I went down to wake Peter up at 7:45. Instead, August opened the door to our room. So I started to accompany him upstairs. As we went up, he asked “Who’s taking a shower?” It was uncle Paul. I then told him Peter was here but still asleep. He kept asking “Why’s he still asleep?” August was good with Peter when he came up a little later. August played near and far, saying “bigger, bigger, bigger” as he walked closer to Peter and “smaller, smaller, smaller” as he walked away. August was out front a little later and got his fingers banged in the screen door. Luckily not bad. He then spent quite some time playing with the hose, making his lake and watering flowers. He told mom that one of the flowers on the vertical flower pot “it’s not petaling good.”
Peter and I drank coffee and did some reading and whatnot at the table and I took a shower. About 10 Carly, August, Peter, and I headed out for a walk. We showed Peter our usual routine, walking into town and going to the bakery. I made the Korean mistake of ordering an iced cappuccino and settled for a latte with cinnamon. August chose a cinnamon roll. We walked back to the park and AUgust chose a metal picnic table to sit at. We sat there quite awhile talking, and August had fun talking to Peter and was also being a machine: “It sprays and makes the wood hard so you can’t cut it.” He went to Carly and said “I want to cuddle with mama.”
We then went to Bear Foods and Carly got a few things and a big bag of popcorn. She and August put the usual yeast and olive oil on it. Peter got chocolate covered coffee beans for my parents. Ate some popcorn there and as we crossed the street, then they left the popcorn with me and Carly and August went to the bathroom and Peter and I went to the bookstore. They came back, got the popcorn, and headed back to the table in the park. Peter and I got there a bit later. Carly said that August was surprised that she was eating so much. He told me “I really don’t want mama to get sick of it.” But then he also said “I want all of it.”
Back at home, the two of them went downstairs for a long time. He had asked to watch Sarah and Duck but I think he forgot about that. When Paul got home he was carrying a pizza box, and August kept asking “What’s in it uncle Paul?” He wasn’t content with being told it was just a box. I asked August where Paul worked, and what he thought Paul would bring from there and he correctly concluded it was pizza.
Back at home he played outside more, walking around the yard in Carly’s sandals at one point. She got him apple as a snack and I picked him up at one point. He said: “Don’t rock me; the apple might fall out…I have my mouth closed.” When he was done: “I already ate my apple, mama.” And at some point earlier he had allowed mom to give him a hug but told her “Yeah but not too long.”
I made a long shopping list for two quiches, science experiments Carly wanted to do, and several other things we needed. Peter and I jumped in our car and went and braved Safeway on Saturday of 4th of July weekend. Busy, but we did well and didn’t have a lot of back and forth in the store. Peter got four rib eyes to cook on the barbecue, and we also got asparagus for dinner.
At home I unpacked the groceries and mom and I started on the quiches. Peter did some reading, reading parts of my copy of Popper’s Conjectures and Refutations and more of his Wittgenstein. Carly and August did their science experiments out on the grass, making some cool “science art” with the food coloring and vinegar and baking soda, and doing the glove thing where you blow up a latex glove with vinegar and baking soda. But the first time they did it some vinegar got on August when it popped off the cup and then he didn’t want to get close the second time, or even when she was just blowing them up with her mouth.
I went out to play with him and the eye droppers and what not for awhile, then we went in the garage to look at cars and stuff with Peter, then dad came up. Carly did the asparagus on the grill, then Peter did the stakes. August helped me test the quiches as they were cooking, poking them with toothpicks. August was really hungry and had some quiche at 6. When we all were sitting down for dinner he had a bite of my broccoli quiche and it was too hot and he got quite upset. Went downstairs with Carly for a few minutes, then they came back out for dinner. Carly took him in at 6:45. He was already looking really tired, tired out by the science experiments. She gave him a bath he wasn’t too happy about and then went to sleep at 7:30.