Carly and August were up a few hours before me again, and when I woke up they had gone for a very early walk through the park and down to the stream. He did some more garbage pickup in the park, but also just spent a lot of time wandering around and looking at things.
He took a nice long nap in the morning, then we headed to Children’s Grand Park. It was our first outing with the new backpack carrier, so we didn’t know how it would go. But it went really well. He fought getting into it both times, but was instantly fine once I had him on my back. And the subway wasn’t crowded, so I didn’t have to worry too much about hitting people with it as i get used to having more bulk behind me.
The first place we went at Children’s Grand Park was the zoo. We saw the primates with him in the backpack, then went to the children’s zoo and let him down to walk around. He was happy wandering around and looking at a little pond and a grate that had water beneath it. We finally got him to go watch the otters for awhile, then he wanted to walk out of the children’s zoo. So from there we went and looked at the water birds, then went to the children’s museum.
The children’s museum was packed. We went to the book room for awhile and decided to leave, but then he saw the toddler area and got excited by that, so we went there for about 20 minutes.
We came home and went grocery shopping in the pink building. Back home, August stayed awake, somehow, until close to 7. We did a lot of cutting of his plastic fruit, ate some real pineapple, and then he got really into using the new reading corner I set up. He would sit on the blanket and grab a book out of the basket. He still had a ton of energy, and would get really excited by the ‘no no area’ of the plugs in the wall, and would do a little ‘no no area’ dance as he chanted the phrase. Got a little of that on video.
I changed him and dressed him in one of the old nightgowns that were from me/my brother. I’d been meaning to try one on him all summer but kept forgetting. He was hilarious in it. And at one point he was literally attacking me with his plastic knife while wearing it. Finally, he calmed down and wanted to nurse, and he and Carly both fell asleep.
His new words of the day were ‘larva’, when he saw the statues of the cartoon characters in the subway station, and ‘pineapple’ when we ate pineapple.
Looking at the chimpanzee:
Water area:
Children’s museum:
Headed home:
Home:
My/my brother’s old sleep shirt:
