He slept in just a bit today, almost to 7. A long night considering he went to sleep early last night. When he and Carly were drawing in the morning he started to say “crossing the T”, which he hasn’t done before. I think it was also sometime this morning that they were playing with Duplos and Carly made a new playground.
We left for his class a little before 11. This was the first time Carly got to see a Teuni Teuni class. August was a bit more hesitant early in class; he would participate, then want to leave, then participate, etc. To keep him from leaving when he was standing by the door, Carly had him looking at letters on all the shoes. It worked. They set up a cool walking course with different textures, which August liked. They also used little kickstands to introduce kicking. This was perfect for August, as we could see him picking it up during class.
After class we headed down to the grocery store to pick up some things for lunch and for enchiladas tomorrow. We headed home and August nursed and went to sleep before eating any lunch at about 12:40. Slept to 2.
In the afternoon we put him in the backpack and went for a walk. Up the stream, stopping at the Tolerance Cafe for the first time (on the second floor over by the youth center and power plant). Got our coffees and kept walking. Walked up to the park but turned around and came back the other side.
Walked over towards the library and August saw the playground by the dinosaurs and wanted to play. So we let him out and played there. Did the usual climbing and shaky bridge stuff and running around. Got the little ball out and threw/kicked it around a little. There was a smaller boy – just walking – there and he was crying at first. August went over close to him and started Qing him from a distance, saying “Q baby!” It was about 40 and shady and we were all getting cold (August occasionally considers his hat, but then takes it off), so we continued on to the library.
Carly took him upstairs while I grabbed some books from the English shelves. Upstairs, he liked grabbing all the Korean board books and we looked at a couple of the books I grabbed. He particularly liked the book about peeing (something like Time to Pee, by Mo Willems, the guy that writes the pigeon books). Lasted about a half hour then August decided it was time to go.
Carly went to the grocery store. I gave August the option of following her or going home and getting a snack and he chose going home. At home we ended up reading some of the new books I bought on the iPad, namely a Biscuit book and Chu’s Day, by Neil Gaiman. He thought that one was pretty funny.
Carly came home and made stir fry and we ate dinner. After dinner, August and I spent a lot of time doing art on the iPad. Our pieces are getting better and better. I was looking for a better Spanish app and downloaded a free one and he and Carly spent some time on that.
She gave him a bath and I did dishes. Carly took him in to get him to sleep a little before 9, but it didn’t work. He came back out, and ended up getting Angeles. He took Angeles into the other sitting room, where only the Christmas lights were on, and held Angeles up to see the lights. He then, all on his own, started having Angeles feel the patterns on the the playmat squares. This went on for several minutes. He even had Angeles feel the xylophone blocks and the couch and closet door. It was pretty amazing.
August didn’t want to go back in the bedroom. I was trying to lure him with Kipper stories, but he wasn’t biting until I said “Angeles wants to listen to Kipper.” He instantly grabbed Angeles and headed to the bed.
Carly and I read Kipper to him. He was totally focused on finding the Qs, and repeatedly counting them (“one, two…no Qs”). I had the book kind of setting on Angeles and August made me move it. He took a drink of water and then decided he needed to put it away out on the table. He walked down the hall and set it on the table and we heard him say “two wawas!” as there was already a bottle on the table. He then went and tried to find the floor wipes. We asked why, and he showed us there was some water spilled on the floor. Carly gave him a paper towel and he wiped it up. She then got him (against his will) back in bed and he was asleep by 9:50.
New words/phrases: mama has an idea, crossing the T, so many people, not for Zinnie, new page, lavender, tan
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