We’ve had such great success with the underwear that something had to go wrong at some point. His diaper leaked at 3:30. We haven’t had that happen in a couple months. With all his talking in his sleep, I wonder if maybe he was pulling at his diaper too. Anyway, with the changing of him and the sheet, he was awake. He and Carly got up and went in the parlor and I stayed in bed. She tried to bring him back in at one point to go to sleep, but he couldn’t, so they went back out to the parlor. She apparently slept a bit, and he nursed and watched Puffin Rock. I got a little sleep in there, but never fully went back to sleep after they tried coming back in. So I was up at 5:40 or so and reading until they came out a little after 6.
I sliced some banana bread for him and me, then a minute later put it in the microwave again to warm it back up so I could put butter on a slice. August felt it, took a step back, got an accusatory look on his face, pointed at me, and said “You made it hot!”
Carly had gone back in to bed for awhile. When August realized she was missing, he wanted to go find her. He said he was going to be careful with her, but when I suggested he let her sleep, he made his “Bee!” noise. I talked about how he needed to develop ’empathy’ and it took time with his developing brain, etc. His reply to that was “I don’t want to learn empathy. I want to be loud.” Later in the day, can’t remember why, he told Carly “I don’t have empathy.”
But then he wanted the Human Body app, so used that on the couch, then we read Berenstain Bears No Girls Allowed. Carly got up, and they skyped with Cherie. August met a couple of her friends, then was yelling or something to her and saying “I bothered Jamie!”
He wanted Carly to write words. He had found one of the little sets of index cards. She wrote ‘light’ and pointed out that it was a funny word to spell. He didn’t believe her: “No, mama. Try again.” He then made up a word and animal: “Smo” A mammal that lives in the water that’s larger than a whale.”
He wanted to ride his bike. I told him he could after his nap. He said “No. I just taked a nap on the couch. I already did it.” He had, indeed, just pretended to take a nap on the couch.
But he soon fell asleep for a nap, and took a long one, from 10:10ish to 12:21. He woke up upset. They nursed and cuddled on the reading area. Carly went to the store, and he and I looked at the Human Body app. He then found the Tinybop Earth app, and we talked about things like erosion. He played with the Spin Monster game, then Carly got home.
Megan was coming over, and they were cooking food for a teacher at the school who just had a baby. I was trying to get August out of the house and to the play area, but he wasn’t expressing much interest in going out today. Megan arrived, and was wearing a ‘sushi cat’ t-shirt. August asked “I don’t know sushi cat. What’s sushi cat?” She had brought stickers, so they took them off and put them on the table together. Later, we would put them on the card for the new baby. He watched when Megan started chopping vegetables, then was in the parlor with me doing headstands. He wanted one on the chair. I got him up in one, and he wanted to do it for a long time. He wanted Carly to see him, so she came in. She asked if he needed help at one point, and he replied “No, I got it pretty good.” At one point he was able to get into a headstand on the chair on his own – it is tilted, so a bit easier than on the ground. After that, there was a moment when he wanted to eat some of the food. Carly said no, and he got really sad. They nursed. August and I started the card, folding the paper and putting on the stickers, then he and Megan wrote on it and drew on it. After she left, Carly convinced August to go outside with me.
We got bundled up and took the bike up towards Madeul Stadium. We walked to the north end. As we went, August liked steering us through the deep snow and over the crusty stuff. We got out off by the drinking fountains and played in the snow – some snowballs and hand and foot prints, then he walked much of the way around the stadium to the playground. At the playground he went on the swings. 20 minutes or so. He was ready to go home. Actually, he tried to convince me to go to the Namu kid cafe, where I’d been suggesting we go all day. But it was past 4:30, so we just headed home. As we got past the youth center he started saying he was cold. We made it to the intersection by Baskin Robbins, and I picked him up and he cuddled against me. He wouldn’t tell me what was specifically cold, but I had him put his hands down between us. When we got home at 5 he commented “Your hands are still cold”, so I think that was what was mainly bothering him.
He ate a good amount of curry rice for dinner. I left to go get a haircut and get more tofu at GS25. Kind of a wait at the barber, but not too bad. I was home at 5:55. August played with the Human Body and Earth apps. Oh, there is another Body app that he also found and played with today. He liked the sunburn one and giving a kid a shot. I started his bath and Carly gave him a quick bath. He sat on the toilet and sang a funny version of Ants Go Marching. She then took a shower and went to bed. He was up with me a bit longer, then we brushed his teeth and put on his pajamas. He went in and was asleep a bit after 8.
Photos:
Anatomy:
Spin Monster:
On his head:
Writing the card:
The park:
A Jag:
The stream:
