Started waking up a bit after 5. They got up about 6 and I slept a bit longer. They played Wizard School and I had a bunch of art from August. I sent him a “love heart” (he came up with the term and sometimes asks me to draw a “love heart” and send it) then came down. He was watching Timmy Time and asked me to find the Christmas episode. He watched most of that, then nursed. Did Drops with me (we had 10 minutes), then he was getting a little rambunctious. He went upstairs with Carly. They played in the Zinnie room, doing the Old MacDonald puzzle nad reading some Boynton books. He came back downstairs and we read Magic Treehouse #32. He was scared of the ice giant though and I had to look ahead a few times. He would say “No, no, no!” when it got scary.
He had brought the Teuni Teuni alien downstairs with him this morning and was playing with it. When he went to nurse he asked “Alien, do you want to nurse?” Carly went upstairs for awhile and he and I did GarageBand with the keyboard and then languages in Memrise. Carly came back down and heated up for for him. He was playing with the alien and saving it from big monsters when I went up to take a shower.
When I came down they were outside and August was playing the shop game. He had the bowling pin phone ring and I answered it and told him his bath was ready. He hung up on me.
He went calmly to his bath though, taking the alien and spaceship with him and playing with them in the water. Back downstairs he did Wizard School. Carly was tired and resting on the couch with him next to her. When he wanted her to send him things on Wizard School she asked if he’d get her phone for her upstairs. He went right up and started searching for it. I hollered up to tell him where it was and he brought it back down. Another comfort step as I think it is the first time he’s gone to the other floor on his own without one of us. He wanted popcorn and then a movie so they watched Plaent Earth, then he did some Arabic with me.
After a lazy morning and lunch time we finally got moving in the afternoon. I mentioned Ra’anana Park. He said “But I’m worried about our time. Let’s go to the park we don’t have to pay for.” We decided on Winter Lake Park – not because of August’s objection, but because it was closer and Carly hasn’t been there. He played some piano with the alien, then we got going.
We drove around looking for a spot to park and ended up in the same spot August and I parked last time. We parked after 2. In the small park we parked near there were some kids on a little 4-wheeler. Carly simply mentioned to watch out for them and August got upset at them for some reason and started yelling at them. I think maybe he thought they were being dangerous. Calmed him down a bit and got him past by carrying him.
Got him on the orange bike after awhile and we did okay steering and walked to the playground on the southeast corner of the park. As we got there I reminded him how we had listend to the “Signs” song and he said “I hate signs”.
He started by playing on the climbing thing. Carly played with him for a few minutes. They wandered to other things, like the rocking things, but he was quickly back at the climbing thing. I switched with Carly and it became his web. He was a spider, and said “I can go hours without eating.” He then had a food store and I asked “Can I buy junk food?” He replied “Yeah, if you buy healthy food too… strawberries…” But once we had food his ratios were interesting: “One strawberry, one whole cake.” He baked a pie and when he couldn’t remember ‘oven mitts’ he called them “My special taking out chocolate pie covering heat hands…That’s what I call them.”
We then spent a lot of time buying things for his web: appliances, cooking utensils, rugs, beds, chairs, straws, plates and bowls…it went on and on. Two that he thought of entirely on his own were emergency exits and “fire squirters” (extinguishers). Each item was at a different store, which was one of the other toys around the playground. We would run to it, find what we wanted, then run to another play thing where we had to spin once or something in order to pay. Then he would run back to his web. A lot of the items were on a thing he had to climb. He said “Mama’s a baby so she can’t climb up here.”
At one point he started to kick a soccer ball back and forth with a little girl. They kicked it back and for a couple of times, then he stopped and said “I know, we need balls!” and ran off to buy balls for his web.
I switched with Carly and she continued to play the game with him. He did a lot of running. He came over to me as I was studying Hebrew in Memrise. He read the sentence ‘He remembers the boy’ over my shoulder. He had never seen that sentence before. The craziest part was I think he may have translated it from the Hebrew, as in Hebrew there is an extra participle between ‘remembers’ and ‘the’ and he seemed to include it in his English sentence.
I switched back and we continued to play. I finally knew he was slowing down when he asked me to carry him across to the ‘store’ once. We finally convinced him to leave as the sun was starting to go down. We got to the car around 4:30.
We drove to the big Tiv Taam. Carly headed in to start shopping. I pointed out the moon and August said “Banana moon!” We went in and helped shop. He’s gotten much easier in grocery stores lately, which is nice.
At home Carly went out for a walk. He and I ate dinner on the floor at August’s request so we could read Tallulah’s Tap Shoes and Waiting on the iPad while we ate. He had rice today as he said he was getting bored of noodles. He then played with the Bloom music app, then Wizard School. I got out carrots and vegenaise and he had a ton of carrots.
We were listening to Christmas songs, then I put on the Constellations song on his playlist. He said “That’s not a Christmas song!”
We got him ready for bed and I asked what he’d dream about. His answer was a little disturbing: “Monsters…and our house burning on fire!…and monsters chasing me!” Carly: “Dont have nightmares!” Him: “I will!” I left them at 7:40.
What happens when we don’t cut his hair:
His web:
The store:
