I had a pretty full calendar, for me at least, as in the morning I had a 9:30 appointment at the Apple Store in U Village, and at 3 I had an appointment with our insurance agent in Chehalis. So I left the house early and made it to U Village 20 minutes early. Enough time to get a little walk in and see how the shopping center has changed since I’ve lived around there. A mild success at the Apple Store, although they weren’t able to replace the dying batter on my phone today.
I got back to the house to find it empty. I texted Derek to find that they had gone on a walk. I walked and met them halfway and walked back with them. At the house, August kept pointing to a wet glove of Thatcher’s and saying a word. I think it was ‘yellow’, but I’m not entirely sure.
We left at 11, and stopped at Ken’s Market for lunch, sitting on their high stools to eat, with August on my lap. From there we drove to Centralia, only stopping briefly to drop off Glecy’s keys at her friend’s house in Lacey. August took a nap on the way down, and woke up when Carly stopped the car in Centralia.
We unloaded the car, and I ran off for my meeting in Chehalis. While I was gone, August scraped an elbow for the first time by tripping over the hose while he was using it.
When I got back, they were downstairs. I sat on the couch with Carly, and we watched August just play by himself for close to 10 minutes.
I took him up to change his diaper, then let him sit on the counter with his feet in the sink while I washed his hands. He then proceeded to play with the water and I used the opportunity to comb the knots out of his hair. It didn’t seem to bother him as long as he had his water to play with. When I got the comb wet, he decided he was interested in playing with it, and he tried combing his own hair.
Before dinner, August made a game of pulling a scrunchie off of Cherie’s wrist, and after dinner I took him for a walk in the backpack. A good sign was that he let me place him in the backpack. But he got upset when I started doing the straps. He cried for a coupe minutes, but calmed as we got up to River Heights Road. We went to the right about a quarter mile. He had calmed down, but decided that was enough. So we turned around. He started to cheer up, and played with the hose for the hydration system, giving it to me to take a drink, and attacking my ear with it. We kept walking past the turnoff to the house, and went around the corner, walked by Brenda’s old house, and then came back.
We did some more playing outside, then I took him up for a bath. I didn’t get in with him. He did fine on his own, but didn’t sit down at all. Although standing allows him to play with the items on the ledge above the tub.
He had a lot of energy and was silly before bedtime. Took 3 attempts to get him to sleep. Before the last one we took him down to the basement and played, mainly with the noisy ball toy. Carly went up and took a shower. After a few minutes he decided he was done, and started saying ‘all done’ and going up the stairs. He was truly done this time, and went quickly to bed, although Carly said he still tried popping up from nursing once and saying ‘all done’.
Driving to Centralia:
Centralia:
Eating berriers:
Still playing:
