He started waking up about 10:15 and they came down after 10:30. A little grumpy at first, but then got silly with the stuffed snake and balloons. He was perturbed that the ribbon on the Elmo balloon was curly and wanted it straight. He just rested against Carly for awhile then cuddled and nursed.
Had a lot of the blueberry milk. He talked about being sick yesterday: “What happens if yesterday your tummy was feeling all the way off?” And last night he told Carly this house was fun when the kids are here but not fun when he has to be tired. He also called the Spider-Man balloon the scary spider balloon.
He played with the yellow snake, having it slither around on the counter and lick me. I asked “Is yogurt and fruit okay?” Singing: “No, no, no, not yogurt and fruit. Not yogurt.” And to Carly “I want mama to guess why we threw up this morning. Please, please, please.”
He cuddled with Carly on the couch and played with the Elmo balloon He lay next to her and just rested for awhile as well. I then took him outside and we tried out the different sprinklers so he could see them and he filled Eddy’s bowl after spilling it.
Then, I was planning on taking him to the playground at Carkeek. Glecy texted to ask how they were doing and I invited her along. She agreed, and said she’d bring food from Ezell’s with her. August and I got ready to go, and by luck got perhaps the best parking spot in the park. We were on the playground by 12:45. He went on the double wide bouncy teeter totter thing, where he would end up spending 90 percent of his play time. A series of other kids came and went. Rather fun, as we could talk to them and the parents, about taking turns, etc. Woohoo! It was getting a bit sunny and he saw a couple of grandparents wearing sunglasses and wanted his. He saw a guy with long, grey hair playing frisbee and asked “That grandpa? Who that?”
About 1:30 Glecy arrived. She dropped the food off to us by our car, as she needed to drive around to the lower part and walk up. We went and claimed a bench and opened a grapefruit Perrier, which he liked. He would kept talking about it and say:”I like this one, but not other sparkling drinks.”
We got out all the food and started eating. He really liked the roll, and dipped it in the mashed potatoes and gravy. He ate french fries with ketchup. He ate a little chicken, but not much. They did a lot of talking, with August trying to understand and answer all her questions, and her trying to understand what he said.
Eventually he was full, and after 2 wanted to go down and play. She got up on the slide area with him, and he was climbing up the slide and making a good noise sliding back down on his hands and knees. When Glecy was chasing him he did a good job of communicating with his words: “I really don’t want you to tickle me.” We went over to the musical instruments thing and at first August didn’t want to share with another boy. But Glecy brokered a deal, with August getting the high notes and the boy getting the low notes. They made a lot of noise, and Glecy played it and sand the Do Re Me song. August wanted her to do it again and said “I want auntie Glecy notes.” Back on the slide he made more noise, and said “I really like that noise…I want auntie Glecy to plug her ears.”
Finally, we went back up to the table to find that the crows had eaten the rest of the fries and gotten into the closed box and stolen the last piece of chicken. We had some more grapefruit and had been discussing ‘cheers’ in different languages. So we were clinking the bottles together and saying “Leheim!” (Hebrew) with him.
We talked about going to the beach, but he decided he just wanted to go to the beach in Israel. We had also earlier talked about going over to the salmon play area part, just on the other side of the bathrooms, but didn’t make it there either.
We went to our cars and headed back, getting to the house at 2:50. Carly came out and we were all on the front porch as Thatcher was asleep on a couch inside. August was playing in the car and trying to convince Carly to come play in it with him: “Mama, mama, mama! It’s so nice in the car!”
A little after 3 I left to go visit my friend Peter. As I left, they were getting in Glecy’s car to play there. While I was gone Glecy stayed until after 7 and played with the kids and had dinner with them. I later found out that one of the things they did was paint the ‘Happy Father’s Day’ banner for Sunday. They took a bath, and he was asleep a little after 7.
Snake:
With mama:
Sprinklers:
Carkeek:
Playing in the car:
