He was awake and, Carly thought, getting up a bit before 6, but then fell back to sleep on his own. He was then up about 6:45. Carly was going to get him up, but I don’t think she had gone up yet when we heard him coming down the stairs and asking to nurse.
He watched Max and Ruby. In one episode they go Trick or Treating and wear reflective bracelets. He declared “I don’t want to do that!” For some reason he really dislikes the bracelets they try to make us put on at the science center, etc. He’s never worn one. He says he only likes his bracelets up in his closet, but he won’t actually wear one of those, either.
We played Piano Maestro and Dust Buster. He did more on his own own. “Zinnie mode starts off not many wrong notes but gets more wrong notes OVER TIME.” As he spreads his arms out in front of him to demonstrate. Passed another song, and got to second level and second chapter. I made a green pancake for him after he suggested we try brown sugar on it sometime. He made music with his piano, using his “kickdrum” to keep the beat. He was stepping on the lid to the piano, which was off and on the ground, to make a noise against the floor (obviously the neighbor was gone). When it came to the pancake he only ate one or two bites.
I exercised and he built Duplos. There is a small round hole in one of the tile trim pieces near the kitchen door. It doesn’t go anywhere, and we didn’t realize it was there until a couple days ago. He said he wanted me to silicone gel the hole in the trim. I said we could do it sometime. In the meantime he covered it up with the blanket.
Back to Duplos. I made a new base for him. He told me that wasn’t how mama did it. “Do you mind me if…” I add another piece. “Look, that end part is fragile, so be careful if you add Legos. It’s the fragile-est part I’ve make-d.” Tried to have the motorcycle go in his mouth from the slide.
He discovered a tag in the shirt of the pajamas he’s worn for a long time and had me cut it out: “Look at this! There’s a tag. It’s not homemade! Cut it out…Good, now it’s homemade!”
More piano and kickdrum. Then he watched more Max and Ruby and I did Hebrew. I started making a mango and strawberry smoothie. He had to go to the bathroom. When washing his hands he put his fingers around the water in an O shape. He said “See, like that. That’s how you rope off metal.” Yesterday, at the science center, in the puzzle area, there was one where you took a loop of rope off of a metal structure. It had reminded him of this, as the rope was like his fingers makin a circle and the water was the metal in te middle. He had tried to explain it to me, but I wasn’t sure what he was talking about. Speaking of the science center he said “What? Is it open? Then we should go there again.”
We drank the smoothie. He was then listening to his playlist, changing songs and singing and playing along to them. I then got out Hebrew notecards and was making notecards for words he learned in class. He was into this and found more words in the Hebrew book that he wanted me to do notecards for. We also got out the Hebrew notecard sets and magnets. That all ended though when he started to make a big mess out of them. First he tried to cover it up with the blanket, but then he was trying to bring Duplos over to add to the pile, and stepping on them, etc. Got upset when I made him stop and we cleaned up.
We went upstairs and watched a Sarah and Duck together, then I took a shower. Washed his hair during his bath. He handled it well and didn’t mind the water on his face as I did a fast wash as he let the water out of the bath.
Then he found the kaleidoscope cards. He said he’d play on his own while I went and started lunch. Worked a bit, then we moved the cards downstairs and he kept playing. I got mac and cheese for him and made a tuna sandwich for me. He changed his mind and wanted a honey sandwich, but I said that wasn’t an option. We did kaleidoscope cards together and he wouldn’t let me use a background on them, as it made the designs one-sided: “I HATE the solid ones.” He finally ate some mac and cheese, but not much.
He was then scooping Duplos in the cube pieces and carrying them over to the floor by the coffee table. We built a nice playground out of them. He was talking about something and said “Zombies…and blood everywhere…and teddy bears with their heads cut off.” He was quoting The Sisters and the older sister describing a scary movie. He was concerned about someone destroying the playground when we were gone. I asked who, and he said mama. So we sent her a message asking her not to destroy it when she was home and we were at his class. He then sent some text messages to her.
We went outside about 3:20 and he played with his beloved big stick. He said “Dada, the big storm wasn’t even big enough to get the sap off my stick!” There was some icky presumably-cat poop in the yard and he stepped on some of it while playing on the teeter-totter. He asked what it was and I told him. He got slightly upset and said “No. I’m sure it isn’t. Okay, I’m not joking. It’s a can of beans.” We found that if we sprayed the cat poop with the hose it dissolved into the grass pretty well.
We then went on a Zinnie walk. It was windy, but he said “The bike isn’t being a kite.” Referring to when he went on the beach with Carly. We talked about Larabars and he said he was sick of blueberry Larabars. He wants chocolate. Or peanut butter. We headed north, then cut over to the west past the cat-feeding spot. He kept heading west, saying he didn’t know what was that way. It takes us to the street to the school and I said we could go find mama walking home. Carly called, and it turned out we were really close. When we saw her, August put his head down and ‘hid’ on his bike until Carly came up and touched him.
We walked with her to our park and he wanted to stop and play shop. So we all went up the play structure. Down the slide (into me), then he found a little snail on the inside of the structure. Then more store. I asked what I could buy and he said “I don’t know. We have six of everything.” Then to the big teeter-totter where he did the prize-winning game: “Those black things are prizemen…they give you prizes…they come shooting out of their mouths.” He was then pressing all the ‘buttons’ (the plastic covers over bolts) to see what they would do and I’d make things up, like slime falling on his head, etc. A lot of laughing. He said the big one in the middle said “Danger, don’t press.” So when he pushed it I picked him up and was hopping while I held him. This was something new, and he laughed like crazy.
He and Carly then sat/lay in the swing together. I stood by them and he said “Dada, don’t look up. I’m afraid you’re under the metal.” He asked me to go buy things from the ‘store’ for him. I brought them back spider things, like bags of flies and mosquito juice. Carly was saying “Eww” to these things, so then August joked “Could you buy some cashew bars? Bring two.”
At 4:30 we walked home with Carly and said goodbye to her when she went in the house and we drove to class. As we got to the house he asked “Dada, how did someone teach me something when I was a baby and you and mama didn’t exist?” Tried to get some clarification on what he meant/believed, but he wouldn’t really add much.
Class was just him and Daria and Abigail at first. I told him to treat it like his Hebrew lesson, learning words and repeating things that Segal said. It worked a little, but he came out after a few minutes. He was in and out. He talked about not being able to do things. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a long setup time for the webbing thing and he didn’t like sitting on the bench. We went to the bathroom and came back and they were still doing sitting stuff. But finally the last ten minutes or so he was really into the playing and asked me a couple
times to watch him play in the web thing. Just a couple minutes before class was over I heard Segal talking to him. I couldn’t see them, as they were back towards the back corner. I don’t know what happened, but he came running out, upset. He tried telling me about it, but I couldn’t really understand. Something about just not being able to do anything. Couldn’t really talk to Segal at the end as she had her next class starting, but we stayed to say bye, then headed out.
In the car he asked “Can I have an extra tic-tac cuz I’m sad?” He sort of talked to me about it as we got home, but not specifically what had made him upset. He told me it was a one-time telling thing and wouldn’t tell me again. He said it was a secret.
Carly was out in the swing, watching the wind. He sat with her in the swing. There was more talk of metal in getting in your eye. I told them they talked about metal in their eyes about a million percent more than most people. At least.
Inside they nursed, then he had mac and cheese for dinner, but again just ate a couple bites. Carly found out about him being upset and asked if he was okay, then if he wanted a kiss. He said “Yes. But I’m still okay.”
He and Carly did a lot more building with Duplos. He was hungry, and finally said he wanted soup. Carly got him some and he had a lot, so then he got to have hot chocolate (we had all forgotten that he could have it on Wednesday, so had it today instead).
He drank that, then Carly asked if I could take him upstairs as she wanted to vacuum and August didn’t want her to. I tried to get him to read a book, but he insisted he wanted to do kaleidoscope cards. I’m getting kind of sick of them. We didn’t do any reading today as we did over an hour of the cards.
Upstairs at least, after initially telling me I couldn’t use background cards, I at least convinced him that they looked good and he let me use the solid pieces, and did some himself as well. We got him ready for bed and he said he’d dream about “Dragons, monsters, kaleidoscopes…monsters eating me!” He asked if that was okay. I said as long as it wasn’t scary. He said it would be. He was asleep about 7:40.
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