He was awake at 3:50 again. Actually, Carly said he started waking up a half hour earlier. They went downstairs a little after 4 and read some 13-Story Treehouse. I tried to get some more sleep but went down an hour later. Carly went up and he watched Peg + Cat and at 5:50 I made eggs with tofu and cheese for breakfast and toast. August ate half a piece of toast but wouldn’t try the eggs, so I took the rest of the toast away. He was done for the moment though.
We had done some blueberry math, then he was a rocket and invented wireless power: “This rocket doesn’t need rocket fuel” How? “My machine that gives it power without using any wires.” He was remembering the watches from yesterday and said “5 quadrillion 2 thousand…Thats how much my phone’s cost.” We read a lot of 13-Story Treehouse, then built rockets. He decided that patterns made them strong, and when we broke a pattern it would make the rocket break or fall over. He then had a machine: “It’s parachuting the tutti-frutti onto the moon.” And told a long story about cards that he made go away when we broke a pattern (they were cards that checked to see if there was a pattern), then a machine that made black smoke so you couldn’t see ad the cards were in the smoke and someone had taken the cards and the police got them in trouble. He told another story while he was in the bathroom about how cars with 10 numbers on them were destroying his storage area with all the treats in it.
We built a house and some crazy rockets, then Carly came back down at 7:50. We went outside to check on tomato plants (there lines on the leaves, so he said he was going to pull out his tomato plants), sap, and pick off flowers. He found a feather and took it inside to show mama. Back inside, Carly was upstairs doing something and he said “Is mama still sleeping? Is she an owl?” We switched and I went upstairs and rested for awhile and took a shower.
He played GroGarden and wore headphones while Carly vacuumed. He then finally ate most of his eggs. He heard us talking about the ants and poison and August went and opened the door and headed out to check on them. Back inside, he requested the Hokey Pokey and they did that. We then played the May and a tree game, where a tree falls over and hurts her. She was then being sleepy. I turned on Dan Bern’s 2 Feet Tall, an album of children’s songs, and August stood and watched it play and hummed and sang along to some of the songs (“Cabin in the Snow” is the one that really caught his attention). We added a couple to his playlist, and he didn’t want to stop listening to go on our walk.
But we got him out of the house and over to Tiv Taam. He was acting sleepy and impatient though, so we made it a pretty quick shopping trip. Came back and they tried for sleep, but he came back down. I made peach pancakes as lunch/second breakfast. While I did that, Carly made a number line and he helped. Think they also played with blueberries. We ate pancakes, then they tried for a nap again, but surprisingly he didn’t fall asleep. Came back down and he and I read Five Minutes Peace, then Little Critters Fall Festival (new book we got on iBooks) twice. Back up again and he slept from 1:10 to 2:50. I went and rested on his bed and fell asleep for a few minutes. Carly woke him up and he wasn’t to happy about it.
I went downstairs and finished reading Homegoing while they nursed and he watched Peg + Cat. Carly was working on hanging up her tree (the one she had painted for him before he was born) in the landing/play area and also hung up parts of her balloon/goose painting in the office.
They came down and he was still cranky. She got apple and peanut butter for him. He wanted to see her get the peanut butter out of the container. I asked if there were still zookeepers in there and he said no. But that there were pipes mixed in. He explained that the zookeepers had disappeared in black smoke from someone cooking. He sat, making yummy noises the whole time he ate.
We went outside and planted his flower seeds and he watered them and the weeds that we discovered starting to grow by the water faucet. He’s been asking how to spell words, and was asking “How do you spell read? Picking? Arctic? iPad? Zero?”
Back inside we finished 13-Story Treehouse and started again at the beginning.
Then, a major life moment: breakfast for all three meals. Having cooked eggs for breakfast and pancakes for lunch, Carly actually suggested French toast for dinner. Actually, this was apparently something she and August had discussed at some point, the idea being to use pita instead of regular bread. Since it wouldn’t be ‘French’ toast anymore, Carly had asked what it should be called, and August had reportedly said “Dead Sea Toast”. Or “Red Sea Toast”. I was rather confused by the whole thing. But now he was calling it “Bread Sea Toast” and so that is what stuck. And it is nice and punny.
Anyway, they had the idea and I implemented it. Just a normal egg/milk/vanilla/cinnamon mixture, but the I cut up the pita into quarters, got the mixture inside as well, and stuffed it with banana, then served it with banana on top. It turned out surprisingly well, although Carly liked it more than August, who declared he liked French toast better.
He played Dragonbox Big Numbers and I impressed Carly with my punning skills. He then remembered The Owl and the Pussycat from Peg + Cat so we read the book version. He was excited to find that we actually owned a version of it, and told Carly about it later. We looked up ‘runcible spoon’ and found out that Lear made it up.
We got out for a walk at 6:15. We took Carly down to the streets south of us that she hadn’t been on. He pointed out the big Israeli flag. A nice evening walk in the neighborhood and we saw Holly near the beginning. We were back a little before 7.
At home we read books: Suddenly, Happy Birthday, Peppa Pig Christmas, and all of Frog and Toad Are Friends. It was time for a shower, and he lay on the floor and told me”I’m playing that game…avoiding picking up game…” And then proceeded to try to wriggle out of my hands when I tried to pick him up.
Did get him upstairs and he had his shower, then played on the bed for awhile: first with Carly too, then him and me while Carly went downstairs. Brushed his teeth, then played more of the germs, etc. game. Went downstairs by 8:15, then he was being a machine inspired by the ice cream robot in 26-Story Treehouse: “I’m a tutti frutti, bubble gum, winding road, rocket road, flying monkey, falling coconut….dispensing machine.”
Ate some wheat thins, then he and Carly added to the number line and used it. Went upstairs and he was asleep about 9.