August woke up sometime after 7, but fell back to sleep on the mattress out in the parlor, and slept until a little before 9. Skyped with Cassie and Vivi after he woke up. I did recycling and picked up the package siting for us at the guardhouse: an iHerb order and a big box of gifts from my parents and Dee. Carly went to Home Plus to get some last ingredients for enchiladas, then came home to make them for the dinner tonight. August and I skyped with my family a couple times to Paul’s phone over at Dee’s house. August wasn’t much into skype today though, and we couldn’t hear them too well.
I took August out for a walk about 1:30. He chose the backpack over the stroller; asked him several times and it was clear. He wouldn’t wear his hood at first, but I could just stretch my arm back far enough to put it on him. After several minutes, either because he was cold or because he was falling asleep, he let it stay on his head. Hands are next: there is no way he will allow gloves/mittens on, but he would generally keep them up behind my neck, and I could put my scarf over them. Still, I had a woman tell me his hands were cold. Mind, it was still mid-30s, and I wasn’t wearing gloves myself. Later, someone at the party, who has a 3 and a half year old, said she would actually hand the gloves to people so they could try to put them on her daughter’s hands. Should have done that.
Anyway, we had walked to the stream and looked at the fish, spotting the flashes of the small ones as the turned sideways in the stream, then walked to the first bridge upstream and then back. He fell asleep as we neared home right at 2. At home I was able to pull him out of the backpack and lay him in bed and take off his coat. He slept until a little after 3.
Carly had finished up the enchiladas and I had made a brownie in the rice cooker. We packed those up, and August, in the stroller and headed over a little after 4. We were greeted by Logan at the door, and August was a little hesitant to enter their apartment at first. But once he did he went straight to playing. He got a backhoe and dump truck, and then a hammer and was happily playing by himself. Later he found a toy screwdriver and was calling it “dada’s screwdriver”. He got a juice popsicle before dinner, and did a good job of not trying to eat the chips and puffs on the coffee table – although he would pick up the ones other kids left on the table and put them back in the bowls.
Derek let Logan watch “Let it go” on his phone, and it was fun to see the three kids crowding around to watch. It was August’s first real Disney experience besides briefly watching the robots dance to that song at the science center.
He ate mashed potatoes and a little turkey and stuffing. We ate quite well. They did good on the turkey, and Carly’s enchiladas were a hit. There were a ton of desserts. The best was Jill’s pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting. August took bites from both of us.
At one point August went and was standing by the door. I asked him if he wanted to sit with me and read, and he agreed. So we had quite time for awhile. Tried to read him a new Boynton book, but he recognized her books and wanted the A to Z book. Carly found it among their books and so that is what we read.
Near the end, he was most interested in Rosie, who was sleeping on Nathalie on the couch. She would pull the blanket down so August could see her, and August would gently stroke the blanket. Earlier, I had been holding Rosie and August would touch her hair and toes.
We left close to 8 and had a fine walk home. He took s bath about 9. Wasn’t happy about going in, but we ended up hanging out there a long time. He did a lot of talking about letters. He went to sleep a bit after 10.
New words/phrases: ABC book, chicken bouillon, dada go bathroom, wait (for) dada, no thanks, sleepy Rosie
Party:
Home:
You can kind of see the fat lip from where he tripped over me yesterday:
