I haven’t been feeling entirely well the last couple days, with weird abdominal pains and nausea in the morning (Carly says I’m pregnant), so I figured today would be a good rest day.
He had a very groggy wakeup a little before 7. Several minutes after he got up, we were in the living room and he started looking for mama: “Mama? Mama? Mama?” Went on for over a minute. In the morning we did a lot of reading, played by the sink, made a smoothie, and played a little iPad. After 10 we went to the pink building to do some grocery shopping.
We came back and I expected him to take a nap soon. He didn’t. Instead, we played with a tennis ball, and he figured out how to climb and stand on a chair.
Finally, he wasn’t looking tired, so I decided to put him in the backpack and go to the playground by the stream. He was happy about going outside. But less than a minute after we crossed the street from Baskin Robbins, he was asleep. So I returned home and was able to pull him out of the backpack and lay him on the bed without him waking up.
He slept for less than 40 minutes, which wasn’t nearly enough, as he kept crying and calling for ‘Mom, Mom, Mom”. After a half hour I asked if Carly could Skype with us. That seemed to do the trick, as he had calmed down after a couple minutes.
After that, we sat together on the couch and listened to some Jim Croce. He was then hungry and requesting another sandwich. He ate a bite of string cheese, then of crab, but insisted on a sandwich. We settled on a Larabar, and he wanted to sit on the couch with me as we ate it.
Around 3:30 we headed out to the park. We played around the dinosaurs, then went over to see the fountain by the stage when it came on at 4. This was where we had played with a tennis ball, and he remembered. Luckily, I had a tennis ball in the backpack. This time, there was a lot less throwing it in the bushes and a lot more throwing and kicking it around.
We then went to Home Plus to finish our grocery shopping and bought some plums on the way home. We got home a little before Carly. Right before she arrived he had been diligently picking up all the blocks he had dumped out earlier and placing them in the bag.
He didn’t eat a lot for dinner, having eaten well through the day. We got the storage room key and rearranged a few things. Carly took the old vacuum cleaner down, and August followed her all the way to the storage unit, since he loves the vacuum cleaner so much.
He took a bath and was asleep a little before 9.
Things August learned/perfected today:
How to use the water system in the backpack. Before he got the general idea, but if you don’t form a full seal with your lips, air gets in, and then the water goes the wrong way. He totally got it down today.
How to open the bedroom door. He did it once last night. Today he practiced it until he had it down.
How to climb on a chair and stand on it. One I would have been happy for him not to learn so quickly.
How to sing part of the ABCs song. He sings ABCD and then the G, V, and Z, and then the ABCs part in “Now I now my ABCS” and then ‘me’ at the very end.
New words: tower, vitamins, cat
Slow wakeup:
Silliness as we leave to go shopping:
Checking the mail:
Back home:
At the park:
Kicking the ball:
At home: