It seemed like a slow start to the day, but it was incredibly full. August slept 12 and a half hours. So by the time we got going it was about 8:30. We went to Starbucks for breakfast. August liked watching the rain falling outside.
We returned to our rooms for awhile, and I took August downstairs for a few minutes because he wanted to see the Hello Kitty figures on the bench. He also browsed the tourist flyers, and found the one for Hello Kitty Island. I said he should show it to mama, and he took off across the lobby saying ‘show mama’.
We then met for a planning session. We decided on the indoor botanical gardens and the Hello Kitty place.
We headed out. Made it down to the botanical garden area and first went to KFC for a little lunch. August enjoyed eating all the things Oma and Opa have him and the egg tart thing I had – he wasn’t fond of the chicken though as it was too spicy.
We then went to the botanical gardens. We were all impressed. August particularly liked the pineapples and banana trees, and the dinosaur statues and all the ponds, including the alligator statues. And he wanted to go outside, so we went out for a little while in our coats and he threw rocks into the bushes. By the way, he fought his coat yesterday, but is already accepting it.
We all met up and went to the top of the observation tower before heading out. The weather was good (i.e. Not raining) so we attempted a beach, but it started pouring when we got out of the car. So a quick viewing to see the waves and scenery and we left.
It was now 3 and August had not taken a nap, and he fell right asleep in the car. We drove back north – no Hello Kitty Island today.
We went and checked out the Little Prince Cafe. Chuck did a wonderful job to find parallel parking, only to find that it was closed today. So we went back to the hotel.
Awhile later we all went to eMart. We split up there (with August in the front carrier). The three of us bought a few fruits and yogurt, then went looking for dinner. Food court didn’t look appealing, so we checked out a place across the street. Nice, but we didn’t think August could handle a sit-down dinner. So we walked to the kid cafe I saw yesterday, only to find they only sold coffee and closed at 7 (it was past 6). I spotted a Cafe Pascutti, which I knew had some sandwiches, but they weren’t very healthy. So we got a strawberry yogurt smoothie and headed to Burger King. We shared with August, who kept saying “yummy dal-gee.”
We got sandwiches and onion rings and headed home. August did marvelously this whole time, enjoying the walk. He kept singing and pointing out letters on signs. When singing the ABC song he would conduct, then do a wild pointing thing when he hit G. I suggested he wave to the cars, so he started doing so. And when we approached the hotel the wind was in our face and e was holding one fist out in front of him, like he was flying like superman.
We ate dinner. August primarily ate from the mixed fruit bowl and the strawberry yogurt we got at eMart. It turned out Carly had been given a fish sandwich, so I ate that and she finished what was left of mine.
We took August down to the lobby for a short see Hello Kitty and play with flyers time, then went back up.
I tried to keep August up and running while Carly took a shower. After that, he had a few Duplos and was pretending they were a vacuum cleaner. And when they broke he was very focused on putting them back together, which he managed to do a few times.
Carly had unplugged the phone so August could play with it. He was really excited about talking to Cherie on it earlier in the day and wanted to play with it. In the evening he was walking around with the receiver, wanting to call them.
Finally, he went from laughing with happiness when he got the Duplos together to getting frustrated by them to crying for mama in the course of a couple minutes. Carly nursed him and he fell asleep a little after 9.
New words/phrases: here (pointing to water on floor), cold wawa (drinking water that had been refrigerated and he really liked it), brush my teeth, crack it (breaking his toothbrush), hello phone (playing with phone with Cherie), numbers (pointing at wall in KFC), alligator, crocodile, bye bye garden, phone, dada says so, sit up
In the morning:
Botanical garden:
Back at the hotel: