He was up at 6:30. He locked the parlor door when Carly said he needed to go to the bathroom. Eventually he gave in and she changed him and they nursed. Carly got him Cheerios for breakfast. When she was leaving for work (she didn’t have to teach today, as the kids were still at the retreat), he ran out in the hallway with just his shirt and underwear. He actually went down the hall past the elevators. Sara was also headed to work, so he said goodbye to both of them and waved as they got in the elevator.
He wanted to go outside, so we went back and changed him into clothes. Found out one of his pars of shorts from last summer is too small. He started playing with the vacuum cleaner, asking what all the parts of it are for and pretending to suck things up, and he then didn’t want to go outside right away. Went to play iPad instead. It froze again (I need to delete stuff from it) so he used mine to play Human Body.
He again wanted to go outside, but started playing with the vacuum cleaner again. Thanks to all his questions, I realized you can attach the tube part to the body when it is in the closet. Then, looking out the window, he said “I want a vacuum cleaner in Israel.”
We left at 8:20. Lots of discussion of tempos, and we sang Sesame Street songs and some others. We walked up the stream and then to Madeul Stadium. He noted that there was no one playing football (I explained how it is both ‘soccer’ and ‘football’ the other day, but most of the world says ‘football’ and he decided on ‘football’) he wanted to go in. So we went in and pretended to play soccer and we talked about fake grass. As we left he fell as he was running. Think he scraped his knees on the grass a little. He got up and looked at his knees. I asked if he wanted me to pick him up. He replied “No. I don’t want you to pick me up.”
We sat on the bench/wall by the faucets and ate some banana, then went across and threw the peel away and looked at some of the history exhibits as we walked around the park.
We got to the spiderweb playground at 9. He didn’t get off the bike. He pushed around a toddler walker but then wanted to leave. But then the one adult and three or four kids that were with her left, probably to catch a school bus, and he said “There’s no kids now?…I didn’t want the kids to be here.” He went to play, but didn’t play long. He went on the spinny thing a little, with me holding it at first, then a little spinning on his own, then we got going when he needed to use the bathroom. We went back across the street and used the bathrooms at Madeul Stadium.
We got home after 9:30. Had some Cheerios and bananas. He liked the Edie Brikell album we were listening to and added two songs to his playlist. He then got the Larva game and we played that once. We then took care of a couple of the animals using the doctor stuff. I took a shower, then he came in and played in the sink for quite awhile. Back out by the Duplos, we were lying on the reading area and he played with my watch and found the Breathe app, so we did deep breaths for a minute. We had crab, cream cheese, and crackers for a snack, then watched an episode of the Smurfs where Gargamel tries to catch them with a storm.
We then made a Mother’s Day card for Carly. He wrote it all. He was a bit upset when he made an i instead of an exclamation point. He made it worse by scribbling out the extra dot, but that of course just made it worse. I convinced him to cover it with a sticker. He used two, as he could see it through the first one. Added stickers to the whole card, did some art on the back, and it was done. Then played the Duplos down our shirts game. Played in my sink again and did some exercise in there as well, and we got ready to go back out and left at 1:30.
We first went to Chrysanthemum Park. Climbed up the rope ladder to get on the structure, then went around together and went down the slide. He wouldn’t play with the bubble gun. Don’t know why. Left before 2:10. He said he didn’t like that park and wanted a bigger one. We went just north to the Poli Park. Not bigger, but he was excited by the characters. Went on the play structure and from one character’s section to another. Went up and down the round platforms quite easily.
But the big thing, after we used the bathroom there, was playing in the faucets. First with the two drinking fountains that he could reach, but needed help getting pushed down. Then, there was a little hose attached to the faucet on the side. He simply sprayed water down the drain, and kept talking about the dust (sand) going down the drain. That went on and on, and I got a lot of my book (Eco’s Numero Zero) read. And he sang a “I don’t like sand because…” There were multiple reasons, like because it is brown. Eventually, a class of middle or high school kids came. They were nice, but a ton of them just stood there and kept trying to say hi to him and tell him he was handsome over and over. Really quite annoying after a minute as we were both trying to ignore them. Finally, it was too much for him and he wanted to leave. We left at 3:20.
At first he said he didn’t want to go, but then changed his mind and we went to Cafe Tolerance. He got two pineapple juices and I got a macchiato. He chose seats, and our usual ones were taken, so we sat looking out the windows facing north. Not facing the stream, but facing the big construction site, which has a huge crane that we got to watch. He did art on my iPad and I read. At one point the crane hauled what looked like a less than ideally secured pack of grey things – looked like concrete slabs, but maybe not. I commented on it, and he said “Its moving, but it’s not falling down.” And “Maybe that could slip out any time.” For his art he was saying things like “this is a boa constrictor…this is a kiepormite.” He used the bathroom before we left, wearing the slippers to go in. Oh, and the woman there still remembers his name.
We left and were home at 4:30. I realized we were short on both flour and eggs (for pancakes this weekend) so we turned around and went to Lucky Mart. A quick shopping trip. We walked by the food court and realized there are a few things we still want to try there, so we need to eat lunch there a few more times.
We got home right at 5 but Carly wasn’t there. So we turned around and went back out again. We met Carly on the first floor carrying the iHerb order.
He had some dinner and helped me put away the iHerb order. They then nursed and he fell asleep at 6:20. We let him sleep. At 8 though he woke up…to go to the bathroom. That was cool. The first time he’s gotten up from sleep to go to the bathroom.
Photos:
Running into me:
Spinning thing:
Breathing:
Making mama’s card:
Poli Park. Jumping down stairs:
Fountain:
Watching the crane:
Slippers:
Wanting to do a claw machine:
