It was our usual trip to Children’s Grand Park today. What was not usual was him waking up from 10pm to 1am last night and then taking a 2 hour nap in the carrier at CGP when he has been going 40 or 50 minutes the last 3 weeks.
Basically, he woke up last night right after I posted the blog entry. I stayed up with him for 3 hours. During that time he discovered his eyelashes. A couple times during the day he would intently touch his eye lashes for several minutes – he made it several stops on the subway doing this on our return trip.
Skyped with my parents in the morning and then got our usual start, getting to CGP around 10:30. Started at water table again today. More people than usual, including one bossy older girl who played pretty well with August after I chastised her for shoving him out of the way.
He lasted about 45 minutes there then we ate lunch. During lunch there was another baby that was crying and started to scream really loudly. This stressed August out and he tried to crawl out of the room.
He fell asleep soon after leaving the museum. I spent the two hours at the cafe outside, reading the Murakami book of short stories. Was able to read about a third of the book.
After he woke up we went to the zoo: first to the baboons and macaques, then to the water birds where he got up close to a swan, then to the children’s zoo where he did all the walking and a lot of it.
When we were done there it was 3. We were going to finish with some time at the playground. On the way we stopped at a drinking fountain to play, as one was at August’s height. While there we were recognized by Bin’s mother. He is a little younger than August. We had met them a few weeks back in the infant room at the museum. Anyway, August now has a play date for next Thursday as we are supposed to meet at the water table.
We played at the playground with the musical instruments, then went on the swings and played in more drinking fountains. I changed him and then I we walked towards the fountain. He walked (holding my finger) over 100 meters. I then carried him a bit. He asked for milk as we got to the fountain. We sat near the fountain (getting some spray from the wind) and ate a second lunch for a half hour. After awhile he climbed into my lap to watch the fountain.
We headed home in a packed subway. I stood in a corner by the door and we were just fine. Whatever food August hadn’t eaten for his second lunch was gone by the time we for home.
We gave him a bath after a little dinner. No crying, although he still wouldn’t get in the water. He made it to 7:40, so hopefully this will be a normal night.
Discovering his his eye lashes at midnight:
Awake in the morning:
Sleeping for two hours like this:
Swan:
Water fountain:
Watching the fountain from my lap:
