He started waking up after 4. They were up at 5:15
When I got up at a reasonable hour, August wanted to use my iPad for the Earth Primer app. Apparently he had been waiting for that. After that we Skyped with my parents. He told them about the balancing thing in TodoMath and showed them that. He kept working on TodoMath after the call. He’s adding and subtracting 5s and 10s in his head. Has counting by 2s pretty much down. Working better on the 100 puzzle. And he’s writing 3 digit numbers with his finger quite clearly.
I made French Toast for breakfast. He dipped his in the syrup: “I’m cooling it down by syruping it.” he then did TodoMath with Carly using blueberries after she came back downstairs. We then did a lot of goldfish games, with him being a goldfish that was hurt or lost, etc.
I went up to take a shower and they went outside. They planted a random seed that he found. He was then acting out the ants dying in what we were calling the “ant syrup”. He then wanted to go in and play TinyBop Earth so that he could pollute.
We then all got going to the mall. On the way over he was spotting letters in the wild: the canal was an I, metal pieces in a fence were an upside down V, the path with a round planter in the center was a P. At the mall Carly went on ahead and started looking for things for his Halloween costume. He decided he wants to be the number 14 again. This time Carly decided to make it out of fabric and attach it to his clothes. While she went into the mall, August and I played in the play area. He mainly played on the airplane. After about 10 minutes a guy came into the area and pointed out a wire a few feet from August in the corner. At first I thought he was a passerby and thanked him. I assumed it was just a dead wire, phone cord or the such, and suggested moving it and said the mall should know. But then the guy said he was with the mall and they were working on it. And it was electrical. I got cross with him and told him to put a sign on it, etc. You don’t just leave live wires unlabeled and in reach of kids when you’re 40 yards off working somewhere else.
We went inside, looking for Carly. There was a baby class going on in the play area there. At first August was watching what was happening. But then he started yelling “Go away” to them. Carly found us and we went into the art store. August chose the pink sparkly fabric stuff and we also got glue. I then stopped at the frame shop to ask about framing my Shepard Fairey print but they don’t actually do framing. August started yelling “Go away” to the babies et al again so Carly took him outside.
She decided to take him home and I went to Tiv Taam and did some grocery shopping.
I was home at 12. Carly was already working on the costume. I made sweet potato fries and helped him with math. Carly kept working on the costume and we made rockets with Duplos. He was then a goldfish, etc. They then played with the scraps and the glue, making little glue balls that he liked.
He was looking quite tired, so she took him up for a nap from 2:15 to 3:30. I woke him up. He kept turning away from me. I read the Mother Goose book but stopped to wake him up again. He went down to Carly and she nursed him. Then made popcorn with za’aten.
He then asked if he could watch Puffin Rock and instantly got upset when I said we could do something else. He grabbed a handful of popcorn and threw it on the carpet. He was having a really hard time calming down and Carly took him upstairs. Then our power went out. Just 3 minutes. They came down a couple times with him calm, but he wouldn’t pick up the popcorn: “I won’t pick it up…I don’t.” Finally, he agreed to pick it up when she held out his hands for him to put it into. He kept asking for help to do it, even though it was only 7 or 8 pieces. He kept rejecting robot cleanup with me, so that ended up being the key.
Carly thought he needed a little mama and Zinnie time, so they went on a walk at 4:50. They went to the little park up towards town, which I now see is labeled as Motek Garden on Google Maps. She went on the swing and he watched her – he was the parent. There were oranges falling from a tree in the park so they stepped on them and juggled them, although didn’t bring any home as Carly felt weird about that. And when they saw dogs along the way August was using his hands to fire laser beams at them, Hilo style.
They were back at 6:05. Heated up nutty noodles and we all ate outside. He then played at being lost animals several times. We then read Picasso’s Trousers three times, and he acted out being Picasso, wanting me to say “No, no, no” so he could say “Yes!” So I came up with all sorts of things that August does as the things that people said no to, then he would say “Yes!” Such as “You can’t make up your own languages, Picasso! No, no, No!” But Picasso said “Yes!” Others were be a robot, make rockets on the bed, make pictures with just red markers, etc.
We then read some Hilo, and he was ready for volume 2 of Hilo, so we bought that. While we waited for that to download, we read the sample of Plumbog, which is a graphic novel written as a diary of a dog. That will probably be our next purchase. We then read Pablo and His Chair.
Carly came over and asked if he wanted to learn more about Josephine and Zambia. When Carly said that they didn’t have electricity he asked “How does she get electricity for her iPads and stuff?” When Carly said they didn’t have iPads he asked “What can she have though?” And he also asked what sort of things they could do. So, working well so far.
I gave him a shower, which went quickly, then he made his rockets and we read more of Hilo 2. Carly put his full costume on and got him to tolerate it this time. Earlier she had tried the shirt a couple times and it had been a big production, with him freaking out about the stiffness of the numbers, and calling it all tickly. In fact, I had ended up joking that we must have gotten the clothes at the Everything Tickly store, then we joked about how the couch, etc. were all from the Everything Tickly store. Anyway, he tolerated it this time, and they practiced trick or treating and he got some chocolate. So I brushed his teeth one more time before bed. I left them in bed at 8:40 and he was asleep several minutes after that.
Earlier today he had asked why Watchy (my watch was waterproof). He knows that ‘because it doesn’t have holes in it’ is part of the answer, but then he asked “If it can’t plug in how does it charge?” Interesting thinking there, as he knows that things with electricity have to be charged. So we talked about how it uses inductive charging and charges through the back of it.