He came down just before 7:30. Carly and I were both on the couch. He picked up his shorts on the way down the stairs, left from last night, and handed them to us. He then asked about the pile of student papers next to Carly, and then noticed the air conditioner was off. He went to get the remote, but it was next to me so I handed it to him. He replied “Oh, okay. Thank you.” He went and turned on the air conditioner and said “17. 17 for mama.” I asked what about me, and he gave me a look and said “I don’t like warm things. I don’t like hot things.”
He had some cozy time with Carly, then when she went to go to the bathroom he was upset and said “I’m gonna miss you forever.” I offered to get him some milk and he said “Milk with something something cuz mama doesn’t have nursing in her nursing.” Carly mopped and we read Berenstain Bears Go to Camp and looked at photos of bears. Carly made toast and I cut it for August. She started bleaching the cabinets. I opened a door, and as August was playing Namoo on my iPad, I went up and took a shower. Back downstairs August wanted to head upstairs because of the cleaner. So we went up and hung out in the office. He played the Creatures Gallery app – an animal version of Robot Factory. Then the space music game.
We went back downstairs. They nursed and we ate crackers in the white cheese, which is kind of a cross between cottage cheese and cream cheese. We then played the May the rabbit game, followed by a lot of the Pip, Pop, and Otto game. He told me “You can be the stump.” First played with me, then Carly. We then invented the Shady Glade game, based on the book. I had left the raisins in the oven overnight, then we put them out in the sun. We tried them, and he really liked them “One more dried grape, then we’re done.” He said that three or four times, then we left the rest out to keep drying.
Inside, he went on the toilet. He takes the toilet paper off and makes the binging noise when he’s done. Supposedly. But now he keeps doing it even when he’s not done. So when I didn’t come back he was asking “Why isn’t dada coming back‽”
We went for a walk at 11:45 over to the mall. We went to Arcaffe, just for drinks this time. I had a macchiato and they shared a cold chocolate (chocolate milk) and orange and carrot juice. He was shocked we had a chocolate drink: “Why did you let me have a chocolate drink‽” When Carly offered him the orange and carrot he said “Uh-uh”. He then played Everything Machine and Carly went to the grocery store. He played for a couple more minutes, zoned out a bit, and wanted to drink the mist. As we paid, the waitress asked us if we were tourists, then the woman at the table next to us talked to us for a minute when she heard me mention the American school.
August wasn’t too happy with the grocery store, as he kept saying it was too cold. We managed to help with shopping a bit though, figuring out which one was spinach, getting more of the good Earl Grey tea, and more Tic-Tacs.
We went home, where Carly started making the healthy chocolate pancakes. August couldn’t believe his luck: “Mama’s letting me have chocolate things without having dinner‽ She needs to read that monkey book?” That’s a reference to the Should You Feed It to the Monkey? book I often remind him of when he wants too much candy or sweets.
He was being grumpy, so eventually Carly took a break from cooking and they went and wrestled. I made pizzas, then after we ate we played more Pip and Pop and Otto game. We went in the stump and pretended to sleep. He closed his eyes and was silent for a good five minutes. Carly cut up an apple from him and he said “Sour. I love sour things.” He kept referring to me as ‘Otto’, and said “Otto. You sleep while I go get pillows upstairs.” He built a big stump and said “Huh‽ how the Owl’s gonna get in here? How the Owl’s gonna get in this stump?” That turned into a smelling game, with the owls taking turns finding interesting things for the other owls to smell.
Carly was making the healthy chocolate pancakes, and it was time to cook them. He watched that, then ate a couple, making yummy noises the whole time. He then kept having me build the stump and he would destroy it. He wanted an Oona and Baba game and when I asked what that was he decided they would make sand castles out of the pillows.
He and Carly nursed, then when Carly got up he was dramatic again, saying “Mama’s not even going to be friends with me.” He also started saying he was sleepy. We went outside to sweep the tree things and check the raisins. Then back in for more Pip and Pop and Otto game. Carly skyped with Cassie. August said “But we ALWAYS nurse when we Skype!”
We went for a walk about 6:15, just up to the playground without a stroller. We took the recycling and did that, and when he was done with the plastic and glass he played with things from a tree on the sidewalk there for several minutes. Then in to the playground. August pushed Carly on the big round swing, and we went on the big teeter totter thing. Played around a bit more then headed home. He told me “I sometimes eat clouds.”
At home we read Chicka Chicka ABC and part of Spiral by Spiral. He really liked the picture of the snake and chipmunks curled up in their underground homes, and he wanted to curl up like them. So he did that, first as a snake, then a chipmunk. As a chipmunk then he started gathering acorns, which he pronounced ‘air-corns’. That became the big game, and we would grow oak trees and gather the nuts for him. He even had an acorn machine: “Turned the air-corn machine on.”
I took him up for his shower at 8. He was reciting the seasons from our hibernating chipmunk game: “Summer, winter, summer, winter…winter, summer, fall…Someone broke the weather machine.” And worried about his acorn machine: “Someone attack-ed my acorn machines down there! A monster! Do you see it down there in the drain?”
After his showerhe went and got the bed wet as usual, but spent a lot of time describing the different rockets in the wetness, rockets going to Jupiter and Mars and Saturn and back to earth. Went back down and did more acorn game, then up to bed and he was asleep about 9.
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