He was awake at 6:40. They nursed then he and I played with Green Monster, Bluie, and Marshy for quite awhile. A lot of slime talk. We then went and got Cheerios. He helped me by carrying the strawberries to the table, as my hands were full. He was excited by that. I asked him something, and he was working on nodding for yes. Rather amusing. He then joked about going outside on his own. He wanted the broken arm story, so I told that and he cuddled with me. Carly tried to get a photo, but he jumped up as soon as he saw what she was doing. He wanted to nurse, but she said he had to go cuddle with me again first. He obliged, then they nursed.
They moved to the parlor, then read the Lift the Flap Nursery Book, then played play dough while I showered.
They were counting play dough balls when I came out. They had tried to call Vivian but with no answer. Earlier, they had called but Vivian and Colin were watching a video. August called back a couple times on his own; Vivian answered and laughed and hung up on him.
He and I then made banana bread, then they nursed. He then played Human Body, after which he and I made curry veggie dip. He remembered he liked cucumbers and ate a bunch of cucumber as we made it. Oh, and he got to use “a sharp thing” as I let him use the peeler to peel the cucumber. Carly went to the store while we were making it. August and I read Hug Machine and more Astrosmurf and ate dip, then Carly got home. August took a nap from 1:05 to when carly woke him up at 2:15.
They nursed, then played with Baby Q. To put Baby Q to sleep August chose the ABC song. He was then giving Baby Q treats: “Pineapple with no strings…podo drink with a straw…and some carrot.”
In the afternoon we got out on a walk. I asked August where he wanted to go, and he thought of Sarang Children’s Park, which sounded good. We headed up that way, him on the bike and singing. At the park he went on the swing. Spent some time standing and kneeling on them with my help.
We went over to the sand and played there. Carly laughed because at first August had me scooping the sand and he was just watching. He said that the sand chute looked like a mailbox. He was right, but I wondered where he learned what a mailbox looked like. I asked if it was from a book: “No” A cartoon: “No”. Finally I remembered the mail day in Teuni Teuni. I mentioned that and he said “Yeah!”
After several buckets in the sand (he eventually did a lot of shoveling). We went around stomping on the ice. He climbed up on the play structure and played on it by himself, then went down a slide. He found a big piece of glass and grabbed it to go throw in the bushes. Carly and I grabbed him and took the glass away from him and he was very sad about that. He calmed down, but was done with the park, so we headed home.
I told him we could make cocoa at home and told him not to tell mama. He gleefully told mama. At Brownstone, Carly was running to GS25 to get a couple things. August wanted to follow her, but immediately changed his mind. We got home at 5:15.
Carly made soup, and we played on the piano. He played more of Are You Sleeping. Then they read the baby book and nursed. I told him a Flynne story, then he questioned why I had tea in the parlor, thinking he had caught me breaking a rule. We were talking about bones, and cartilage came up. Then he wanted to see photos of cartilage. So we did an image search and ended up looking at a lot of diagrams of where cartilage is located. On the toilet he was pretending to be a big baby again: “The baby had a big skull…and kneecap…and spine…”
Carly gave him a bath, and he played GarageBand after that. Tried for sleep sometime after 9, but they came out 20 or 30 minutes later for awhile. I went back in with them, then he went to sleep about 10.
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Peeler:
Our dip:
Steps:
Park:
Naked GarageBand
