Before I went to sleep he sat up in bed. After a minute he lay back down on his back, fully leaning against me. When I went to fall asleep I was able to turn onto my back. He still used my stomach as a pillow and I put my arm around him and fell asleep like that. He eventually slid off, but slept with his head pushed against my shoulder for quite some time.
He was up at 6:50. He was halfway down the stairs when I said “Hi, ZZ.” He turned around and quietly went back upstairs. I gave him a minute. I started to head up the stairs. He heard me and yelled “No!” I told him I’d be on the couch. I heard him play with the blocks for a little bit, then he made his way down and crawled on the couch.
First thing he wanted was Toca Elements. We played that a little, then read a lot of our new Garfield book and wasthen a baby squirrel that had nightmares. Then to GarageBand where we recorded piano and then played with the sequencer. After that he found the app about symphony instruments. It was still set for Korean, so he was practicing his Korean. Then a little more programming in the Lightbot app, making the robot jump now. Then exercise and Toca Blocks. We went upstairs and in Toca Blocks we discovered that combining blocks made new things. We discovered a bunch of new things then I went to take a shower. He came into the bathroom and said “Im destroying all the things we discovered!” With a fun smile on his face.
After my shower I gave him his. He protested, but not as bad as yesterday. We then went downstairs and got ready to go. He was instantly ready when I said he could have a cookie on the bike. He ate his cookie 🍪 as we walked into town. When he was done he said he wanted to give people cookies 🍪 , and explained that he meant when we were off the current street, which didn’t have a lot of people. I said we hadn’t brought cookies with us and he turned us around. We almost went back, but it was quite a ways. Also, I started to talk about people we could give cookies to: the guys at the hardware store, the woman at the toy store. He seemed less excited about it when it was actually people he knew. Also, I think he might have been hoping to get more cookie for himself.
So we continued on into town. There around 11:30. The pizza place was closed. Not a huge surprise. But so was the sushi/noodle place. We thought about our usual coffee shop, but then I decided to try the other one. But we got there and it was really busy. So we went back to Malkin Cafe, our usual coffee shop. We got a table for two inside and ordered an olive pizza and our usual orange and carrot juice for him an apple juice for me. We read some James and the Giant Peach while we waited. And he spotted a photo on the wall. We went over to look at the random photos and it was one of Miss Piggy and Kermit. After he was full he played some Dragonbox Big Numbers while I finished up. He was doing pretty well with his subtraction.
We walked over to Bachar Garden, the park by the library. Got there at 12:50. The merry-go-round was a time machine: “Do you want to go to ancient Egypt? It’s just 7 kilometers away.” “You’re in the time of dinosaurs.” And “You’re a teacher. Say ‘You just got eaten by a dinosaur.’” Had me say that several times. He played in the dried smoothie again, scraping it with a stick until I realized there was an actual nail on it. Took the nail out. He then tapped me on the head with the stick: “I was touching you on the head to get your attention.” “Holly can hit that person with a stick…Jack and Celeste can…” Told him that wasn’t okay, then he was hitting things, making noise: “Just getting people’s attention.” But then he really bonked me on the head. Got that on video.
He walked around the tree a lot, and eventually was ready to go. First we went over to the drinking fountain to fill his water. There were other kids and he started shouting “Go!” I got him to stop and say “sorry” instead, so then he was repeating that: “My thing sequencer is just on ‘go’ now…I turned it on ‘sorry’ now.”
We left at 1:15. As we walked he wanted to spell words in Hebrew. We looked up real words, like thousand and infinity, and he was also making up spelling of words in Hebrew. At the cafe he had also been reading Hebrew letters off of signs.
We stopped at the little park for a snack and discussed delivering snacks. When I mentioned Jack and Celeste, he asked who Celeste was. I reminded him that Celeste was Jack’s wife. He then asked what ‘wife’ meant. I explained using me and mama. He then said “And I’m zucchini bread’s wife…Why you’re zucchini bread’s wife? Because I really like zucchini bread.”
We got walking home again and he said he wanted to watch something when we got home. I suggested we watch outside and could use the picnic mat. He said he was bored of the picnic mat. I said we hadn’t used it in months, and he reminded me we had used it at the Mediterranean Sea. He did all of this in a loud robot voice. He got totally random after that, talking about spinning. I finally realized he was thinking about spinning because the tree house spins in Magic Tree House. He instantly started laughing and simultaneously strongly denying that was the connection. He instead said it was a fan. There was a lot to it, but it blew us and the bricks of the path to Japan. Then it was snowing in Egypt. And now he has 10000 rockets.
We got back a little before 2. We watched the Christmas Problem episode of Peg + Cat on the picnic mat and shared a cookie. He watched another episode and I sat next to him and read. We went inside after that and he watched a timer for awhile and we listened to Peg + Cat songs. Then his Year 1 playlist. He was then sick animals. We then looked at some books and finally read Little Red Hen. Carly got home at 3:50 just as we were finishing that up.
They went outside for awhile. He was then upset, wanting more cookies. I heated up carrots and cauliflower and potatoes for him and he ate those. He and I then went on our cookie walk. Delivered to Jack and Celeste first. Just spent a couple minutes there, then walked over to Holly’s. Her gate was locked so we called her and she came out and got a couple cookies. August ate half of his cookie on the way to Jack and Celeste’s, then half on the way to Holly’s. He was then upset about not getting more after that.
Got home and they nursed. Then they did a lot of art together. They used the dot paints to make a machine that made monsters. Then they did a card for Josesphine and he wrote several sentences to her, like “What shape do you like?”
He and I did some coloring book on the iPad and he drank some milk as we sat on the floor. We then went upstairs and read about 3 chapters of The 39-Story Treehouse. I left them about 8:10 and he was asleep soon after.
Sleeping:
Sentences for Josephine:
