He came out at 6:55. I was out watching the Formula 1 coverage. He came over and cuddled with me for a few minutes. He then wanted his iPad to play the chess app. I said I could go upstairs to get it. But he was concerned that I couldn’t pause the TV and I might miss the start of the race. I assured him there was a warmup lap before it started and I could get the iPad.
Went and got it, and he played as the race started. Carly did realize he had gotten up until she came down around 7:20. She helped him with the chess for a bit, then went upstairs. At one point he said something about “Since dada is watching this really cool race…” At 8 he decided to head upstairs as well and took his iPad.
I finished the race. They were reading the two dogs book when I came up. In at the table he argued with Carly about something and said his “But still enshugudorflug.” Made me wonder how many other kids have made up phrases that are supposed to win arguments? Carly went down to rest. He and I played more chess game, then read Garfield. We went in and got his vitamins, then he was pretending to be Cindy and had me pretending to feed him food on the floor.
I went down for a shower. Outside, he latched on to grampa. They did some gardening, checking on the plants from yesterday, then ended up in the garage. Gramma asked what they were doing in the garage and he said “Lots of questions.” She asked if grampa was giving good answers and he said “Yep. Right, grampa?” She went and got her camera, and when she came back he joked “How did Gramma get in here? We should have locked the door.” Grampa showed him the drill. August was being careful and also told grampa he needed to vacuum. He had called it “wood dust” at first, but switched to “sawdust”.
Inside we discussed selling the car. August got stressed and upset about the idea of selling it, but was also very cute about it. He said he liked his high car seat. We assured him that we’d keep the car seat, but eventually I had to take him downstairs to calm down. We came back up and Carly made him French toast. He and I played Legos. Made a tire truck and rockets. He then tested out our rockets. He sang “Dear Eliza”. Knew most of the verses. When Henry asked where to get the axe from he sang “From Ace, from Ace”. He then had me put together the little space shuttle and he launched that, having the boosters and fuel tank come off.
Carly and I got us ready to go to the beach and he went out with them to the garage to have Grampa blow up the floaty with the air compressor.
We left at 1:30. Over by Safeway I pulled in to park in front of the dentist office and I joked we should go to the dentist. He screamed and horrified by the idea. Once he understood it was a joke he kept telling me “Don’t make that joke!” He even told me to not tell the dentist joke again after the park when we were driving home.
We had to run back to get the towels, then went to Safeway. We dropped Carly off and she ran in to get snacks. We parked in the parking lot. He told me “Dont park next to a boy car.” He asked “What should we name this car?” He decided to also call it “Skoda Mama.”
Figuring the park parking lot would be full (and costs money), we parked on the side street by the strip mall. When August put on his sunglasses they fell apart again, but the screw was nowhere to be found. So we walked to the Variety Store. He chose two pairs, in different shades of pink, with polka dots on the sides.
We walked to the beach. He first wanted to play on a bouncy/shaky thing by the skatepark. He said something about being able to bounce and talk funny. I let him do that for a couple minutes, then he wanted to play at the playground but we convinced him on beach first. He was disappointed to find that it was gravely, not sandy, but then had fun playing in it. Carly went out floating and we played. I set up the stroller as an umbrella for him. We moved closer to the water and Carly tried to take him out on her lap. He said it was too scary and got off. Carly had made snack mix after the store and we snacked on that and he had apple. I went up and filled up his water bottle. He stood in the shallows and threw pieces of wood in the water. Wouldn’t go with Carly again though. Played more on the blanket with the sand toys, and I managed to read a little.
I took him to the bathroom, then he wanted to play at the playground. We went and told Carly, then went back there at 3:40. He was doing his teasing thing and saying funny things like “Na na na na na, you have a blister and I don’t.” At the playground I sat in the shade and he pretended the stairs were a bathroom with different stalls. He then did some store before going on another bouncy thing.
We went back down to get Carly, then got going. On the walk back to the car I suggested we go get frozen yogurt, right next to the bakery. It was a surprise for August, who yelled “Ice cream!” when we went in. When we said it was frozen yogurt he first said “Yuck!” He got excited by all the flavors though, and they eventually put together vanilla, peanut butter, chocolate, and something else. I sampled the peach and mango, and did a cone with cake batter and peach. We sat and ate all of that, then got home at 4:40.
He went out and fed the squirrels and birds with Gramma. And he swept the bird poop from the ramp thing. Inside he poured out the kaleidoscope things in a bowl with Carly and looked at those. He and I read some Garfield. We ate apple and some carrot whole my parents made tuna casserole for dinner. When we started dinner he said “Unle Paul should be here.” He ate the casserole and I think some green beans.
After dinner he played the chess game with me. He went to the bathroom, then pleaded for 3 more minutes of the “Kingdom game” (which is the chess game). Got his three minutes with Carly, then she gave him a bath.
Soon after, Peter and his family came by to pick me up. Peter came in with the two kids. August didn’t remember them, so he asked them their names. \
I left with them, saying bonjour to his mother-in-law. We drove down and parked by the park, behind Local Myth. Christine and her mom walked towards the new bridge, the rest of us did the loop the other direction. We walked through downtown, then found them back in the park. Peter and I stayed and sat on a bench and the rest went to BC MacDonalds and got ice cream.
While I was gone, they played some more chess game, then he fell right asleep about 8:30.
New sunglasses:
