A nice slow morning to recover from our trip. August slept in until around 8. In his sleep earlier in the morning he had said ‘please, please’ and ‘Give me art!’
In the morning Chuck and Cherie went grocery shopping, after which Carly, Chuck and I took August to Dream Forest. Carly was going to go to the coffee shop and work, but they didn’t have wi-fi, so she ended up heading home.
Chuck and I took August up the observation tower, where we discovered there was another floor we have never been to – actually the roof of the tower. August found a coffee cup and its cardboard insulator and played with those. We went down, then walked over the hill to the observation point I first went to with my parents when August was only 6 months old. We stopped in the pagoda and had a snack, and then put August in the backpack for his nap. We walked down the trail (where I noted where August was first playing with the rope along the trail) and he was asleep as we got back around to the center part of the park.
I was going to go to the rooftop cafe above the children’s art museum, but it was closed. Walked up to the playground, but it was a zoo. So I found a nice spot over across the wading pool area near the street and sat there. Chuck went off exploring for a bit then came back and also read.
When August woke up at 2:20 after a 50 minute nap, he wanted to use his shovel to play. So I had the idea of going to the other playground, right around the corner, that is small but built on sand. And almost no-one uses it. We played there for about an hour. August did his usual of pouring sand on our feet, but then he got into throwing rocks over the long bench into the bushes, then his ambulance so that I would get it, then he wanted to get on the other side himself and explore through the long grass. We also went back to the sand and I made a mountain, which August happily destroyed.
We headed home at 3:20 or so. The two busses we could take, the 100 and 111 came at the same time. I had the brilliant idea of skipping the 100 as it was packed, and sure enough the 111 was nearly empty. So we all got big comfy seats for the ride back. August was in a great mood; in fact, this was when he started saying ‘happy’ several times.
Back home, he nursed and played with Carly. She started rolling on the exercise ball, and he thought it was hilarious, and started rolling around on the floor as well.
Cherie had made soup and prepared things for nachos. We made nachos for dinner. August really liked the soup, saying ‘more Oma’s yummy soup’. Carly taught him to say ‘green soup’, so then he was saying ‘more yummy green soup’.
After dinner, I gave August a bath, then Chuck and Cherie went for a walk to Nowon. August read books with Carly, then climbed in the stroller with Marshy and I was pushing him around. Carly took him in to nurse, but they were soon back out. He went back and forth from me to her, until he made it clear he wanted us close together, then he wanted up in my lap. A bit later, he went and got Carly, saying ‘climb on ball’, wanting her to go back to the ball. After she rolled on it, he came and got me and wanted me to roll on it to. We had a lot of fun as I pretended to run them over with it.
Chuck and Cherie came home at about 8. He was hanging out with them and started throwing some of his Duplos. Carly taught him to set them on the table, so he started setting things on the table, saying ‘set down’. He watched some ABC songs on YouTube with Chuck, but wanted to keep watching and watching. This was around 8:30. Carly took him in to nap and he was sleepy 8:50.
New words/phrases: Oma’s yummy soup, yummy green soup, yippee, coloring, climb on ball (wanting Carly to lie on the exercise ball), set down (Carly teaching him to set down his Duplos instead of throwing them)
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