He was up a lot in the night. At one point, after nursing, he asked Carly “Why aren’t you nursing me?” then fell asleep on his own. At another point I heard him have a big laugh in his sleep. At 5 I thought it was 7:25 and was happy to go back to sleep. He got up and I sent him downstairs and heard him say “Mama! I waked up at 6:40!”
I got up and made French toast. He was watching something and I asked “Do you want French toast?” He had a hilarious response as he distractly tried to tell me that he was running out of Cheerios: “Yeah…Umm, my Cheerios are…Could you cook it?” When he was done with his French Toast he started sticking his fingers in the syrup on his plate. Cute at first, but then he did his whole hand.
He remembered his pizza pillows from last night and asked”What happened to the pizza I was slicing last night?” Then “Let’s go back to putting pizza on the plates.” So we did that a bit. He then spent quite awhile sending Happy Thanksgiving messages to family members on Skype. Carly suggested they go outside and he tried to run out in socks but stopped when he saw it was wet outside. They decided to clean out the interesting bowl and throw everything away. He said “Bye bye interesting stuff in the interesting bowl.”
I took a shower, then we brought down the shelves to see how another set would look downstairs and considered a spot for the new wall hanging. Carly and I then were taking photos of each other holding it so we could see and he got into the action: “Can I take a photo of you as a wall hanging?” He took other photos, and we did some slo-mo video as well of him shaking his hair.
We got going and headed to Ikea. As we went down the stairs inside August said “Ikea’s huge…giant…. enormous.” Made quick work of our shopping, just grabbing plastic bags as we passed and heading straight for the book shelves, getting them in black. Then chose the worst line and had a long wait to checkout. Carly went and got us a falafel sandwich and a hotdog and fries and we ate those for lunch.
From there we went to Tiv Taam. The highlight for August was using Carly’s pen to cross things off the list. And he drew a map on his hands.
We got home at 1:40. He climbed on the Ikea box. Tried to ask him something and he said “Yeah but I’m on the box.” He also gave Carly a funny look when he climbed on it and we called them his cat eyes. He replied “Actually, I’m Zinnie. But I still lay on boxes.”
He ate a bunch of strawberries – the first strawberries of the season that we’ve seen in the store. I made zucchini bread and Carly put together the shelves. Both went well, aside from one minor break on the shelves, and August got upset when Carly wouldn’t let him hammer on his own. Apparently I let him hammer on his own. That really frustrated him. He hopped back and forth between us, helping with bread, then the shelves.
He eventually got upset about nursing and Carly took him upstairs for a timeout. I then took him to the cages at 3:45 to do recycling. We then went for a walk, and as we walked south towards the trail we saw a guy playing digeredoo in the little park. He liked that. We got home at 4:30. We had listened to “Alice’s Restaurant” while I made bread and August said “This is a Thanksgiving song!” Also listened to Dan Bern’s “Thanksgiving Day Parade” and when we got back I found a Storybots Thanksgiving song that he listened to several times. They then read part of Magic Treehouse #7.
We were the first to arrive at the party at 5:30. Good for August. He wandered around a bit and we got him some food early, just before 6. He was pretty fascinated by the video of a fireplace they had playing on the TV (Derek and Jill used to do the same thing at their place, but it didn’t attract his attention much back then). When August said he was ready to go home I instead got the iPad out. I had the Peanuts Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Halloween episodes on it. He watched part of Thanksgiving inside, then got a bit overwhelmed. I went outside with him and we watched together, sitting on the bench swing. Carly and I switched and I went inside. They came in a little later. I kept him around a bit longer, getting him more foods to try. He ate some more, then he and Carly decided to head home at 7:10.
Back at home he took a basic shower, but said he didn’t want to get the bed wet because “that’s boring”. He was asleep at 7:50.
I was home around 9. A lot of the conversation centered around Washington State, as Mike’s daughter is trying to get on the rowing team there, and they own a house up south of Bellingham. Also, Holly’s daughter is looking at small places that would fit her and people were suggesting Evergreen.
Taking a photo of mama as a wall hanging:
Drawing a map on his hand:
Watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving:
Our view of Carly:
More food:
