He was up a bit before 8, he and I getting up at the same time. After he nursed, we did some painting. At some point though he got a bit crazy and was trying to roll on the wet paint, and got upset when I stopped him. Carly took him for a bit. He then watched Puffin Rock, and I took a shower. Carly made Swedish pancakes, and August really liked it. He asked “Why I like this?”
We pointed out the presents. He wanted to open them, although he hadn’t pointed them out before. He started pointing at one in particular. I tried to Skype with my parents, but they weren’t online. We opened one of the presents from Dee and Grant. It was a musical Wheels on the Bus floor puzzle. He played with it a bit, then decided he wanted to play with play dough. He and Carly did that. They first made large numbers, adding digit after digit, then made words. August first requested ‘aquarium’, so they made that, then I suggested ‘pirarucu’, which is a large freshwater fish that we see at the aquarium. Carly was joking around with August and asked August if he knew what to do with used wrapping paper. She then threw a piece at him, and he looked up at the same time and it bounced of his forehead. He didn’t complain, but he reached down, grabbed the ball of paper, and walked over and threw it in the garbage. Game over.
We skyped with my parents and we opened all the gifts from them and Dee and Grant: cool kaleidoscope things, shirts for me and Carly, a book about the symphony, and a Zoo on the Loose game from my parents, and a puppy dog and vet set and four musical floor puzzles from Dee and Grant. Carly asked what the name of the puppy was, and August named it Minkalinkamoojangli. Luckily, it is Minka for short.
After skyping, Carly took him in to try a nap. They came back out though. We played with some play dough, then made some cocoa, and put together nachos for lunch. August will only eat the dry chips still, refusing even the slightest bit of even cheese. He and I then read all three Berenstain Bear books together (new baby, double dare, get in a fight). During the last one, August wanted his sunglasses, so I got those out for him.
After that, he took a long nap from 1:30 to 3:20 when Carly woke him up. They nursed, and at first he was trying to go back to sleep. They used the vet kit to take care of the animals from the zoo game. Carly then got a popsicle out for him, and he sent Carly Skype messages from my iPad.
We all headed out for a walk at 4:30, him in the bike. We walked up the stream and to the spiderweb playground, at August’s request. As we went, he was touching the trees as we passed them. As we approached the playground he sang a “Spiderweb Playground” song.
At the playground he first went to the swings. Carly got on the other swing. He noted that we all were wearing glasses: “We both have glasses.” At one point he noticed that Carly just had her arms wrapped around the ropes of the swing, and wasn’t actually holding them. He warned her “You’re not holding on mama.” And at one point he kept requesting that I go and do the teeter totter. All by myself.
He was ready to head back and go to the pink building to get vegetables for stir fry, but as we walked across the playground he said “I guess I want the spiderweb first.” He climbed and sat on that for another 10 minutes, and said that his spider name is Sunon. Before we left he had to have one more shift on the swings.
We went to the pink building, and I took him to the bathrooms at the movie theater, where he used the urinal. Carly went on and did the shopping, and was done when we got back. He spent some time looking at the claw machines they just put in (the latest fad in Korea), then we headed home.
At home he watched Puffin Rock, and I put on Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 (the one featured in the book). August and I read part of the book, too. Carly made stir fry. August ate some, but not a lot. He was then typing on Carly’s computer. He had seen Carly do the ‘paste’ command, and now figured it out himself.
Carly went and took a shower, and he was hungry, so I got him a bowl of stir fry and he ate quite a bit. We read some Pooh, then on the toilet he unrolled a bunch of paper. I saved it, and had to hold it above my head as he was being crazy and trying to rip it apart more. Carly gave him a bath. He was not happy with the hair washing. After which he and I read Creepy Carrots, Hug Machine, Peppa Goes Swimming, and then the Gaston book a couple times. He really likes that book now. I lost him at one point as he went to Carly, but then came back, and he went and used the toilet a couple of times. Finally, we used the vet kit to take care of the polar bear.
Carly took him in to bed at 10:15, but they were back out at 10:35 for a couple minutes. I got ready for bed and they were back in bed telling Puffin Rock stories. First Carly told one (a vegetarian story), then I told our two standards (Oona fishing for Baba, and Baba trying to swim). We were really trying to get him to go to sleep without nursing, and he was close, but ultimately too upset. He fell asleep at 11:10.
Mixing paints:
Looking at presents:
Opening presents:
– https://youtu.be/WGj3xxuB2Nk
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– https://youtu.be/4cwuc9iMxhw
– Being a vet:
– https://youtu.be/ff8N8hKiW9k
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Singing to the symphony book: Getting to the playground:
Glasses on the swing:
Bubble catching:
Swedish pancakes and Puffin Rock
Big numbers
Rolling on the (dry) paint
Words
Kaleidoscope shapes
Opening puzzles with me
Hot cocoa
Reading Berenstain Bears
Swinging together
On the spiderweb while Mama spins
Presents:
Afternoon walk:
Evening:
Photos. Big numbers:
Rolling on the (now dry) paint:
Words:
Cocoa:
Reading Berenstain Bears:
Spiderweb playground. Swings with mama:
Spiderweb:
Home:
