He was up for about a half hour at 4. He wanted water but Carly couldn’t find his water bottle. She used a straw from hers but he wasn’t happy that it wouldn’t reach the bottom and she had to hold it. He was then saying he wanted to leave the room, and I remember talking to him, but eventually she got him back to sleep.
He was then up at 9. Carly took a shower and I got him yogurt and berries for breakfast. But he was talking about big chunks of yogurt and was avoiding the berries. Carly and I took him on a walk at 10:20. We walked over to the Chelan Artisan Bakery. I reminded him to not put his fingers on the glass, and he identified hand prints where other people have. We got a strawberry tart thing and a mushroom cheese one. He was excited by them, and thought that the strawberries looked like blood, like on his toe wound, I think.
We walked back to Riverwalk Park. As we got there he said “I want gramma to go on a walk.” We sat on a bench in the shade and it was a little chilly. He said “I want my sweatshirt.” He saw a dog walking a ways away and said “Most doggies lick?” He stole my spot a couple times and said “Your spot is warmer.” He had his light coat on and it was because my spot was most in the sun, so we changed benches. Carly hadn’t gotten coffee at the bakery, just me, so August asked “When we get home you’re going to have coffee?” When he got down to the last bite, he excitedly said “Yum. Last bite.” As usual, he was worried about the bag blowing away. He gave me the last, last piece of bread. Carly said “Next time you need to say ‘Here you go, Scrap Boy’”. He replied “Oh, mama.”
We got home and he stayed outside with Carly while I got snacks together – crackers and cheese and strawberries. She helped him brush his teeth, then the rest of us got in the Jag at 12:30. Carly stayed in Chelan to work on stuff. August had chosen to use his vest in the car. He did pretty well with it through the day, but complained about it feeling tight a few times. My mom offered us Altoids. August has always just smelled mine in the past, but today he took one and started licking it. He had me break it in two, then ate the rest of it. He made little panting noises, but liked it. He wanted a little one once we got out of the car. Wanted his breath to be minty.
At Rocky Reach Dam we first went in and down to the fish ladder. Saw several fish. Then went across to the power station and he really liked the light bulb thing, where you turn the crank and try to light up all three light bulbs. We looked out at the generators and walked a bit further, to where you look out at the dam and fish pipe, etc. and talked about those. Then a guide, Bethany, came along and asked if we had any questions. I asked August if he had any, and he said yes. Then about the machine. We walked back to it, and he said something like “What the light bulbs do?” So she explained it again.
I had to carry him the whole way inside, as he was a bit afraid of the noise and the darkness down there. We walked through the history exhibits, him getting down to try turning the big ship wheel. We then saw Bethany again and confirmed that there used to be more exhibits, the electricity ones, beyond where the history ones end. We headed out, picking up our backpack that we’d had to leave at security.
We walked over towards the playground at 2:30. We played for a few minutes. He wanted a turn on the circle swing, and insisted there was room for two kids on it, but then when it was free he decided he didn’t want it. He wanted a snack, so we went up on the grass and he sat on my lap, eating crackers and cheese, and watched the other kids, and a few teenagers, playing on the playground.
We left at 3 and I took him to the bathroom. At the car there was a cat in the car next to us. We learned that the cat’s name is Leo. As we drove out, he told grampa “Don’t drive too fast.” It turns out that my mom and been telling August that when he was pretending to drive. He was also picking out the turn signal noises when grampa was going to turn. He then remembered wanting a mint later. He ate two, a small one and big one, and said “I wanted to make my breath minty STRONGER!”
We first went to the Chevy dealership. We looked around a bit, then talked to a dealer, but unfortunately they didn’t have any Sonics on lot. We then went to the tool store. Dad got a couple clamps for a table he’s working on. August wanted to ride in a cart, so I pushed him around a bit. Then got him out, and he found he could see himself in a CCTV over the entrance so he was dancing and spinning around. And my mom found one of those claw arm things for three bucks and he played with that.
From there we drove through Wenatchee and across the bridge to East Wenatchee and the mall, where we quickly went in to pick up my parents’ rings. Paul had gone off for a minute, so when we couldn’t see him August asked “What if it’s an optical illusion?”
We then headed over to Bob’s Restaurant and Distillery. We ordered teriyaki chicken with pineapple. He wanted to see them make his apple juice so we looked around a bit. When our drinks came his was in a paper drink cup. He wasn’t happy though when his coaster wouldn’t stick to the bottom of his cup like it did to our glasses. When the waitress came by to ask how our food was he said “tastes good”. Paul didn’t want his onion ring, so August ate it. Paul also didn’t eat his raw onions, which were covered with cheese. August also ate those, and said “I like these onions, but not the ones at home.” He also said “I want my breath to smell like the food.” I also mentioned that we had recently had onion rings somewhere, and he asked “at the airport?” Talking about eating the onions in cheese he said “I like things covered in cheese.” And “Drinking makes me a lot fuller.” Finally, when the waitress asked if we wanted dessert he heard and said “I want dessert!”
We were on our way home by 5:30. He had one mint and wanted another: “Besides, my breath doesn’t smell THAT minty.” He asked a loot of what ifs on the way home: “what if you had cords plugged in you?” and was being rather creative: “I put milk in dada’s electronics.” We read three or four books on the iPad, a couple of those adapted classic books. We were home at 6:20.
Carly and August played out back for a long time in the sand, making a big sand castle/mountain with a moat. I was downstairs when Carly called down that it sounded like someone was yelling for help next door. It was from two doors down, and a man had collapsed. By the time I got over there, a man was on the ground and a couple people were performing CPR. I helped the boy get the dog in the house, then got out of the way and headed home. It turned out that they were able to resuscitate him.
Carly and I took August for a walk at 8. He ate a whole banana, then a little cracker and cheese. We saw Paul running through the park, which was exciting for August. I had dropped the strawberries, and Paul came back a second time a few seconds later as he had found them on the ground. Paul joked that we were going on a bubble gum ice cream run and August heard him and said he wanted ice cream. August did his walking while still in the stroller thing: “Its like a wheelchair.” Carly rolled down the hill, but August watched her and said he wanted to walk down. He looked in the lake at the bandstand and liked seeing it so deep: “Mama, see the deepness.” On the way back, we spotted Paul again, about a block away. August then kept asking “Where’s uncle Paul? Where’s uncle Paul?”
We got home, and Carly gave him a quick bath. Out on the couch, my dad was eating peanuts. August has never really eaten them as he hasn’t been interested. This time though he decided “I like peanuts!” He then pretended they each tasted different: “I’ll try a cooked peanut. This is a roasted peanut. This is a chocolate peanut. Striped
chocolate. And this is covered in ketchup…covered in chocolate.” Took him downstairs after that and he was asleep at 10.
Car vest:
Rocky Reach Dam fish ladder:
Looking out at the dam:
Out at the playground:
Paul’s sunglasses:
