He was up right at 8, so I was able to see him before I left at 8:20.
He requested eggs and bacon, but then didn’t eat it when she made it. They got their first taxi at 10 and went to Stephanie’s house. They played inside and he tried sour cherries and a muffin. Cedar, who is two, was being very cuddly and bringing things to Carly. August and Carly had talked about going for a walk, and he asked “Are we going to go for that walk now?” so Stephanie, Ruby, and Cedar went with them for a rock.
They walked to the grocery store/cafe close to them, where we’ve been before. They got tomato carrot bisque and he ate a lot of that, then a fancy banana peanut butter popsicle covered with chocolate and thai iced tea ice cream.
Stephanie said that something was ‘hyperbole’ and August recognized the word but said he didn’t remember what it meant. He then declared “The word of the day should be hyperbole.”
They walked to the little park near her house and played there, then walked back to the house.
August and Carly left and walked to Salmon Bay Park. They sat on a bench and he was happy people watching. There was a day camp group and he noticed that there was one kid that wasn’t paying attention to the counselors. And when the group started to leave he was concerned that that one boy would get left behind. A counselor noticed and got the boy. He then played in sandbox for a long time. He played with another boy, who was about the same age. They pretended the sand was an ice cream shop and that the red bucket was the stomach. They’d eat the ice cream and then dump it in the stomach.
They next went to Grumpy D’s coffee shop. He played with some sort of connector toy things at the table. He had a sparkling water juice. Tried it and said he liked it, but didn’t drink much.
They took a second taxi back, then Glecy came and brought dinner: a pasta dish with goat cheese, basil, sun dried tomatoes, and garbanzo beans. He ate that, and some of her ramen and broccoli.
He played with Glecy for a long time, building things with the blocks upstairs. He had Scrabble out with Carly and had her guessing which letters were turned over. And they played with a marble track set, but he wanted her to put it together. They watered plants together and he ate blueberries. He’d also eaten a carrot during the day.
Earlier in the day Stephanie had sent a photo showing her two kids napping. So about 8:30 August asked “What’s Ruby doing?” And expected to be able to know.
Meanwhile, I drove up to Dee and Grant’s, getting there right at 9. Visited with them and my parents and Paul. When it was clear that Peter was going to be awhile I had some coffee. I gave them the hamsa as a gift. And they gave me the chips from yesterday to take with me.
Peter showed up, with his two kids and Stephanie in the car.. We arrived at the cabin and ate chips and made popcorn with za’atar. We started talking out back, then Stacey showed up a bit later. We did a good job discussing the book.
Micah and Kasiah were already out in the water. I went swimming and Micah and Peter were in the kayaks. Stephanie jumped off the dock, then she and Kasiah were on the floaties. Peter went up to see about the food and I went on the kayak.
We went up and ate burgers, then Breysse had fudgesicles for us. We sang “Happy Birthday” for him as it was his birthday. Discussed peoples’ summer travels.
Kasiah needed to get to work at the childcare at the church by 6:30, so we got going about 5, dropping her off about 6. Peter and I talked and ended up downstairs, looking at books. Christine got home, and we all headed over to Taqueria Guaymas. It had been replaced with another Mexican restaurant, Bandidos. Suspicious at first, as there weren’t any cars in the parking lot. We went in and found it was under new owners, etc. Kind of sad for Peter and family as they’ve been going here 15 years and knew the staff.
We ordered (I got a shrimp dish) and Micah researched what happened to the old restaurant. He had some good research skills and talked about evaluating his sources. Turns out the owner had been charged with using tax-evasion software: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/owner-of-tacos-guaymas-restaurants-charged-with-felony-theft/ and https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-files-56m-criminal-tax-theft-case-against-owner-tacos-guaymas
The food was really good, probably better than before. We got an order of churros for dessert. We got an order of tacos for Kasiah and dropped them off to her at the church, then went back to the house.
He drove me home and I got there right at 9. We did our summer selfie together, then I went in the house and upstairs right as Carly was starting to put August to sleep. He told me “We taked-ed two taxis. Because we don’t have a car for two days. One was cool and the other was super cold.” I said goodnight and he was ready to go to sleep and fell asleep quickly.
