He was awake at 4:30, just for a few minutes, but enough to be talking. Carly got him back to sleep, but I was awake, so went downstairs and did some reading on the couch. I went back upstairs after Carly got up sometime later and went back to sleep. He was awake at 7:15, and I slept for another 20 minutes or so. When I came down he was playing Human Body. Carly spotted ants inside, and he said “Where are they going?…I haven’t eaten anything at the table yet so there isn’t any food…I haven’t fed the ants yet.” Carly cooked mushrooms for him, and he was very excited, as they were the brown mushrooms that he had spotted and we bought for him at his request when we were at the store. In the bathroom, he was making the binging noise with the toilet paper holder – a regular activity for him. He saw and ant, I think, and he said “It was in the sink turning on the water and off the water…because it was trying to drown and die.”
We went outside and checked on the cats and ants, then he helped Carly put cheese on the pizza she was making. They played the Flynne game, and he told Carly “You can be the earth now.” He asked me “But where’d the foxy game come from?” I told him he had made it up and he replied “Nope, a company made it…I’m a company.” They ate pizza and I went and took a shower. I came back and he was watching Care Bears. I watched with him and Carly went out and fixed the patio table, taking off the old tape and putting on new tape to make it level and look much nicer in the process.
We went over to the mall for lunch and went to Arcaffe, sitting out on the deck. A decent place, and you can almost pretend that the view is okay, except you’re looking out at the back parking lot for the mall. They have mist machines and August really liked those. We got three drinks: an iced cappuccino, an orange and carrot, and a strawberry yogurt thing. August liked that one the most. And he and I shared a salmon and ginger sandwich. He ate a decent amount of it. Carly went to start the shopping, and August watched three Sarah and Duck stories while I studied some Hebrew. We then paid and went to find Carly. Spent just enough time to find cumin and curry for her, then he needed the bathroom. Went into the mall and found another set of bathrooms. He took awhile, and we met Carly halfway as we walked back to the grocery store. My Hebrew helped me ask for the check, find the spices quickly, and find the bathrooms. Good progress.
While he was on the toilet he talked a lot: “I have a car machine that squirts out a lot of cars.” Talked about breaking sensors with “My breaking machine.” And “I love the smell of pee and poop because I’m a dung beetle eating poop. Mmm, yummy poop.”
We headed home, where he wanted a new app. I found the Dr. Panda apps and got Hospital and Handyman. He spent some time playing Hospital, then we all left at 2:25 to head to the school to swim. As we left, he was talking about killing the weeds that are growing so that we can plant something else, and explaining how he would use hisrake and shovel to kill the weeds.
We were swimming right at 3. He wanted a swim fin to drop, we played the chasing mama game, and I was lifting him out of the water and into the air. He really got splashed, his head entirely drenched, when a boy jumped in. He wasn’t happy about it, but handled it okay. It is the wettest I’ve seen him in the pool. I got out and did a little reading, then August needed to use the bathroom. When they came out of the bathroom, he was doing a dance across the concrete that we called the pool dance. They stopped to look at the berries that Carly told him were poisonous, and he told her that I had said they weren’t (I’d told him they wouldn’t likely plant poisonous plants at a school). They were done with the pool, so we packed up, changed out of our swimsuits, then sat in a couch by the cafeteria and had a snack
August wanted to go to Carly’s classroom, so we walked over there. He played on the bean bags, then he and Carly played school. He sat in a desk and she taught him some math and reading. He then wanted to be the teacher and they switched spots and he told her the answers to some math questions.
We left at 4:45 and were home by 5:20. I went over to the junk pile across the street to see if a set of shelves that had shown up would work for our little library. Instead, I found a full box of pottery jars. I made a couple trips to bring them into the house, thinking we’d maybe save a few. Carly called, then FaceTimed with Cassie and Colin and Vivian. I went up and took a shower. When I came down, Carly had put the pottery up on the shelf above the kitchen. I went and got the off-white pieces. We ended up with twelve pieces up there, a nice bowl in a cupboard, a bowl out on the patio table, another bowl replacing the plastic container for the cat water, and a watering can outside.
August played the Handyman app for awhile and really liked that. He and I then played with the pillows again, first playing the crab game (the red crabs trying to get into Bernie’s grotto), then reverting to the Flynne game. We then read Berenstain Bears Think of Those in Need, Thunder Boy Jr., and Peppa Pig Goes to the Dentist. We read a sample of Hilo, The Boy Who Crashed to Earth and bought it. While it downloaded, I took him up for his shower. He told me “Soap is awesome. I love soap going down the drain.” We went back down and read three chapters of Hilo, then he was ready to head up to bed. He wanted me to stay for a minute. He was asleep by 9:30.
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Lunch:
Watching Sarah and Duck:
Sunglasses:
Mama’s keys:
On the bean bag:
