At some point during the night he was really laughing in his sleep. He turned the light on a little before 7, waking me up. He went out to Carly and I went back to sleep. They skyped with Vivian for quite awhile. I heard her telling him knock knock jokes: “…Lettuce.” But he replied “Lettuce is a vegetable.” Carly was then having him say “That’s funny, Vivian.” After I was up, we did piano keys together. He then saw the name on the xylophone, and wanted to write it on paper. So we took the xylophone in the parlor and did that, then did more writing. That led to the Hangeul, which led to looking things up on Google Translate, which led to him making Korean syllables on the magnet app, which led to him giving me a lecture about the ㄱ and the subtleties of its ‘g’/’k’ sounds in the onset and coda positions. Really. After that he switched to Loopimal and was doing some dancing. A bit later, Carly discovered that Siri is now on her computer, so the two of them were playing with that. A couple of the random things he asked Siri: “How many pockets Siri wants?” And “What’s a bow wow called in the morning?”
He and I did some of the Peter Rabbit puzzle while Carly went to the store. He managed to get on my iPad, typing, but was then in the app store. He would click on an app and find it funny when I said “Are you trying to get apps?” He was writing on the paper, and saying “That is a toy you play with when you’re 77 hundred years old” and pointing to the ceiling (because obviously you would be really tall by the time you are that old). He fell backwards and just clipped his tailbone or butt on my coffee mug. It slid backwards, barely spilling any tea, but must have hurt him a bit. He noticed Carly was gone and wanted to go outside and find her at the store. I got us dizzy, and he cheered up. He then wanted to go back to the parlor and work on Korean workbooks. Did that until Carly got home, then he went and startled her by screaming when he saw her. He wanted to nurse, and fell asleep from 12:25 to 1:29.
Carly had been making nutty noodles, and August had some before we left. I took him outside so she could do some work. Except it had started to rain, and August didn’t want to leave Carly. Got him out the door about 3:15, and he wasn’t happy about it. It was pretty wet out – too wet for a playground – and after dropping off compost I initially told August we could go back up. But then I suggested we do a quick walk by the stream, and he didn’t object, so we walked that way, singing A ah Apples and Ants go Marching. He kept asking to go home, so we were headed back, but then I remembered the shows were closing at the Buk.
He liked the idea of heading there, so we went to the museum, and first to the play area. He climbed up into it, and managed to get over the turning thing. He said “The baby fox did it” He got stuck coming back, but eventually did it, and said it again. Still acting like a baby fox, he curled up and said “baby fox is sleeping” and “baby fox is hiding in the sand.” And he said I was dada fox. He had me feed him fox food through the netting, and was also a fish at one point, wanting fish food.
We then went to look at art. Went downstairs to the children’s gallery, but it isn’t a children’s show for the next couple months. There was one piece – a chalkboard and tons of chalk dust – that we both liked though. Went back up into the main galleries. Our main reason to go was to see the blow up waving people things, as it was their last day. Alas, they weren’t turning on anymore. But we looked around a bit, and ended up upstairs, where he listened to/watched the one with headphones and words going across the floor. Did that for quite awhile, and did some dancing.
At home he opened the door back up to look out in the hall to “check to see if something wrong.” Don’t know where that came from. Ate nutty noodles for dinner, then was with Carly and looking at our Asia puzzle. He said “Jeff wants to go to Kazakhstan…Zinnie wants to go to Mongolia.” And was talking about other countries. We had talked about going back to the Buk at 6 for a concert that was being set up, but he decided he wanted to stay home. He worked on his art, then was singing Ants Go Marching, with the little one stopping to say “How bout we get some coffee?” He wanted to watch Peppa Pig, and we watched the Polly Parrot story, and he really liked the hide and seek one, getting excited when Peppa hid from George. He went back and watched it a few times. He got frustrated when I wouldn’t let him use Siri, and ended up nursing. We read some Peppa Pig and the new cat book that was on sale on the iBooks store – Tiptop Cat. He ate some more nutty noodles.
He was saying something silly and I said “that doesn’t ring a bell” and he found that really funny. I gave him a bath. At some point after that “aye caramba” came up and he really liked that as well. He wanted Siri again but it was time for bed. Read more Peppa (kind of a constant nowadays) and 123 Peas, then Carly tried to put him to sleep. He got up after awhile, telling her he wanted me to help with the snot. But when he got out to me, he actually whispered to me that he wanted to talk to Siri. Carly had gotten up as well, and they tried again. But he came back out about 9:30. I read a little, but mainly we looked up Korean words from his notebook. I took him back in and he was asleep about 10.
Photos. Are you trying to get apps?:
Baby fox sleeping:
Back home:
Watching Peppa Pig:
W on his head:
