Carly got him up right before she left again. Really groggy on the couch for awhile, then wanted to play Busy Gears. As he played, he asked “Can you do some laundry, please, dada?” Good remembering that he and Carly had told me before he went to bed that we should do laundry today. He had commented on the laundry basket being full. I started laundry, then came down and we read The Wing on a Flea. He then looked at the songbook and was making up music. He found in the back that he could rate the iBooks and he talked about how much he liked the songbook so he gave it five stars. He then opened other books and rated them.
We bought a new book, Sarah and Duck have a Quiet Birthday and read that. He then watched Animusic videos and played along as I made a smoothie. We discussed advertisements and Rebar. He talked about how he doesn’t even know what some of the ads are selling. And he told me that the Rebar ads are about 4 hot drinks. He then sang a “Mima mema more” version of his latest mystery song. And he asked me “Could you add that to the blog? It’s a lovely song.” He was then a space robot studying Mars and other planets. I took a nice photo of him explaining that he could withstand any hot temperature.
We built a big structure with Duplos. While we were building he asked me why people get runny noses. When I did it helped protect against germs he told me “Oh, I learned that. I learned that in school.” He stood by the tall straight plant and it is almost as tall as him. He said “When two things are the same, you know…” Then turned into a plant. This is a running joke of his, that when two things are the same in some way they turn into the same thing.
We re-read the Cam Jenson Circus Mystery book. He then watched a couple videos of acrobats while I took a shower. He played his upstairs music machine, then I gave him his bath. I had made some falafel and french fries. He rejected falafel and when I asked if he’d eat french fries he replied “No, I’m more interested in physics…I’m more interested in physics and gears.” He had found a coin somewhere and threw it off the couch. He told me “I throwed the coin off in the distance.” And he told me “Dada, I really liked the background photo you had on your iPad before you changed it.” That was weeks and weeks ago. Can’t remember what it was before, although we looked through some of the photos to find it. He played some Monster Physics. Then he asked “What’s capes?…Why does superheros wear them?” I asked where he learned that and he said “It was in activity class.” And he added “Do capes look superhero-ish?”
He was having naked time as he hadn’t put clothes on after his bath. He pushed all the cushions and stuffed animals onto the floor and made a mouse nest. He was also a sick mouse a lot today. Earlier he had been a sick mouse and was telling his “friends” that he couldn’t play with them for seven hours because he was sick.
We played some Dust Buster, then he did a little Piano Maestro. He passed the last chapter 1 song, and practiced a song with two notes a little. He drank the rest of the smoothie and asked for some thawed mango. He asked “You know, how do tight rope walkers stand on…” Lots of talk of tight rope walker discussions and questions today. He made up a song, then said “So much things to add to the blog. Could you take a video of the next song?” He was singing and hitting the toy syringe with a spring on it on the couch as a rhythm instrument. Soft couch, but surprisingly it broke the top off of it. I told him I’d try to super glue it later.
We went for a walk, finally, after 3. We stopped and did recycling, then went to the park. He said “Dada, I like living close to a park.” Of course, he’s always liked close to a park. In the swing he opened his locker and said “We’re out of milk and chocolate-covered flies.” We played around on the ‘store’ structure for awhile, then he hopped on the bike. Made it as far as the exercises equipment where he jumped off and we played for a few minutes. We then walked over to Tal Garden a little before 4. When I said where we were headed he asked “Do you mean the one with a helter skelter?” He played on the motorcycle thing, then went and spit on the edge. He said “I spitted! In PUBLIC!…I was doing some things we weren’t supposed to do not public.” He had been talking about peeing at the other park. Back on the motorcycle he randomly talked about all sorts of things. He asked why Jack lived at the house across the street. He then added “You know, it’s not a very nice house.”
Switched to the merry-go-round and we went really fast on it. He wanted to do that a few times. He then had an art supply store on the slide. He adjusted his sweatshirt: “Dada? Could you let me control how high and how low the zipper is? It was really high up. So I put it down.” He spotted Jack leaving his house and we said hi. Back in his art supply store he said that everything was magical so the pencil sharpeners wouldn’t cut his finger.
We left at 4:25. He asked “Can we listen to I’ve bee working on the railing road?” I sang it a few times, him humming along. Then he said “I said actually to listen to it.” We listened to the Pete Seeger version several times and took a walk around the Holly block, getting home at 4:40. He asked “Could we do an iHerb order?” We were looking at Larabar options when Carly got home.
He ate some soup for dinner, then Carly let him have a piece of the candy cane. He started playing GroRecycling and I went upstairs to the office to work. They took a long time getting ready for bed and played with the kaleidoscope cards. They came and got me and I went in and said goodnight and left them at 7:20.