We didn’t venture far today, as the day was dedicated to rearranging all the furniture in anticipation of Cherie and Chuck’s visit starting on Wednesday. August wanted to get the work started early, as he was up at 4:30. Carly was fully awake, so got up with him a little later. I tried to go back to sleep, but couldn’t really, so I was up around 5:30. Carly was able to go back to sleep for a little while. While she did that, August and I played Endless Alphabet and with his sticker books while listening to a couple of Bach cello concertos.
And then we spent all morning moving beds, hauling stuff to recycling, etc. August liked to help, but he was most excited when Carly got out the screwdriver to put the bed frame together. He stole the screwdriver and took it to where he and I had taken the door off of the cupboard in his reading area. He also really liked extending the legs on the collapsible end tables we have. We would reset all the legs and he would pull them up and then we’d have to do it again.
He took a 2 hour nap and woke up around 1. In the afternoon we all went to Home Plus to do some shopping. We of course saw the lizard, and he got a cheesy sausage, chicken nugget, and pineapple as his samples. He eats more meat at Home Plus than he does at home.
Carly headed straight home to start chopping vegetables for soup. August and I went to the park to check out more of the children’s festival, but the concert that was scheduled to go to 6 was over by the stroke of 4. Bad scheduling there. So we went to the playground and played there for an hour. August wasn’t scared of the crowd and really liked it – waving to a lot of people and watching the big kids on the swings and doing flips over the bar around the swings. He played with his shovel, climbed on a little hill, threw little rocks into the bushes, and generally wandered around the area. He threw a rock over the little dinosaur fence, and another boy about the same age was interested. They stood next to each other, looking at things on the other side of the fence together for a couple minutes.
Finally, he decided he could use some mama time, so we headed home. He had spaghetti for dinner but didn’t get too messy. I entertained him with camel, putting camel on my head and then asking him where camel was. He would point to me, and I’d say, “No, I’m dada. Where’s camel?” He thought that was really funny. Eventually he would lie, and point somewhere else, and when I went to look he would laugh. He didn’t get too messy in general today, so we skipped a bath. He fell asleep rather suddenly a little after 7.
He doesn’t seem too upset about all the rearranging, and in fact seemed to really like the whole process and the way things are set up. And he likes that the fish are back on the wall – I asked him where they were and he immediately walked into the other room and pointed to them.
New words/phrases: trumpet, mama go (playing chase around the house), sock, cream, hammer car, giraffe, guinea pig
The park:
Looking out at the street:
