He came down at 6:40. Carly nursed him, then he wanted to play something with her on the iPad. He had to to with her when she went to the bathroom then went to wash her hands. He opened Namoo and said “You know what the sun does? It helps with photosynthesis.”
She headed to work and we kept trying to figure out the whole amino acid process. We understood how ribosomes and the gogli apparatus work, but not exactly where the amino acids come from. We went to Google, where we learned about nitrates and healthy bacteria in the roots, but then it just said that the plant concerts it to 20 amino acids. Might have to ask biology people for help. https://www.hunker.com/13428186/how-do-plants-get-protein
He wanted some dried Cheerios and then asked “Is this enough for two episodes?” of Ask the Storybots. I didn’t know he had a per-episode amount that he needed. He watched the rain episode. We read some Hilo, but he was asking what craters are so we switched to the Space app and did meteorite impacts on mercury. He asked “How do you spell ‘I want to go to the solar system’?” Then we spent a lot of time on the distance thing, where you scroll to see how far away from the sun things are. You can keep scrolling past Neptune to Pluto and the other dwarf planets, all the way out to Voyager 1. Did that in AUs and kilometers a couple times, then was play acting making space probes and baby squirrel and nest.
My stomach had been feeling bad this morning, but I thought maybe I just ate too much dairy yesterday. But now I realized I was cold and wanted a blanket. I took my temperature and it was at the high end of my normal. It would keep getting higher though, and I’d get achy, etc.
We talked about making bread, and he wants to make regular bread. We don’t have yeast though and discussed what yeast is. In Human Body we did the bones puzzle a couple times and then in the hearing section he was recording himself singing and listening to himself. During the playback he would dance and sing along to his own singing. Lasted quite awhile.
He watched one Peg + Cat and I started zucchini bread. He helped finish and mix it. I needed to sit down and rest after that and said I was definitely a little sick. He exclaimed “But I love you!” Very sweet. And then he hit me, as clearly it was my fault I was getting sick.
He pulled up the Sesame Street Play app and we played Floor Monsters from that. I got a basket full of his clean clothes and we made monsters on the ground. I needed to rest after that and he watched/played Lucy and Pogo. He also did Arabic letters and tracing; them worked on Hebrew letters and was copying all the pronunciation examples for each letter/vowel combination.
We went outside when we heard a chainsaw. There was a crew trimming bushes in the back walkway. Back inside we played more Sesame Street games: a tapping game where you tap on their back with a different number of fingers and they guess how many fingers you are using – this proved too ticklish for him, even when I moved it to his head, then a ‘Knock it Off’ game where I balanced a shoe on my hand and he tried to knock it off. Looking at his monsters from earlier on the ground he said”They don’t have a head so they’re actually a ghost.” He then came up with his own game: “Here’s the game: Some grownup has to build a monster, then a kid has to destroy the monster.”
But then the best game: We put objects on the table and he closed his eyes and I would replace one with a banana and he would guess which was missing. A tough game for him, particularly as he just wanted to skip to looking behind my back to see what was there.
I got the zucchini breads out and he hid things for me a couple times. The first time he had it in his hand. Then it took a few minutes while I struggled with the zucchini breads. He told me “I hid my shoe really well!” He was more successful with not giving it away after that.
We then ate some zucchini bread. He said “This makes me not want to eat the rest of my pancake.” Which was a measure of how he both really liked the bread and how he was getting tired of chocolate pancakes after a few days.
We then did more of the hiding game, and eventually it evolved to no guessing at all – one of us would hide objects between a couple pillows, then the other person would find them. He giggled a ton at this and thought it was great. We then ate our magic banana and I mentioned that bananas always reminded me of him first eating bananas, and I tried to describe the pacifier sort of thing that we used to feed him banana. He didn’t know what I was talking about so I found the photos and videos of when he was about 7 months old (October 7, 2014) and we walked the length of the stream in downtown Seoul and at the park at the end he ate banana from the pacifier thing. We watched that video, and also one of him bonking me on the head with a bottle and laughing like crazy – which made me realize he was very much himself even back then.
He then invented another game: “This game is I’m gonna go behind you and make a noise and you guess what I be.” First he was a baby squirrel, then other animals. Although most of his animals sound pretty similar, unless it was a bird. At some point we discussed sharks and wondered if baby sharks have teeth. He asked “Could you look it up?” We learned that not only are they born with a full set, but they have already lost baby shark teeth while in the womb.
We headed upstairs and on his bed took care of baby millipede, etc. He watched Wanda and the Alien while I showered. Out on the landing we then read some Bob Books: VW Book, Snow, Guessing Machine. After the VW book he was a walrus and looked up how big they are; we learned a walrus could weigh more than 4400lbs. He wanted me to take care of the baby walrus. He walked in circles as he explained some machine that would tell me what was wrong with it: “It it’s a blue dot it’s bone marrow, if it’s red…if it’s green…If it’s brown it’s nervous system…”
He played Metamorphabet and I rested. Then downstairs I was teaching him how to run on his toes. He kept saying he was slower that way, and I said he just needed to practice. He was then being crazy and said “The running machine broke down.” But then he hit himself on the coffee table and said “I bonked me” Instead of getting upset though he started saying “Im glass now”.
We left for a walk at 3:30. We walked up to the Citrus Garden park, the small park on the left as we go up to town. We’ve never actually played there as there is a bigger park on the right just before it. We played around though and he started throwing away garbage he found on the ground. The fun stopped when he was walking and fell on his knees and scraped one a bit. He then said he needed to go to the bathroom. He gave a thumbs up when I asked if he needed to go quickly, so we decided to go to the bathroom up in town.
From there we walked to the corner of Vatikim, where Carly had waited for us on a bench the other day. We sat and had a snack and he wanted to wait to see if Carly would come by. He’s been asking how you spell a lot of words, and he randomly asked “How do you spell ‘dance party’?” He started yelling at me about something though so we left at 4:40.
We walked down Vatikim and found that the small park there (Tal Garden) is closed. August assured me it was okay: “It’s okay if that park’s closed. I meant the other park by home…so it’s okay.” We then saw Celeste walking Nellie and talked to her for a moment before getting to our park at 4:50. At the park he played with the exercise equipment and was reciting “Force, drag, weight, and lift!” He ran away when a little kid tried to talk to him, then we played with the drinking fountain.
We headed home at 5:10 and stayed outside. He picked at the sap and I lay on the grass. Carly was home at 5:20. He told her about the closed and close park, which led to confusion as I
think he was using both ‘closed’ and ‘close’. They nursed and he played GroForest and Carly got him noodles. I went and lay down in August’s room.
I got up at 7 and found them writing a list of President August’s decrees: “Don’t ruin books if you want to read them more…Don’t ruin people’s houses when they still want them…Dont and touch outlets…Dont make people go to the doctor if they don’t want to go to the doctor.” There were 20 in all. Carly took him up for a shower and I did dishes. Said goodnight about 7:30 and he was asleep a little after that.
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