He was up at 5:45. I got up a bit later and he and I read George Catches a Cold and Tiny Rabbit’s Big Wish. Carly headed to work and he played some Dragonbox Numbers. He saw me looking at an event invite on Facebook and it had an accordion on it. It was for a Kesselgarden concert (I used to work with the clarinet player), so I put on their music and we listened to some klezmer music and discussed tempos. He then played Namoo and I made French toast with blackberries for breakfast. He asked how canned blackberries are made, so we watched a video about how tomatoes are canned, and then how maple syrup is made. The first maple syrup one was for a big company, but then we found one for a farm in Canada that featured two boys. August liked that one a lot more and watched it twice. He then played the TinyBop Plant and Earth apps (into the science stuff all the sudden) and he watched Beethoven’s Ninth while I showered.
He was asking for different tempos, then trying to sing songs to them. He found his brush/comb and remembered how he could make it into a V: “I went back to the V game…its eating bugs…blah, blah, blah…because of the bugs.” He then stuck a xylophone stick through the brush and made a T. He listed a bunch of T words and said “Those are all my T words.”
I started laundry, then I made a salmon sandoo and we ate that. He was asking about adults being kids: “Gramma used to be a kid?” “All people used to be a kid?” We ate some grapes, then he helped hang laundry. He played some Busy Shapes, then we watched a video each on how mandolins and guitars are made.
We got going, and he didn’t want to go to the bathroom before we left. He started to protest as I pushed his pants down and lifted him on the toilet, but then he was peeing even as he protested. Luckily, all went well.
Not a big plan on where to go, so we headed south. They’re doing some construction work in the middle of the street between us and the park, and it was nice as it was basically a pedestrian street. We walked south, and walked along the railroad tracks. Went to the east end. You can go over the small bridge over a street, but still no farther. We went back to Hagye Children’s Park, the Tree Playground, and played there. Pretty much had the park to ourself at first. First went over to the bathroom, then he was looking up at the trees while kneeling on the bike. He went over on his own and wanted to pose as a rabbit.
From there we wandered over the play structure. He talked about going down a slide, but couldn’t decide on the best one. I suggested that if he wanted to go on a swing now was the time, as they might get busy later. So he went on a swing for a good amount of time. He played the rope of the swing as a sort of musical instrument.
We then went over by the bushes and I sat on a rock. He picked some leaves off the bushes and I read my book. He was climbing around on the rocks by and behind me. He then took his shoe off, and started filling it with sand. This became a game, and we filled it several times. I asked if I should go to the bike and get our bucket and shovel. He said yes. I warned him I would be out of sight for awhile, and he asked how many minutes. It was just a few seconds, and he was just fine. Came back and did more with his shoe, then we used the bucket to make an island in the sand, which he then smashed.
He sat next to me, and we talked about Israel and what would be exciting about it. I asked him what instrument he wanted, and he first said autoharp, but then it became clear he was talking about a harpsichord. We also had a good talk about how the leaves on all the trees around us work, applying what he sees on the Namoo app about carbon dioxide and oxygen and photosynthesis.
He ran across to the short climbing wall things and I started putting our stuff away. I looked up to find him up on top of it. But after that he couldn’t get up on his own – I think he was trying to climb it from the more difficult side.
Belatedly, I tried to put sunscreen on him, and I got one arm done. He then ran off and was wiping that one arm on a bench or something. He then kept running away from me to avoid me doing the second arm, basically until he tired out.
I had the idea of getting pizza and surprising Carly. Naver said there was a pizza place between us and home, and we left the park at 4:20. Couldn’t find that pizza place though, so we headed home, grabbed the iPad (he really, really wanted to play Namoo after our tree discussion), and headed up to Pizza School. As we left the building, he said “I want to go to Baskin Robbins instead.” Told him he needed to talk to mama about ice cream.
We ordered a noodle pizza and pepperoni pizza and he played Namoo while we waited. We headed home. He was making up words to song both directions. He was singing a cheery tune, then I heard him singing lines that included “was hit…50 times…there was blood…I was angry.”
We got home a minute before Carly. She grabbed the breast pump, then headed to the post office to send it to someone she had found that wants it. AUgust was fine with this, as we ate pizza. And more pizza. And more pizza. We dipped pizza in soup, ate some soup, shared a banana. I told Carly when she got back that soon we are going to have to get three pizzas when we order it.
Carly was back home at 5:25. He ate some pizza with her and nursed. He and I then put the keys back in the piano. I asked him to sing his song about hitting. He didn’t remember it, but sang “I was angry singing this song / because it goes on and on”
He was playing with the measuring tape, and calling the measuring tape the “number line”. He and Carly did art together. He wanted “A human bleeding.” They made a cool picture. Carly kept spacing out, and he would order her to “Draw”. She went to get his bath ready, and he requested the “Carrier”. He wanted the Ergo. So she put that one and he sat in it for a minute.
She gave him a bath, then he ended up having naked time in the parlor. He was excited about that, and spent a good amount of time just lying between us in the reading area.
They tried for sleep, but no luck. They played on the bed, and he named the bear from Carly’s childhood “Trumpet trumpety”. He came out and we read Daisy-head Mayzie. Then back to bed and he was asleep at 8:30.
The big news today is that we have a home in Israel. We have concerns about the place, but it also looks nice in a lot of ways.
The other big news was that around 11 I heard him awake and rubbing his eyes. That went on for a couple minutes, then he sat up and made some noise, and I think he said “Nurse”. I went to him and asked if his eyes were itching. I then laid him back down and put my hand on his chest. And he fell back asleep. The first time that has ever worked.
Photos. T:
Organized keys:
Park. Looking at the trees:
Rabbit Zinnie:
Throwing leaves:
Biting his shoe:
Pouring:
Hanging:
Waiting for pizza:
Art with mama:
Ergo:
