He was up at 6:51. Came over by me for a couple minutes. First thing he wanted was Venus fly trap videos. I let him watch some on YouTube Kids on his app, which was fine until a video of a guy putting his tongue in a Venus fly trap. In case you were wondering, that is not a good thing to do. August was a little disturbed by the blood. Wanted the Human Body app, so went to that. He discovered his kneecap, and we spent some time talking about blood. He remembered, all on his own, scraping his knee this summer: “Why you bleed at Oma and Opa’s?” I asked him where he was bleeding, and he pointed to his knee.
He then wanted to go and wake up Green Monster. We were playing with GM and GM said he liked mushrooms. August said “I like Thailand mushrooms”. August then put GM back to sleep, putting “soft things” around him. He watched Puffin Rock while I showered, then played GarageBand. We ate some crab for a snack, then he went to the bathroom, after which he wanted to wake up Green Monster again.
We played for a long time on the bed. We read Biscuit Wins a Prize, then he was hiding Green Monster, Marshy, and Bluie. Some of the things he said:
“I want to look for that friends.”
“Sorry dada. I like to be VERY loud.”
“This is a slime cave…I want to know the kinds of slime, Green Monster. Talk about the slimes, Green Monster…”
“Oh, I’m going to get something really special for you…a fish…it’s a rainbow fish and it has a lot of colors…blue, green, maroonish, purple, yellow…”
He wanted to play the breaking the rules game, which he later called the ‘rolling over game’: “Be mad now. Be mad at me dada. Tell me not to roll over. “
We talked about going outside, and he wanted the bike, but I convinced him he couldn’t take a nap on the bike. He got on the bike and demonstrated how he didn’t have anything to lean on when he slept. We ate our leftover Subway sandwich, a peanut butter sandwich, and a few other things for lunch, then had a lot of piano time. We then played piano. He surprised me by suddenly playing the first few notes of Are You Sleeping? He was working on that, and then the “Brother John” notes.
On the iPad he found an animation app we hadn’t used yet, and we tried that out a bit. I drew a fish and a whale and he made paths for them to move on.
We then tried taking a nap on reading area, starting at 1:48. He did a better job than he has usually done in the past with just laying still and closing his eyes. At one point he was silent for a couple minutes and I thought he might be falling asleep. But he got up. He also looked around at all of his options: “So many places to sleep…on the bed, the floor over there…” He had to pee, and while sitting on the toilet he was asking what would happen if he didn’t have a lower brain. He concluded. “There’s no lower brain. I don’t have a brain stem.”
A nap not happening, we finally got out of the house on a walk at 2:57. He was singing a lot of verses from Ants Go Marching on his own. He wanted the backpack, so I thought he might be going to sleep, but he didn’t. We walked down to the river, then north to Madeul Stadium. A walk we haven’t done in quite awhile. We walked to the playground, and got on the swings at 3:30. He was working on pumping a bit. After a good session, he asked to go to Cafe Tolerance.
We went there and he got a mango and a pineapple juice. He played on the iPad for awhile, then wanted to hear the story about breaking my arm again. This time, I pulled up the photos from the time, and he got to see the hike, my arm broken, him visiting in the hospital, and, most excitingly, the x-ray. He was fascinated by that, and we pulled up the skeleton app so he could compare the x-ray to what it looks like. He was then being silly in the coffee shop (which was full of kids). He did a little dance for one kid, then was concerned about a baby that kept crying. But then August went up to him and did one of his yells and the baby cried more. August and another boy about the same age as him sort of played together as we were getting ready to go: chasing each other and jumping around.
We got home after Carly. They nursed and we had some dinner. Carly went with him to the bathroom, and he joked about things to pee on “on mama, on dada…” More joking: “I accidentally pooped on that door this morning.” What did dada say? “No pooping on the door.” That didn’t happen.
He tasted the vinegar in Carly’s salad and said it tasted like a few other things. Then he announced: “I know. Let’s find Green Monster.” We played on the bed and he pretend to break his own kneecap (like his lower brain, it was another “What happen if you don’t have…” question): “I’m going to break the left kneecap. You can try.” “Pretend bones.”
I gave him a bath. After that, as he walked to Carly, he said “My feet are a little squeaky…No, we have to oil them.” He was asleep by 7:20.
Photos. Stretch:
Headstand:
Pile of pillows:
Cuddling:
Resting with Marshy:
Demonstrating falling asleep on the bike:
Trying to sleep:
River walk:
Playground:
Walking to the coffee shop:
Cafe Tolerance. Perched on my arm:
Trying out the short table:
