He was up at 6:48. He whispered to me “Time to wake up.” When I came down a little after 7 she was making him oatmeal. Carly tried to get him outside and mentioned the sun. He said “You mean that bright thing in the sky‽” We read The Sisters instead, then he made a pillow pile. He wanted more pillows from upstairs and Carly tried to get him to go get them on his own. He wanted her to do it, but she told him that the “guidebook” said that he was old enough to do it. That sort of worked, and she went up with him and showed him how he could push them downstairs.
But upstairs he wouldn’t clean up the mess from yesterday with her. Eventually I traded with Carly and he calmed down and I got him to clean it up with me. They nursed, then Carly needed to head to work for the Conflict Resolution project. He and I plugged in the guitar and played GarageBand. He then switched to Piano Maestro and mainly had me play it. He wanted me to pay for it so I could play more songs, but he only tried it once and said he wouldn’t do it more: “Too hard”.
As he was looking at the guitar chord lying on the floor he saw a crescent shape in it. We took out laundry and went downstairs. He added his animals to the pile of pillows, putting them in caves. We then played Toca Plants on the iPad. I talked about how creating the new plants is a kind of puzzle, and how he likes other puzzles. He said “I love the puzzles.” I mentioned other puzzles he has liked, and mentioned the Busy Shapes game. He wanted to play it, but I said it was too easy for him now, but he insisted, saying “I like the baby one.” So we downloaded it so he could have some nostalgia time with it. I exercised, and he played with the AR mode in Drops. We just discovered it. Basically, it is a fun way to review the words you’ve learned. You move the phone around and see bubbles with pictures in them around your room. You pop them and see/hear the Hebrew word. He was telling me he knows the spa words and how to read the letters correctly.
Upstairs I took a shower and he watched one Sarah and Duck and ate strawberries and crackers. He had a good bath. He was throwing the letters up in the air, which was good when he kept them in the bath area. He then had an excellent hair washing, as he pulled out the plug as I was doing it and thought it was really funny that I had to wash him quickly, so wasn’t bothered at all by me actually doing it: “Sorry, there’s no more water left. We did’t make it in time.” But actually it did. I made salmon sandwiches and we had those with strawberries for lunch. We were listening to an album called Teacher and the Rockbots and he had his foot on mine and we were doing more pumping in time to the music to make it go. If we stopped he would then pause the music and say the machine had stopped. We’ve done that a couple times now.
We talked about the bicycle and third wheel trailer. I assured him he could go on it and it was safe. He said “Are you sure, dada? I’m seems to me it isn’t safe.”
He was playing piano and I interrupted him to put on his pants. I actually apologized first for interrupting him, then he said “Next time you do it I will…Could you not interrupt me?” I liked the ‘I will’ in there as I think he was starting to say a threat, like ‘hit you’, but thought better of it. I went upstairs to do something, and he called “Come listen to my song…hurry before it is over.” He played that and another improv for me. After that he got up and I picked him up. I said I loved his music and he said a very sweet “Thank you” and gave me a big hug.
He went back to the piano and took the keys out and said “The London Bridge is falling down!” He then put the keys in randomly and was seeing how they would sound. We took the innards out of the piano and played with them using the xylophone sticks. He also played with his kaleidoscope.
We finally got ready to go outside and watch me ride the bike around a bit (without him on the trailer): “Yeah! I really want to do that! I will be excited!” As we took it outside he talked about things he likes to do: “But the most fun thing to do is play music” “…watch you ride that three-wheeler bike.” “But the most fun thing I’ve ever done is THROWING AWAY THINGS IN THE CAGES!” He watched me ride. He was interested, but first said he would ride when he was an adult. When I pointed out it was for kids he said “Maybe when I’m seven.”
We went for a walk at 1:45. Apropos to nothing he asked me “What is geography?” So I explained. He was driving us in funny loops and stuff in the park and said “You know we’re writing funny letters right?”
We got up to the snakes and ladder park (his request) at 2. Let him coast down the grass hill once, then he went and started his store. He said “We’re a small things store!” On the structure he sang a little song: “Falling down a passage / And it goes to a dark-making village.” Which I thought was an impressive rhyme. We played around the rest of the park: the Jeep, the spinning thing, etc. At one point: “I think I’m running low of Zinnie power…I have 9 percent.” I had to charge him by turning the spinning thing over on the structure. Climbed through the rope structure with my help, then we went to snakes and ladders: “Let’s pretend the snakes is ladders, and the ladders is snakes!”
We did some more AR view in Drops, then went on the spinning thing. We were being Earth spinning around the sun. He was talking to Jupiter, then when I got off he made me Jupiter.
Finally, we went and relaxed in the round swing. He said “I love this place”. I asked for clarification and he meant that park. He then asked “Can I have שוקולד הם (sounds like ‘chocolate ham’ – means ‘hot chocolate’)?” I said I didn’t know if there was any left at home. He replied “If there isn’t that’s okay, but if there is dada could you get me some chocolate ham?”
We left at 3:15, taking the back route out of the park, so a slightly longer walk. We stopped at our park and did the store again. He did a couple of funny GIFs for Carly as we sat up top, then we spotted Carly walking home and called to her. She came up for a couple minutes, then we all walked home at 3:45.
I found the hot chocolate. Carly made it and I put his hot chocolate outside. They went outside and I joined them after drying off a chair. He requested more hot chocolate, and Carly gave him the last little bit. He tasted it and said “It was pretty hot.” Didn’t cry, but was sad and climbed into Carly’s lap. After a minute he went and drank the rest of it.
We all went inside and he skyped with Vivian for a long time. There was a lot of hanging up on each other and calling back. Vivian said that Colin had pooped. August said “I’m gonna hang up. I don’t want to smell the poop!”
Nutty noodles for dinner. August told Carly (his idea) “Should have done a haircut when we skyped with Vivian.” August and I played Wizard School and he was doing more people/monsters/robots than he has done in the past. My favorite sort of looked like a family of 4 together, but when I asked what it was he said “A winnicado…it’s one of the meanest monsters in the world.”
We took him up for his pajamas and when he got those on without too much of a fuss I gave him some of our treat bread. We then brushed his teeth. When I said I love him a ton of Qs he said “I love you ONE star.” I asked if I could have more stars and he said “I shoot stars at you.” I asked what he was going to dream about and he said “Stars…and scary dreams.” Left them at 7:20.
Animals in caves:
After his bath:
Snakes and ladders park. His thinking face:
Climbing:
The Earth:
GIF for Carly (not sure if this will work):
Hot chocolate:
The Winnicado:
