He talked in his sleep again. Something about “millions”.
He came down at 7:15. Very quiet and calm. Sat at the bottom of the stairs for a minute, then came and curled up on the couch. We watched two episodes of Ask the StoryBots and ate the last of the banana bread. It started raining and got harder and harder and we watched together. He watched on his own, and declared “Clouds peeing.” We went upstairs and he helped put the stickers on all of the stars and planets. He had been taking the stickers off the paper on his own, but then got frustrated after a couple gave him troubles. It rained hard again so we watched from his bedroom window. He playe the Space app while I stuck them up. When he looked at Titan he said “Beautiful. That moon is beautiful.” Then, when I first closed the blinds and turned off all the lights he looked up and said “Whoa!…Look at it…So beautiful.”
We went downstairs and played some mandolin. I went upstairs and got a pick, and when I came down he was strumming it. He said “I was making music while you were gone.” He turned to acting out really hot steam molecules “And then we drop down into the ocean and burn it into steam.” Then was acting out regular water molecules evaporating and then coming back as rain, like in the Ask the Storybots episode.
We went outside and checked on everything as the rain had stopped. Didn’t need to water plants and August kept commenting on that. I spilled the water out of the bowl on the table and he said “The table’s peeing.”
Back in on the floor he played with the Kaleidoscope. He recited Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat when he saw the book, so we read it. Back to the kaleidoscope, he said “Next time I want the little one with colors.” He’s referring to one of the short kaleidoscopes that had beads in it (the one he got doesn’t have any). He then said “Big one for me, little one for baby.” I asked “Whose our baby‽” He replied “Me”.
Played lots of sick baby squirrel. He invented a machine that shocked germs. He asked about a StoryBots app, so we watched some of the free videos (the numbers ones) then played with the little dancing game, where you can take a photo of yourself, then have the little StoryBot version of you dance.
He switched to Toca Blocks as we went upstairs so I could take a shower: “Then I’m gonna make the underwater sea…with jellyfish…whoa, really blue sea.” I took a shower, then we went downstairs and did more mandolin. At some point he dropped the pick inside and I showed him how to get it out. We read some Silverstein, took care of sick animals, etc. then got out some quiche for lunch and made sweet potato fries. He only ate quiche reluctantly, in a one bite of quiche, one french fry sort of deal. Although he kept trying to slip a second french fry.
We were going to do some Hebrew on paper, but he spotted the Chordana Play app on my iPad, where you try to play the piano notes along to the music, and we played that for quite awhile. There are no points or feedback, so August just had fun with it, choosing song after song. He would try to do the right hand and I’d do the left. We did switch to Hebrew and markers for awhile, but he was being rough with the markers. Making a marker blunt upset him, but then he took the next one and simply slammed it on the paper, forcing the tip back inside. I was able to fix it, but he was done with markers then.
Outside to scrape sap with stick. The tip of his long stick broke off, so then he broke the whole stick. We got another one (there’s a whole bundle of them). We took the tree things over across the street and dumped them out in the yard waste/garbage area. He had fun pushing them into the hole, but they were kind of wet so he wiped his hands on me, simultaneously asking “Do you mind?”
Back in the yard I ended up giving him a piggy back ride around the yard – something we haven’t really done. Finally, we got ready to go. We got snacks ready and took recycling with us and rode his orange bike up to the cages. Did recycling together, then started on a walk at 2:50. He requested a Zinnie walk, so we started with that until I realized he was taking us around the block to go home. So I suggested we head up towards town and go to the park on Ha-Hadarim Street that he wanted to play at yesterday. He agreed, so we headed up there.
We got to the park, and he hopped off and told another boy he wanted to look through the round window thing in the ship area. Luckily, the other boy was moving along. Went and played on the Jeep thing, which he pretended was an airplane, and that the battery was running out again. Then we went on the “spinner merry-go-round thing”. From there we spent a lot of time playing on the snakes and ladders board on the ground of the playground. He then sort of taught me the chasing game that he played with Carly, first with me chasing him around as he ran from base (100) around a pole, etc. then back to base. Then he chased me. He then headed to the swing and went on that for a few minutes until it started raining. Rained medium-hard for a couple minutes then stopped.
We then walked up to the grocery store and got cream cheese and eggs and he spotted the puddings. Haven’t gotten one there since the first couple weeks. I let him choose one.
On the way home we sang “Sentimental Wars” and when I asked what other song he wanted to sing he requested the OMD “Electricity”, so we listened to it on my phone. Along the way he ate more apple and a Larabar.
We were home at 4:25. I had suggested he do TodoMath, which he hasn’t done in quite some time, and he totally got into it, doing actual math and figuring things out. I was trying to do some dishes, but had to keep helping and coming over when he wanted me to see something. I asked a few times if he needed to use the bathroom, but he said he was just dancing to the music in the app. Eventually he admitted needed to go. He declared what he was doing a pee dance, then showed me the difference between that and his germ dance, then also made up a machine dance.
Carly got home and they did some TodoMath and nursed, then he switched to the Chordana app again. Carly got him some food – sweet mashed potatoes on one side and fried rice on the other, but he didn’t eat much, even though he’d wanted the potatoes for lunch but I couldn’t find them. He showed off all his dances for Carly, and added some new ones – at some point he added a nursing dance.
We all went outside for a long time. Carly and I had tea out there while he played with his sticks, etc. Carly was trying to remember the Hebrew numbers and he helped her out. He knows 1 to 10 quite well and is working on the teens. He came inside because he wanted to do more Hebrew letters. Did that for a couple minutes, then remembered the Hangeul app he used to use and switched to that. Kind of funny to see that again.
Read a little Shel Silverstein and he ate a little dinner. He found the pudding in the fridge at some point but couldn’t have it since he hadn’t really eaten dinner. Carly took him up for a shower, but at first he tried insisting on me doing it, which is a change. He said because I would let him get the bed wet – we’ve been joking that Carly doesn’t want him to. But he was fine with Carly once they got up. They read some Bob Books, then we went in and showed her the stars. Had them lay down and I turned off the lights.
They tried for sleep, but he came down at 7:50. As he came down he told me “Dada. I’m gonna wake up at 11:17.” We finished reading Every Thing On It, then went back up with Carly and was asleep before 8:40.