He woke up at 5:55 and went straight to the bathroom. When he saw Carly he told her what time he had woken up. They nursed, then he wanted to type words. Carly let him use her computer. As she got it out he played with her computer case, rubbing the little bumps inside it: “I hope mama doesn’t mind if I make bumps in here.” He did math in Excel. Started at 7000 and kept doubling until he got to over 28 million. At one point he did a lovely face for the number 189. And at one point he said “I might have to stop at infinity.” We read Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day as Carly headed to work. He then watched/played Lucy and Pogo, then typed on my iPad: “I’m writing a list of things we should do today.” “I’m writing down Fahrenheit numbers to write how hot the countries is.”
He wanted to watch Winnie the Pooh, so first watched Winnie the Pooh ABCs. As the intro music played for the next episode he lay on the couch and said “When I watch Winnie the Pooh notes come out of my feet.” He then watched A Day for Eeyore. He played with his brush as if it was a grater: “Im getting carrots for my apple-carrot bread…Mama said three cups.”
He was then a baby kangaroo. I made him a pouch, which later got destroyed by an asteroid, according to him. Turned into a pillow fight. He played Dragonbox Little Numbers while I made us a lassi. He then discovered Endless Alphabet again. After lassi he was nimals needing rescue, like an elephant in the ocean. He was then a bird giving me bird flu. When I was sick he then told me that one of the pillows was a doctor. Eventually he said “Catch the doctor!” and threw the pillow at me. He was then sick numbers, like 77, and I was a teacher talking to students about substituting numbers. As he said that more and more numbers were sick eventually math was cancelled. He said one of the numbers had measles.
We went upstairs and he did more Endless Alphabet on the bed: sap, refreshing, prank, revitalized. He was then weird machine as he lay on my lap, such as one that took oil which made him explode and count minutes. Then: “I have a bag of flour and I make it into soy powder and I make that into water and it flows out of me into the sea then it comes back salty.” Another: “Can you grind a rock in my grater and it turns it into wheat and I turn it into bark and when it’s all the way through my conveyor belt it turns out it’s fork…Can you get rocks from the desert?” And another: “You’re in someplace strange but it’s not your home…there’s lots of machines that do anything….this machine makes hair. It comes out my hole then you glue it on your head.” There were more.
Eventually, he turned back to Endless Alphabet and I was able to take a shower. We then went outside and watered all the plants. He did a lot of that and I picked up the tree things. He also picked off the dead leaves from the bougainvillea cuttings. He got hungry, so back inside he requested a bowl of corn and ate that and more of his lassi. I was also making him a corn pizza. He had been eating his lunch on the kitchen floor, then was putting together the Hebrew alphabet on the fridge. He took a couple steps back and stepped on the plate with bites of pizza on it. I had to hold him by the foot while I grabbed a paper towel so he didn’t wipe it off on everything in sight. After that he was upset with his pizza and wouldn’t eat the non-squished pieces.
Instead, he went and did some drawing on paper with a marker, then was drawing with chalk on the chalkboard. A piece of white chalk broke off and he wanted a cup of water to put it in. He had a lot of fun dissolving it. He then did some typing in Arabic on his ipad, but kept wanting mine. He went back and finished the alphabet on the refrigerator, then started making a new zoo with Duplos. I was getting us ready to go, then picked him up. He said “I’m a carpet famished…give me some fuzzes…Thats what carpets is made of.” ‘Famished’ was an Endless Alphabet word. Finally, he was admiring the plant growing inside in the planter and asked me to measure the new branch of it that is now as tall as all the others.
We left at 1:45. We walked north. He talked about wanting to see us get to 10000 steps. We went to the nameless big playground on the right as we walk up to town. We sat in the car (which he calls a plane) and snacked on our grapes and crackers. Then spent a lot of time playing on the snakes and ladders board, doing some hopping, addition, and counting by twos. We went on the spinning thing a couple times. Then back in the “plane” where we went on Zinnie Air flights to Japan, then Egypt. He chose the destinations. Turned into time machine as he had us going back to ancient Egypt, then farther back.
We got going awhile after I got a call from the hardware store. We stopped and I went in to buy the new handle for the shower. He stayed on his bike, but kept yelling that he wanted to see our step count. From there we walked west down the street, past where they are making a new sidewalk. There was water running down the side of the street, and we followed it to the end of the block, then it turned left, our direction. We followed it, riding the bike through the water, and we got to the front of it, where it was still flowing. We spent a good 15 minutes watching it slowly make its way down the hill. We would ride through it when there were no cars and see our tire tracks. Near the next intersection it made its way across to the far side of the street, then curved back to our side of the street: missing the only set of drains we saw the entire way. As it slowed even more at the intersection where it was flat we said bye, bye to the water then kept going.
Several times he said “Faster, driver, faster.” Not sure where he got that, but it sounds like something he heard somewhere. He kept wanting to see the step count and at one point told me “I’m impatient.” We stopped at Motek Garden to step on oranges and he rode the rocking wooden boat thing. He then said he needed the bathroom so we kept going.
We got home a little before 4. We checked our step count and we got just over 10000 and he got to see the confetti. He played Dragonbox Egg Hatch and shared my mint iced tea that I had made. He then asked “Can you make my pouch?” He was a baby kangaroo again. Carly got home and got some food for him. He wanted to watch more Winnie the Pooh and requested the Shapes and Sizes episode (which he hasn’t seen in months).
I left a few minutes before 5. Jack picked me up and gave me a ride to the school. There were ten of us total. We went and had dinner at the BBB burger place, then went and saw Thor: Ragnorak at the theater. On the silly side of superhero movies, but very funny and fun to see in the theater. I got home just after 10.
While I was gone August basically nursed and kept asking to go upstairs to bed. He fell asleep by 6:40.
Incoming pillow:
Park:
Waiting while I go in the hardware store:
Watching the water go down the street and skip the drain:
Second playground:
