He was up just before 6. When I got up he was doing math in Word and also played in PowerPoint. He was playing with the door thing Carly had made when she left. He was fine when she left, but a few seconds later decided he wasn’t. I tried to be sympathetic, but I was in no shape to want to wander the halls when he wanted to put his shoes on. So it took until 7:25 for him to completely calm down, and I got him cheered up by watching videos on how ink is made, then sausage and then smoked salmon. He played with the Namoo app a lot, and there was a lot of discussing photosynthesis, etc. I took a shower, and as I got out I heard him telling me something. I got out to find that he had gone to the bathroom – turned the light on and closed the door and everything.
We had hummus and crackers for a snack (cereal and strawberries earlier for breakfast), then played Dragonbox Numbers – and we did it, we finished the game. The end is cool, as they have a little disco dance and you can rewatch it. There is a disco ball, so he knows what a disco ball is now.
He then wanted to watch Beethoven’s Ninth, fourth movement. I watched a bit with him but then got up. He ordered “Dada, go” and hit the floor next to him. He wanted me to sit back down with him. He started asking “This is still Beethoven’s Ninth?” And I’d reply “Yes.” Repeat until it becomes a game.
He did some math problems on the door, then I finally got us out of the house as I knew we’d be getting hungry for lunch. We made it to Children’s Grand Park and got some kimbap, a juice, and an apple cookie in the station. We went up to the rectangle pond and ate lunch there a little after 1. When he was done eating he did some math with the bolts on the table, looking at groups of 4.
We got going, planning to go to the playground, but then remembered the piano. We went up to it a little before 1:40. Played on the piano for quite awhile. He’s playing around with chords (and had done some of that at home) and we played around with songs as well.
I had noticed at lunch that the skin around his right eye was looking red and swollen. He started to rub it more, and I was hoping that getting him on a swing would distract him from it a bit. SO we started walking that direction. But he kept wiping his eye with his grimy hands. When I stopped at the fountains by the middle playground to wash them and his face, his eye was really swollen. We turned around and headed for the subway. He was okay with this, although he said his eye wasn’t bothering him.
We were home at 3. He played with the Princess app (like the Superhero one) in which you make scenes, add stickers, and then move them around while you tell a story. Did three of those, although I think he one about letters falling. Mainly he was talking in a madeup language, but at one point he explained “That means it is learning an instrument. A violin.”
We ate some soup and crackers, then he played with the door magnets, making big numbers from them, and the stuffing things in the xylophone until it was overfull. He then surprised both of us by taking his shirt off: “I just took my shirt off. I’m half naked.”
I got his shirt back on and we headed back outside to get some Mama Juice. He got mango and I got blueberry. He hasn’t been drinking much of his juices lately, but he sucked down most of this one. We went and rode around the park. He kept asking “What Beethoven’s Ninth sounds like?” Then we would hum it together. He wanted to watch a go game, so we stopped and he did that. He then wandered over to the fence where there were four brooms of various length, and he played with them, starting with the longest, which he instantly called “extendo arms” and working his way to the shortest.
We got back on the bike and walked around the park a bit more, then tried to intercept Carly at the corner of the pink building. Turned out we had just missed her though, as she had left school five minutes early. We were home at 5:35, a few minutes after her. They nursed, then we started watching Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21. Carly got him to drink some allergy medicine. She was talking about it having a lot of sugar, and they were saying “How much sugar? So much sugar.” Very nice to have him willingly take medicine for once.
Carly gave him a bath. They finished watching the concerto, then started watching Beethoven’s Ninth – starting with the fourth movement before moving to the second.
He came out, and we read Tadd and Todd and most of Daisy-Head Mayzie, both by Dr. Seuss, and he was asleep 7:20ish.
Photos. Wrapping paper flute:
Lunch by the rectangle pond. You can see his eye looking swollen:
Using the railing:
His eye on the subway:
Asleep:
Home:
Loading the xylophone:
All the stuff:
Park. Watching go:
Extendo arm:
Comparing their heights:
