He was up with the alarm again. Around 3am he was up enough that I was afraid he was waking up for good but Carly got him back to sleep. He watched Timmy Time again this morning. As Carly was getting ready to leave, August decided he wanted to go for a walk. So we were getting ready as well and about to leave a minute after Carly left. But she came back, asking if we could give her a ride to work as it was about to rain. It then started pouring, and we waited a minute until it slowed before we hurried out to the car.
On the way we listened to “The Elements” song so Carly could hear her. As we got home he sang Yankee Doodle to the tune of London Bridge. We then played the new Montessori Shapes app. Kind of cool as it has all sorts of advanced shapes. We then skyped with my parents. August typed Arabic numbers to them. Afterwards, he was being a kitten. At one point he wanted some of the string from the roll of twine I was using to hang the hooks. I cut him some and he played with it like a kitten. I also took care of him, giving him (pretend) food and water. I finished hanging the hooks by the door in the entryway so now August can get down and hang up his own sweatshirts.
He played “Lightly Row” in Chordana and then watched one episode of Timmy Time. He then watched Arabic and Hebrew vocab songs. There is one that talks about learning Arabic to read the Koran, etc. and he was singing along to the words. I exercised and showered.
We then went downstairs to make some lunch. He was being cranky and trying to stomp on the floor and hit the living room wall. Had to take him upstairs a couple times, which just slowed down making lunch. We had falafel, sweet potato fries, and apple. We listened to the elements songs as we ate.
We then did some pretending: “Can we be lungs not getting oxygen?…a body dying on the moon?” “Words dying? That means someone put the wrong letter in us!” He wanted hot tea so we had tea and read the bacteria book. We were then hedgehogs. I liked his sentence: “It seems to me we have to curl up in a ball.” Next read Berenstain Bears The Trouble with Pets.
He got back to pretending, but forgot where we were: “Hey dada, what are we? Hedgehogs? Kittens? Oh, I’m a little puppy.”
We got ready to go, he played with a wire twisty tie thing and was impressed that he couldn’t ruin it, then we headed to school. Headed into the library about 2. He really liked the fireplace made out of books Christmas display with two of the stuffed dogs lying in front of it. Looked at that and the Christmas lights for a few minutes, then headed back to the kids section. Liz was there and asked him if he liked the display and he said yes. She was a couple aisles away after we grabbed a bunch of Berenstain Bears books to read, and I remembered that the online catalog had said that they had The 91-Story Treehouse. I suggested he go ask Liz and he went and asked “Do you have 91 Story Treehouse?” We read part of the Berenstain Bear Science Fair book, then went out and sat in the winter display area in a beanbag. He reached up and grabbed a book off the shelf and it was a Harry Potter book. I found Chamber of Secrets (they didn’t have the first book) and August first lounged there and pretended to read it by himself. We then read a few pages of it together. August liked that Harry was a wizard and some of the descriptions of the Dursleys.
We checked out our books and headed to the playground at 3:20. Wasn’t really rainy, but it was a chilly wind. He sat in the Jeep and was hungry so ate a whole banana. He started singing “Hop on the water cycle” and I didn’t even know what it was, but then he told me we listened to it in the car when we were listening to science songs. It is a song off of Mr. Nicky’s Science Project.
It got a bit rainy and windier, so we decided to head back to the library. We sat in a chair in the lobby and ate a Larabar. We listened to the Water Cycle song on my phone and Carly came and found us. She had gotten our insurance today AND got a call that our car was on the lot and we could pick it up. Well, sort of. Then they said it hadn’t been washed yet. But we pushed and said we were picking it up anyway so we could return the rental car.
So we drove to the Skoda dealership. August got to have one last spin in the spinny chairs, as an uncensored Eminem song, then a rather not-safe-for-work music video played on the big TV behind him. Carly did some signing and August played with Shmuel’s calculator (he was shy about asking for it, but we got him to do most of the asking, although he wouldn’t say ‘calculator’). Then it was out to the car. I got in and got the tour.
Then we were off. I put the car seat in the new car andAugust and I drove the new car home. Carly took the rental car to get gas. The navigation screen was really quite cool: it showed me the map, while my phone, in the holder next to it, showed the upcoming instructions. We were home at 5:30. Carly was home soon after.
We had dinner (he had chocolate pancake, soup, and pita). He was upset when I wouldn’t let him have more pita, even though he had barely touched his chocolate pancake (his loss, my gain). He melted down, ready for sleep. He needed to go to the bathroom though, and as he sat on the floor, crying, he said “I will NEVER do it! Can’t you just kill me?” Turned his mood around pretty quickly with the bell and letting him ring it to tell us he was done. I told him to dream about the new car and he was asleep at 6:50.
Had a good downpour a bit later. August then came out at 8:50. Carly took him back in and had him soon back to sleep.
Grumpy after his shower:
Reading:
Snack in the Jeep:
New car!
Hanging up his coat:
