He woke up at 6:55. The moment he heard me come towards the stairs he yelled “No!” He made his way downstairs and asked for “Dragonbox Egg Crack”. So we played some of the algebra app. Got some zucchini bread. When we got to the highest chapter (set of levels), when it actually starts looking like math, he did some playing on his own and clearly understood a good chunk of it. I was impressed. He went to the bathroom and said “After I go to the bathroom I’m gonna make an electrical bed…it keeps people warm in the winter.” He was then a baby squirrel in a nest: “I have a measurement, I have a machine that tells me how long the days is…it says 10 percent. That’s low long the day is.”
We then made a fort and read the rest of Magic Treehouse #2. He then pretended to be a cat: “I bury my poop and I’m orange and yellow and black. I have legs and a tail. I’m a kitten!” We shared a banana, then he did some Arabic, tracing in different apps. He then made a zoo wall, but didn’t put any animals in his zoo. He played a little Robot Lab and I exercised, then we went upstairs. He watched a Peg + Cat (the first episode) and I took a shower.
Downstairs he watched another episode, where they go to space and eat baby corn. He was then corn: “I’m a baby corn plant that’s sick.”
We went outside and talked about going to town for lunch. He asked “Can I watch Eine Kleine Nachtmusik when we get back from Eine Kleine Pizza?” Before we left he went to the bathroom. The second he jumped on the toilet, before he started going, he started saying “I’m done. I’m done…I’m just playing a joke.” He was then telling a story as he pretended to be the 100 chicks from Peg + Cat: “I’m a hundred chickens…we have a hundred schools where we learn to fly. And our home is a 100 polygon with 4 legs.”
We left at 11:45. We walked up into town. Town was surprisingly busy today. No idea why. We went to the bank and got cash, then to the hardware store and they said they’d order a new shower handle for us. He was too hungry to stop at the toy store. Wanted to get an analog clock teaching thing. We were to the pizza place by 12:30. And it was closed. We weren’t the only ones confused, as other people were trying to open the doors and go in. No sign.
So we went next door to the bakery and got 5 little pastry things to tide us over until we could get home and bake a frozen pizza. Which was actually August’s idea, as he said we could still have pizza even though the pizza shop was closed.
Thought about going to the toy store, but it was also surprisingly busy. And figured we could make a clock at home. We went to the grocery store and got a few things, including corn to put on our pizza, at August’s request.
We headed home and stopped first at Motek Garden at 1:10, where he squished oranges as EightyBot, but complained the oranges were too hard/there weren’t enough of them. He then played with a dried palm frond, waving it over his head. We didn’t stay long and got walking. He then made up a song about EightyBot trying to fish but not getting a fish, but needing to keep trying.
We then stopped at the pine tree park at 1:30 and he sang more of the EightyBot song as he sat on the slide. Came down and played in the sand, then wanted to take photos of himself, making all sorts of funny faces. He then wanted to take photos of a tree trunk and the weird growth at the bottom of the drinking fountain.
We left twenty minutes later and headed home. As we got home he talked about a new machine: “I have an electric pillow signing machine…it signs out pillows when people go to a playroom.” It was also quiet so it wouldn’t wake people up.
At home he watched Charlie Brown and I made us a mango and banana lassi, then added the corn and baked the pizza. He ate that, and I started preparing the quiche. He played Toca Blocks, first making a treehouse “Rooms for my friends”, then a Smurf village. Preparing the quiche was slow as he kept wanting me to help.
Carly was home after 4. I got the quiche in the oven. They nursed, then we went outside. August was eating cilantro leaves, then holding his long stick “diagonal” and playing with it. He then hugging/climbing on me, but then he was a cactus. He had me plant him and then he grew.
Inside we read the Stars, Stars, Stars book (a freebie from the library) for the first time, and he pretended to be different temperature stars. He then played with Google Maps and was going through the walking directions as he walked to Iceland and Uzbekistan. We read chapter 11 in James and the Giant Peach. He asked what fainting was and I reminded him of Carly fainting at Thatcher’s. He said “That was at Vivian’s” and was pretty insistent about it. But he remembered that he was also sick. He was then being a silk worm and offering me silk for different things. I used the term”Harvest the silk” and he replied “What, but they’re not plants!!” I reminded him of honey.
They nursed, then Carly read him some Plumdog for the first time. They ate some quiche when it was finally done (they’d had a bit to eat already). They then shared the chocolate treat from the bakery.
Carly gave him a shower. He was singing the Hebrew song loudly. He came back down and was typing Arabic on my iPad, then we finished reading The 78-Story Treehouse. Back on my iPad he started asking how to spell random words and would type them. He typed: ‘and the zero book kaleidoscope chair’. He was then typing really long numbers.
He was ready for sleep. We took him up and he was intensely crazy on the bed for a couple minutes. I left them but then heard some crying happening. But then it ws quiet, and he was asleep by 8:30.
Waking up:
Pine needles:
Paying with the diagonal stick:
