He was up sometime after 6. He was on a roll with Carly this morning. He pointed out the set of hooks on the bathroom door. We might have just left those behind if he hadn’t pointed them out. Then, they were doing bubbles and Carly commented on it being tippy, and he suggested taping it down, so they did. Finally, he was drinking milk and eating banana bread and had the idea of dipping it in the milk.
Recently he hasn’t been too warm to me when I wake up. He’s concerned that seeing me means that Carly’s going to work. So instead of saying “Go away” or “I don’t like dada.” we’ve been working on what else he can say. Today he was on the toilet, and told me “I want some quiet time…I ALWAYS want some quiet time.” He was then playing in the room with all the stuff and he was making a thing from the Popsicle makers and said “I wanted some private time to make this.”
At 8 they took down recycling, which took a couple loads. After the second load they went to the park and played on the exercise equipment. They got Carly a sandwich and went to check on the bank to see when it opened. And they went past that room by the movie theater with rides in it and he played around in there and went on one. Played there about 15 minutes, but didn’t seem too thrilled with the ride. Glad she took him though, as I’d been meaning to let him go on one.
They came back, and the plan was for Carly to go to the bank first, alone. But August, being a bit angsty, wanted to go too. So we all went. He was doing really well sitting with us and waiting, so we went ahead and started with closing my accounts. Kind of a mistake, as later the teller told us Carly couldn’t transfer all of the money, as there was a $50,000 transfer limit. She could still transfer in my name, but it added to the difficulty.
At one point, while Carly was with the teller, August and I went to an empty bank window and he wanted to pretend to do paperwork. So I asked him questions and he wrote the answers on a pretend piece of paper. I asked what country he was going to and he thought about it and said “Gramma and grampa”.
The whole thing took over an hour and a half. I did have to haul him out at some point when he was getting too hyper and loud. Once he calmed down, we went back in, and Carly was able to wander around with him for awhile.
August had seen the Burger Ton and wanted to eat there, but then I clarified and he wanted bop burgers. So we went to the bop burger place and got three burgers and went and sat by the playground and ate. A little boy came along, and August got protective of his bike, grabbing it and holding it. When he was done eating he ran and we started to play on the teeter totters. Carly tried to head on home, but August figured out what was going on and wouldn’t let Carly go home by herself.
Back home he added water drink to his milk and was drinking a lot of it and said: “I fell down because I had too much drinking. My drain was full! It’s going down my pipes…pee!”
We did a lot of cleaning and downloading of new apps, videos, etc. for him and us. He was mocking Carly at one point: “Oh my goodness.” And kept repeating it. While sitting on the toilet he sat for a long time, and said “I want lots of private time.” He was then copying Carly again, saying “Are You serious?”
I was talking to him about going outside if he didn’t want to see the workers, but then they got there early, at 1:50. Surprisingly though they barely bothered him at all. He was curious, and got close to watch and was actually starting to get in the way. He did decided to go outside twice, but it was the first two times they were making a lot of noise using tape to make boxes. It is a noise he didn’t like in the past. But then he was playing around again, first with our shoes, then pretending to be a crane out of gas that I would fill up.
At one point he was singing “I pooped, I peed, I peed I peed I peed” to Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. They nursed, then I was carrying around and we were pretending I was a crane and he was picking stuff up. We looked at the globe to see where us and our stuff are going and how we’re getting there different directions. We had a bit of a snack: he had the rest of the crackers he got at Cafe Tolerance (from a mom that was there) and some Cheerios.
The movers were done at 3:30 I suggested he say “Bye bye stuff. See you in Israel!” And he did.
We then left at 3:45. As we walked by the north end of the park he noticed 4 or 5 people in wheelchairs gathered together, talking. He asked “That is a wheelchair spot?” He was then screeching Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in my ear. We went over to the police station a ways east of See and Me (the second one). We got the simple criminal background checks, in case we ever need them for future jobs. August was given a piece of hard candy while we were there, and Carly broke it up for him. It was mint, and August was talking about how he likes mint.
At 4:30, on our way back, in the street by 2001 Outlet, there was a work crew filling in a hole they had made with asphalt. We watched for 5 to 10 minutes, discussing all the machines, until they were done. We then went and caught the Nowon 15. We had to pay with coins, as we no longer have our cards. The bus was incredibly crowded. But August was fine the whole way despite people pressed up right against him.
We were walking and he was being loud again and I told him he had discovered a new loudness level. He switched to a high pitch and said “I discovered a new squeaky noise too.” We had intended to go to the tea shop in the Lotte Department Store to get gifts for the people that helped with our car. But it was closed.
We then walked home, stopping at our usual Starbucks. We still had two gift cards – enough to cover a drinks trip and then our drinks and food at the airport. August got his usual: the chia seed and yogurt drink. He really likes that stuff. We sat for awhile, and they read a book or tow on the iPad.
We came home and as we came down our hall we saw Meg and her boyfriend moving boxes into Sara’s apartment across from us. They are moving into our apartment on Friday and were moving boxes up so they would be easier to move then. We told them that we had an empty room and they could move them straight in if they like. August was not at all happy about us inviting them in and he was quite upset. We took him into the parlor. Luckily, it didn’t take long.
We had dinner. At one point I said “I was just being silly. I know that’s a big surprise.” He replied “No. That is NOT a big surprise.”
His bathtub is now headed to Israel, so we had to do a shower. Or that was the idea. Got him as far as the bathroom, and he started to lose it at the idea. So we decided to just skip a bath today.
They went in and tried for sleep at 7, but he just wasn’t ready. He came out, and tried some of my strawberry and mango tea and liked it. He then watched some Formula 1 qualifying with me, and had lots of questions about parts on the cars and crashing. He was ready to go back to bed and was asleep around 8.