpet and we did it there. He wanted me to work with him. At first the colors were all random, but then he had the idea of sorting them by color, switching them so there was a section of blue, etc. We did that, and he said “Sorting is fun.” We then kept adding on to it.
Carly gave him a bath, and then while changing him he was singing Five Little Monkeys, but changed it to “Four little dragonflies jumping on the slide…” Carly finished making up the rest: “Four little dragonflies jumping on the slide, one fell off and broke her hide, mama called the doctor and the doctor replied, “No more dragonflies jumping on the slide.”
Back in the parlor, he sort of finished the Duplo art. He started talking about how there were pieces missing along the edge – “Supposed to be…” and counting them. He talked about this quite a bit, walking around the room and really getting into it. After that, he and Carly went in to bed. He was supposedly tired, but they were back out pretty soon. He did a little more playing, then went in and was asleep about 9:15. We played a little nest in the bed before he went to sleep. We were playing with GG. He didn’t want to share his nest though, and took her over to my side of the bed to sleep, and wanted me to go sleep there as well.
Morning:
Store:
On the walk. Pointing out the broken piece:
Park:
Home:
