Everyone was pretty much back to normal today and we were able to head out on an adventure and enjoy the nice weather after Carly and August did some Skyping this morning.
We headed to Children’s Grand Park, which had two clear highlights: August going down the slide with Carly and the zoo reopening.
We played in the infant room the entire time we were at the museum. Carly and August went down the slide together 5 or 6 times. He also played with all of his usual favorite toys.
He then fell asleep – we thought – while nursing, but woke up when I put him in the carrier. Usually he falls back to sleep right away, but this time he didn’t he stayed awake as we walked through the park, into the amusement park, and. Got lunch at Popeye’s. We sat outside in the sun and August had fun watching the train ride and other rides in the amusement park.
We did some more walking, expecting him to fall asleep, but still no luck. We were surprised to find that the zoo was once again open, although the ‘dangerous animals’ area was still closed, presumably because it was the sight of the lion attack. But we could stand on a bench and see the elephants as they were out of their really depressing winter enclosure and in their only generally depressing outdoor enclosure.
More walking and we got to the coffee shop at the top of the old clubhouse (the park used to be a golf course, going back to occupation days). Got our drinks, sat out on the deck, more nursing, and he still wasn’t sleeping. It had been more than 7 hours and he had only slept 9 hours the previous night. So I put him in the carrier and started walking around the abandoned side of the building, and after several songs and about 15 minutes he finally fell asleep. He slept for an hour and Carly and I were able to read.
I continued reading a book the cafe has on their shelves called The Man Who Loved Books Too Much. My idea is that each week when I go to the park with August I will make sure we are there for his nap. I can sit on the deck and work my way through their English shelf as they had a few books worth reading. They are about the only paper books I read nowadays. Kind of a book group of one.
He woke up (a bit too early as he was he was really sad when we changed him) and headed home. From the subway station we headed to Home Plus to do some grocery shopping.
Not much to report after that. August ‘helped’ with the laundry by taking the clothes out of the hamper and dropping/throwing the clothes in the direction away from me. When I was done with the clothes he then insisted on me holding him up so he could pull off some of the socks and diapers so he could drop them on the floor. He then wanted back down on the floor where he spent a few minutes ‘hanging’ the same clothes on the lower bars – although most ended up on the floor below.
Children’s museum with mama:
Saying ‘tasty’ and ‘eeee’:
Looking over the fence at the elephants:
Back home. Helping with the laundry: