We spent a lot of time today starting to pack for the trip. This involved searching for things in all the closets. August loved this as he got to play with all sorts of objects. He got to play with his pacifiers for a few minutes before I packed them.
The day felt like a big game of hide and seek. First there were all the things to find for packing. Then, as we were about to leave the house to go to Home Plus, I realized I couldn’t find his shoe. After a long search, I found that he had put one in his baby blender. But I couldn’t find the other, so we went to Home Plus without shoes – not a big deal as it was already in the 80s.
Hide and seek continued at Home Plus. Every floor is in the process of being renovated and reorganized. Right now it is chaos. I managed to find everything except dish soap, and it took three times as long.
He came home, had lunch, and fell asleep for 90+ minutes. He woke up for 5 minutes in the middle, but I laid down next to him and he rolled over and fell back to sleep. Progress!
He is also really working on sitting down in chairs. He is doing quite well, but his eating chair is difficult because it is so narrow.
Workers came to change the gas gauge soon after August woke up. We then spent some more time packing and organizing, and then I realized I hadn’t found the second shoe. After another long search I realized I had not looked in the washing machine. Success!
We walked to APIS to see Carly and have dinner with her as she had to stay late for the middle school graduation. It was only 91 on the way there.
With Carly we went to Doniburger and got food and then took it back to the park across the street from APIS. August did a lot of playing, mainly dropping things down the grates and carrying Carly’s beverage around and practicing putting the straw in.
A few minutes before 6 she went back to work and August and I headed home.
We stopped at a park along the way and he did a lot more walking around the playground and managed to pick up all kinds of garbage. He played under the play structure and carried around a plastic bowl someone had left. When he was done he kind of just started walking off, sort of towards home. We went back and got our stuff and ended with a stint on the swings.
We beat Carly home by 20 minutes. She gave him a bath this evening and he did pretty well.
A very happy wakeup. No crying; I just heard him walking around:
Remembering the pacifiers:
Home Plus. Where’s the cheese and butter? The dried fish section, half a store away from yoghurt and other dairy items:
Walking:
The park:
Headed home:
At the park with his discovered toy:
View from the bridge:
Stopping for a drink:
Touching the brick wall (he also ran his hand through the ivy again):
Recovering from a bath:
