He nursed at 5:50, fell asleep briefly, and was up at 6:10. He played Dragonbox Big Numbers after Carly stopped nursing. He was working to make the last building. I went and got him underwear to change into. Carly left and he was fine. We had dried Cheerios and he got the game to start making the final building. We discussed what he could do while he waited for it, and there is a place he can exchange could nuggets to coins. He said “Change punches for coins?” He’s always called them ‘punches’ and I don’t know where that came from.
About 7:50 I heard someone moving our garbage can and got him ready so he could go out and see the garbage truck when it came. He wanted to go out right away, so we went and waited for the truck. He played on the teeter totter while he waited, and realized he still had his pajama shirt on. It came at 8 and we watched it pick up all the cans on our street. He then wanted a “walk and carry”.
I just locked the gate and we walked west, around the roundabout, then back. On the way back we saw the garbage can again and watched it and he found two big leaves that he used as wings. We walked over towards the bridge and speculated on whether the cafes would be open at the mall. He wanted to go find out, but I said another day. A couple times I suggested going home and he said something like “I just want to keep walking and the machine will put out empty garbage cans.” We also went up to the park and he played a little on exercise equipment. We then walked the back path back to the house and were home at 8:30.
He spotted the black and white car drinking from the dish. He found a random seed on the green chair. We went in and had toast for breakfast (he kept saying the jam was the best, but didn’t eat either of the jam pieces until after eating the honey ones and the cheese ones) then he lay in the floor for awhile, went to the bathroom, and realized I’d raised the air conditioner temperature: “Why’s it not 17?…Did YOU change it?”
We started making banana bread, but then I noticed another truck outside. It was a lift truck and they were changing burnt out light bulbs in the streetlight, and one was right outside our fence. We went out and watched the guy change it. We then planted the tomato seeds in the can and August watered them. We also planted the random seed that August had found. We talked a lot about the watering: “Why the soil sucks up all the water and says ‘I like this water’?”
We went back to banana bread. He asked “Can I have more brown sugar since I was so sad this morning?” He then developed a game where I pretended to be an ingredient, not wanting to get stirred in: “Can you pretend to be baking soda not wanting to get mixed in?” When we were done he licked the spatula and wanted to play Dragonbox (Little) Numbers. He then went to the bathroom and said “Besides, I don’t think I’m gonna be very long…No, poop too.” Talking about the sound the toilet paper roll holder makes upstairs when he clangs it to tell us he is done he asked “Sounds like a car breaking down?…Remember, from the Peppa Pig story?”
The banana bread was about done, so I prepared pizzas and put them in when the bread was done. We ate pizza for lunch, then while I was on the phone with the guy at Skoda about the roof of the car we cut into the banana bread and ate some of that.
We went back to Dragonbox (little) Numbers. He hasn’t played with one in a long time and it was cool to see the difference. He was talking about how he was estimating the lengths of the blocks as he added them up, and seemed like he was more cognizant of combining numbers in different ways.
I took a shower, then we played more together downstairs. He very seriously told me his favorite part of the game: “The part for me that’s really important is tracing…For stars.” We then read some of Hilo and ate more banana bread. We looked at Google Maps together to decide what to do today, then played with the Space app. We then used the pillows to pretend to be a rocket taking off. We played the distance game thing on Space and talked about AUs.
We had been lazy around the house long enough and finally got ready to go and left at 2:35. A 15 minute drive, and he fell asleep about 10 minutes in. I drove north to HaAlonin Park (or Sargeant’s Grove, or Netanya Forest) and parked. I got him out of his verse but he said something including “No” and lay down across the entire back seat. I went to the other door and picked him up. He slept on my shoulder as I carried him into the park. He woke up at 3:05 as I put him in the backpack. I gave him some ‘waking up’ mints and he talked about the fruit flavored ones being the waking up ones and said “I don’t know if carrot tic tacs or mints even exist.”
Nothing too exciting in the park. It is a flat forest a few blocks square in the middle of the growing city. So the breeze and shade was nice. We walked around and he hummed the whole time and made music. At one point he said “this music will last hundreds…Trillions of years…Trillions of machines!” We spotted one playground but he wanted to keep walking longer. We walked to the east end and found a second playground. He liked the trees there: “This one looks different…I want to find out what those trees are.” I realized one of the trees was still half green – it seemed they were dying trees. He asked a lot about that, then we walked up on the observation tower. Up there he talked about how far he could see. I asked, of the big construction site off in the distance “Do you see a them working?” He replied “No, not right now. I think they’re having lunch. The cranes aren’t moving.” “I can see hundreds and hundreds of miles away without getting closer to them.” He also spotted a tree in the grove below us that was also clearly dead.
We got walking (and making music) again. We walked back to the first playground. It was also mostly in the sun, but he spotted that the end of the slide wasn’t and talked about how he could go down it. But he never did, as we got out of the backpack and he spent all the time digging in the dirt and playing with dead grass.
We talked to Carly about picking her up from work, and left at 4:05. On the path he spotted the markings and said “That’s a long, long F.” He hasn’t spotted letters in random things for quite awhile.
We were driving at 4:15 and picked up Carly in front of the school and then headed home. He stayed in the car for a few minutes, playing. When we went in he said “When we were driving and I was playing Gro Garden I was about to move on to another game I haven’t played in awhile.”
Inside he nursed and played baby with Carly while I ate dinner, then we were animals and played hospital with me. We used the stuffed animals and had hospital beds for all of them and him. We were then robots destroying each other.
He had earlier gotten out the blue bag and wanted to do recycling, so he and I went to do that now. He took off walking, but part way asked “Will you carry me dada robot? There’s lots of dog poop there.” We did the recycling, then he wanted to play at the playground. We played on a couple of things, then he wanted to do the waking me up game on the slide. We did that, and he said “This game is for three year olds only…When I am five years old I will still play this game cuz I will be heavier and hurt you more.” He saw other kids with his shoes off and wanted to take his off, so I said yes. He slid down a few more times and found that he could walk up and down the slide with his shoes off. So I was laying there, waiting for him to come down. I heard him say “Oh, this is fun”, then a second later I heard him fall and his head crashed into mine. We got up, and the first things he said “Is mama gonna tell? I don’t want mama to know.” He repeated the second sentence as I carried him back. Not sure why he didn’t want Carly to know.
We got home and Carly heated c
orn and spaghetti for him, which he devoured. Carly took him upstairs and started laundry. He did a “Mama said…” as we got stuff to put in laundry. He’s been doing that more often, being able to tell me something she’s told him. Earlier, it was with the Space app and weighing the planets on scales: “Mama said that means it weighs more.”
Carly gave him his bath at 7:15 and they played on the bed together while I put the Israel Lonely Planet book on Carly’s Kindle. I went up to say good night. Carly said “Got me brown tree.” August asked “Why you say ‘brown tree’s? Is the tree dying?” He was asleep by 8.
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