When he woke up, he was watch hung himself in the mirror, doing the fingers/lip thing he learned from Vivian. Then, there was an apple next to the bed. He saw it and said ‘Sagwa. Heavy’. He came downstairs and watched Cherie drying her hair with a hairdryer.
Sam visited with her two kids, Madison and Tony, in the late morning. They mainly played downstairs together with the usual toys (including the noisy ball toy). August decided at one point to start showing off his tummy by pulling his shirt up.
After Sam and her kids left, we all went downtown to the yogurt place and met up with Chuck as a little celebration of Carly and Cassie’s birthday. We got to eat at a table in the foyer of the theater and August, of course, liked his taste of frozen yogurt and got a straw to play with. In fact, a woman brought him and Vivian cups of water as well. He drank some and played with the rest.
Chuck and Cherie left from there, and the rest of us drove to Chehalis and went to Penny Playground. It is a really nice playground and there was a lot to do. August sat in a toddler swing and then played with Carly. Meanwhile, I watched Vivian and pushed her on the swing. I got to go around the play structure a bit with August, then we were back with Carly and Colin as Cassie was with Vivian.
August was having fun dropping handfuls of rocks on Carly and on his head, then a scary little girl came by and told August not to take her scooter. She promptly left it against a pole and August kept wanting to go get it. He was enjoying the wind and would blow air himself to show it was windy. And he really liked dropping the little rocks on his head.
Back home. Playing with bubbles, pots and spatula, more vacuuming. I ended up downstairs with August and Vivian for quite awhile. He vacuumed, but then was intrigued by the bedroom. He was looking for Eddy, who is no longer here, but was hesitant to go in. Eventually, we ended up in the room and Vivian taught him about jumping on the bed. He can’t jump yet, but he can try. We had a lot of fun with that and August mastered sliding off the side of the tall bed.
We ate dinner out on the deck. Cherie brought out the cake she had baked and Vivian had frosted for Carly and Cassie and August got to have some. He liked it, but didn’t go crazy for it.
After dinner he was running around the far end of the deck, saying over and over what sounds more clearly like ‘no-no area’. I ended up watching Vivian as she spit water from a cup onto the ground (a game she learned from Carly) and Carly gave August a bath.
He is saying ‘hi’ to people more often, and often waves. He had a new wave that looks more like a parade wave. After his bath I took him downstairs wrapped in a towel. Cherie sang him the ‘I love you…’ song (with signs) for the first time and he kept saying/signing ‘more’. Finally I told him we needed to go and he started waving and saying ‘bye bye’.
He fell asleep a little after 8. Not a surprise since he woke up a little after 6 and from a nap a little after noon.
Birthday yogurt:
Penny Playground:
Back home:
Birthday cake:
