He woke up at 7:17 crying, as if from a bad dream. Carly said it seemed like he was having a bad dream a couple times last night. In the morning we played with his banana shaker, both using it to shake and to write letters on the ground, his hammer, and organized all the magnets on the door. We ate cheerios and strawberries for breakfast.
We went outside around 11. He wanted the backpack, but I convinced him I could just carry him. We were going to go to the library, but once out in the park he didn’t want that. He wanted “park”, but then was unclear what that was. We walked around, visiting the camel statue, then went back to the playground. Played there a little, but mainly he wanted up in my arms. As we were walking, I was trying to sing the phonics song he likes on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffeZXPtTGC4) but couldn’t remember a lot of the words. He supplied several of them, including dog, fish, hat, lion, nose, pig, and sun.
We went home, then walked around the 8th floor to put him to sleep at 12:53. Unfortunately, he woke up when I tried to put him in bed. So we did it again, this time without the carrier, just holding him, but with the same result. Tried keeping him in the bed, but that just led to a lot of crying, so eventually we were back up.
We did a lot of playing with stickers and ate lunch – strawberries, sandwich, and string cheese. Sometime after 2 he seemed a bit tired, and he was agreeable to the carrier, so we went walking around the floor for 10 minutes. He was calm, but didn’t fall asleep. Finally, around 4 he first dragged the regular backpack down the hall, then started asking for the carrier. But I thought we should get out and use the big backpack, so we did that. We walked around the block basically and he was asleep. He slept from 4:31 to 5:07. He had just woken up and was still in the backpack when Carly got home.
About 6:30 I left for my writing group meeting. While I was gone they did some more playing with stickers, and a lot of alphabet and numbers writing. August was very aware of neighbors – when he heard footsteps from above while in the other room he ran back into the living room.
When I got home a little after 9 he had not yet fallen asleep. So they were back up. Then Vivi called on Skype. He made a game of dropping some stickers that were stuck together from the chair, then was paying pretty good attention to Vivi for awhile. I was also reading the Eric Carle ABC book with him, and found out he knew most of the animals in it, including crocodile and quetzal.
Around 10 we all headed to bed. Carly changed him one last time, and he was really working on his “Becoming…” joke, taking time to look around and think about it, and come up with sentences like “Becoming a shirt” and “Becoming a door.”
Finally, about 10:50 he fell asleep, as did we.
New words/phrases: close the door, forward roll, nope, quetzal, send, fall, throw, return (key on keyboard)
Playground:
Home:
Finally asleep for an actual nap:
Before I left:
What I missed while I was gone:
Late evening:
