In the middle of the night he got up on the bed in between us. He then turned sideways and put his head on my chest and used me as a pillow for quite awhile. Apparently he was using Carly more like a soccer ball. At some point she straightened him out. He was up at 6:20. I was still trying to sleep and he came and tickled me to wake me up. They went downstairs and ate popcorn and watched Timmy Time. And I heard him playing piano. When I came out he was upstairs and starting to make a mess/pile in his room. But he wanted to add more and more stuff, and when we wouldn’t let him keep getting more he was upset and locking us out of his room. Carly got him to calm down and played with him a bit, then he and I played in the main bedroom for awhile.
We went downstairs and played Math Tango for awhile. Carly made him a pancake but he only ate half. I took a shower and they went for a walk to the park, where they mainly played store. I studied some Hebrew, then was going to go find them and they got home as I was heading out, at 10:50. August asked for some strawberries and crackers and was singing “Do you know the cracker man?” I heated up some french fries and he rejected those. I questioned what 3-year old doesn’t need french fries. He and I were then singing Zip-a-dee-do-da together.
We all got going on an errands mission at 11:10. As we got in the car he sang the words to Jingle Bells to the tune of Do You Know the Muffin Man? We first went to Ace. We got a space heater for the bathroom, an extension cord so we can use our vacuum cleaner on the car, and a new electric kettle as our first one died. ANd Carly bought a couple of candles.
From there we headed to Tiv Taam. August and I played out the playground while Carly went and started shopping. He went on some of the rocking things, then up on the play structure he went down the straight slide several times. There was another girl there and she went down the spiral slide so he wouldn’t do that until after she left. His favorite part though was the Tiv Taam price stickers that someone had put on top of one of the rocking things. He spent several minutes humming and scratching them off with his fingernails.
When he was done we went in to see if Carly was done shopping. We called her and she said she was by the lentils, so a little later, after we had helped a little bit and were checking out, he used her pen to draw a map on his hand and said “Do you see where we seeing my finger map? And the lentil section is right there.” He also added the bathrooms to his map.
We were home at 12:45. He played in the car for a few minutes until he needed to use the bathroom: “There’s pretend babies there. Did we take away control?” Inside we tried out the new heater and played Tea Party. And he made another big machine out of all the pillows. It was a water machine that made water and put it in bottles. Carly made a pancake for him. He also drank some milk, but dripped some on the table. He helped me clean that up.
Carly was cooking, making nutty noodles, and August had some raw tofu: “I like the raw tofu!…Mama, why is raw tofu good?” We read chapter 9 of Magic Treehouse $14. I had some chai tea and August wanted some. I gave him some, further cut down with some milk. He really liked it and asked for more. I suggested we look for decaf chai sometime at the store.
I was trying to get August out for a walk as we were getting in Carly’s way in the kitchen. But then he got interested in helping Carly and helped her grate cheese and do other things. He had some nutty noodle before we left, and she started on the lentil soup.
We got going and went up to do recycling. The cardboard cage was open so he was excited about walking into it. Then, at the glass recycling someone had left several wine bottles out on their own and a bag full of wine bottles. So August had fun recycling all the glass, which was shattering quite well in the bin. We then went for a walk. We went around the Holly block. He said we were going to go seven times. Near the end of the second block we actually ran into Holly and her daughter. August pointed out a cat to her and we told her what we call the block. August said his walk meter was at half and that “I made it out of clay.” A reference, I think, to the statues in the Magic Treehouse book which it had said were made out of clay. He said that meant that he wanted to go home for awhile, then we could go on more of a walk. We were back at 3:40.
We played some Classify It, learning a good amount as we worked through some of the advanced levels, and Drops. They nursed, then briefly skyped with Cherie. Carly had realized that the parsley was missing from our Tiv Taam trip, so August and I left on another walk at 4:25. We went over to the mall. We figured out the parsley and found some matches for the candles. I had suggested we’d get a little something extra, and we went back to the sweet breads. I was thinking like the honey bread, but he saw one with dark stuff in it. He thought it might be chocolate. I told him it didn’t really look like it. He said it would be okay if it wasn’t chocolate because it would still be good.
We were back by 5:30. Carly was skyping with Cherie. We had the treat bread and turned out to be fig and coconut. Actually pretty good. They then skyped with Vivian. She and August were skyping for a long time, and eventually August stopped Skyping and we realized Vivian was gone. So Carly hung up. Vivian called back a minute later. Vivian and Cassie were talking to August and he was spinning the fidget spinner. Cassie asked what he was doing and he said “I’m spinning my poop.” When they were done there was sort of a race to hang up. August cut off her last sentence and said “Sorry. I already hanged up.”
He ate a little of the soup Carly had made, then we were doing Drops. I told him we had to do ‘Geography’ before ‘More Geography’. He did about two words with me before he went and asked Carly if he could use her phone so he could do the ‘More Geography’ section on his own. He asked me to send him a video on Wizard School, so I sent him three: one that looked like the phone was flying up the stairs, another of Puff talking in dragon language, and one of Angeles’s head slowly coming in and out of the frame, silent. He watched those, then as Carly took him upstairs to get ready for bed I sent him one more of Monkey Nice Banana’s head coming into the frame, then going around in a circle. I sent it to his iPad, then set up the iPad in the bedroom so he’d see it when they went in the bedroom. He thought that was pretty fun.
He was being pretty crazy before bedtime. When I asked what he’d dream about he said “Bad dreams and Wizard School” I left them at 7:25 but he came down at “7:52”. Carly took a shower. We read A Violin for Elva, then had two strawberries and crackers. We read 20 pages of The Sisters, then we finished Magic Treehouse 14. We took him back upstairs about 8:50 and he fell asleep that time.
He took a photo of his pile:
Outside Tiv Taam:
Trying out the heater:
More machine:
Squeezing lemons:
Holding parsley and looking at the meat:
