Today started primarily as a cleaning day; we tackled a lot of the closets and organizing involved in making sure there is room and preparing for rearranging rooms before Chuck and Cherie show up a week from Wednesday.
We skyped with Chuck and Cherie in the morning. Then I made French toast. While doing so, August got up on his stool at the counter just for fun. He did this a few times throughout the day.
He then literally did some vacuuming, with the vacuum cleaner on. Lasted a good 10 minutes. He was in the hall, and it would stretch into the two back bedrooms. He would vacuum in one room, then struggle to lift and turn the handle into the other room, then go down the hall, etc.
He took a nap. At this point, Carly was starting to feel off again and, sure enough, she had a fever. After his nap, August and I got out the magnet board game I bought some time ago on sale and he ate a sandwich for lunch. At some point, Carly added the little zookeeper and panda Duplo set I’d bought several months ago to the mix. August quickly picked up ‘zookeeper’.
Carly went to the hospital to see about some antibiotics for an infection. It turned into a two hour experience as they were incredibly thorough: x-ray, blood work, frozen water bottles to bring down the (not incredibly high) fever, an IV.
August and I, after reading a few more books, headed out for a walk. We took Carly her Kindle, then I quickly got August out of the ER full of sick people. We went and played in the park near the hospital. He mainly played with his shovel in the sand. He also requested I get out the ball, so we played with that, kicking it, throwing it up in the bushes, and watching me shoot it through the basketball hoop. And he threw away a few pieces of garbage.
I’ve noticed sand is now the most important thing for a playground. Funny how it has moved from swings to slides to water to now sand. I wonder what the next thing is going to be…
Anyway, when Carly was done with met her at the hospital then walked home via McDonald’s.
We were home for a little while, long enough for August to use a discarded shower head to pretend to fill up his bathtub, then left again to give Carly some time to rest. This time we walked to Chrysanthemum Park. But that involved about a 15 minute stop along the way where he basically stood on the sidewalk and waved to everyone and everything, primarily cars going by. He then got into throwing fruits from the trees, but he wanted to throw them into the street, and get close to the curb in doing so, so we kept going.
Both directions as we walked by the women’s center he said ‘smoothie’. But it was closed.
Anyway, as soon as he saw the park he shouted ‘shovel’, and that was the primary activity again, with me needing to encourage him to keep the sand in the sand area. He also played with a swing a little, then wanted to go over to the ‘chestnut’ area. We did, and he played with them a bit, but mainly he ate: a Larabar, a banana, and a cracker.
We were at the park over an hour, then headed home about 7 or 7:15. We got home, then got a call from the security guards saying we had a package. I took August down to get it. It was his infant toilet. So we brought it up and he helped me put it together.
He ate another banana and had beans, cheese, and broccoli for dinner and we read a lot of books and he was asleep about 9.
New words: banana shaker (‘nana shirkle’ – he just pointed to the shaker on top of his piano and said it), lightbulb, zookeeper (zoobooper), tissue, suitcase (from the Abby Cadabby page on the Sesame Street site where she turns a pumpkin into a suitcase), sweep, a-ha (we were looking for Carly’s Kindle and found it. I said ‘There it is!’ and he said ‘a-ha!’), dada’s pockets (pop-its), call mama (as we walked home and she sent a Skype message I said ‘We could call her’ and he said ‘call mama’. I had thought he said it during our first trip out, but wasn’t sure.)
No need for tippy toes to look out the window:
On his stool at the counter:
Magnet game:
Sandoo:
And zookeeper:
Park #1:
In motion:
At home. Filling up the bath:
Waving on the way to Chrythanthemum Park:
View over the stream:
Chrythanthemum Park:
Larabar:
At home:
Looking out the window. He had both feet up and fell. Think he learned a lesson:
