Note: Sorry, no photos until I figure out a more reliable internet connection.
He woke up at 7:10 as I was getting up. Seemed to be from a dream, as he was saying something. We went upstairs and found Carly. He was a bit off through the morning, in part I think because he wasn’t actually ready to wake up. So it became a mama day as he wouldn’t let her out of his sight. We used the left over broccoli, olives, and cheese and mom made a scramble out of it and we had that for breakfast. After Paul went to work August wanted to go find cans on his desk. We found two, and took them up to smash them. August had left one half-crushed in the crusher, so this time he finished that one and then wanted to leave another half-crushed on in there. Mom tried to hang out with him, but as part of his off morning he didn’t want to do that. Carly took him downstairs at some point when he was upset and he talked about being nervous. He was also hitting her when he was frustrated. They nursed, and I thought he might fall asleep even though it was 10 or so. They were in there and quiet when Peter left to drive back to Edmonds.
He vacuumed cat litter with me, then Carly took him for a walk to town. They tried going to the creperie but it was busy and hot. So they went to the sandwich shop by the barber and had a smoothie. Something like mango, strawberry, banana, and something else. They then went to the nice air-conditioned library and played with the toys for a long time. His favorite was the Melissa and Doug vacuum cleaner.
While they were gone dad and I went box building. We first went to the U-Haul place down in Chelan Falls. She didn’t really have big boxes, but she referred us to the Mini Storage place up the hill. Went there and had more success. Got two lamp boxes that we could combine two of to make a bigger box. No strapping tape, so we went to Walmart, but no luck there. Saw Bob, the owner of Local Myth Pizza where Paul works, as we were leaving. We also saw him on I think our first walk to Riverwalk Park. We then drove across to Mailboxes and got a roll of strapping tape there and one more of the square boxes as Carly wanted it as backup.
We got home and Carly and August were home a bit later, before 2. He had been great with Carly, but reverted to a bad mood once back at the house. I took him downstairs when he was upset and wouldn’t let him back up until he had calmed down, and he sat in front of the closet doors in the family room and pulled his first “You’re mean.” on me.
When he did calm down we went up and he ate some of the leftover mac and cheese with broccoli before saying “Dada eat the rest”. We played with Legos for a little while: “This is a new kind of diving board people have never been to.” I then got his toothbrush and toothpaste. He said “I want to do it with mama so I don’t have too much.” as if I let him have too much toothpaste. He ate some of the dried toothpaste in the cap, then sat in my lap and brushed his teeth.
He then spotted the fireplace tools and asked to use them. I showed him the extendo arm ones and he started to get impatient when I was showing him how they worked, but then he stopped and said “After you teach me I’m going to do it myself.” After we were done with them he spotted Iris eating from her bowl and practiced saying “Heeeeeere kitty, kitty, kitty.”
Carly got the cotton balls and a glass and they did science experiments at the table, putting cotton balls and ice in water. He wanted something dark and we used Peter’s leftover coffee from the morning. They then took it outside to get messier with the food coloring and what not. I went out and did some of that with him.
He then helped Carly wash the car. I helped a bit, getting parts she couldn’t reach and watching him. Dad then had August crush a tin can in the vice.
For dinner we ordered two pizzas from Company Creek. Ordered a California veggie pizza and the Company Creek Combo. Knew it would take awhile for the pizza to arrive, but took well over an hour. August was getting hungry, so Carly got him a gardenburger and he ate almost all of it.
I was working on putting the big box together to hold the bike trailer for August, my guitar, two of our frames and prints, and some books and Legos. At one point August climbed in and asked of himself “You want to be shipped?” And said “I’m hiding from mama and dada.”
That was just before 7, then Carly took him down to bed. But he went in for a Paul visit and stayed in there about 20 minutes, watching Paul play Age of Empires. Paul was at his computer and August sat on the edge of the bed, close to the monitor. He kept pointing things out and asking questions. Very fun to watch.
She took him in to bed at 7:20 and he was asleep soon after.
Mom has noticed that he doesn’t like the fan oscillating and he would stop it every time he walked by if it was oscillating. Also, regarding the “You’re mean.” Carly said that when he first said it to her yesterday he kind of stopped and you could see he was thinking and then realized that that was what fit what he was thinking.