He got up with with Carly around 7. I was up at 7:30. He watched Timmy Time. He was grumpy to Carly when she left for work: “Have a NOT good day at work.” A bit later I got up to go to the bathroom. When I was slow in actually heading to the bathroom he came over and was pushing me from behind, saying “If you never go to the bathroom I will smashify you.” We ate zucchini bread and after his episode was over he watched some of the Formula E race with me and he had us being racing cars. He was also really interested in all the numbers: battery percentages, power used, etc. He was upset when I put the iPad away but agreed to a walk.
We walked for 20 or 30 minutes. I had messaged Jack about returning his key but didn’t get a response. When we were over by the house though August said we were getting pulled in that direction and he seemed to want to visit. He spent some time blasting monsters in the park but wouldn’t get out to play around. We were back to the house after 8:40.
Once inside we were suddenly ants. The house was our nest and he wanted me to find crumbs for the baby ant. When he went to the bathroom he asked how the mouthwash got refilled: “Did it fill up itself or was it magic?” I asked if he wanted the real answer or to keep it magic. He decided “Keep it magic.”
He played Math Tango and was doing more of the puzzles on his own. He saw me typing a message and asked “Are you sending an email to Carly?” Later, in talking about how he could send messages to my phone he said “Just from Carly’s?”
I exercised while he played Math Tango, then he switched to Timmy Time and I took a shower, then gave him his. We went back downstairs at 10:40 and made sandwich pizzas – one with olives and one without. He helped me cut the olives off the pits.
Jack came over to pick up the key and when I answered the door Jack pretended to be the downstairs neighbor complaining about noise. August liked this, and was stomping around. As Jack left he said “Lets keep making too much noise…for Jack.”
August wanted tea and instead of putting sugar in it this time I used honey. I let August lick the spoon I used and he wanted more and got rather demanding. We ate our pizza and he got descriptive of the cheese: “gooey, ooey, poopy, waste water treatment plant-y.”
We then went upstairs to play GarageBand. He then helped me put the CD from the nursery rhyme game into the computer. Then in on the bed he decided were were bacteria and eating teeth: “Okay, dada germ.” He took the pillow cases off of the pillows to turn them into white teeth.
Throughout the morning though he was being pretty clingy. Even when he was playing by himself he would need me to come over every minute or two. So hard to get anything done.
I went out to start laundry and he knocked over the cardboard rocket and hid in it. We then played in it together and he wanted to take blurry photos and do videos.
We talked about what to do today and he said he wanted to go to noodle place – earlier he had wanted to go out for pizza. We made a game of throwing his pajamas and a paper towel roll up and down the stairs. Then we were looking at Google Maps to decide where to go today. He wanted to look around though so I used my phone, which at first he also wanted to control. Then he found a game on my iPad which I’d downloaded but never played called Looty Dungeon. I showed it to him, thinking it would be too stressful for him when the character got killed by a spike or fell in a hole. I was wrong. August liked getting the money in the treasure chests.
At some point he also helped spray WD-40 to get some of the windows moving better. I also got the long skinny window at the top of the stairs working to get some warm air in while we were playing up there.
Back to talking about what to do, I mentioned doing recycling. He said “I will recyclify you.” He suggested a small walk: “Let’s go for a little walk…just down the steps and back.” He was being a little grumpy.
Finally, we headed out for a walk at 3. He cheered up when I squeezed the bad mood out of him. He was then playing with the bad mood, saying he put it on the bike, a post, me, etc. Jack spotted us as he drove the other direction and stopped and asked if he could get a ride to the guy’s night tonight. August didn’t quite catch what had happened and asked what I had said. I explained that Jack had jus stopped across the street. He said “Hey. You can’t talk to Jack. He’s like 19 blocks away.” After he wanted a snack and I made him ask politely he said “Dada, could you stop making me say please?”
We stopped at the unnamed park on the right side of the street as we walk up into downtown. There were kids that had a table covered with cheap toys and one came over and asked, I think, if we wanted to buy anything. I declined, but a bit later they came and gave August a little package of plastic tools. He played on the snakes and ladders board while I tried to call the car rental place to extend our rental. They aren’t good at answering the phone. We then went over to the exercise equipment area and played around on that. I was talking about what would happen in the evening and August said he wanted to go out to dinner with me. We went back and he did more hopscotch and snake and ladders, then we left by 4.
We stopped at our park and he played on the green chair thing. Then continued home and got here at 4:15. I managed to get through to the rental car place and August played Toca Blocks. Carly got home, and I soon left to go pick up Jack and head to the guy’s night.
Only 6 of us this time. We headed to BBB again and I got the market burger. Rick rode with me over there. I told both our car stories and updates on the neighbor situation multiple times. At the end of dinner I was saying that hopefully next time my update would be that we got our car and had solved the neighbor situation, end of story, and other people could do more of the talking. We were all pretty undecided about seeing the film, Justice League, and almost didn’t go. But Bruce convinced us and 5 of us (except Chris) went. It wasn’t a great movie, but fun to see in the theater and we were all happy we did go.
While I was gone they went to a walk to the pharmacy to get shower caps for the pie throwing contest that was going to happen at school. He wanted to ask if they had shower caps and asked on his own “Do you have shower caps?” At the end he said “Lehitrah ot!” He was interested in the pie in the face thing and kept asking “Is this a joke?”
Back at home they ate popcorn and watched Planet Earth. He was more into it this time. They read a Berenstain Bears book and pretended to be animals. He was asleep about 7:30.
Rockets:
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