Wednesday: playing in the fake stream and an August walk

First, August definitely has two new words he can say: dizzy and squeeze. I think I mentioned ‘dizzy’ the other day, but didn’t know if it would stick as a word. It has. And today he started saying ‘squeeze’ and I would squeeze him and Carly in a hug.

After our long day yesterday, and with a trip to CGP tomorrow, we stayed more local today. I gave him a bath this morning and we played a lot and made a smoothie, and around 11 we went out for a walk. We walked north along the stream, stopping to watch the water at a bridge, and reached the fake stream up past the traffic safety park. The fake stream is a little stream that starts at a waterfall in the wall, flows for 30 or 40 meters, goes under a foot bridge, and flows into the real stream.

We played for an hour or so. He first threw rocks into the stream and I would fish them out and hand them back. Then we saw a leaf floating down the stream, so we started throwing in leaves and weeds and following them down the current. Finally, he became more interested in the wall and all the old flower petals at the base of it and played in those. We had a snack and he was getting tired, so we headed home. But not before some guy decided it would be fun to come up and try to put his sunglasses on August. Neither August nor I was amused.

He fell asleep soon after we got home, but only slept 45 minutes or so. He wanted to sleep more on my shoulder, but I’m trying to get him to do less of that. We lay on the bed for awhile and he calmed down, but then woke up fully.

After some late lunch, we went for a second walk. With only an hour until Carly was to get home we didn’t go far. So I made it an August walk. We ended up exploring part of the first floor here in the building (in particular he likes a twirly thing outside a cell phone store and a window display in a clothing store across from it – the display has rocks in the bottom and stuffed rabbits) and then going to the pink building. In the pink building we walked around the grocery store and then went down the stairs to both floors of the parking garage. On our way back up we bought a pineapple and a couple other things from the grocery store.

We ran into Carly as we went back into our building. Once back at the apartment I turned around and went to physical therapy. I had planned for next week to be my last visit, but Hyunjoo informed me she was moving and that this was her last week. So, suddenly this became my last week.

In the evening August got the coffee maker out of a cupboard and played with it intently for about twenty minutes. He also figured out how to stick his crayons on his big toe. Oh, and he’s been doing this thing where when he recognizes something in a book, he will point to the same item in the house. He primarily does this with his visual dictionary where he will point to his real drum when he sees the drum in the book, to a real ball when he sees the ball, etc. this evening with Blue Bus, Red Balloon he was pointing towards a balloon, and then down the hall for both ‘bird’ and ‘girl’.

He managed to stay up until past 9. It was a third attempt is a charm sort of evening.

Today’s outfit: