He sat up and said “Dada” at 7:10 then fell back to sleep. Back up at 8. Carly asked if he wanted to lay on the floor, so he did. They nursed and then he did a little play dough. We then drew hearts and triangles on paper. Then Carly Skyped with Cherie. August needed to go to the toilet, so I took him. He pointed back saying “don’t talk” to them – kind of like yesterday with my parents. Later, August was reading sentences that Cherie typed to him. After that, Carly did recycling and ran to the store. August was typing on her computer, and pasted in a letter she had typed. He then spent a lot of time “fixing” her punctuation: “Something was wrong on mama’s typing.” He also figured out how to change the bullet style and color, and that typing a sad or happy smiley face turns it into an actual emoji-type of picture. He then lay on the couch and was singing random letters, then numbers. He wanted the songbook in iBooks, and was singing to it when Carly got home.
She finished the veggie pancakes and August ran and got his stool. He wasn’t upset even though she had basically done it all. I went and took a shower. We had planned to meet Derek and his kids at the eMart play area, but Rosie was sick so that all changed. Instead, we ended up meeting the babysitter and Logan at Namu Play Area, over in the pink building, while Derek stayed home with Rosie. August found his bracelet before we left and was wearing it, and wore it all the way until we got into the play area and started playing.
We got there at 10:30 or so. He wanted a drink, so we ordered kiwi, so they were out of that. He settled for pineapple. We went in and he first went to the ball area and trampoline. He seemed to remember the place pretty well, although we haven’t been here in 9 months or so. He tried throwing some balls at the back of some moms’ heads, but I stopped that one. He saw Logan roll down the trampoline and tried to do it himself. Didn’t quite get it straight, but still had fun.
At 11 the train went. He was intrigued by it but didn’t want to get on. Instead, he went to the car things and chose his favorite one with the cell phone. I pushed him around in that for awhile, but then he saw the train going and got out and was regretting his choice and sad, trying to climb over the fence to it. I held him for awhile, then we went in and played with Duplos, then cut the plastic fruit. Our pineapple juice came, and we went back out to the bench. He wanted Puffin Rock stories, so we sat there and drank our juice and coffee and I told the Baba learning to swim story twice and the Oona and Mama fishing story.
Yewon, the babysitter, said they were going to go eat. Derek was treating. We went in and ordered a sweet potato pizza. While waiting, Logan poured his own water and spilled some. Not too bad. But then he intentionally poured an entire cup of water on the table for the fun of it. August saw Logan drinking out of a cup, and so he did it himself, declaring “That’s another big kid to do.” Looking out the doors, back at the play area, August said “Wait a second. What’s that over there? What’s going on in there? I don’t know.” Finally, right before we left to go back in the play area he saw a wom and said “That’s a she. Zinnie is a she.”
We had missed the second running of the train at noon, so that will have to wait for another time. Back in, they mainly spent their time in the ball area and trampoline. August had been reluctant to jump on it with a lot of other kids at first, but got more comfortable with it. Logan came and tackled August a couple times and August was fine with that. He rolled around on the edge of the trampoline being silly.
At 12:30 Yewon and Logan had to get going. Logan didn’t want to go, and ran back in and hid up in the play structure. Yewon and I had to go up and get him out and then herd him to the exit. August decided he wanted to get going to, so we walked out with them, made sure they got a cab, and headed up to home.
Carly had gone to work to help some students with NHD projects. So he and I first did some drawing on paper, then he played with ShapeKit on the iPad. Took one of his last big creations, where he had duplicated a bunch of shapes, and animated it, then created a big interesting shape that looked birdlike. Watched some Puffin Rock, then we put the piano back together and played. Taught him about the chromatic scale. He then went to the bathroom, and wanted to play with bubbles in the sink. Did that, and took his shirt off as well. He did some more writing on paper (writing ‘sizle’ again). He wanted to go meet Carly at the elevators, but didn’t want to put on clothes. He ate the rest of the pancake that Carly had made him in the morning, then some strawberries. He was talking about wanting a salmon sandwich, but wasn’t interested in the other foods I had to offer.
Carly got home aroun 3:20. They nursedand read, then were just cuddling in the reading area. I brought him the pineapple juice and he drank some. They then did some painting. She was trying to get him to dab at the paint instead of wipe it – both for how it looked and because she doesn’t like the sound. He was also talking to himself, saying “What you doing? I’m painting with mama.” Before we left he requested the jump rope songs, so we listened to those a bit before we left.
We headed out to walk to Pizza School to get pizza. August wanted the backpack, but we were a little concerned he was going to fall asleep. He assured us he wouldn’t. We got up there, ordered pizza, walked around a bit, and brought it home. As we got close to home I told him “You made it!” Then as we walked into the apartment he shouted “We made it!” We all ate some pizza. Carly gave him a bath, during which he requested Spanish songs, so I turned on Basho and Friends. He was then typing in Pages, before singing from the songbook. He wanted to draw the bass clef, so we went to the paper and did that, and did other notes. Carly couldn’t find one of the loose boards that goes under the counter in the kitchen, so I said “August! Mama needs your help finding something!” He literally said ”Ooh!” and jumped up and went and got his flashlight and did indeed locate it under the washing machine, then reached in and pulled it out. Getting those AAA batteries really paid off.
He was hungry before bed, and Carly made him one more pancake. He ate most of that, then went to sleep about 8:50.
Wearing his bracelet:
Duplos:
Pineapple juice and Puffin Rock stories break:
Trampoline fun:
Home. ‘Sizle’ again:
Painting with mama:
Finding the board:
