He was up bright and early at 6:10. We played more Chordana and tried the Dust Buster app for learning piano again, but he wasn’t a fan of it. I mentioned reading some poems as we read some Silverstein and he asked what poems were. In the process I mentioned rhyming and he asked what rhyming words were. That reminded me of the Winnie the Pooh ABC episode that we had watched at one point, but then disappeared from YouTube. I then meant to buy it on DVD this summer (not available through iTunes, etc.) but didn’t, but it is now back on YouTube. So August watched that and started to watch the Shapes and Sizes one while I made French toast.
We ate French toast, then were robots for a long, long time, Starting with him making a little secret spot on the couch that became our private charming station: “Its a secret place cuz it’s just for these robots.” “That’s why it’s secret cuz the robots don’t want the power to be taken.” Eventually he had bad robots trying to attack us and we were destroying them. He was talking abou how the metal from the robots we destroy goes through a machine to break it down: “The metal gets turned into dirt to grow robot trees.” “The ones that aren’t made out of paper are bad robots and the ones made out of paper are good robots. We’re destroying the ones not made out of paper because they’re bad ones!” “Come on! Let’s both destroy robots!”
We paused a couple times to read Robot Kipper stories. That is, I read them in a robot voice and added ‘Robot’ before every mention of his name. After Robot Kipper had had a strange dream of climbing a mountain of cake, I asked if August ever had strange dreams. He said yes: “Climbing a mountain of cherries and candles.”
We built a bigger secret robot place, using two dining table chairs and his sheet from his bed. He also did more dances today: game dance, sleeping dance, reading dance…there were others.
Eventually he asked “Can I play Star Wars?” He repeated it several times as I was confused. How does he know about Star Wars? “I mean Star Walk…Star Walk, not Star Wars.” He played with Star Walk while I prepared to make apple bread. Chopping apples takes some time. Eventually I was ready and had him come over and help make it. A bit messy again. When we were done there was extra apple bits, and he stood at the counter, eating them and making yummy noises. Until he bit his tongue. Hewent and curled on the couch, but was okay. He joked about there being more than one of him: “Two of me…More of Zinnie than one.” But I’m not sure what he was doing or why.
I then made pizzas – one with olives and one with sweet potato. We ate those for lunch and I turned on the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Ninth. He watched all of it, humming along much of the time. Been too long since we’ve watched/listened to orchestras.
We went upstairs so I could finally take a shower. Hebrew, then watched Peg + Cat. We went downstairs then I went up. He followed, joking that I’d gone down, not up: “This is down, not up…Down, farther than that…farther than the earth has ever been.” He also made a going home dance: “The going home dance for us was…”
We ate some apple bread. It tastes really good, but in adjusting the cooking times and temps to being a bread and not muffins, and for our oven, which seems hot, it didn’t cook through well. So while I put it back in to bake longer we continued with the robot game. He requested the Silverstein poem about a guy whose stomach literally talks to him, quoting the poem: “No more ice cream and sauerkraut!”
We got outside for a few minutes in the yard, then finally left on a little adventure at 2:40. We walked over past the mall and to the park in the middle of Bnei Dror, about 5 minutes to the east. As we walked he pointed to a huge plant and asked”Is that bougainvillea?” It was.
We got to the park and he started with the merry go round
– roll slide. He turned us around on that, then wandered to different toys. He was excited to find a rolly slide. There was one in Stroudsburg and before that I remember a play area in Korea. But they are far between. He went down that once, then he went down the regular slide while I went down the rolly slide. I rested at the bottom of the regular slide, but instead of sliding down on me he attacked me as germs. After awhile we switched places and I wasthe germs attacking a lizard.
We went over and looked at their free library for a few minutes. Almost all Hebrew. Some travel books (someone had gone to Madrid and Barcelona and west England) and a David Eddings book in Hebrew. A couple of English cookbooks, but no kids books. We saw a flock of birds that included a bunch of the green parakeets, then went and played tic tac toe on the turning things on the playground.
We finally headed out, first walking down to the east and looking at the little store down there that has household stuff, then looking at a sculpture and stuff. We then headed back through the park and stopped to fill his water bottle before heading home.
We got home at 4:45. Carly was home, but August first went to pull weeds along the side of the house, saying he wanted to plant his carrots there. We went in and Carly showed him the robot pajamas that Cherie had sent him. He walked on them to destroy the robot. He was upset when Carly got food for herself. He was hitting her and I had to take him for a timeout. They nursed and he was falling asleep. Got him to watch Ask the Storybots to wake back up.
Carly went over to the mall to do some grocery shopping and get diapers for some fundraising sort of thing at school. August and I went outside to move his tomato plants from the pot to spots along the fence. Planted three out there and left two in the pot. Don’t know how any of them will do though as the roots were hard to separate. While digging we found a two liter plastic bottle buried in there and he helped with watering the papayas.
Carly took him inside as I finished that so he could have some dinner. He had some sweet potatoes and fried rice, I think. She then took him up for his shower. In bed, we practiced Hebrew numbers together. He told Carly what 11 is. He was asleep about 7:30.
Photos. A big burrow:
Slide selfie:
Pajamas from Oma and Opa:
