He was up at 6:10 again. Watched Wanda and the Alien. He was a little frustrated with Carly for going to work and wouldn’t say goodbye to her. Had banana bread for breakfast, then played Dragonbox Numbers and ate bread upstairs in the bathroom while I took a shower. Back downstairs he started a big game on the couch involving being viruses and mold. He had asked about the mold again in the bathroom and why we open the window and I mentioned why it is bad for your lungs to breathe in mold. He was also an airplane motor “To the countryside.” And he talked about going for a walk and wanted to find full green garbage cans “A different street each day.” We never actually got out on that walk today.
He kept being white blood cells and mold, climbing on my chest to be each, with the white blood cells having a “yummy dinner” of the mold cells in my lung. At one point he got off and as he played Human Body said a whole dialogue that he made up between white blood cells and mold cells as their dinner, which ended with the mold cells saying they were dying. He was also my heart pumping and I explained the path of the read blood cells through my body, like in Human Body.
We moved over to the air conditioner and continued the moldy air game, as he was breathing in moldy air. And it got more interesting: “I’m a drill putting a hole in a pipe leaking mold in your lungs.”
We spotted ants, and then took a good amount of time finally deploying wet and dry borax for the ants, both inside and out. We’ll see how that works. He watched an episode of Puffin Rock, then we went and watered the seeds, then played the Pip and Pop game. We read two books: Look after Your Planet and That’s NOT a Hippopotamus! He went to the bathroom, then he was a paper cutting tree, doing karate in the living room, chopping up paper coming off a conveyor belt and making newspapers.
We left at 11:10 to head to school and pick up a car seat that Israel Cassie is letting us borrow for the trip. As we drove there he said “Mama said there’s a hedgehog there that looks like Spikey.” He ate apple as we waited for Cassie. One slice had some peel on it and he told me “You can eat it if you want, dada.” She came out to her car and gave us the seat. August was unimpressed, but when I said he could see better he agreed to try it out. So I put it in and he moved into it. He said he still liked the one in Pennsylvania better though.
We drove over to the Drorim Mall and went to the Tiv Taam. Not a cart in sight, although there were only a few people in the store. When we left there were suddenly tons of them – August thought that was pretty funny. A couple times aswe walkedthrough the mall and started shopping I would say something and he’d say “Oh, okay dada.” After we had just two items he needed to use the bathroom, so we popped out to do that. Back in the store, he was helping push the cart and said “My turn now”. I wondered where he got that line and realized it was something that Mossy says on Puffin Rock when they are moving rocks from in front of Bernie’s grotto.
A pretty quick trip through the store, getting water and a water bottle, granola bars, and Cheez-its for the trip and a few other things. August was a crane helping to put things on the conveyor belt and take them off. Oh, and in the store he started dancing to the music that was playing. And near the end I asked if he wanted to get a drink and he chose apple juice. He then said “Oh, thank you.” and gave me a hug.
We stopped in the mall to drink the apple juice and try one of the granola bars, then headed home and got home at 1:10. He found a feather on the sidewalk and said “I WONDER what kind of bird it is.” But then he decided to leave it behind and set it down and said “Bye bye feather. Bye, August…It’s a magical feather!”
We went in and quickly made pizza with salmon and zucchini for lunch and ate it, then headed back to the school, getting there at 2:35. We went to the library and he needed to go to the bathroom. We used the bathroom there and he saw a drain in the floor. He said “I don’t think it’s for anything. It’s just random.” We went into the library and there was a class finishing story time in our normal area. We grabbed the box of small animals and played with them at the other end of the room. We found (well, he spotted) some bean bags and played on those. Mainly with the crocodile chomping my finger: “Crocodiles can be REALLY dangerous!” We were by the poetry section and I got a Shel Silverstein book I’d never read (Every Thing On It, or something like that) and a Jack Perlusky collection. The class left and we went over to the picture book section. He spotted the Curious George section and we got Curious George Goes to the Hospital and we sat in the story area and read it. He also found…
After that we started to go to check out our books and return all the other. But he saw a boy watching Paw Patrol on one of the computers and was captivated. I left him there and went and did the checking out. Grace and a friend came in and said hi, then went back to see August and gave him high fives. Oh, he also stopped to watch a student printing something at the printer.
We went and found Carly at 3:45. They printed something, then played classroom. He used the highlighters, then wanted to know how clothes are made. He said a different desk was that classroom, and they found a video on YouTube. Then he wanted to know how you make buildings. He moved and said “This is the building class”.
We had planned to go swimming but he had wanted to play with Carly instead. As we were leaving he also talked about wanting to see the hedgehog, but I told him next time.
At home I cooked up an okara pattie for him and he ate that with ketchup, then played a little Dragonbox Numbers. He wanted a blanket to be cozy, so I got that. We read Du Is Tak? and he really liked that. It is about insects who build a treehouse in a plant that grows. It uses a madeup bug language, so you have to use the pictures to pick up on clues as to what they are saying. The sweet potato fries were ready, so we ate those for the rest of dinner. Carly was upstairs finishing packing during much of this.
On the couch he was making a tunnel under my legs, moving my legs to adjust it. Then it was the Pip and Pop game. Carly skyped with Chuck and Cherie and August showed them the insect book, as Cherie was the one who had brought it to my attention. We watched one episode of Puffin Rock, then he was kicking pillows down from the couch like in the episode about Bernie’s grotto being blocked – he was being May.
I gave him a shower, then we went in on the bed. He played with Carly: “I’m gonna be the motor of the rocket…you’re gonna be the person going to space.” He was also a chain machine and a towel machine. He was asleep at 7:30.