At 4:20 he was talking in his sleep: “Can Zinnie go pink building?” And at 5:55 he suddenly threw up on the bed. I cleaned up the bed and started laundry while Carly cleaned him. I stayed up with him for a little while, and he laid on the bed and drew in the air: “I draw an H in the loopy loop home.” I went back to bed for an hour or so, and when I woke up August was asleep on the couch. Carly was sitting on a cushion on the ground in front of him to make sure he didn’t roll off. He woke up and nursed around 9. I got recycling ready to go and was literally going out the door when I heard him throw up. Went back in and helped clean up. I was then going to leave, and he wanted to go with me. He was just in a diaper, and started to put his shoes on. When I said he had to stay he got really sad and went to Carly. When I was downstairs I got gatorade for him. He was suspicious of it and wouldn’t drink any at first, but did later. He was being kind of sad and we weren’t sure why, so I had Green Monster singing for him. We then did piano keys, and were starting to play xylophone together. I was teaching him to play the same thing as me, and were working on the beginning of Are You Sleeping, when he threw up again.
Cleaned up from that, and then skyped with Chuck and Cherie, who are somewhere on the way to Mexico. August then threw up a third time. Thankfully, it would be the last time of the day. After that, he fell asleep around 11. With the doctor being closed on Sundays and only open to 1 on Saturdays, we figured we should take him down, so we got him up at 12:15 and went down, only to find that they were closed Thursday to Friday because of the holiday. Carly took him back up, and I went to the pharmacy to see about Pedialyte, or something like it. They had something, but we need a prescription. She said we could go to the internal medicine clinic next door, which was open to 3.
August and I read a ton of books on the ipad in the reading area – Swirl by Swirl, Rain!, The Perfect Hug, Goodnight Already!, The Curious Garden, some Frog and Toad and probably others, and he ate some crackers and apple. I was making him take it slowly, but he was clearly hungry. He got up and started counting blocks with the zookeeper and Carly. They then were working on subtraction. He started counting the blocks in one of his made up languages, and wanted Carly to do it. His energy was clearly back. She tried it, but he wanted a different made up language, and started talking about how there were two options. They then took apart the Peter Rabbit puzzle and worked on that. He then started talking to me about polygons, asking about different numbers, and making up his own combinations of names, for several minutes.
We were eating some soup and getting ready to head out. Carly asked him if he wanted more soup and he said “No, I’m full. Thank you though.” and ran off.
We got him in the stroller and headed to Toys R Us. We found it to be quite a zoo, but it went well. August played with play dough, using a roller to make a pattern, and saying “That’s a pattern”. He then played with the magic sand stuff, then with the toys on the baby bouncy chairs while Carly looked at strollers. We found some stuff: chalk, a puzzle of Asia, an ocean puzzle, a Monster Mix card game, a play dough set with letters and numbers, and a stool.
From there we headed to Hangeulbi Park. Carly headed to the swings. August hung on the bar around them and watched for a minute and did some singing, then wanted her to get down and play on the structure. He went down several of the slides and did some climbing. He then went and was bouncing on the teeter totter when he spotted the play dough set and wanted to play with that. Got sad when we said it was for home, then wanted to nurse. We headed out, but they nursed for a minute near the entrance before we left. Carly carried him much of the way home.
At home he and I got the play dough set out and started playing with that while Carly started his bath. Made several minutes, then he helped put all the play dough and letters/numbers away before we went and I gave him a bath. After his bath, he and Carly got out the monster cards and looked at those, then they started the ocean puzzle. I worked with him on that a little, then he wanted the map puzzle. Got that, and I ended up putting most of it together to make sure all the pieces were there. He was tired, and Carly took him in and he was asleep just after 8.
Asleep on the couch:
Sleeping animals:
Toys R Us. He said “That is a pattern” at the end:
Static:
Walking home:
New toys:
“It doesn’t match”:
New puzzle:
