I was woken a couple minutes before 6 by someone poking my face. When I came down they had finished nursing and he just sat on the floor, his back to the couch, for a few minutes. He then asked me to read The Magic Treehouse #13: Vacation Under the Volcano. We read a few chapters.
Carly left for work and we started to play a round of Toca Store. He sat and lay on the rug for several minutes. Then he threw up. He didn’t get upset. And in a small voice he said “I’m fine. I’m okay.” He then calmly sat on the couch with me. He threw up again at 7:25. The first time he was on the rug, but every time after that he made it to the hard floor. A very considerate thrower-upper. We finished reading Vacation Under the Volcano as we lay on the floor. He barely said anything during the morning. He spoke up about 8 when I mentioned crackers: “You mean those boring rectangle ones?” We read Berenstain Bears Stage Fright. He had some water and I took his temperature – 97.2 under his arm at 8:10 (mine 95.1, 96.5 mouth).
He threw up 8:13 for third time. As he was finishing he said, in a sad voice, “This is the worst day…ever.” We read Cam Jansen: The Ghostly Mystery. He threw up a fourth time at 9:10. Sat in my lap after that and wouldn’t answer any questions. He rolled off my lap and lay on the blanket. A couple minutes later, at 9:15, he was asleep on the blanket on the floor. I put the brown blanket on his legs.
The rain started at 9:30. August woke up, crawled to the hard floor and threw up at 9:40 (fifth time), then went back to sleep. I tried putting the brown blanket back on him a couple times but he kept kicking it off. At 10:20 there was a single huge crack of thunder, then the rain was back.
He slept until 12:15. He popped up and I asked how he was and he said “Pretty good!” Then “I’m gonna check if we have any popcorn?…We do! Can we have some popcorn?” “When someone actually gets sick, what can they eat?” He was talking about ten different things at once and a totally different kid. So we made popcorn. As he ate, I cautioned him to go slow. He said “Actually, I’m a caterpillar and I eat a little and drink a little each day.” As he sat on the couch he very thoughtfully said “I don’t want you to get sick.” He gave a thumbs down, then two: “Thumbs two down.”
We read Berenstain Bears In the Dark, then ate some crackers and veganaise. I had suggested some Gatorade but he had said no. Carly suggested it again in an email so he gave in. He drank all of his Gatorade (mixed with a little water), then a second cup. I also cut up some strawberries and he ate some of those. We read three chapters of The Talented Clementine. At 1:15 he finally went to the bathroom: “I haven’t goes to the bathroom since all night!” He then asked “You notice I’m feeing good now?”
We then ate strawberries and crackers. Sitting on the couch he very randomly said “I hate poop. Well I hate dog poop. Cuz they don’t bury it. But I live cat poop.” We read some more Clementine, then the A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime book about nouns.
He then went and played his piano. More so than ever before he was making up his own rhythms and patterns and attempting to make songs. It was really cool. He was then making up a song and showing me how to play it and teaching me. I’d then play it and he’d get a big grin on his face. He wanted to switch to GarageBand and the keyboard so we took them upstairs. I played Are You Sleeping on it and he made up a song: “This is a different song…Are you sleeping dada?”
I took a shower. While I was in the bathroom he asked for carrots. When I was done (and said he could skip a shower today) we went down and I cut carrots. But now he didn’t want any, and I had noticed he had gone back to sitting/lying on the rug and being quiet. He perked up a bit when he wanted his kaleidoscope and we went on a kaleidoscope hunt. Along the way we went outside to see if it was in his Zinnie shop but it was not. We admired all the flowers we have outside and commented on how they didn’t have flowers at Vivian’s or Gramma and Grampa’s right now. We put together our clues (he really liked having a mystery) and decided that mama had probably put it someplace when cleaning up on Tuesday. So we emailed her and she told us it was in a toy box. We found it and he used that several times through the rest of the day.
His temperature at 3:05 was 98.4. I gave him some Children’s Tylenol which he loved. An amazing breakthrough, as it is the first time he’s ever willingly taken medicine. We read more Clementine. The whole section about shoe shopping, which I found quite funny. The funniest thing we’ve read together, I think. August wanted a break from reading and I mentioned several things. He said “Walk…that’s what I need.”
By the time we got going, a little before 4, I saw Carly walking around the corner. We greeted her, then she went out with us for a walk around the block. Rain was threatening, so we stayed close. Back at the house she went in and we continued up Kibuts Galuyot. Didn’t get far. We saw a small tree blown over, then a branch that had fallen. Just past Holly’s house it started to rain, so we turned around and ran back to the house. Which was okay as he was falling asleep again.
With Carly he Skyped with Cherie. He has figured out how to save images from Google search then send them in Skype. He was sending her windows photos, for some reason. Then bugs, then cartoon pictures of smashed bugs. After that I took his temperature again, at 5:20, and it was up to 98.6. So that wasn’t what I expected. We read more Clementine as Carly made spinach pancake batter. He ate pancakes and then they did Scratch on her computer while I did dishes.
Carly went and took a shower and we read more Clementine, then What Do You Do with an Idea? August sang a little song: “monkey nice bananas…is in Egypt”. We then read Curious Geoege Cleans Up. He started a cracker/strawberry eating pattern. He’d eat one strawberry (cut in halves), then I’d give him one cracker. Repeat.
I got his pajamas on him and Carly took him upstairs at 7:15. He did much better with the toothbrushing today. They played Drops. Carly let him choose the ‘Spa’ and the magic categories. He said he’d dream about “Scary dreams and Drops”. I asked if he really has scary dreams and he said yes. When I asked him to describe one of his scary dreams he said “Monaters chasing me and eating me.” I told him monsters aren’t real – the most real monsters are the stuffed ones like Green Monster and he’s nice. I left them just after 7:30 but he was down at 7:47 (as he told me). We read The Sisters, then Lulu Goes to Witch School (which I bought quite awhile ago but we hadn’t read). Carly then read to him Everyone Poops and Gaston.
They went back up after 8:50 but he was down at 9:20. We finished the Clementine book, then read more of The Sisters. He did more cracker and strawberry. He did some calculator on the iPad, then figured out how to make a really cool piece of art using the Isosceles math app. Then had another cracker and strawberry. I spotted a cat sitting outside by our tree and picked him up to see. I commented on how it could go in the Zinnie shop. He said “I don’t think it wants to buy anything.” I took him up at 10:30 and he went to sleep.
Sick boy:
Asleep on the floor:
Still asleep:
Admiring the flowers:
Kaleidoscope:
Fallen tree:
