It really seemed like he heard Carly leave today, as right after she left I heard the door upstairs. And when he saw me on the stairs he got upset. He started crying and I went to him. He said “I’m not gonna like you. I’m not gonna love you.” He then went to the door and was calling “Mama! Mama!” through it. I picked him up, and he said “I’m gonna kill you.” The frustration left him, and he lay on the couch for several minutes and I got him ‘special milk’. I told him I put a little extra “something something” in it since he was upset this morning. He would remember this, and later ask Carly if she’d put extra something (it wasn’t sugar) in something else because he had been upset this morning.
He drank it and said “Lets watch some shows.” Watched some Care Bears while we ate the leftover eggs and some toast. The claw truck came and we watched it pick up the branches and cardboard across the street. They left the metal and plastic stuff. That stuff would be gone later.
We played the Solar System app, then he mentioned wanting a new game. I had wondered if there were any Sarah and Duck games. There are – Sleepover and At the Park. We purchased both and played them. He continued playing while I took a shower. After my shower he told me to cut “the hairs I don’t like” on my face. When we went downstairs he spotted two spiders in the stairwell.
My raspberry iced tea was ready, so we had some of that and he seemed to like it. He played Gro Garden and we got ready to go. Which was a slow process as he kept wanting me to play, or needed something else. I made sandwiches and used the last of the biscuit spread to make him one more piece of treat bread. Finally, he asked why headphones work and we ended up discussing ‘foreground’ and ‘background’.
We left at 10:40. Two №11 busses, at 10:45 and 10:48, went by. Then I think I figured out the schedule enough for the 48 to realize that there are very few busses. The next one would be the one we caught last time at 11:40. But there is an earlier bus, maybe 9:30 or so. So we decided to wait until tomorrow. Instead, we went to the playground and sat down and ate our sandwiches and banana. We discussed where garbage goes, air pollution, and acid rain. He then had a plant killing machine that at first seemed to just kill weeds but then killed everything. It had a chemical that was “Worse than the chemical in bleach.” I made the mistake of telling him I don’t like my bananas as ripe as him. He said “I don’t like my bananas so sugary.” as he gave me the last couple bites to eat.
Then went to playing. There were two smaller kids who turned out to be 2 and a half and 1 and a half. The mom offered August a salty bear-shaped snack. He ate, but didn’t want another as he didn’t like the crumbs on his hands. He wiped his hands on his head, saying “I love crumbs in my hair, just not on my hands.” He saw a fake compass on the ship play structure and we discussed directions, and I reminded him of the compass that Uncle Jeff showed him. We played with the compass on my phone. She then offered him dried apples instead, and he really liked that. He ended up sitting on my stomach while I lay on the ground and we discussed dried apples and other fruits. He really liked the idea of making dried apples.
Eventually got up and went to the play structure again. He wanted to play the game where he slides down on my head. We did that, and still had his shoes on. He looked at the bottom of his shoes and pointed to something: “It has that on it so it’s not EXACTLY clean.” Did that a bit more, then we saw some guys dump out the big cage of cardboard recycling. That made him want to go home and get the recycling and bring it back. First, we stopped at the water fountain. It drains straight to the grass and we talked about watering the grass and how that works.
We looked at the big pile of cardboard and asked “Don’t you just want to jump right in it? All the time?” But then he decided it was too icky. We went home and got our bag of recycling, then went and dropped it off. We then stood there and watched a claw truck pick up the cardboard and foam recycling.
We went home. Sitting on the couch he told me “I don’t really like long hairs…on your legs too. That’s why I always try to pull your hairs out, dada.” He played the Mammals app and watched the bat digest and poop as he lay his head on my stomach.
He went to the bathroom and got really talkative: “Now I love it. I eat chicken all the time…meat and chicken and toast and dried Cheerios and milk Cheerios and drink water and drink juice and that’s all I eat and drink, dada.” I then took a couple minutes of video where he continued with that, after which “And chains and sinks and drains and dirt and rocks…but mostly animal stuff dada. I eat things that animals eat. I eat toilet paper, dada. But mostly I eat ropes and chains and jump ropes that is underground, dada. I eat mud too, dada. And towels. I eat towels. But mostly things you hang up sheets with. And phones. I eat watches. And iPads. And plastic. That’s all I eat though. I eat tiles, too, dada.” “I love chicken though. I just eat chicken. I eat chicken and meat. That’s all I eat.”
Did some more Mammals, then set a timer. When it went off I said we should get going. He told me “When you’re lazy could you lie down and fall asleep?” I thought he was going to wake me up, but he just kept playing the iPad. He was playing me. I objected, then he did try waking me up, saying “I’m gonna play loud, loud Israel music while you sleep, dada.”
He was then being cranky as I made him get ready to go to the store. So I started putting happiness in him, through his ears and head and elbows, etc., which made him laugh. He said “Put happiness in my eyebrows…I’m putting happiness in you.” But then he was grumpy again and I asked “Where’d all the happiness I just put in you go?” He told me “A machine tooked it.”
We left at 2:15. As we went out he said, for no apparent reason, “I want to renovate this house.” I asked what he thought it should have and he said “Some fake trees.” Interesting, as we’ve listened to “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead, but the song doesn’t actually say “Fake trees” in it. I looked up the lyrics, and he told me “I have a machine that makes the right words.” for the song. He spotted the dirt track across the street and asked “Does that go to the mall?”
We headed over and found the parking lot for the mall full. Something was going on, and it was a little kids fair thing out front. We went and did our grocery shopping first. Pushed him around the store until the basket started to get full, then we parked both and brought things back to it. He helped carry a few things, although the cold things made his hands too cold.
We paid and headed outside. We went to the fair and watched, but it was too busy for him. Listened to some music, then he wanted to head home. We were back at 3:50. Across the street he saw all the scattered garbage left over from the piles of garbage being picked up. He asked if it turned to dirt or polluted, then “The plastic pollutes the earth COMPLETELY? So we can’t live?”
When we got in he turned on the AC: “I’m sure mama will be really sweaty…Mama likes it up really high. That’s why I turn it up really high all the time.” He was then a bug killing machine with “Strong chemical and really sharp blades.”
I sliced up an apple for him and he really liked it. He also had the idea of making raisins and said “When I was in Korea and ate raisins all the time I didn’t like raisins, but now I LOVE raisins. That’s why I want to put out grapes and turn them into raisins…I want to check on them every once in awhile…I think they’ll turn into grapes when we’re sleeping…I’m sleepy.” We soaked the apples in lemon water and he ate the other apple and watched Lucy and Po
go, then read Hilo. He wanted more apple, and as I sliced them he was talking. I asked “What’s that?” He replied “Don’t talk to me!…I’m talking to myself. I’m talking to my brain.”
Carly got home at 4:50. Out of nowhere August told her about seeing Jeff working and being able to see where the water comes into the basement. Kind of cool that he is forming some long term memory. He also told Carly why he didn’t want to play at the kids fair: “There was too much kids so I didn’t have my people machine.” He played Human Body. He watched the digestive parts and we talked about that was what was happening to his apple in his body. Carly got some rice and curry for the two of them but we called it “mama’s food”. August would go and get one bite and laugh hysterically, then go back for another bite. We had also gotten raspberry Jaffa cakes at the store and eaten one while we were at the kids fair. He told her all about them. Lots of explaining.
We did a smoothie machine, and he made smoothies for me and Carly with our favorite fruits. He told Carly “I’m gonna put extra sugar in because you’re sad about something.” Then told her “I have something for you…poop.” “I have toy poop that is plastic…rubbery plastic.”
I was putting together an iHerb order, and the two of them played the Sarah and Duck apps together. He went to the bathroom, then was playing with one of his bamboo bowls and dropped it and it broke on the floor. We checked on the apples. They were rubbery, but getting there, and August had one and liked it. He was jumping from the couch onto the pillows and jumped and did a forward roll.
We went for a short walk. Startled by a huge dog that was in a yard that also had a shorn sheep in it. We were back at 7:10. He watched/played Lucy and Pogo, then I gave him a shower and washed his hair. He got the bed wet, then saw pictures in the wetness on the bed: “That’s another rocket. That’s another rocket…those are rockets and satellites we send to other planets.”
As we walked downstairs he said he had a lightbulb machine: “It reused them. It gives them more power.” That was cool because he sort of put two things together: he knows about burnt out light bulbs, and knows about recycling. We took the apples out and he had a few.
We went back upstairs to the bed to put on his pajamas. Carly came with us. But he was hyper and not ready to calm down, so we decided he’d try to go to sleep with me. Carly headed down. He was hyper for awhile longer, then when he started to slow we went down and got his water bottle and the iPad. We went back up and read the first four chapters of Hilo, after which he was looking really tired. We tried turning the lights off for a few minutes, but he was getting upset, so I went and got Carly. He was asleep right about 9.