He got up at 7:30, same time as me. Lot of nursing through the morning. Soon as he was done nursing he wanted the iPad and did the Hangeul app and then Oceans. We looked up photos on my iPad of the animals. Carly got him Cheerios for breakfast, and was trying to get him to use the spoon himself, but he didn’t want to do that. Then had some banana bread. He and Carly then skyped with Chuck and Cherie in Utah, after which he was cuddling with Carly on the reading area. Got him his vitamins and he remembered getting 7 yesterday, as I had dropped one and he found it later.
We headed to Dream Forest. On the bus, as we went under the underpass, he said “That was a kind of tunnel.” We walked up towards the playground and he wanted to get out of the backpack half way. He then sat down and played on the walkway, looking for bugs. He noticed people walking by: “two people went that way.” Busy at the playground. We sat in the shade and ate lunch. He sat in the corner between the post and the backpack, then in sort of a nest between Carly and me, before sitting in her lap. We did a little playing on the playground. Went up the stairs and tried to go on the shaky bridge, but it was busy and he never went. Back down I noted it had opened up and asked if he wanted to go back up: “Nah. It will be crowded.”
We went up and changed him, and they nursed up in the place with the metal chairs. We went for a walk on the trail along the hillside. He slept from 1:56 to 3:30 in Cafe Dream. He started to wake up a couple times but fell back to sleep. Changed him again, then we walked home around 4:20, leaving through the north entrance and walking over across the stream close to APIS and then home. I asked how he was doing, and he replied by joking that Smokey was mama. Had fun with that for awhile. Talking about Smokey reminded him of trees, and he was asking for the names of trees. He was also apologizing to pretend snails we were scaring, saying “sorry double huh snail.”
Along the way, we found a big playground in an apartment complex. We played there awhile, mainly with Carly going up on the structure with him and going down a slide a couple times. As he was climbing with her he said “thanks for talking to me…this is helpful.” He then climbed the big climbing wall a couple times with my help, and played at the top of it. Before going on the wall for the firs time he said “that makes Zinnie’s a little nervous, but not much.” Before we left he wanted to keep playing and I offered him one more climb and asked “is that a deal?” He replied “No. That’s not a deal.”
As we walked we saw a shirt: The Passion Ate Youth. Not sure if that was intentional or not. He was singing and added to his “…went to work and got some money and ate some food“ line by adding “and spilled some milk”.
At home he was singing, pretending to play the xylophone, saying the notes he was playing “1, 1, 3, 4…low, high, low, high, low, high…those are the notes.” We ate some dinner, then were playing on the iPad. He and I put a bunch of his made-up words in the tracing app for him to trace. He was playing with the new music app when Carly was taking a shower and it froze. He went and played with the magnets for awhile, but was then upset when it was still resetting. I had to keep him from going in the bathroom and he was still upset when she got out. He was also doing some more dancing to the Aphex Twins while he was playing the iPad. I gave him a bath. He was counting the digits in large numbers, and working on saying them (he has hundreds down, but has troubles with thousands), and counted to 30 on his own. Later, with Carly, he counted to 37. He also stuck letters to himself in the bath. Back in the parlor he wore his ducky towel on his back and curled up on the floor like a nautilus. He went to sleep about 9:30.
Morning:
Dream Forest:
Walking:
Playground:
Walking again:
Home:
Tracing his made up words:
