The clock changed back an hour during the night, so it was around 2:45 that August sat up saying “I want to read books”. He didn’t go back to sleep and I got up with him at 3:25. We read After the Storm, Where the Wild Things Are, and Biscuit Gors Camping. He refused to read more and went back upstairs at 3:50 and to Carly. He didn’t go back to sleep though and started reading the clock: “5:02” (actually 4:02). I took him downstairs again. He watched 3 episodes of Wanda and the Alien and I got us Cheerios. He was then talking about his treehouse and it had “Saw ice skating cave with real ice skating saws. It has 67 million blades.” He then counted to 100 by 2s. We read the ancient Egypt chapter of 65-Story Tree house, then he was talking about numbers and lying on the couch, We read the future chapter of the book, then went back upstairs and we fell asleep with Carly. She got up at some point, then he was up at 7:15. I was up a half hour later.
They went out and harvested a few cups of basil from our plant. August then played Dragonbox Little Numbers and Carly made pesto. We read some Garfield and he was laughing hysterically. Carly went upstairs to make a phone call to Skoda. She and I traded off as we dealt with the car fiasco. Finally, close to 11 I was off the phone. Carly had gone up to take a shower and August got to watch one more story of Wanda and the Alien. When she was done I took a shower. They had done a collage on paper while I was gone.
We planned to go to town to do some grocery shopping and get a coffee. When we left we found that someone had thrown an egg just short of our front porch. We rinsed that as best we could. August chose the bike over the stroller even though he seemed really tired. We made it about two houses before he stopped the bike. We tried to switch to the stroller but no luck. In the end Carly stayed home with him and I just went to the mall. Got cash at the ATM and went grocery shopping. I got enough to load up my backpack and the two reusable bags.
I was back at 1:45. He hadn’t taken a nap and was playing GarageBand as they sat outside. We continued with GarageBand inside after I put away groceries then moved to Legos making rockets. He told me to try to touch the rocket and it would fly away and he’d laugh. He was singing a line from a StoryBots song: “Hurricane…fight with a tornado”. Carly took over and I went to make a sandwich. The tired boy was having a hard time so they took a break and went upstairs.
We then went for a walk just before 3. Walked down to the strawberry fields. August played in the dirt and watched ants by the field. He ate almost a full apple on the walk. We stopped at the park and Carly continued on home. He sat in the green chair thing he couldn’t play with yesterday. He started the thing where he made up mean things to say, but stopped it quickly this time when I said we’d just go home. We went on a couple of the shaky things then he was ready to head home. We walked the long way around the Holly block. He stopped to play with hard red mud and decided to take a couple pieces of it home in the back of the bike.
We were home at 3:50. He ran to the bathroom with one shoe again. He asked how to count by 11s and learned in about one minute, then ran and told Carly how to count to 110 by 11s. He learned about the modes on the air conditioner, then we did more Legos, making little cars for the astronauts to drive around on. Carly wanted to vacuum so we cleaned up all the Legos. Then had French toast for dinner.
We read After the Storm and Garfield – more hysterical laughter. Carly took him up for a shower, then I finished it with the hair washing. He got the bed wet. He was really tired, but it was only about 5:40. He agreed to skype with gramma and grampa and we skyped with them for about 45 minutes. Helped keep him awake just long enough. He did a lot of emoji typing to them and showed off some of his multiplication skills. He also put together a couple of impressive sentences explaining the basil harvest to them.
I left Carly with him at 6:35 and he was instantly asleep. She was out by 6:40.
So early:
Playing with his hair:
His favorite thing on the playground, supposedly:
