He and I both got up at 7:15. They nursed then we played Seuss Band. I passed the “Cat in the Hat” song for him but then had to draw a line – the last two are just too hard and I’d rather spend my time practicing real piano than Seuss Band. Carly made spinach pancakes. The first pancake was fine and August ate it all up and wanted a second. But the second one seemed like the spinach had started to go – the spinach tasted real strong. We decided to let him try it anyway, but he had the same opinion and gagged on his first bite. Weird, as it was one batch of batter and Carly had tasted the first pancake too.
He alternated eating thawed mango and popcorn and Carly went to the store. Still on Seuss Band he told me “See, that’s the rhythm i was talking about.” We then switched and read sone Dr. Seuss: Happy Birthday, Daisy Head Maisey. I did some exercise while he played Seuss Band on his own.
Carly called from the store, then August wanted to send her messages. He figured out he could draw pictures in Messages through Sketches and drew her a picture and asked if I like it. I said I did, and he said “Yeah, it’s pretty abstract.”
He’s been interested in baby toilets since he sees one in the bathroom at activity class and he’s been acting like a baby. He asked “Dada, how can babies go on the baby toilets like at Vivian’s house?” And he told me “I don’t ever want you or mama to leave my home.” I asked what he meant and he said “To leave me. To go to another place I can’t go.” Turned out he was talking about a babysitter, as we were talking about the Kerns girls babysitting him sometime.
He dropped some books on the floor and I said I was sick of the mess-making game. He replied “I’m sick or washing my hands all the time. Why can’t my hands be dirtier and dirtier?”
He wanted to go for a walk on his orange bike. As we were getting ready to go he asked “What happens if the Earth has more and more people? It would be overflowing? People would die?” We discussed that, then he asked the big “What happens when I die?”
We got going at 10:25. Carly came home right as we left. We took recycling up and did that, then walked west towards Tal Garden. By the synagogue a dog started barking at us like crazy. It was loose on the other side of a short fence. We stopped and August finished his popcorn and had some water. Eventually it crossed in front of us and headed to the left down the street. August and I went to the right. It ignored us for a bit, but then started running back at us, barking. I had my dog rocks ready, but when I turned it scooted into a driveway and stopped. We continued up to the end of the block, then circled around to our park. I tried to get August to play, but he was bothered by one wet spot on the big teeter totter that I didn’t want to clean up. We went on the spider-web swing for a couple minutes. I lay down and he stood on the edge. He remembered the password for the locker I had installed on his web.
We were home at 11:10. He then tried out his music machine (stick) to see if it worked when it is wet (it does). They nursed, then August said “I want one of my friends to nurse.” He got the stuffed horse. Carly said no. They did more dot painting. Carly asked him something and he replied “I don’t know about that. Anything else you want to talk about?” They were making magical turbines. Carly said she was making Es for the electrons in her generator but August didn’t like that idea: “You shouldn’t have done that.” And got a little upset about it.
He ‘raced’ her to the couch. He said “I always win. Even when I visit Vivian.” Oh my. I took a shower. He was eating more mango and drinking water. They were magical: “I made the mango magic cuz it makes The Sisters come to real life.” “We need the mango meter to go up to 18 then that will happen.” He ate it all, then said “Poof!” The Sisters had appeared. For the next magic I said our yard would fill with cats. He asked. “What if all cats in the world come to our yard?” I said it would make Carly sneezy. So he finished his water and said “There! It’s all Sneezy!”
For lunch he ate some noodles and pesto. Carly let him have a bit of the “sugar plum” candy cane from Thatcher and family. He told me “You should have a piece sometime. Not a curvy one though.” He wants to save those pieces for himself. After he ate it he said “We need to brush my teeth really good.” I gave him his bath. He watched Animusic videos. Downstairs he made a sculpture for Carly out of Duplos. He said “I like pink and purple. Why are they so pretty?”
The noodles and veggies were done and he had some. He told Carly “Thie is good, mama. You should make it more often.” Played more Seuss Band, then read more Dr. Seuss: Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? and Happy Birthday to You!
We walked to the mall and went to Rebar to get a smoothie. August Said “I see the ad!” It was the Rebar ad from YouTube. Got the usual chocolate peanut butter smoothie. First ate at a table, then moved to a bench to stay in the sun. August asked “Mama, how many Spanish words do you know in Spanish?” And on the bench he brought up “I’ve seen a Kipper video of Arnold floating up to the sky to a mountain I think and he could eat it.” It got around to a discussion of how watermelon isn’t my favorite fruit. August said “You should because it’s all juicy.”
We then went in the mall. Found that the place that had been worked on was Now a pizza hut. And like other pizza places, the only meat on the menu is tuna. We were considering getting a wooden box to paint for him but in the crafts store he wanted to grab things. I said “Let’s skip it today.” They both heard “Let’s give it to Dave.” and were confused.
They went to the bathroom and I looked in the bookstore. August and I then went in Kravitz and found colored pencils, a pink see-through pencil sharpener, a green and pink eraser, and a little pack of modeling clay. He also really wanted a magnifying glass, which we noted for birthday time. Carly had gone to the health food store and gotten peanut butter and a couple things at Tiv Taam.
August wanted to stop at the playground outside, so we did and he ‘flew’ the plane, then was climbing on it and the train, trying to make us nervous. Carly had a headache, so on the way home we let her walk the short way home and we took the long way. Sort of. August had been fixated on mama having to pee all the time, but then when I explained that she had a headache he decided he wanted to be loud. He turned us around and we headed home, but I got him to walk up Kibuts Galyout a bit before going home.
We were home before 5. At the door, as I talked about needing to be quiet, he seemed stuck between not going in because he was afraid he’d be too loud and wanting to go in and be really loud to be ‘funny’. Being loud won out. I almost had to take him upstairs. He skyped with Vivian and Carly went upstairs. We played with the clay we had just bought. Vivian drew a picture of August that was really cool. We mixed red and white clay to make pink, and he made a solar panel. Eventually, Vivian disappeared so we hung up and August went upstairs to Carly.
They came down and Skyped with Cherie and Chuck. I had to take him upstairs for being loud. Came back down and apologized we played the Seuss Band app and I got dinner for him while Carly talked to her parents. He ate two bowls.
I mentioned how he should watch Puffin Rock again. He said “I don’t like that anymore. I changed what I like. Now I like Kipper and Max and Ruby.” He watched a Kipper. He played with the clay with Carly and ended up smooshing it all together. Luckily, a pack is less than 3 dollars. “I like squishing things. It’s like we’re back in Korea.” Once it was in one big ball he decided to get rid of it: “Can we drop it outside and never notice it again.” He kept saying this, and eventua
lly we let him put it in a plastic bag and throw it out the front door. He was spinning something and I said “Good spinning” He replied “Why? Is it making Tic-Tacs?”
Derek and Andrea and family then called on Skype and they talked for a good while. August and I then read a bunch of books in Skybrary as they kept skyping: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes, Albert the Fix-It Man, Freda Plans a Picnic, Hungry Fox and the Midnight Pies, Alphabet: A Zipping, Zooming ABC.
Carly took him upstairs and got him ready for bed. I said my usually “I love you a ton of Q.” He said I should love him more than a ton. Not quite the infinities he argues with Cherie and Carly about. That led to a discussion of why Q, and I explained it was a unit of love measurement that I made up. I left them at 8:50.