Made the most of our park today. I took August out to the playground before his nap, then after his nap we all went out to the park and art museum.
After his nap we headed back to the park. We walked over to the other side of the bridge, August writing letters on the concrete with his broom, then August spent a long time playing on the two bicycle ramps. He was simply climbing on the lower one when he saw other kids sliding down the steeper one. He then started sliding down the lower one. He also liked jumping off of it (with me holding his hands), and sliding down the big ramp, with the help of me or Carly.
When he was done with that we wandered around for awhile, letting him lead the way. He ended up on the other side of the park, so we suggested we go in the art museum. We went in and saw some of the art. We went downstairs (last day of the Wonderland exhibit – he mainly got frustrated about not being able to climb up the fake grass hill) and saw the teenage photography contest show in the community gallery.
Carly then took him up to the nursing room and I went and saw the photography exhibit up on the second floor. I went down and found them, and Carly headed home. August and I went into the play area for awhile. Really busy – at least 8 other kids – but August just got to it. He crawled in to the structure once, and went in and out through the trampoline area several times. He wasn’t bothered playing with all those other kids around.
We then went outside and he just stood between the pagoda and benches, watching people – particularly a mom and girl jump roping together – in the park. He got hungry, so was eating his peanut butter sandwich while he watched.
He then got up on the bench and walked on that, then heard a baby crying. He walked across to the baby and was comforting him. From there, he walked right up to two bigger girls and their parents and said hi, or at least “big kids”.
We then went over and realized that the camel sculpture is gone. Sad. We then wrote words and letters in the dirt area over there that we’ve used a couple times before. That ended when he hear the church band start playing. He went and watched them. This was now near a major walkway, so he started to get some attention. A woman brought her son, Andrew, over to say hi. A guy from the church came over and gave us two bags of Jesus crackers. We were munching on those when two daughters (4th grade or so) of two APIS teachers came up to us to say hi. They were eating Dippin Dots, wearing makeup, and equipped with a credit card.
The band left, and we slowly made our way home. He kept stopping to watch things or if he heard something. On this side of the park he spent several minutes singing numbers and writing them on a pole and the ground. Before coming home we went and looked at the squid and eels and fish for the first time in quite awhile. Got home about 5.
Skyped with Glecy for awhile in the evening, and ate noodles and tofu and broccoli for dinner. He discovered the pigeon books yesterday (or was it Friday?) and finds them absolutely hilarious, so we read a couple of those. We also colored in his notebook – I was starting to make a little word notebook for him today, starting with digraphs. I was writing letters for him in the notebook when his bath was ready, but he was not happy about going to the bath. Carly took over and made it a quick bath, and he went to sleep pretty soon after that, around 7:15.
New words/phrases: manzana, Zinnie a giraffe, Zinnie is a door
Playground:
Home:
Back in the back:
Art museum:
Back in the park:
Watching the band:
