Last night he had a bad dream, said something about wanting something, and had his hand stretched out in the air above him. Put my finger in his hand and he held it and calmed down, but still had his hands up in the air for a couple minutes. If I tried to push his hands down to the bed he would put it back up.
He was up a little after 5. They went for a walk at some point and made waffles with Andrea. Carly made the berry sauce to go on top. When I got up August was wanting to get on Thatcher’s pillow in the play room and getting upset when Thatcher wouldn’t let him. We ended up making a fort with Andrea and the other two kids. In the fort, I read/sang an Eensy Weensy Spider book, mainly for Kayla. August kept bringing books into the fort and to Carly but not reading them. Carly went to get coffee and he said “But I got book for you.”
When someone suggested going outside to the dirt area August got excited: “Yeah! Let’s go!” He and Thatcher did a lot of digging and making mud. Thatcher went in at some point and August was playing with the hose, carrying it around the driveway and saying “Left, right, left, right.” Did some watering with it as well, then Thatcher suggested they go back and find snap peas. August wanted to go, but ran down the wrong side of the fence, into the neighbor’s yard. Got him headed the right direction, but then he wanted to avoid the poop: “Up, please.” Thatcher gave him a pea and August ate the whole thing. They used the hose to rinse off the trucks again together, then August used the hose to water the garden boxes.
Carly had taken a nap, and I went and got her up at 11. We got ready to go, and headed up to Dee and Grant’s house in Lake Stevens. August fell asleep in the car and slept from 11:35 to 12, when we woke him up when we got there. He was a bit groggy when my mom met us at the car, and as I carried him in. But he perked up for the chips. Dee got him some grapes, and we told him he had to have a grape for every chip, and he did a good job of going back and forth on his own. He rode on the rocking horse, then helped Dee use the salad spinner. He was interested in it and asked why you push the top and don’t spin it (like ours does). He explored the garage and outside, and liked going up and over the pile of gravel in the driveway. At 1:30 he asked “I’m tired. They have a bedroom?”
He ate a little hot dog, but was really excited by Dee’s orange jello salad: “That’s going to be mmm.” He ate a few servings. At 1:55 we went outside to play with water. Dad helped him turn the hose on. First with nothing on it, then August wanted the sprinkler on it, so we put that on. He wanted people to get close so they’d get wet when he turned the water up. “What happens if you get wet?” “You dry it off!”
At 2:30 my mom asked August to help carry the presents in for Dee’s birthday. Dee then opened presents, and August was by her. He alternated between wanting to be in the photos and not. When he was asked to carry the bag with the flowers in it over to her to open, he tossed them on the couch next to her.
The cake was brought out, but people were waiting for longer after dinner. We pretended the cake had a sensor and it would close when someone got close. Waiting was not what August wanted, and he said “I want to close it so you don’t touch it.” He also kept asking “Why we not eating quite yet?” He went and was pretending to cut the ottoman by Andrew, and Andrew was playing with him, telling him to not do it.
About 3 we had cake. I sent him to say “it’s cake time.” And an apple turnover. And then a chocolate mini muffin. August shared all of them with me, and sat on my lap. The muffin was probably his favorite. He was so excited he told Carly “Mama. Have a chocolate muffin.” But he also liked getting a piece of writing with his cake. He said “I want all of it. I want to share but I want a lot of it.”
He went out with Carly and was chasing her around the street. When I came out on the porch he saw me and they raced to me. Mom went out and sat next to him and Carly on the curb for several minutes.
Finally, a little before 3:45 we went for a walk. Just a simple one through the housing development and back. He wasn’t happy at first that everyone was coming along and said “I want private time.” We stopped to look at the flowers, mainly the lupin and the snapdragons. In our hurry to leave in the morning we hadn’t thought of the stroller, so Carly carried him most of the way. We got back about 4:10.
Also, he had picked up on the fact that people weren’t taking their shoes of in the house: “They don’t like taking their shoes off in Seattle?”
He was getting hyper and tired, so it was time to head out. When he saw everyone walking us out he was afraid they were coming along: “They’re not going in the car. There’s only three windows!” He then got hyper and was pointing to everyone as I carried them out: “That’s uncle Paul! And that’s uncle Paul! Everything’s uncle Paul.” We took a family photo. He held up his hand in front of us and appeared to be covering my mouth. We took off at 4:30.
He fell asleep again, from 4:45 to 5:23. We woke him up as we went into Central Market. Inside, he rode in a cart and I pushed. We went and got milk and the blueberry yogurt drink he really liked at the house. We also got a blackberry yogurt one. We got coffee, paper towels (to replace all those we used during the great puke/faint morning), and a few other things, then got back to the house at 6.
We had also bought a new toothbrush and toothpaste for August, as we hadn’t been able to find his in the luggage. He chose a Spongebob toothbrush. He drank a bunch of the blackberry yogurt drink, then we brushed his teeth. He really, really, really liked the strawberry toothpaste and wanted more and more, and got upset when I wouldn’t let him have anymore.
Carly had run to Home Depot to get a steam cleaner to clean the car. While we waited, he played with the hose and a green bottle in the driveway, filling it up. Carly got home at 6:35 and we started cleaning the car. Carly told him to be careful when she moved the car into the garage, and he went and climbed on the couch and wouldn’t get off. August then stood and watched the vacuuming with his fingers in his ears. Andrea and the kids came home and they played and played in the mud. Andrea took Kayla up to bed and the two boys kept playing. They then went and took a bath together. Thatcher went into his room for story time and sleep, and we went to the kitchen for soup and blueberry milk and milk. He was doing a lot of silly talking and singing, including a “He was going down” song. He was to bed at 9:50 and asleep about 10.
In the fort:
Three cousins:
Snacks:
Helping Dee:
Family photo:
