They got up at 6, I was up at 6:15. He was doing some tracing on his iPad and we all moved downstairs. August didn’t want to let Carly get ready for work though. Eventually she was able to do so and they nursed and he started watching Wanda and the Alien. When she left for work she kissed him goodbye, but when I told him to say “Love you mama!” he got anxious and tried to follow her out the door. Had to hold him back but it only took him a minute to calm down and come back to Wanda and the Alien. We watched a couple episodes, then got some zucchini bread and played some Sesame Street games – trying to high five with our eyes closed, invisible presents, and more of the magic banana.
We spent some time looking at the Collins World Atlas. I was feeling pretty well except that every few minutes my stomach would feel tied up in knots. So when he wanted to play Metamorphabet I let him do that and I laid down for awhile. He then watched two episodes of Ask the Storybots. He needed to go to the bathroom and said “2 plus 2 equals 4” when he saw the rolls of toilet paper on the back of the toilet. He was also counting by 5s on his own up to 30.
Back on the couch he played with the Space app and acted it out being a space probe: “You’re the people working on the photos of the planet that the machine sent.”
We went upstairs and in Toca Builders (Minecraft for 3-year olds) there is a landscape of trees. August decided we should turn them all turquoise with the cannon bot. We did that for quite awhile, then I took a shower.
Back downstairs he was doing a variety of dances and being silly – there was a math dance and a game dance. He was then a machine: “I’m a machine that finds things on the moon.” I would act out being an astronaut on the moon and drop something (kaleidoscope or telescope or machine, etc.) and then realize I was missing it when I got back to earth. The machine would then retrieve it super fast.
On the couch he sat on me and had me play sixteenth notes, etc. on his back and head. I spotted the scrape on his nuckle from yesterday that he wouldn’t let us wash or look at. He had received it when digging in the dirt at the playground, but didn’t say much about it at the time. Although in photos of him playing in the water after that he was holding his hand behind his back. Then, he wouldn’t let Carly wash it in the shower, or show it to us on the bed. He said it was better, but wouldn’t really let me look at it.
He was then a whale and asked what whales it. In that discussion I brought up ‘krill’ and realized he didn’t know what krill was. So we watched videos of krill and of whales eating krill.
We discussed how sick I was. He asked “Because you got in the zoo when it was closed?” He was remembering the bird flu and how the zoos were closed in Korea. I don’t know how he decided I had snuck into a zoo though and that is what made me sick.
Anyway, we were discussing bird flu, and he then asked how the zookeepers take care of the animals if the zoos are closed. I explained they could go in, and they probably had protective gear, etc. Which then led me to mentioning nurses, and Glecy when she was an Ebola nurse. So I wanted to show him what Glecy would have dressed like, so I Googled ‘Ebola nurse uniform’. Luckily, I previewed the images before letting him see, although not for the reason I expected. Several of the top photos were for ‘Sexy Ebola Nurse’ outfits. I didn’t know whether to be horrified or shocked or amused.
Anyway, from that we went and did art. He drew a robot that had a leaking eye so it got another eye from a friend. And we did some math. Then, as we were getting ready to go I found a container of Tic Tacs in the bottom of my backpack and let him have a couple. He swallowed the second one though and was upset about that and that I wouldn’t let him have another one. Upset, he tried to go out the kitchen door but then hit his foot with the door, making things worse. Finally, we left at 3:15.
He got the last Tic Tac, then was proud of himself for making it last until we were on the bridge across the highway. I then realized I had forgotten the snack bag, but he was okay with just Cheerios for the moment.
At the mall he played in the indoor play area and watched some remodeling going on at a restaurant next to it. He did a ‘riding on the bike’ dance and asked me to translate some words on a sign. We then went to the pharmacy and got a couple of medicines, then headed to Tiv Taam and did our grocery shopping. Not a basket in sight in the store and I didn’t have a coin. So I got a reusable grocery bag and used that as our basket. The store was pretty empty and August spent part of the time riding along on his bike.
After Tiv Taam we went to the health food store. At first he didn’t think there were any samples and started to walk out of the store. I said we were actually looking at the containers of snacks to buy something. He asked if we had to pay and I said yes. He didn’t like the idea and kept walking. I got him back to the store and we actually found some bars with raisins and stuff in them that were quite good. We ate a couple on the way home.
We headed home and took a longer route home. We crossed back over the bridge then headed south to the highway-turned trail and circled home from the south. We were here at 4:50. Carly was already home. They played outside and I rested upstairs. I came down and they went across the street and dumped out the tree things, then went for a walk around two blocks. They were back after 6:30. Had some pasta for dinner, then Carly gave him a shower and he was asleep by 7:30.
At some point he had asked Carly how we could eat food in the winter in Korea. Carly told him both about greenhouses and how we get food from other countries. So he then asked how we get food from other countries.
Finding machine:
Watching the remodeling;
Swimming. Or flting. Bonus of a kid doing a headstand out of his hair:
The machine:
