Another 3 hour wake up in the middle of the night for August. This time from 2 to 5. Carly took most of it, then I was up for the last hour.
He was up around 8 and we spent the morning playing in the water (he even dipped his toe in), listening to the fish song on his headphones, and making a smoothie.
We headed to Dream Forest around 11. On the way out, we ran into the two Spanish girls we had met in the park several weeks back. They came running out of the bap burger place to say hi.
We took the bus to Dream Forest and first went to see the deer, which are open again. From then we walked bay the art gallery, where two men were pressure cleaning the fountain area in front of the building. August loved this and we watched for close to ten minutes. He was very sad when they were done and kept signing ‘more’.
But we went to the playground and played there. He spent most of his time around the trees, picking rocks and cones and needles and sticks from the gratings underneath them. There was also a group of high school students that took an interest in him and he liked the attention.
I needed to change him and it was time for him to take a nap. So I changed him in the arts center and we started walking. He fell asleep quickly and I walked to the children’s park we found last.
I sat at the park and read the Murukami book and watched people play croquet. At 3:30 August was still sleeping but we needed to get to APIS to meet Carly so I started walking. He made it to APIS before waking up.
We then walked home together, stopping to let him play at the small park along the way.
He only stayed awake for 4 hours after his nap, falling asleep before 8 again.
Dream Forest:
Napping:
