He was up about 6. He woke up and Carly heard him and came in. After they nursed he asked her “Did you wake me up to nurse?” And seemed a little upset that she hadn’t. He watched Kipper until we gave Carly a ride to work. Back home he watched some more Kipper and requested sweet things for breakfast. Instead, we made green eggs with mushrooms, spinach, olives and za’atar. He helped put the food coloring in.
We ate our eggs, which turned out quite nice and green. Then he asked “Can I watch the seconds hand on your phone in the clock?” And he asked “How did the clocks work way, way, way in the past?”
We then started the crystal growing experiment that we’d bought at the art store months ago. Once that was started we played with piano and took it all apart. Then back to Monster Physics. He made an all pink monster. He made an invention, saying “My design’s gonna be complicated.” We had fun working through more problems and only have a few left.
I exercised, then made a strawberry and frozen berries smoothie. He made a Lego sculpture and then we put the piano together. We went upstairs and he played TodoMath. And wouldn’t let me take a shower. In fact, he was being rather needy and teenager-y today and it was hard to get anything done. Earlier, he kept needing my attention when I was making the smoothie. The first time distracted me from the fact that I hadn’t tightened the base. Then, I poured milk in, and immediately had to go attend to him. I came back to find milk all over the counter.
Anyway, I took a shower. When he went to the bathroom he suddenly started asking questions about surfing. He asked “Will you drown?” if you fall off the surfboard. We talked about how you could swim, how the surfboard is attached to you, etc. He kept calling me into his room to show me things. One was using the doctor tweezer things around his toe. He asked me if I could do it. It fit around my toe too. He said “It’s great that we can both do that.”
He took his bath. No hair washing today. He said we shouldn’t do it again “Until we visit Vivian…that will be a challenge.” Yes it would be.
On the landing he took the Christmas lights off the corner of the bannister and they started to come down. He said he wanted to take them down because it wasn’t Christmas anymore.
He played GarageBand while I made some lunch. He was figuring out The Farmer in the Dell. He then opened Piano Maestro and changed my icon in it to match the pink horse that he has: “Its cooler than the robot one.” We played some Piano Maestro.
We got going at 2. He wore his Minnie Mouse shoes and remembered Vivian giving them to him. He asked if that meant that when Vivian was an adult that he could get all of her kid shoes. In the car he was remembering the Magic Treehouse book we read a few weeks ago: “In the story how could the ice wizard take off his eye?”
We drove down to the big Tiv Taam. We put our money in and got a cart. We parked our cart by the kitchen supplies and walked over to look at muffin tins. August took the bags out of the cart because he wanted to carry them. It was just a minute, but when we went back to the cart there was a woman trying to take it. I said “Lo!” and went to take the cart. The guy with her, in Russian, joked to me about letting her take the cart. I just glared at him and took the cart. It’s not like they were waiting around to see if someone had abandoned the cart. And who would abandon a cart right there with $1.50 in it?
August wasn’t super into shopping, but got through it. He was entertained along the way by first watching a lift truck and asking how it worked. I told him there was a display in the DaVinci exhibit at the science center that we could play with next time. And he started to spot and try out all the steep ladders that were around the store. He tried three.
Back at home we added some of the glow powder to the crystal experiment. I put groceries away and cut up a carrot and got out veganaise for him. Carly got home. He remembered that we had downloaded more Arabic apps from the makers of Zee’s Alphabet. They weren’t too great, but there was a storybook one, in English, that was pretty good that he read/watched all the way though. For dinner he requested more green eggs. He ate two eggs worth, then still wanted more, but that was all I had made. Carly got out strawberries and yogurt and honey. They then skyped with Vivian and company for a long time. Vivian was showing them a scary picture she drew. August was making things out of Legos and said “I’m gonna make something with the Legos that’s more scary than the picture!”
Carly had thought he was ready for bed a bit before 7. But he then came to me and we read the zipper page of How Things Work (he had asked about zippers in the car earlier). We then bought the second Sisters book. While we waited for it to download we read some of the first Sisters book, then the Red book, about a crayon. We then read a little of The Sisters, book 2. We got him ready for bed, and I asked him what he was going to dream about. He was trying on my glasses at the time and said “Blurries”.
Left them just after 8. But he came down at 8:30. He said he had woken up from a dream. He said “I dreamed about getting in trouble in Thailand.” I asked what he got in trouble for. He replied “What do you mean? It doesn’t make sense.” When I asked WHO was in trouble he said “Just mama and me.” When I asked why he said “Taking the sink apart…it said ‘Warning, don’t take apart. A sign right on the table. Big piece of paper. Upper case letters. And a Big X mark. I think it was someone’s favorite sink.”
He then did a little mashup of songs and sang “Mary had a farmer in Dell…” We read Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race and Young Cam Jansen and the Molly Shoe Mystery. Carly took him back up at 9:05. She took him to the “Upstairs cousin” toilet. Because the toilets talk to August and they are cousins.
He has been bothered by water down his arms when washing his hands the last couple days. I was being careful to make sure it didn’t happen during the day today and he said he still got water down his arm and wanted his shirt off. I felt inside the shirt after I took it off and couldn’t feel anything. It then happened with Carly this evening. He was also climbing on everything today. We were slow in the grocery store because he kept climbing on and standing up in the cart. At home it was the couch and the edge of the bed.
Pink monster:
Tiv Taam:
His find:
Ladders:
Skyping with Vivian:
