It was one of those worst sort of weather days: just above freezing and wet. We did make two trips out: once to take August out to the park and make a quick trip to Home Plus, and once with the stroller for a longer walk to get coffee and get groceries in the pink building.
Sleep seemed to be getting back to normal. He woke up a little before 9. Did a lot of playing at home in the morning. Carly also made hummus and pizza sauce. August spent a long time with Carly looking at all the decks of cards we now have. He particularly liked the number cards in the Korean deck. When using the cards, he started saying “For Zinnie’s”, remembering that we got them for him at Costco, and also evidence that he’s developing an idea of possession. As we were getting ready to go, we heard him sort of grunting in there, and found him trying to do a forward roll. Getting close, but couldn’t figure it out. His stool has ended up in the parlor a couple times now, where he has started to use it for his yoga moves. Also while getting ready, Carly called to him, “Auuuggguust.” He then repeated it back, several times.
We finally ventured outside around 1. August was walking and took his blue broom. We slowly wandered across the park, August sweeping the bricks along the way, and finding pieces of garbage. For the garbage, he would point and say “icky” and “someone”. We made it over to the other side of the park, by the pagoda, where he was really happy about sweeping the puddles. A guy walked right up to August, stood over him, and was taking photos or video of him. While August was was doing that, Carly went into Home Plus to look for a few things. August then started drawing letters in the water, and wanted me to do so as well. After writing the alphabet (lowercase) using my finger or the broom handle several times, I was cold and wanted to go inside. So we went into Home Plus and found her.
We went home and he took a 45 minute nap, getting up a little before 3. Good that it was a shorter nap. In the later afternoon, as it got dark. We took August out in the stroller. As we were putting him in the stroller, August was pleading for the backpack. But since it is easier to keep him warm in the stroller, we went with that. He was just fine once he was in.
We walked over to Coffee Bay, behind See and Me. We ordered, then I went outside with August while Carly waited. A long wait for drinks, so we wandered up and down the street. August saw the signs with food on them, and was saying “More yummies.” Carly came out, and we had a nice walk back, south of Home Plus, then over towards the stream, before looping back to the north and then going to the pink building. We went to the grocery store, then came home. We interacted with August a bit on the walk, but mainly he was talking/singing to himself, or lounging comfortably. I kept opening the zipper to give him more banana or veggie chips to munch on.
We came home and he ate dinner and had a nice long bath. Went to sleep without much of a fuss at all about 9:15.
New words/phrases: Closet, turn on light, mama hide, where did mama go
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