I had another hike scheduled today, but it was postponed. So more time around the house in the morning until August took a two hour nap, which provided time to catch up on blogging and do some reading. After that, we walked to the park near Toys R Us that August and I recently found. We then went to Toys R Us and bought a couple books before coming home.
We all woke up around 6:30. He and Carly left the room first, then August turned around and came back in the room with his head lowered and said “kiss dada” so I would kiss his forehead.
Also in the morning, he did a pretty good job of eating Cheerios with a spoon, and we Skyped first with my parents, then with Chuck and Cherie and Andrea and Thatcher and Glecy in Seattle. August’s biggest discovery in the morning, however, was the hairdryer Carly had gotten out for her mom. First he wanted to hear it, then he wanted to help hold it, then he was holding it on his own, blowing air on himself and other people, and climbing on the bed and blowing it around. This lasted for a long time.
For lunch, he had Carly’s soup. His favorite part is the zucchini. At first he was just saying ‘kee-nee’, but he ended up really getting the full pronunciation down.
After his nap he did a good job of keeping the crayons on the paper when coloring. This has been a work in progress as he likes to color on everything else. So now I say “What do we color on?” and he says “paper”.
Then we headed to the park. On the way there, he really started using ‘see’, as in saying ‘see namu’ (tree) and ‘see subway’ (he meant bus, but they are all subways now). He’s used ‘see’ before, and says ‘I see it’, but this felt more conversation-y.
We reached the park and played there for a long time. Carly got to really see him playing more independently, especially in the sand. And every time he would find a piece of a nut or a rock in the sand he would get out of the sand area, go to the bushes, and throw it in. When he got back to the sand area he would excitedly make the big step down into the sand. He still kept us really busy, as he roamed all over the playground, spending a lot of time going from one springy animal chair to another, and then wanting up on the noodle slide (for lack of a better term) and then back down.
Eventually, he wanted to nurse, so we headed to Toys R Us. I was considering getting a full beach play set, and we wanted to look for a couple other things. We ended up getting a book on dinosaurs and a visual dictionary. Both because they were really cool, and because books at Toys R Us are surprisingly cheap.
We went home, and I tackled our storage unit, getting out more stuff that is being donated, and taking a few bags of stuff left by previous tenants down to the garbage. While I did that, Carly fed August (more zucchini/soup and spaghetti) and gave him a bath.
He stayed up until a little after 9. He and Carly had a nice long cuddle/singing time at one point, and he and I read a lot of books. He really liked Kiss Goodnight (about a mother bear putting her son Sam to bed) tonight and we read it twice through the first time, then a third time later on. He loved the line where the mom says ‘hmmmm’ and was absolutely cracking up. It became his new catch phrase. He really picks up on words like that, having previously picked up on ‘tasty’, ‘sure’, ‘yummy’, ‘a-ha’, ‘uh-oh’ and a couple others.
New words/phrases: kiss dada, set go (ready, set, go), zucchini (kee-nee, then the full word a few minutes later), see subway, pinecone (said at park, not sure if I’ve listed it before), hmmm
Hairdryer:
Park:
Evening:
He’d just been making GG hop: