He was crowding me and pushing me with his feet during night. Then, I woke up enough to see him lying on his back with his left hand straight up in the air. He then dove over to his right, onto his stomach and into his usual sleeping position. He was itching at his ankle a lot during the night, and in the morning when I asked him about it it turns out he has three or four red spots on his leg from insect bites.
He got up with me at 6:45. Carly was already up. Down on the couch he asked how we could help Josephine if she wasn’t here. They went upstairs together for awhile, then he came downstairs to play games with me. He didn’t like my game, which involved throwing the friends (stuffed animals) at each other. He wanted an iPad game instead. We tried Astro Cat, a new game about the solar system that looked promising, but it was too advanced. He won the iPad from me and ended up playing Sarah and Duck Have a Picnic while I got up to clean the kitchen and get coffee. Carly was upstairs vacuuming.
Carly came down and they ate outside. He had Cheerios. I helped him water. Carly got sap on her hand. He and I moved the interesting week away from the wall and replanted it in the center of the planter so it could grow better. Back inside it was upstairs with Carly again. Then back downstairs to learn about lava with me while Carly did some work. He played Earth and I found an app called Earth: A Primer. We played that and really liked it – a lot to learn. He particularly liked ‘magma plumes’. We had pita and hummus to eat (well, I had hummus).
I went upstairs and took a shower. Downstairs Carly and I discussed what to eat for the week. Carly suggested tomato bisque and he said “Tomato bisque‽” He got upset when Carly got up to get food to eat. I had to take him upstairs. So sad. “Only nursing will help…Can we nurse? Just a little?…Please help…” Carly: “Let’s go upstairs.” Him: “To nurse?” Carly took him up and distracted him with toys.
Downstairs she left to head to the mall to start the shopping and August and I were going to follow. After she left though he calmed down and ate most of the apple that I had sliced for a snack. He even started eating his pasta, which he had refused, but the iPad froze and put an end to that as well.
We left at 1:15. We talked about going to Tiv Taam, which first he said was at the mall, but then he said he wanted to go to the Ikea one and go to Ikea: “To buy glass…you know, to hold liquid.” We met Carly on the other side of the bridge and walked back together. We dropped off the groceries and the bike and August and I took recycling and walked up to the cages. Took awhile doing that then we stopped in the park for another ten minutes or more to play with the drinking fountain, seeing how big we could get the pools.
We were hone after 2. Carly was doing some cooking. August had been taking about doing more Earth: A Primer when we got home so we did. He joked “You can’t see me!” We pretended we couldn’t see him and he thought it was hilarious. Finally he said “You can see me!” and we could see him again. We did drawing and spelling words on paper. He just wanted the pink/purple color. He drew a man-eating refrigerator. Then the lava burning things game: “Can you be a huge pile of carpets that goes out to Neptune?” We were then being magma plumes, which was sort of an interpretive dance.
Carly had been cooking nutty noodles and when they were done he ate a ton of them. I had to get him more twice. He then wanted milk and I gave him a cup on the floor with a straw. He spilled it, luckily just on the kitchen floor. Frustrated, he hit the cup across the floor. He did a good job helping me clean it up though and throwing away the paper towels. But then decided he could dry his feet on everything.
He was then a gold fish and the gold fish was having all sorts of adventures, being taken out of a tank, being captured, being placed in a desert, caught by a fisherman, being returned to a stream, etc. Then he was a squirrel: “Its winters so I’m hibernating.” We all went for a walk, heading up into town, very similar to the walk that August and I took on Friday. On the way back he wanted to pedal own his own, particularly down a little hill. I let him do that and he found it exciting. We stopped at Tal Garden, the park that had been closed while they painted some of the toys, and played there. Carly went on the swing and he did the motorcycle thing. He then got on the merry-go-round with me and really wanted Carly to get on as well, telling her he had a spot for her. She had no desire to go on though and we talked about motion sickness. So he asked her “Are you going to stay on there? You’ll get swing sick?”
He also played with the drinking fountain, watering the weeds, then we got home before 5:30. Hanging out in the yard, David brought by the their 2-year old niece or nephew. Talked to them through the fence. Carly invited them in, but David said he needed to go check in with the family and they didn’t return. August picked at the pitch and talked some nonsense.
Came inside and Carly skyped with her parents. I took him up for a shower that went very smoothly and included washing his hair. So that was a nice change. Carly made mango lassi and we drank that. Then the two of them read The Magic Tree House on the couch for 2 or 3 chapters.
They then went upstairs where they read a bunch more books in the play area: several Boynton books, Snappy Little Monsters, The I Love You Book, Wild About Books. I came up and took over reading the last one. I read it 3 more times. He kept being all of the different animals in the book and asking what they ate, then pretending to eat it. He decided he was ready to nurse and was sleep just after 8.
Holding up his robot shorts because they feel too long:
Glass tile found in the dirt:
Peeking out:
Riding on his own:
Hand on her shoulder:
