He walked out at 8:15. My book group meeting started at 8:30. He came in a few times and did lots of ribbits. He and Carly took recycling down. He came back in at the end and said bye to everyone. He talked to Peter a bit, but mainly interrupted us with numbers. He played with the calendar on my iPad, and was suggesting what we could do that day. He chose one day and said “We can go to Peter’s house.” Another was “the toilet museum.” Afterwards, we read the Korean elephant book, then made ducks and then polygons from Duplos. His tummy seemed to be bothering him, as he said “There’s a rumble in your tummy…your tummy’s upset…you have gas…”
We Skyped with my parents. He played hide and seek with them. First I was putting the pillow over the iPad, but then August would pick up the iPad and ‘hide’ them someplace. He tried putting them in the closet, but the iPad was on the cushion in there, slightly sticking out, so when he closed the door it closed on top of the iPad. Took a bit to get out, but it was okay. Carly tried to put him down a couple times for a nap, but no nap today. At one point I asked if he wanted a peanut butter sandwich, and he said no. So I made half of one and he ended up stealing it and eating most. Later we shared a tuna melt for lunch. Carly and him were ‘experimenting’ with the yoga mat, rolling it over, etc. and a rubber band broke.
We were discussing S sound at the end of words, , and I mentioned that it makes an ‘S’ sound after K. And he immediately came up with ‘thanks’. I then said ‘t’ and he immediately said ‘knots”. I think his focus on the end sound of words comes from both the rhyming thing and from Korean.
We were working on a grocery list, and Carly got out paper, so August had to write on it. He was ready to go walk around Home Plus, but it took some effort to get him out of the house. A couple times in the morning he called Carly ‘Girl’, as I occasionally call her that.
At Home Plus we first looked at pants for him, and got one pair. Carly went to get something else, and he and I headed downstairs. Sort of. He wanted to push the stroller himself, but steering it is hard. He wanted to look at shoes, and I asked if we were looking for shoes for him or me. He said “Dada. Because those (pointing to my shoes) are old. We need to buy new shoes. They’re not shiny.”
We all got downstairs and we were getting some of the groceries. He was walking behind me and tripped over my foot. He was upset about that, then upset further when I wasn’t letting him put his hand in his diaper. Rather sad by the time we met up with Carly. She held him and I went to get the pizza. Wasn’t quite ready, so I got a chicken nugget sample and delivered it to August. Went back and got the pizza and we headed home. On the way home we stopped to look at the ‘cabbage flowers’, as we call them, which have suddenly appeared the rotating planters in front of buildings. August liked the little drops of water beaded up on them. He picked up a leaf that had fallen on them. A few seconds later I looked down to see him licking it. He said “You licked the water off. You’re a cat.”
At home we all had some pizza. He was rhyming words and said “Peter meter…that rhymes…they end in eter.” Also, randomly, he was saying “It’s all my fault.” Something, I think, he’s heard Carly say. And when looking for Carly he said “Whered mama go? She’s not over here. But I don’t see her.”
Derek texted to say he was on his way over with Rosie. Carly stayed at home to cook the veggie curry rice and work, and I took August out. We were there a few minutes before them, an August wanted to stand/walk on the bar again. He joked “you’re causing problems.” He was also wanting me to let go of him while he was standing on the bar – today he was working on balancing. He got down, and then went and climbed over the little fence (he couldn’t do that last time) into the dinosaur foot prints area. He was playing there, dropping things in the water, when they showed up.
We wandered around that end of the park with Rosie. August was really into walking along the curb, and then climbing all over the rocks at the petrified forest area. I had to change August, and he wanted to do it outside, so we did. Logan and Jill showed up after awhile. We were all together for a couple minutes, then Jill and Rosie headed to Home Plus, and we went with Derek and Logan over to Pink Building. They were getting food for dinner, and we met Carly there. The boys played around there – August liked looking through the glass door at Carly, and he saw Logan climbing on the big granite balls and wanted to climb on those. Before we headed our separate ways, Derek picked up both of them.
Carly, August, and I went over to the pink building to find the bowling alley that Carly is going to on Monday as part of a field trip. Did that and headed home. August kept saying “You had a fun day.” When I asked what made it fun, he said “Derek”.
He coughed at one point and said “you have the wheezles.” Which is from the Christopher Robin poem. Carly used her phone flashlight to find something she dropped, and August wanted his flashlight – the one he got this summer from Gramma and Grampa. The batteries were dead, so he helped me put in new ones. He was then looking for this, and put a measuring spoon under the washing machine so he could find it. He said “I’m good at hiding things and finding things with this flashlight.” He also got out his old trumpet rattle thing and was playing it and singing. Carly gave him a bath, and he was asleep sometime after 7:30.
He’s asking lots of “What happens if…” questions nowadays.
Duplo tower with mama:
Cabbage flowers:
Climbn the fence:
Socks off:
The rocks:
Rosie:
Playing by Pink Burger:
Climbing the stairs:
Flashlight:
