He was up a little before 9. He and Carly went up and were playing with Legos. He was then sitting in the comfy chair and being indifferent to the breakfast choices I was giving him. Ended up agreeing to Cheerios and strawberries, although he didn’t eat a lot. He sat in the rolly chairs again today, saying “I like the rolls chair cuz this time it didn’t roll. Just a little.” My parents were going to breakfast at the Apple Couple with a couple that was in town. We met them, and she gave us a bag of popcorn that was grown by her cousin in town. They left at 10:30 and we got ready to go. August went in to explore their bedroom again, and jumped on it a bit more. He and Carly then ended up being lazy on the couch, flipping channels and sort of looking at the newspaper. Called that their ‘American experience’. Carly was trying to tease me about something, so I got August to say “I want to float and nurse.”
I clipped and filed August’s nails, he got a salt and vinegar chip from Paul, and we got to the park by noon. The parking lot was in the middle of filling up. Fifteen minutes later and we probably wouldn’t have gotten a spot. As such, there was a long line for the one pay machine. Carly and August headed down to the park and I stood. Took close to a half hour.
When I went down, they had just been playing in the shallows. He was standing on the beach, shirt off, with his sunglasses pushed around his stomach. August wanted Carly to carry him out to the dock. August stayed with me while Carly went for a float on donut floaty (which we had blown up earlier). After a few minute, he wanted to go too, so she came back in and got him just before 12:45. They floated for a good 20 minutes. He came back in just as I had a couple pages left in the first story of Eleven Prague Corpses, which I borrowed from Paul. We each ate a Larabar, and Carly got out ten minutes later. We hung around on the beach for awhile, and left at 1:25. August wanted Carly to float out to the dock with him, and she wouldn’t go that deep as he didn’t have a life vest. So while on shore I had pointed out another boy that was wearing one, and August agreed that he liked it. As we started walking up, that same boy walked by, and August reached out and touched it. August then helped Carly carry the float thing up the hill and they went to the bathroom. He then helped me carry it tot he car.
We headed to Walmart, where I bought a pair of clip-on sunglasses, and we got a lot of fruit and some hummus and crackers for camping. We were home at 2:10. He was relaxed in his car seat and I asked if he was sleepy. He said “I’m not sleepy, just tired.” He took his swimsuit off as soon as we were in the door. Awhile later I took him down and got his shorts on. Carly asked if he wanted a garden burger “Yeah. But I want the SAME cheese…what if everyone else wants CHEDDAR cheese?” In the kitchen he opened the utility drawer and repeated what I had said the other day: “Straight to the sharp things.”
Carly asked if he wanted mango, and he said “Mango time!” While at the table he said “I’m back to liking the rolly chairs. I don’t like the up and down chairs.” He then politely asked Carly “Can I have some of your water, please?” Out in the living room, he watched Paul pouring his soda, and was excited when it would fizz up. Then, he got to help mom give herself the vitamin shot that she takes. That was pretty exciting.
Mom got things set up for making snickerdoodles cookies, and I took him out to play in the Jag for a few minutes. When we came back in, he got up on the tall stool and helped her with the ingredients. They then formed the cookies. At first, he was just squishing them into the cinnamon sugar mix. But by the second or third round he was doing a good job of rolling them. Carly joked that the extra ingredient in the cookies was August spit, as he kept licking his hands and arms due to the cinnamon and sugar.
He had one small cookie when they were done, then managed to grab another cookie and take a bite of it. He was quite hyper, and said “I want to eat more bites so I’m more hyper.” We went outside to try to look for the cats. I had said he was too hyper and it would scare the cats, so he was suddenly very serious and quiet, and whispered to me as we went out. But before finding them my mom said we needed tortillas. I volunteered to go to the store and take August with me. First, he went to the bathroom. I said “It’s hot.” Him: “Yeah. Maybe we shouldn’t go camping.”
At Safeway, our list was the 3 Ts: tortilla, tomato, and tea (for Carly). Also, I told him we could get more of those fruit bars he had grabbed the first time. On the way he speculated about what other fruits they would have. He was right about raspberry and mango. The mango says it is spicy, but we got it to try. At checkout, he dropped his water bottle once. I then wondered if we needed a Discover Pass. We went out and put the groceries in the car and called my dad and Carly. Couldn’t find our pass from last year, and Carly said we needed milk. We went back in, him singing a “We need a Discover Pass” song, and he dropped his water bottle again while we waited at the customer service desk. That was being slow, so we went and got milk. He then dropped his glasses while we were paying, and the lady there joked about him dropping things – she had noticed the water bottle as well. We waited in line for a Discover Pass, but still stuck on one customer. Gave me time to look at the prices and website and realize we probably didn’t need one, so we headed home.
We were home at 5:50. He took the tea downstairs to Carly. He then was on the toilet and told her “Sometimes kitties pee in garbage cans.” Upstairs, she gave him warm milk, and he asked for a couple refills. They then ate more mango, but this one wasn’t as good. My parents got things ready for dinner, and when it was ready he told Carly it was dinner time. He didn’t eat much – said he wanted his garden burger from lunch, but didn’t eat much of it either time.
He watched bubbles in Paul’s cola again, then we gave him a bath after 8 – Carly started, and I finished wit his hair. Carly had just gotten a small towel for him, and he wore his small towel as a shawl and wanted to show mama. Down in the bedroom he put on his letter bracelet. I told Carly about him saying it was too hot to camp. He explained “I thought it had to be cold in order to do that.” He was hyper before bed, and tried to chase the cats upstairs. I took him outside and he helped deflate the floaty before needing to go to the bathroom “because I drank those liquids.” Took him in and he was asleep earlier, at 9:20.
Sunglasses:
Helping carry:
Licking his fingers:
Waiting:
Red crab:
Blocking the TV:
