He was up at 7. He had an English muffin with peanut butter and syrup, then we got ready to go and meet Peter at Riverfront Park. There had been a big thunderstorm last night. All I heard were the wind and the rain. I’d left the stroller out and it was wet, but Carly dried it off and he did fine sitting on a towel. We left before 8. On the walk there he started counting, and counted all the way to 200. He was excited about that. We waited about 10 minutes for Peter, so walked around the park. “Let’s do more exploring.” We asked him about his hair and what he wanted it to look like, since he wasn’t letting me brush it, and he said “I want Robo Zinnie hair.”
He started calling Peter “Peter Mcnaurny”, after the producer on Story Pirates. We walked over to the Artisinal Bakery and got coffee drinks and quiche and a cinnamon roll. Ate there. August played the chess game with Carly for awhile.
We then all walked over to Don Morse park. August and Carly jumped on the bouncy thing, and Peter and I went and sat on a bench by the playground. Carly and August came over. August cuddled on my lap for a few minutes while Carly went on a swing. They then headed off up the hill, then went down to the beach. Awhile later, Carly texted me saying the beach was nice. Peter and I walked down and found them, on the uplake side this time.
We walked back to Peter’s car. On the way, August told me how he doesn’t like the crosswalk lights that time you. He was then happy when we turned right at Campbell’s and didn’t end up crossing at one. We said bye to Peter and walked the rest of the way home. Carly had had the idea of going fossil hunting on our trip to Canada, but she and August needed shoes. So we went straight to the car (August didn’t want to go in the house) and they headed to Walmart. They swung back around a minute later though to get socks.
When they got back from Walmart, August was excited to show me his shoes: pink Velcro shoes with dogs on them and they light up. He had corn on the cob for lunch, then we played the chess game, getting introduced to the bishop now. He and Carly were then reading the two dogs book. I combined the two titles, and said “My dog wore my underpants.” Carly joked that that was the book we would write, and August found it funny.
I went down and took a rest and did more cleaning out of the closet, taking out the models and a few things. He came down at 1:40. “Can we play the green planet game? I’m really interested in it.” So we went up and were playing that. We were talking about what to do if we sold our car, and Carly went out to look at Paul’s car. I came back in the house and August was playing the Green Planet game: “Go outside where mama is…cuz I was having fun playing by myself…But come back if I call you.”
David and his brother (Efron) and dad (Santos) came and took the car for a test drive. They came back and offered $5800. I went in and asked Carly. August got really upset again. I wish I had paid more attention to what he said, or had a video, because even though he was upset it clearly said and very cute. I know he at least was asking if we could have the car back next summer. Anyway, Carly pointed out we should take a few hours at least to make sure we have transportation figured out for the rest of the trip. So they agreed to that.
Peter had been out at the Chelan Brewery in Manson. Thought the full family might come by after, so we had the deck set up and drinks ready. They had awful fish and chips there though, and the rest of the family was cranky. So Peter walked down on his own from town. We all sat and had a drink. August got a VitaminZero water and drank most of it, pouring it in his cup on his own. Quite a treat for him. He told Peter about extend-o-arms. Peter was here for quite awhile, and before he left August was telling me about “The Laserbeamic 2000…destroy all of outer space.” I told him that it was easier to destroy things than put them back together, and asked if he could do that. He was then in the process of explaining his machine that was putting space back together when we answered the door and Kasiah and Christine were there. He did high fives with them and Peter, then Kasiah taught him a fist bump and they did several of those. They left 6:40ish.
Dad had started the grill and made hamburgers, while Carly had boiled corn. We sat inside and ate dinner. We played more of the chess game, and when the king was just sitting there, it sort of rocks back and forth on its legs. August said “Thats a needs-to-go-to-the-bathroom king.” He and Paul also played with pipe cleaners, putting them on each other’s head.
I took him to his bath at 7:50. He was talking about “Dr. Diaper” and having me pretend to be Dr. Diaper. Believe it is from Captain Underpants, but not one I’ve read with him.
Carly took him, and I started getting the car ready to sell – taking the stuff out of the trunk, filling out the title, etc. August fell asleep around 9, then Carly came up to sign the title. They arrived a little after 9:30 and we signed the paperwork outside, then came inside to count the cash. $5800 in 100s. The most cash I’ve ever seen. Forgot to take a photo of it before dad took it to the bank to deposit it for us.
