Carly was up early – 4 something. August was up sometime after 5:30. They read Berenstain Bears, had oatmeal, and did a lot of nursing. He had just started watching a Christmas Timmy Time when I came down. I watched it with him, then he started the Storybots Christmas. He paused it after a few minutes and wanted to read The 91-Story Treehouse. We read a couple chapters, starting from the beginning. Played some toy piano, then we went back to the book and got to page 120.
At 8:30 Carly headed to the store to do some grocery shopping before it got crowded. August typed a bit, then played Montessori Geometry. He then got a flashlight and was using it to turn other things into flashlights. He then played Math Tango and I exercised. Went upstairs to watch more Timmy Time and I showered. Carly got home as I was getting him grapes for a snack. I gave August a shower. Fine, as usual, until I started to wet his hair, at which point screaming breaks out.
They nursed, then he played with the flashlight again and was looking at belly buttons and teeth: “Are there anymore belly buttons to look at?” Carly tried to get him interested in riding his balance bike. SHe had it outside and said she was going to use it. He came and called up to me: “Mama takes my special blue bike and I want it back!” So he was interested in it, but still didn’t want to ride. I cut him some strawberries for a snack, then we read more of 91-Story Treehouse. We played Wizard School. I sent him a picture of a wizard, asking if August wanted to be his friend. August said “I’ll send you ‘no’. Cuz you’re dada. You’re not powerful.” I made a picture of a snowman and August named it “Wind”. We read the sample of a book called Clementine, kind of a Ramona Quimby sort of character, and August liked it. The school library has 8 or 9 of the books, so might be our next series. He was alternating between Cheerios and apples: “Could I have dried Cheerios? I finished my apple. There’s nothing in my hand anymore!”
Carly was making food, a rice dish. Then they made a Lego rocket. August came to me and said that I made big rockets but mama made small rockets. We had been missing almost all of his spoons. I found a couple in a drawer yesterday, then he found 3 in the Legos. Think they ended up there after he was putting things on the magic towel in the water. We are back to full kid spoons now.
I was getting stuff ready to make zucchini bread. August came and helped with a few things: peeling and grating zucchini, putting in some ingredients, licking the spatula. He and I got out on a short walk, about 15 minutes, doing more of the touching things to find out what would happen game. We came back to take out the zucchini bread. Got some to take with us, then walked up Kibuts Galyeot – counted a total of 17 dogs and cats. Near the end we saw the biggest cat we’ve seen – a huge fluffy orange cat under a car – followed by a kitten.
We were back at 4:10. Carly had been making pisole and it was done. August had been asking for “chippies” earlier, even though he hadn’t seen them. He somehow knew there’d be chips. We had some pisole and chips. He was joking around and said “Maybe some coffee will help.” He wouldn’t tell us where he got that phrase, but sounds like something I’ve probably said when we’re reading and I’m getting tired. He was also humming the Timmy Time theme song a lot. We read some of Magic Treehouse #10. He was getting sleepy, so we went up and brushed his teeth. He had a jolly time playing a game with Carly where they were hiding the remote under the blankets and laughing hysterically (well, he was, not Carly). He was asleep at 7.
Reading outside:
Licking the spatula:
Portrait of his feet:
Walks. Big cat:
Crushed watermelon:
Tunnel:
