Sometime around 6 August spoke up very clearly in is sleep:
“That’s a monkey… There’s a lake with magic water right there.” Although Carly said she thought it was about a magic tree. I thought water, and it reminded me of the Ask the Storybots episode where the water evaporates and becomes rain. He came down at 7. Nursed and cuddled with Carly. About 7:20 he asked “Can I do something fun?” I said “No having fun on Saturdays.” To which he said “Mama stays home…That’s kinda fun.” I liked the inclusion of ‘kinda’.
We let him watch Storybots but he made deal with Carly – episode and banana bread on couch, book, vacuuming. They shook hands and said “Deal”. He watched the Why do I have to brush my teeth? episode. He and I then read Mr. Brown’s Fantastic Hat, then he was bacteria attacking my teeth and he was doing a germ dance each time. We then read Peach and Blue. I took off his clothes and he said he wanted to stay naked as bacteria don’t wear clothes. He likes to walk circles in the kitchen and did some circles. He was walking circles around me yesterday when trying to tell me something.
We let him watch another Storybots and I took a shower. When I came down he was really upset: the deal had been that they’d go do recycling after the show, but now he didn’t want to go. I caught up and went with them, and he calmed down once we were at the cages and he helped do all of the recycling. On the way back he started walking towards the pathway back so we went that direction. Carly and I watched a hoopoe in a tree and he was pulling weeds. He kept pulling weeds as we headed home and were home at 11:10.
Inside for a bit, then went outside at 11:40. Pulled weeds in our yard, played with the bamboo sticks, and I brushed his hair, much to his chagrin. We left ten minutes later, headed to Tiv Taam at the mall. He was upset about not pulling weeds in middle of parking lot but settled for weeds by the Aroma coffee shop. Carly went on ahead to start shopping. We caught up and helped with shopping. Sort of. August saw kids riding in the actual basket of the carts and wanted to try it and got upset and Carly took him outside for a bit.
We finished up and came home about 12:30. I read some Shel Silverstein, which he was opposed to at first, but then got into. He then went and played with the blueberries by himself for several minutes. At one point he said “I’m M cells capturing germs.” He then wanted to play the germ game with me. Carly then made popcorn and zaater and we sat on the couch and ate it. She said it made her want to watch a movie, so I pulled up Blue Planet and we watched the deep sea episode. August was intrigued by every animal they introduced, asking “What’s that? What’s that? What’s that?” At one point, as he was climbing on Carly, he said “I’m a Diana fish”. He wouldn’t tell us where he got that one, but he said it several times.
Carly made banana milk. He asked”Can we play the stealing honey game?” I asked how that had started (he puts a spoon in the stream of honey and gets some – he told me about it a few days ago). Carly wasn’t sure, but he said “When we made the honey water for the flowers.”
Carly Skyped with Cherie, and I had brought down the mandolin. August helped me tune it and we played around a bit and he played Dragonbox Big Numbers. Carly then made stirfry for dinner. He was then a sardine: “I’m a sardine that’s been taken out of the water.” And he was calling Carly ‘Mama sardine’: “Nurse, mama sardine.”
We left at 5:45 for a walk. We walked to pine tree park. When he wanted to play there he said “Say okay. Say okay mama.” He was really doing the “Say okay” thing a lot today. He’s done it with me regularly for a few weeks, but it was in overdrive today. I helped him do the barrel walking thing and we discussed RPMs. He played in the sand for awhile. A couple dogs came along with an owner and he called “Dont hurt me!” They were quiet and left him alone and kept going, and August said a couple more things about not wanting to see dogs and not liking them.
We were home before 7. When I went to take him up for a shower he really started screaming. In the bathroom he went and huddled in the corner of the shower farthest from the water. So we skipped his hair. He was so upset when he was done that he didn’t go and get the bed wet; he just wanted to go downstairs to mama. They read 13-Story Treehouse together. He has the first few pages pretty much memorized and was able to ‘read’ much of it. He then switched to a nonsense language and kept ‘reading’ and turning pages. She went to take a shower and he kept doing it with me.
We then played the germs on my teeth game, then put on his pajamas. He wanted to be covered all over (I had gotten a long sleeve shirt), so I suggested a balaclava for his head. He didn’t know what that was so I looked up photos. Took him up for bed and he got to the bathroom first and asked “So I can have 2000 strawberries now?” The idea that the winner to the bathroom gets strawberries as an award is one he made up today.
They tried for sleep. He was upset when she stopped nursing: “Help me, mama!” They tried again and I thought he was asleep, but at 8:15 Carly asked to switch and told me to bring a book. He and I read Fall Festival then Pablo and His Chair. He was hungry, so we went down and I sliced apple for him. We went up and he ate that and we worked on our Hebrew numbers. We are working on 11 to 100 now. We then read Pablo and His Chair again. He wanted water, but first watched the clock click to 9:00. Carly and I then switched and she read some BFG to him after he went to the bathroom.
They were quiet for awhile, then he was really upset when he couldn’t get to sleep: “Can you make me better? This nursing makes me better! Make me better mama!” They were nursing again at 9:50 and he was finally asleep.