Carly was up first, then I got up at 5:35. She woke him up a few minutes later. Took awhile. He didn’t say much, but when she went to brush his hair he said “You can brush my hair on the airplane, if you want.” As we waited for the Lyft to arrive he put on his car vest. He then talked about “Those tiny microscopic hooks”. The velcro.
The Lyft drivers always go to 10th, so it took a little work to get him to find us on 9th, but then we were off. A nice smooth trip after that, especially once I took some Tylenol and my headache went away. Did realize that I forgot my tea stuff (infuser and tea) and the rest of the bag of Canadian coffee at the house.
August sat calmly between us in the taxi. Got dropped off, tagged our checked bags and released them into the wild, and had a quick trip through security. I was excited to have time at the SubPop store, although not enough. Spent five minutes when I could happily waste a couple hours. I bought me a rainbow SubPop shirt, and August chose pink. Had fun remembering the old SubPop store by the Moore and listening to the Dinosaur Jr. they had on. Only now did I rememberi wanted to visit the KEXP studios. But we never really had time to hang out in Seattle anyway. So next summer. It’s already on the list.
August started to get antsy while waiting at the bagel place. We headed to the N gates, so didn’t see the butt sculptures, as Jeff called them, as they are to the South. But have seen them before. Got to our gate and had our sandwiches. I went and got us drinks at Starbucks. We then went to our gate. August and I went and saw our plane, a 737.
We had a delay waiting to takeoff, but didn’t make us late. He enjoyed takeoff, played a little iPad, then fell asleep. Slept about two hours and awoke at 11:40. Carly sat in the middle and I had caught up on typing, then watched The Last Jedi. I hadn’t realized how long it was and thought I was going to miss the end. I finished a couple minutes before landing though, which felt like a real accomplishment. Of mixed minds on it overall, but enjoyed it and it was better than the prequels. That’s my bar for the franchise. I know it is a low bar, but as long as they stay above it I won’t be uspet. Still need to see the two standalones.
He was sitting on her sweatshirt and she pulled it out from under him. It stretched, and August exclaimed, “Its a geoduck!” On the iPad he played a couple of his new games – one about insects, and a reading one.
We landed at 4:10. He asked, “What country are we in?” A couple minutes later he said, “We’re still taxi-ing.” Deplaned, got the stroller, got the luggage, and then I took him to the bathroom. The slowest part, as the nearest was closed. While Carly went to the bathroom, he spotted two circles on the floor. He said that when you stood on them you could see through things, namely walls. We did that, and he had Carly stand on it before we left.
Jeff picked us up and August was excited to recognize him. In the car he ate from the veggie and hummus thing Carly had bought as we walked through the airport. He said, “Mama, I loved the hummus you buyer!” Looking out the window he said, “I invented a car that drives itself…” We talked about his cars for several minutes. He built it and released it into the wild, then would point it out on the road. He then said that his cars went around, killing animals for people to eat. He also sang a song that went “Bunch of little musicians, screaming into a microphone…” And he played more of the Teach Monster reading app and read some sentences. Then, we played the first chapter of the Nancy Drew mystery/coding app. He really liked it and we’ll need to buy the full thing.
We got to the house and were greeted by the kids and Cassie. We went upstairs and Vivian showed me her Little Passports map and package and I helped her find Japan on the map. We saw Colin’s room, and took a set of tools downstairs. They played in the living room with the tools and the big box of Duplo-sort of things.
Played around the house, shared a hoopla hoop, then headed out to the swings. Vivian and August danced together on the picnic table (Vivian told me how she had helped paint it). It was now dusk, and they had fun finding fireflies. Carly and I took them all for a walk across the parking lot and out on the spit.
Back at the house, Jeff got out the sparklers. August liked them, but wouldn’t hold them. He wanted Carly to do it, but even then just wanted her to drop them so he could watch them lying on the rocks.
Back inside he and Colin played with the car track. August would crank them up for Colin to release around the track. Vivian showed August the superhero towel he could use while he was here. Then they played around on the beds. August wrapped himself up in his coat and Carly’s sweaters. And Vivian wore one of her sweatshirts.
They went up around 11 (also affected from the time change, having just flown from Seattle themselves). Carly and I cleared the room of bugs, mainly mosquitoes. Carly got a firefly though and August wasn’t happy bout that one: “Why’s we kill that nice firefly?”
Carly tried to put him to sleep, but no luck. I went in with him at 11:30. I set up the world clock on his ipad for the night light. He sat and looked at it for several minutes: “Could I watch the clock for eight hours please? Maybe I could sleep here. And when I wanted to watch the clocks I could.” He watched it and I sang “Beautiful”, “Drifting”, and “It was Never the Same”. He asked questions about the map on the world clock and our flight. Carly came in and he was asleep about midnight.