He got up at 6:05. I was up a half hour later. When he started to play around Carly took him upstairs. They were working on puzzles – the Old MacDonald puzzle and the Asia puzzle. I went up in time to help him follow the words on the Old MacDonald puzzle as he pushed the button on it a few times and help him with cleanup, and we were back down just before 8
Carly made oatmeal for him and he watched French fries episode of Ask the StoryBots. We then played with Duplos. He played with his play structure and also wanted to count by 4s so we did that. He got up and ate his oatmeal, then watched the Lucy and Pogo app. I did dishes and Carly was upstairs. We read some Hilo. Now past 9, he refused to go to the bathroom with me. Finally Carly took over and he went to the bathroom – first time since before he went to bed.
I took a shower, then Carly made chocolate pancakes. He asked to play Namoo to learn about roots. Then he was baby birds, and said it was winter so we migrated to the equator (over where the Duplos are). He practiced counting by 4s and he made a big tower. It was then summer again (according to him) and we migrated back to the nest on the couch, which he then had me destroying as a digger.
We went outside where we watered and he ate a chocolate pancake. Carly was resting in on the couch. August went and checked on her once and came back out to nicely let her rest. He then went in with her. She was going to go upstairs and take a nap but he insisted on going with her. He came back down at 11:21 (telling me the time) and she got a little nap.
He wanted to watch Peg+Cat, so we shook on a deal that he could watch an episode, then go for a walk. Carly came down at 11:50. We were talking about what we should get at the grocery store, and I asked August what we should have for lunches this week. He gave me a whole list of ideas: “Sandwiches and…sausages and pickles…and noodles and pizza and chicken and cow and milk and syrup…” He got upset when Carly tried going to he bathroom. They ended up going upstairs and nursing. I did dishes and read. They came back down at 12:35.
We got going to Tiv Taam. He rode in the cart, which was okay for awhile. He didn’t like Carly stopping though. Right as we finished it got too much and Carly took him outside and I went to pay. I realized my debit card was missing and had to run out to get Carly’s. On the way home August spotted a lizard near the path.
We were home a little after 2. They went out and did more painting for their art project while I put groceries away and looked for my card, with no luck. Perhaps I left it at the grocery store yesterday.
I was sitting on the couch and August came in and told me to go to sleep. So I pretended to sleep. I thought he was going to wake me up, but he didn’t come back. Several minutes later he did, and said “Dada, I told you to go to sleep!” Then they did play the waking me up game.
All day he was singing a couple lines from the StoryBots song “Hooray, for A”, which I had played right before we left for Tiv Taam. We were listening to more of the letter songs later in the day and finding them funny.
We played with Duplos. He started making a big rectangle on the big green base piece. He was using only the small square pieces and counting them as he went – got up to 60-something. We then added a couple layers to it, making an enclosure. They nursed, then were birds. He was asking her to get birds of different colors and interesting tastes: “Mama, can you find 30 worms that are red and taste like purple?”
He went on a walk with me at 4. We first did recycling, as we had a nice full bag. Then by the playground he spent some time killing weeds. I went on the big round swing and he was a machine sort of singing the “Sentimental Wars” song to wake me up. He then made a game of hopping from white square to white square and said “The longer I do this the more mangos I get – for mama!” We were robots, and he decided our charging station was on the teeter totter thing. Finally, we spent some time playing and exercising over on the exercise equipment before heading home.
We were home just after 5. He ate a bunch of mushrooms and asked her “How do you pick them up without burning your hand?” He would eat a couple, then ask for more in a math problem, like “I want 2 times 2 pieces.” He then ate some of the spaghetti when it was ready, and we listened to the StoryBots ABC songs.
We were then being robots and and he said he had infinite batteries and I asked where he stored all those batteries and he said they were inside a computer and pointed to his storage unit in his chest – he’s getting to Rick and Morty levels of sci-fi there.
I made a nest for him, then I went and ate. He and Carly then went for a walk down by the fields to the southwest. The plants were small and low to the ground so they decided they might be strawberries. While they were gone I finished reading Turtles All the Way Down, the new John Green novel. Actually, I had two paragraphs left when they came in at 6:20. So close.
He had me counting by 7s and 36s and 105s before I could sneak a look and finish the last couple paragraphs. They painted with the dot paints and I did dishes. Carly took him up and gave him a shower and washed his hair. I rinsed him off. I read him some poems from Something BIG Has Been Here by Jack Preutsky which sort of was distracting him from the fact that Carly had gone downstairs for a couple things. He was really ready to go to sleep. He really liked Denson Dumm (about a boy who planted lightbulbs in his hair) and We’re Fearless Flying Hotdogs and had to tell Carly about them. He was asleep about 7:30.