In the morning I was playing with him downstairs with the vacuum cleaner that wasn’t plugged in. He kept pointing to the top of the machine and saying ‘hot’. So I touched it and pretended it was hot and said ‘ouch’, pulling my hand away quickly. He thought this was great and did it himself. When he was done playing downstairs, he started crawling up the stairs. He then stood up, turned to me, and in a high, squeaky voice said ‘Dada, bye bye’ and gave me his two hand parade wave. So adorable.
Back upstairs Cherie gave him an empty cinnamon container to play with, which he loved smelling and playing with. Cherie let him try her mixture of oatmeal and yogurt, but he did not like it at all and gave her all sorts of faces and kept trying to wipe his mouth. I went outside with him where we did more pouring, and he spotted a bird in the driveway and kept pointing to it.
Around 11:30 we left to pickup Carly’s contacts at Walmart and then go to a park. But while August and I were waiting in the car for Carly at Walmart, he decided to take an early nap. So we drove back to the house and he napped.
Soon after he woke up, Derek, Andrea, and Thatcher showed up on their way back north to Seattle. I only saw them for a minute, as I had an appointment to meet with our insurance agent. While I was gone they played outside.
When I got back, they had just left. August was in his chair, drinking milk from a little juice box and playing with a second cinnamon container. He figured out that if he squeezed the milk box milk would shoot out the straw. So that was the end of that. I went outside with him again and we ended up doing some more pouring of bubble mix back and forth.
In the afternoon Carly and I successfully took him to Stan Hedwall Park. On the way there, the song “Wine Lips” by Lydia Loveless had been playing. At the end of it he pointed to the speakers and signed ‘more’. We listened to it several times. He is also getting a little particular about making sure the laces on his shoes are clipped – or it is just a game, or a bit of both. So in the car he would want me to clip his shoe, then he would undo it and ask again.
At the park we found a spot to go down by the river and I took him wading in the Newaukum River. Carly saw some frogs in a pond, and I asked him if he wanted to see the gaegulis. He took off, wanting to wade across the entire river. I’m not sure how deep he would have gotten if I wasn’t holding him, but he made it close to his waist. It was the deepest he has waded. I brought him back to the shore and to the pond, but then he was upset when I wouldn’t let him wade in the pond. So we went back to the pond, where he played in the soft mud and threw several handfuls of it. He then got cold and was ready to leave and started walking back up the trail himself. We changed him before leaving and headed to Centralia.
In Centralia we got a latte to share at The Station, then walked through downtown. We went into the used kids store and they had a couple baby backpack carriers. We put August in one so I could try it out. This required taking him away from the toys and putting him into this new thing. He was not happy about it at all. So that went quickly. We walked up to the little park by Hubbub, where Carly nursed him. We then walked back to our car and headed home.
At the house he ate a pretty good dinner. Cherie had a tofu chicken patties and he really liked that. He also ate a lot of watermelon. Before bed we were in the other small bedroom upstairs. He walked over to the lamp, grabbed the cord, and said ‘cord’. Also, there is a paper butterfly hanging from the ceiling that he has been calling a ‘bee’ for the last couple of days. Finally, he also can say the word ‘blow’ when playing with the fan.
Newaukum River:
Back home for dinner:
Sorry, these photos are out of order. Too much work to put them right:
Silliness in the car. He is looking through my sweatshirt:
A boy and his bubbles:
At the park:
Dinner with Opa:
