He woke up before 4. Carly got him back to sleep finally about 4:30. He was then up just before 5:30. Carly had him using the program she used for the Hour of Code and I heard “Meow, meow, meow” He also figured out how to use command+T to open a new tab. He ate a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. He did chord lookup in Piano Companion and Carly headed to work. We read a few chapters of The 91-Story Treehouse and then were pretending to be in a chocolate waterfall (from the book). I got out the Listening Lotto game and we played that. Turned out to be rather easy for him, identifying which picture went with which nursery rhyme we heard. I thought he’d at last learn a few new nursery rhymes, but that went pretty quickly too. We each had a board at first, but even though he won the first round he then didn’t like the idea of winning and losing, so we shared a board after that.
He was still hungry so I made some toast. I had a half and before I knew it he had eaten a piece and a half. He was talking about snow a lot and mittens and boots – that was from the three little kittens nursery rhymes. We brushed our teeth and listened to some Mr. Nicky, then left at 8:20 to meet Carly at the rental car office. She had driven the rental car and after home room headed down.
We got down there and I found a small parking lot across the street that was empty. We parked in there and August spotted a Smurfs picture painted on the wall of the building. Returning the car went smoothly, then Carly came across and we took her to school, listening to the dinosaur and water cycle songs along the way.
Back at home we stayed in the car and played for a long time. August played with the window controls, pretended to drive, and adjusted the fade and balance. We went through the radio and programmed all of the stations as well. Oh, and I let him honk the horn a couple times. He was also singing “Look up at the clouds and tell me what you see”.
We went in side and he played TodoMath and I exercised. He found the RelationShape game and was really into manipulating the shapes and matching them and I took a shower. He came in after my shower and asked “Can we have some dada time?” We played it together and he said “You know, dada, this game is pretty good.” And he said things like “We need to focus on this shape.”
I started a pizza in the oven then we gave him a quick shower. He was pretty happy, as I said I wouldn’t touch his hair today. We went down and ate pizza and made a banana, mango, and carrot lassi for lunch. He drank a lot of that, and ate some of the carrot before it went into the smoothie – it was much like the video from a year ago of him eating grated carrot.
He requested the elements song and he was singing along with it – he’s getting more and more of the words. We then read a few chapters of the Magic Treehouse #10 book. He went back to music and was walking around singing “Look up at the clouds” and chose others songs.
We got out for a walk at 2. He wanted to hear the clouds song again on my phone. We stopped by the entrance to the trail and were looking upat the clouds, which he said looked like people. We then sang “Down by the bay” I made up a line about grasshoppers, and he asked “Does grasshoppers sparkle things?” I was really confused until I got him to say it was from a Sarah and Duck Christmas episode. We went down and had fun in the echo tunnel, then walked up to the main road and took a left and walked up to the strawberry stand. It was closed, then we took a right and walked the dirt road home.
On the road we first spotted horseshoe prints, then tractor tracks, then dog prints so we followed all three. At the top of the hill we saw a school group coming. August initially said he was going to yell ‘go’ at them and started to. I threatened walking back the way we had come and he changed his mind. We stopped at the park on Vatikim and played with the ball thing. August was interested in which hole the ball would come out, but he wouldn’t get off the bike. So I played by myself. I finally got him off the bike when we found a big branch on the ground with thorns on it and he wanted to pick up the branch. We then stopped at our park and had a snack and listened to the Mr. Nicky dinosaur song on my phone.
We got home at 3:45. As we came in I said there was something I wanted to do when we got home but I couldn’t remember what it was. He said “Watch Sarah and Duck!” I said “Ahh, that’s it. Good job remembering.” He replied “Sometimes I remember things you don’t remember. But sometimes I don’t remember things you don’t remember. But this time, I do!” We figured out it was the Petal Light Picking episode, and there was indeed a grasshopper that hops across some glowing flowers, although it only lasts about two seconds. Interesting that he picked up on that. We then watched the Balloon Race episode. Carly got home, and they Skyped with Cherie.
Carly then headed to the bank to deposit some cash. August chose to stay here. We read the new Berenstain Bears books: Sitter and Visit the Dentist. August remembered Simple Machines (I had mentioned it when we were reading the Berenstain Bears Science Project book at the library yesterday and talking about wedges and pullies). So he played Simple Machines and Carly was home a bit later.
We had some dinner, then August was picking Carly’s backpack up and setting it on the couch. She asked “What are you doing with my backpack?” He replied “Lifing it up. I’m a pulley. I have six pullies.”
He was getting tired early, as was to be expected. We got him up and his pajamas on. I told him to dream about pullies. He was asleep at 7.
Looking at cloud shapes:
Through the echoy tunnel:
Following tracks:
