A relatively lazy Sunday. Still getting used to this autumn weather. Before his nap, Carly, Chuck, and I got around to taking him down to the playground south of here where the play structure looks like a tree. He played in the sand, and sat on the rocky thing that looks like a butterfly. He couldn’t reach the sand from there, so he wanted me to scoop up sand, hand him the shovel, then let him pour it on my shoe. He also spent some time getting rocks out of the sand and throwing them in the bush, and using his broom to sweep Opa.
We walked a bit around the rest of the playground. He identified the turtles and chipmunks, and then went down the small slide a few times; we were working on having him do the loop of walking up the stairs, getting on the slide, and repeating.
We walked home, and after awhile he took a nap. After his nap, Chuck and Cherie took him out for a walk in the stroller. They went down to the stream and past that new mural of colorful circles. August started pointing out and naming the different colors in the mural.
Megan came over and made soup with Carly for the other couple at APIS that just had a baby. It is always a fun, hyper time when she is here. August sat in his high chair for a long time, and Oma spoke some spanish with him, which he thought was hilarious. After Megan left, August was pretty wired. Finally, Carly changed his diaper and he calmed down after that.
I went down to the GS25 (first time I’ve been in it since it opened) for sugar and got a couple of random beverages (including watermelon milk). When I came back, Chuck told me that August had been standing near him, when suddenly August slipped and fell down. Instead of being upset, August started laughing. Chuck found this very funny as well.
August spent a good half hour reading Feely Bugs with him and then playing with the cube thing with him. It was really cool to see. With the Feely Bugs book, August was most interested in the centipede-type bug, and was counting/naming off the colors of the feet. Very focused on small details. And with the cube, he has totally figured out the shapes and how to get them through the holes.
After that, Carly and I played Duplos with him for a quite awhile, and that was a lot of fun. He is very focused and intense, and wants to build them higher and higher; but he also laughs a lot and thinks it is hilarious when they fall over on him.
We were trying to get him to sleep and a decent time, but he wasn’t interested. So I ended up staying up with him while Carly went to bed a little after 9. I gave him his vitamins and brushed his teeth. We were working on “want to”, as he kept wanting to leave the room (I had the door locked). He started to say “want to see mama”. Finally, around 10 I was convinced he was ready to sleep, and I took him in to Carly.
New words/phrases: mama’s book (her Nook), yellow, give me dada (give me that dada), hard (difficult – when playing with Duplos), whale, brown, want to see mama
At the playground:
At home:
Sticker from Megan on his finger:
Playing with Opa:
Climbing/sliding on the couch:
Want to see mama: