He was up a little after 6. At first he lay back down for a few minutes, but then got up. He stayed with Carly upstairs for awhile while she got ready. He was sad to see her go, but in a grumpy way. We spent some time doing math with the blueberries. Really cool to see him talking his way through math problems on his own. He then pretended to be germs, which made him what to watch How the Body Works videos. We did that on the couch and he ate Cheerios and apple. He then wanted to watch Puffin Rock. He chose one and told me “This is the one where Flynne’s lair is messed up with fur.” I said “full?” and he said “No. With fur. Not full. You know, fur.”
He wanted to send emojis to someone and chose Vivian. He then made a made a machine with his bowl and apple cup and tore up his tissue and put it in the bowl. He then lifted this machine with his feet. He asked “Why is the first word ‘Care’?”, referring to ‘Care Bears’. I explained it was because they take care of each other and other people. He replied “I want them to just be called ‘Bears’…That means they don’t help people out then?” He watched a little of the Jealousy Tea episode (one of his favorites), then said he was done. We played catch with Peter Rabbit after he threw it to me and then when I threw it back he caught it. He was into ‘catch’, although he declared himself the winner when he caught it. Tried to explain it was a cooperative thing.
He went to the bathroom and noticed the toilet paper was new: “flowers and spiraly things.” He spotted a scrap of toilet paper on the ground and said “Dada, I’ve seen that toilet paper for ages.” He then counted the feet on the pattern on his stool. We headed to Duplos where we made rockets and he worked on trying to say patterns of colors. He was then a sick baby squirrel, but when I went up to get the doctor tools it destroyed the hospital bed. He then watched Peg + Cat while I took a shower. He’s really started singing the theme song.
We went downstairs to take care of baby squirrel, then went outside and painted his pot pink. He helped with most of it, then wanted to watch Ask the Storybots. He watched the episode about French fries while I finished the pot and then made pizza. When that episode ended he said “Ask the Storybots wanted me to watch another show.” I realized that both Peg + Cat and Ask the Storybots have albums on iTunes and added them to our library.
We went outside and watered, and August played with the hose. He was spraying the lawn: “Dada, the sun is making it hot there so I’m making it cool there.” Back inside we did some Hebrew letters on the pad of paper before he turned to drawing maps on the paper. He then said it was a machine: “This is a machine that moves planets.” He was then being silly with Duplos and markers. We then looked at books and decided to return 4 to the library (26-Story Treehouse, Berenstain Bears, the ABC book, and something else) and then read Du Iz Tak, which he still decided to keep.
We left at 1:50. Carly had said it would be fine for him to take a nap, and he fell asleep at 2:05 as we got close to the school. We had taken the small stroller at his request. I sat in the library and read while he napped. I also got a couple more books for the little library. Carly came in and started to talk to me, but he started to wake up so she left. He woke up at 3:05, and I asked if he wanted to look at books or go swimming. He said “go swimming” so I pushed him over to the bathroom by the pool. But now he was pressing his eyes shut. I got him in the bathroom, but he didn’t want to change. I managed to change into my swimsuit, but then he suddenly started calling “Mama! Mama! Mama!” and crying.
We ended up walking around the campus, trying to not bother people, as I tried to get him settled down. He’s not really used to naps now, and has never woken up from a nap at school, where he knows mama was at. He finally calmed down around 3:40 as I put him back in the stroller. He ate Cheerios outside the library in their ‘Library Cafe’ area. At 3:55 I asked if he was feeling better, and offered him thumbs up, thumbs down, or thumbs sideways. He did thumbs sideways for getting there. He ate for a couple more minutes then wanted to go in the library. Once he finished off the Cheerios we went in. We went and got four books to check out: 13-Story Treehouse, Home by Carson Ellis (same as Du Iz Tak), Mr. Brown’s Fantastic Hat, and one he spotted called Peach & Blue.
We walked up to the studio for his dance class. He went to the bathroom and played on the couch, but when the time came for class to start he was having none of it. Carly went back and forth with him to the door a few times, and inside once or twice, but he would immediately want back out. When he started to participate once he almost immediately had his foot stepped on and started crying. August said at one point that he thought we were going home (we’d talked about the class earlier, but probably not since he woke up) and at another that he didn’t like all the kids in there (it is a much bigger class than the Thursday one). It was also difficult because the area in front of the door was full of other moms sitting around and talking. Not a lot of space down there. He and Carly read the Home book and Mr. Brown’s Fantastic Hat, which he found pretty funny.
So we headed home. He cheered up on the way. We stopped at the school so Carly could go to the bathroom. He sang a colors pattern song and had a couple good patterns going. He seemed to listen to his container of apples slices at one point, which was pretty fun.We got walking from there at 5:15. He was singing a counting by tens song that he seemed to have made-up and he read a few license plates.
He wanted to stop at the park by Jack and Celeste’s house at 5:30. Carly went on home and we played with the drinking fountain first. He then found a branch from a thorn bush and handed it to me. He then decided it was too dangerous for me to hold and told me to put it down. He went and got on the merry-go-round and offered rides “Who wants to ride?…Well you’re just in time.” He then surprised me by counting backwards from 20 – something he’s gotten from watching those Space Shuttle launches. He turned me on the merry-go-round, first sitting in it with me, then getting out and running along beside it, which was rather impressive as well as it wasn’t something I knew he could do.
We got home at 5:50. He got out of the stroller and went around the side of the house and checked on the pink pot to see if it was dry. We got Carly and she came out to see it. He told Carly the table was her favorite color and the pot was her favorite color. They nursed, then we did some more Hebrew, then had some dinner. He was then making silly rockets out of Duplos, and laughing a lot as he had them fly into space.
On the couch I showed him the Peg + Cat and Storybots music on my phone and we listened to some of our favorite Peg + Cat songs (the theme song, the circle one where Pig sings “I still like triangles.”, Sorty Sort Sort). We read Grade 2 at the Zoo, then the start of 13-Story Treehouse, then Grade 2 again, which is quite funny. I gave him a shower, then they tried for sleep a little after 8. He was back down at 8:35.
We mainly read 13 Story Treehouse and he went back up at 9:20 and soon fell asleep.
Photos. Lifting:
Painting the pot:
Playing in the library:
Growing:
