Awake 7:20. He helped me with recycling and was really into putting everything in bags, and into seeing how many milk cartons or styrofoam pieces he could carry. And carefully holding a glass bottle. He and Carly took down the recycling in two trips and I had my book group meeting to discuss the Corporate High School book. August came in and said hi and shalom and the beginning, then was hyper for the next hour and a half. He did a lot of screeching out in the living room, then they Skyped with Vivian and company and August and Vivian danced together. She had gone to her first ballet class and wanted August to dress in a ballet outfit as well.
When I was done at 10 he was calming down with Carly. He then played with me. First hyper, playing the ‘interrupting dada’s meeting’ game, then showing me his dancing. But then he calmed down and was pretending to sleep on the reading area. For several minutes he was just pretending to be a slightly sad baby sleeping or trying to sleep. A very adorable new thing. He then listened to my heart.
Out to Carly where he nursed and they read Frida. I took a shower. Back out, we played piano together. August is doing a full C chord now, but requires two hands. He took the keys out, then went and got Green Monster to help us put the keys back in. That done, we did some surgery on Green Monster. August took GM and put him in a cave in the reading area so he could sleep.
August nursed, then we decided to go to Pink Burger for lunch. August was sort of playing hide and seek with Carly, and she was hiding back in my bathroom, in the dark. August didn’t want to go back there on his own, so made me go as well. She growled and I said maybe it was a dragon. August was laughing and squealing and hid behind my leg, crouching on the ground. After she came out, he then went and hid by the couch and made dragon noises himself.
We headed down to Pink Burger for lunch. I ordered our burgers and fries and squid rings. We took a notebook and markers down, so he and Carly did some Hebrew letters. He wanted to watch the cooking, but then got impatient waiting for the food. So Carly took him over to Mama Juice and he got a blueberry juice. Came back and ate – he really liked dipping the fries and rings in ketchup. We then all went over to the grocery store.
Kind of like the last time we went with Carly, he had difficulty in the grocery store, wanting to touch everything and run off. Carly was about done, but started crying when I picked him up. We switched and I did check out and she played with him. They turned the poking/breaking thing into the game, and as we headed home, him on the bike, he was pretending to poke and break everything, saying “break, break, break…”
Back at home, he wanted to see pictures of blood: “I want pictures of blood please. Blood, blood, blood, blood…more blood, please.” He then played with the Arabic app and piano keyboard app. We were then trying to decide to go outside. He wasn’t sure he wanted to go, and the pollution was high. But eventually he was getting a bit hyper. Carly was chopping vegetables, and he was joking about trying to put his finger up on the cutting board. I started spinning him on the floor, and he was giggling like crazy, and kept chanting “more, more, more.” He then wanted to play on the bed, and went and got GM from where he had put him after the surgery earlier. Also earlier, he had fallen off the bed. He had gone to jump of the end, kind of plopping his bottom on the edge of the bed, then his feet on the ground. But he bounced off the mattress, and bounced across and hit the door. He recovered and said he was okay.
Anyway, this time Green Monster broke his tailbone. He said GM “slipped on ice, snow, pee, and poop.” With Green Monster resting from his surgery, August then got Peter Rabbit and we did the objects on the table game from Sesame Street. He went to the bathroom and then checked out mama’s cooking, then he played Are You Sleeping and kept repeating the “Brother John” notes and sang along, screeching it.
Finally, we really got ready to go outside. Or, almost, as he and Carly ended up playing around and coming up with the phrase “Mama mission mode” while being silly.
So August and I left, and walked up to Chrysanthemum Park. His choice. There, we went on the swings for awhile, then he got off and walking around. He was looking for slippery spots, but everything was melting because of the heat. When I told him there were no slippery spots he got sad and started crying. He was done with the park after that and wanted to head home.
On the way home we sang Yankee Doodle and he decided he wanted to go to the Dinosaur playground across the street. We spent about an hour there. Due to the way I narrate what we’re doing, he has caught me pointing out Pokémon players several times. And he’s started asking “What’s Pokémon?” So when it happened by the dinosaurs I put Pokémon Go on my phone and we caught a few Pokémon. I then realized I could have August ‘pet’ the Pokémon and I could take a screenshot, so we took a few photos to do that. He would go stand and I’d take the photo, then he’d come and look at it, and want to do another one.
Eventually the swings opened up and August went on the swing for awhile. We then headed home. Carly had finished a rice pilaf, and August ate a bunch of it for dinner. He kept wanting more and more. They nursed, and August was falling asleep. Got him to wake up with Puffin Rock. I took him in for his bath. He kept asking if it was a hair washing day. And said “I’m going to make it a hair washing day.” In the bathroom, I realized that Amanda Palmer was live broadcasting a concert. So we had that on the iPad while he took a shower. He watched her playing piano. And he did most of his own washing again.
After that we went out to the living room and he did Arabic and letter tracing on the iPad as we watched more Amanda Palmer. He was asleep by 8:20.
Photos. Pretending to slee:
Triangle:
Pink Burger. Hebrew:
Squid:
Mama’s shoes:
Chrysanthemum Park:
Dinosaur playground. Pokémon:
Home. Arabic and Amanda Palmer:
