August was up at 6:30, soon after Carly had gotten up. They skyped with Vivi and Cherie and Chuck before I got up. August was very climby on Carly this morning, using her as a jungle gym. Carly made him eggs and toast for breakfast, and gave him ketchup, something I would never think to do. He loved dipping his toast and eggs, but mainly his toast, in the ketchup. He also came up to me at one point and randomly said “quack, quack”. I don’t know where that came from. We also spent a lot of time making letters out of Duplos, something that Carly started.
He took a nice long nap in the middle of the day, then around 2:30 Megan and Torrey came by to do some babysitting – the first non-grandparent that has watched him. Carly and I just went down to Cafe Holic on the second floor and had a mocha and blueberry latte and talked and read our books. While we were gone, he basically played on the iPad the entire time; they weren’t even sure if he realized we were gone. He wasn’t just on the iPad though: he went and looked out the window, and went to his magnets a few times. He would get up and find a letter on the door, then go back to the iPad where he had a typing document open and type it. He also used the Hangeul app with her, and was really into finding the ‘d’ sound – a character he had been excited to see in a Duplo piece earlier in the day. And in the Alpha Writer app, before we left, I saw him swipe through the list at the top to get to the double letter combinations and pull down ‘oo’ all on his own, something I had never seen him do.
After they left, Carly and I took him outside. I took him to the art museum and Carly went shopping at Home Plus. We first went downstairs, where the Wonderland exhibit is still open, even though it said it was closing on the 13th. He was still mainly frustrated about not being able to go in the fenced off area. So we went back upstairs, and he played in the play area, which was only slightly crowded. He went into the bouncy area a little, but mainly played out in front, saying the Spanish alphabet and rolling around. He also sat next to me, back against the padded wall, for a couple minutes, admiring a “pattern” he saw in one of the pairs of shoes sitting near him.
Carly came and saw us for a minute, then headed home to start making stir fry. August played for another minute, then was done. We went outside, and he spent about 15 minutes wandering around that part of the park, watching skateboarders and finding a long stick that he used to write the Spanish alphabet on the ground.
I got him home at 5:25, then turned around to head downstairs to meet Megan and Torrey and go with them to see the Star Wars film over at Home Plus. My dinner was a creamy garlic hot dog at the movie theater. The movie was quite good. No spoilers here. But worth it, and so much better than the prequels.
Came home and August was already in bed. He had fallen asleep out in the reading area about 7:40. Apparently he had missed me, saying “more dada” and “miss dada”. I’ve heard him say “miss mama” dozens of times, but the first he’s said it about me.
New words/phrases: ketchup, fresh and clean diaper, Teuni Teuni class, take it out (play dough letter), Megan did that
Enjoying our coffee:
Art museum:
Under the D moon:
