He slept until 8:15. He wanted to play Math Tango and I gave him the iPad to play it on the couch as I tried to take a shower. He wanted help though and Carly tried to help him. He told her “Dada’s in charge”. I let him play Green Planet while I took a shower. When I came out he was upstairs eating hard boiled egg, watermelon, and cereal, and milk for breakfast.
He was then playing with my mom out in the living room, pretending to be Cindy. He was lying on the back of the couch, pretending to sleep. Obviously much less concerned about cat fur than he was when we first got here. After she said something about the cats not using the mat at the front door, he was then pretending to come in, bringing in dirt.
We got the car packed, and as we were heading out he sang nice “Bye” and “Goodbye” songs to them. We took the usual family photos in the front yard, then left at 10:15. He played Magnus Kingdom in the car, doing a lot on his own. We then read some Sisters (when I objected, he reminded me I liked the first book better so we should read that) and Loch Mess Monster. He then fell asleep from 12:39 to 1:40.
I woke him up and we ate a cookie. He played with a new app, something like What’s in Space, and ate a couple graham crackers and some apple. We stopped for gas, then he was holding my phone and looking at Waze.
We got to the motor home at 3:45. Inside he asked them “How’s this a home, if it’s out of home?” He was excited by the kid’s cup with liquid and glitter in it, then played with the three splat balls that Cherie gave him, one of which is poop. Chuck said something about him needing a haircut, then Cherie said “We’re going to let it grow.” He said “Thank you!” He explored the kitchen with Cherie. He had some orange juice and blew bubbles. Chuck asked if he heard a bubble machine. August laughed and made a mess. “You shouldn’t have said a funny thing!” More splat balls, now getting the third poop one.
We left at 4:15 and went to Claremay and Steve’s. Chris and Mark and cousins, with a camper Eurovan, were there from San Francisco. August was nervous and hid under the table. We went up to the toy room for awhile, then outside when everyone else left. He got more comfortable and ate potatoes and roast and carrot for dinner, then loved the berry and custard pies. He asked Chuck “On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is super good and 1 is super bad, what is it?” He gave me the last of his pie because “I don’t want my pie cuz it’s too slippery.” He then walked down to the garden with Chuck to see berry plants. On the way down I heard him say “Snapdragons!”
They came back up and took the bowls of rocks over on the table between Steve and Claremay. August was asking both of them what specific rocks were.
We went back to the toy room. He played and sang a song about Palestinians and needing to get out of a wall. Didn’t get that one on video. He found a doctor kit and used it on me. As we got ready to go, he was sad as he wanted to spend more time with Oma and Opa. He then spotted the licorice container. Ate several jelly beans and other licorice things that Carly and Cherie gave him. He also sat in the new chair with Carly and said it was tight because she was taking up most of the space.
We left at 6:50. As we drove he sang the “Only Children” song, making up his own words. First time he’s sung that. We were talking about Carly’s uncles and he was upset she has more uncle’s than him. He told her “You need to apologize to me.”
At the motor home he went to the bathroom and really liked the flushing. He told Carly he remembers racing Vivian to the bathroom last summer. Although he doesn’t know why he was always racing her. He turned on all the light switches and explored the bedroom with Cherie. He loved the flushing, and asked “Can I flush two more times?” When he flushed it reduced the water pressure in the kitchen, which was a fun game. He then asked Cherie about the “lives” game on her tablet
We then walked over to the putting green. Opa introduced him to golf and putting. August had fun with that, but mainly he liked having Carly and Cherie putt and he would retrieve balls for them. When he wanted Cherie to do it he said “Try, Oma.” He then was making a tunnel with his legs. It was one point if the ball went through his legs, and another point if it went in the hole. We saw a rabbit, and it ran fast, so then August was running around like a bunny. While Carly was putting she kept missing and said “I keep going to the right.” I replied “At least it’s not an election.” She said it was my best joke ever.
We said goodbye and headed to the Holiday Inn Express. Once we were in our room he asked “How did they get their food at that castle?” He explained more and described both Apollonia and Masada.
We headed out for a walk, getting the stroller out of the car. He noticed that our car didn’t have any neighbors, but when we came back it had cars on either side of it.
We walked up into Chehalis, past where Carly used to put pennies on the tracks and volunteer at the call center. We turned left and walked through downtown, admiring the amazing clouds and passing where Carly bought erasers and took dance classes. Turned left and passed the two open bars and an open Thai restaurant. Back by the train tracks we saw two trains go by at the same times. August had run out of Cheerios (he had spilled some early on our walk too) so Carly said we could stop at the gas station. Stopped and got him a small pack of blueberry breakfast biscuits.
At the hotel I proved that “Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.” is a real idiom (Carly didn’t believe me). So I sang a song with the line. August said “I’m going to laugh forever.” We played around and Carly took a shower. He sang a song that went “Alarm clock alarm clock, I love you, I love you.”
I took a shower as Carly started to put him to sleep. When I came out I heard them talking about preschool. It had been mentioned earlier in the day that he’d start preschool again in 6 weeks or so. So he brought it up again. I was falling asleep and think he fell asleep around the same time, 10:15 or so.
