I was up at 8, Carly and August came down just after 10. Nursed, then they shared a strawberry yogurt: “I love it!” “Next time I want to shop for raspberry yogurt…And chocolate.” For the pristine white new table he said “I don’t like the scratchiness.” – echos of his complaints about the red chairs in Pennsylvania. He was then being silly in the bathroom: “How bout I pee out th window?” “I don’t think I’m going to stop peeing.” “I just love getting pee drips on me.” When he was done he said he wants a stool so he can reach the sink. Carly took a shower, then he wanted more yogurt and Carly suggested having grapes with it: “I love grapes and strawberry yogurt…Because I love mixing things.”
Then went and played out in the yard for awhile: he looked in the playhouse but didnt’ go in. Went down the slide once after we moved it into the shade although we realized the top of it is broken. Played on the seesaw some Moore, and then he found a nice nut on the ground. There were a few of them, but didn’t appear to be from the trees in the yard. I suggested that birds might pick up the fruits elsewhere and eat them in our trees. He came back to this idea several times through the day. He eventually took the nut he found (the shiniest of all of them) in to Carly.
Carly asked what he thought of the playhouse: “How was the playhouse?” “Good. I don’t like our home though.” He then decided to put the nut outside: “I want to put it back outside. Bye, nut!” But then he had a change of heart and it ended up in ‘his’ room on the windowsill. He was upstairs with Carly for awhile, then downstairs he had me pick him up so he could be right in front of the AC to feel the wind. He said “I want to stay here forever.”
We went for a walk at 12:30. We crossed the bridge to the mall on the other side. Right on the other side we saw a decent-sized lizard run across the path. We walked around, he danced in the little padded kids area in the mall, we did some shopping at the grocery store (pita, hummus, a knife, sugar to replace the ant-infested sugar at home, milk, soy milk…a few other things), he played briefly at the outside play area, we contemplated getting a coffee at the good coffee shop but decided against it, then headed home, getting back at 12:45.
Carly made spaghetti, but before we could have any her principal, Holly, who lives two or three doors down from us, said she could take us in her car to try to find a coffee maker and show us around. So she drove us up into town. We parked and went to one hardware store where we got a glass electric kettle – which is exactly what we wanted for tea, but not a coffee maker. But at least a success. We walked to a second place and saw a few shops along the way. She then drove us past the school and to the southwest to show us a couple other things (a nursery, another grocery store) and a restaurant where she needed to pick up a couple things.
She dropped us off and then we ate some spaghetti and soy milk and he had a pita with peanut butter and jelly in it. He played on our terrazzo (I would learn that from my dad later) tile floor, saying that the black stones were poop and that he was trying to not step on them. When that was too difficult he said he was vacuuming up the poop. Carly and I moved some furniture around – I like the idea of the dining table as a big table along the wall, and we created a couple of separate sitting areas. August liked the table against a wall, as it turned into a fort. We used all the pillows from downstairs, then he went upstairs twice to bring down a couple from the beds. He had a nice comfy fort and stayed in for awhile.
Eventually though he of course had to go to the bathroom and that took a good long time. Think this was the time that he wanted to look at the Human Body app while he was on the toilet, and Carly took one of the red chairs over so she could sit in the hall outside the bathroom. Carly went to the pharmacy up by the park and bought a few things and came back just as we were getting ready to go out to the park. So we waited for her, he played on the teeter totter some more, and we left at 6.
We walked the half block up to Bruner Garden, the park and playground a half block from us. He climbed around on this, talking a bit about how he wasn’t going to share things, although he then did share one panel thing just fine when a girl, Alma I think her name was (and mom was Eva), also wanted to climb on it. He played around on the ship play area for awhile, then rocked on a thing with Carly. Stayed about a half hour and left after 6:30. We stopped and smelled what we think was a sage plant – one we might consider having at home.
At home he ate some more spaghetti and sandwich. I got the green bouncy ball out (think he asked about it) and I got him to throw it halfway down the steps so it would bounce. When we got to the top of the steps though I couldn’t convince him to do it, and he wanted it back in my pocket instead. He nursed on the couch and was falling asleep. I said it was too early, so Carly woke him up. He startled and said “Wait, where’s the coin?” and kind of looked around for it by his hand and in Carly’s. He had been dreaming about a coin.
I gave him a little shower and he did just fine with it. He was then asleep at 8:30. Carly and I watched Game of Thrones, then were getting ready to head up when suddenly he appeared at the bottom of the steps at 11. Carly took him up, but he wasn’t falling back to sleep. So I called my parents and we skyped. Gave them the full tour and also talked about their three nights up in Holden. August ate a full peanut butter and jelly pocket sandwich. He played outside a bit with Carly, and was startled by a cat that ran through the yard. As he was being startled by that he backed up into the kitchen doorway, then I opened the door, startling him more. On Skype, he told grammar and grampa he wanted green nail polish.
My mom had mentioned the not liking cow’s milk thing, so after we skyped he wanted to watch cow milking videos. Watched a few, then he said “Can I have some cow milk?” While getting it he told Carly “I love your green shirt, mama.” At first he said he liked the cow’s milk, but then he said he didn’t. Went back upstairs with Carly and watched more cow videos and tried for sleep again. Long night short, at 1:30 Carly got up with him as she couldn’t sleep anyway. I fell asleep. They woke me up just before 3. He had been trying to sleep, but was now throwing the animals around, and still calls Green Monster Green Marshy, I took him into the master bedroom and Carly went to sleep. I tried to sing to him but he wouldn’t let me, saying “Your quiet sound is too quiet.”
We went into the little bedroom (his) and he looked at the now wrinkled seed and the paper mache ball from Vivian and his Israeli coin, He was’t happy that the nut is getting less shiny and wants to throw it out. He let me sing two songs to him, my usuals: Imaginary Bars and Idaho. He played with his cheeks in the mirror, then said he was ready to go to sleep. He went in at 3:20 and I thought he was asleep until, loudly, “mama, I want to switch.” We went back out at 3:35. We watched Sarah and Duck in his bedroom. He watched the No More Wool episode several times (he says he loves it and it is his favorite – calls it the machine episode), and the Christmas lights one a few times, and probably a couple others through the night.
He went back in at 4:15. Back out a few minutes later. We went downstairs and watched more Sarah and Duck. I would sleep for 4 or 5 minutes until the short episode was over, he’d ask for a new one, etc. We finally went back up at 5:55 and he was asleep just after 6.
The playhouse:
A cat:
iPad and bathroom:
In his fort:
At the playground:
Sage:
AC:
Shower:
