He slept until 9:30. Almost 13 hours. Carly went to take a shower. I asked if he wanted yogurt and berries for breakfast and he chanted “Yeah, yeah, yeah!” While he ate, mom and I talked about the UW student who drowned in the lake. August overheard and kept asking questions, namely “Why they were getting in trouble?”
Carly watched him while I took a shower. They went outside and he was spitting a lot from his water bottle. I then sorted mail while they played sink or float with water in the big metal tub. Carly and I switched so that she could get some food. He first suggested floating a lantern, but was then afraid it would break it. So I assured him it wouldn’t and I got the lantern and we tried it. Dad got closer with the weed eater and he doesn’t like the sound, so we went around front.
August went inside and spotted Iris. He then slowly and carefully followed her around the house – first to the dining room table, then downstairs. I had no idea where she had gone downstairs, but he quickly spotted her sitting on a chair under the dining room table down there. He quietly played with some of the toys in a basket while we gave her some space.
Carly and I spent much of the morning going through our stuff in the garage and doing other things (finishing with mail, preparing my phone to send back). Couldn’t find my clear glass mugs, but found plenty of other stuff. For most of the time August was with my mom. She explained a lot of the tools to him, then they spent a lot of time in the Jag explaining things. He was asking constant ‘What that is?’ and ‘Why?’ questions. They went out to the tub of water for awhile and he ate a bit more yogurt at one point. He ended back out with her, then with grampa in the Jag again. A little before 1 I came through and he wanted me to get in the car. He then wanted Carly to get in the back seat. At 1:15 she went in and got him a lunch of tofu and corn. He had fun dipping them in yogurt to eat.
The three of us then got ready to go run some errands and go to the park. We talked about his mystery toe wound and he had me speculating on how it happened. As we went and he climbed in the car he said a good “Oofta”. We first went and dropped some of our stuff off at the second hand store. Then drove to the post office where Carly went in and asked about shipping boxes to Israel. Finally to the Mailboxes store, where she did the same and dropped off some clothes she had to return and my iPhone. August and I walked over to the Variety Store and Carly caught up. We got him a backup pair of sunglasses. Red ones again. He wasn’t excited by them (not purple heart sunglasses), but they will do.
We went and parked at Don Morse Park. I convinced him to wear his hat, then left them playing at the playground and I went over to get a haircut. It was closed without explanation, and when I walked back I found them down on the beach. August was throwing sand in the lake and Carly was wading. I put sunscreen on him and he ran up on the sand to avoid me. He didn’t really get in the water until we were ready to leave and he wanted the sand off his feet. So Carly set him in the water with his sandals on and he liked it.
We walked over to the Lakeview Drive-in, me carrying him because he didn’t have his shoes on. They got a cone of bubble gum ice cream and I got a garden burger. We sat outside and ate those, then walked back to our car and headed home, getting here at 3:45.
He was hungry, so had Ritz crackers (first time, I think) and cheese and strawberries as a snack. My mom was then vacuuming, and it had the rotating part in it that you can see. He followed her around, watching, right up close but with his fingers in his ears. I left for a haircut about 4:30, going to the barber shop right downtown. Took awhile to get my haircut, as there was a short line. While I was getting my haircut she asked if I was from around here, then when I said we had been living in South Korea, she said “Oh, so you know the guy who drowned?” I got back from my haircut at 5:30.
August played in more mud, then helped me try to pump up the bike tires and played with the lock. He then went back to spitting out ice. Back inside, he said
“What’s that? Ice?” and reached in and grabbed ice from my mom’s glass. He then tricked her again, saying he was just going to cover her glass and reached in and grabbed ice instead.
Then a long game of following and petting the cats began. We looked for them out front and he was able to pe Cynde a couple times. He dumped the water out of the watering can from earlier and said “You like playing in water?”
We went in for dinner, then he went out front with Carly and more petting of cats. We all ended up out there. Paul and dad went with him around the corner, and Cynde would attack Paul or dad when they petted her tummy, but left August alone. He turned the handle on the boat, then excitedly came up the back stairs and told me about it. But then he was suddenly nervous that he didn’t know where mama was. We went and found her, then he wanted to find cats again. We put on his shoes and he followed Cynde around the side of the house with Paul. They were able to pet Iris as well for the first time. We did one more car finding expedition after that and used a stick to play with Iris. Disappeared around the front with Paul again then came back and we sat in the grass. He sat on my lap and “Dada loves you so much?…And gramma and grampa love you so much? And uncle Paul? Everybody likes you? Why?” I said “Because you’re nice.” He replied “No, I’m mean.”
He was with Carly for a bit, then we were about to go for a walk around the block but he decided he was hungry. Carly got him berries and grapes for a snack and as he went to the table he said. “I want this chair because I don’t like rolly chairs.” Earlier I had put his food in front of the folding chair and he said “You did this chair cuz you knew I didn’t like rolly chairs?” He ate a bunch of fruit, then we went for a walk after 8:30. He saw a dog standing still across the street and asked “Is that a real dog?” We walked over close to the bridge and he wanted out and was walking on his own, but then fell on the edge of the the sidewalk. He didn’t cry, but was upset/frustrated by it. We tried asking him about it, but he said “No. Dada fell. (Lip noise).”
Back home, he really got upset over the idea of a bath, as he didn’t want water to touch the cut that he had received on his big toe. Eventually, I got him calmed down and we sat on the inside of the tub and filled it with a little water and scooped water through the bath toys. We took quite awhile playing, and managed to get him washed. Off to bed after that and he was asleep a little before 10.
Sink or float:
Playing in the car:
Hat:
Ice cream:
