August was up at 6:35. I got up at 7:10. They were playing with Cubetto and discussing space stations. August and I finished reading Young Cam Jansen and the 100th Day of School Mystery and did the picture thing. August played with Duplos and hummed. He then played with his xylophone. He used a stick from the xylophone to invent a clock: “This is an old clock they had when they didn’t invent two arm ones.” We then played with Musyc and created a couple of good boards/songs. He had had oatmeal with Carly. I had toast, then eventually made him a piece of his own. I then made a mango smoothie. Carly was grading outside. August went out and played with his stick and we sawed off a little of it again. He was playing with the stick and said “I’m just pretending to be a glue machine.”
He made Carly a shopkeeper: “You can borrow my calculator if you want to.”
I went and took a shower. When I came down they were playing cards. First go fish and then war. Carly took him up for a bath, and he told her everything she was doing wrong: I put the toys somewhere else, I fill up the squirt cars, I don’t fill the bath so high. He also likes to tell Carly “You always say that”. He played in the bath for a long, long time. Spelling words for awhile.
Came downstairs and was messing with Carly’s computer. He ate more of his oatmeal and asked Carly how a pen works if you can’t see something coming out. She explained, then he asked to hear the explanation again: “What did you say about the falling down part again?” She explained again and he said “Wow”.
They went to the store. August did great. Priced irrigation system at Ace. Played at the playground a bit. Got gas. He told me “Mama thinks she push-ed a button that said ‘No reciept’.”
They were gone just over 2 hours. I worked and they got home 2:20. I knocked on the door when they were about to come in and acted like they were the ones inside. He thought that was funny. I got him nutty noodles. He started asking nonsense math questions again: “What’s 8 plus gross?” I called the doctor and he told me the cast should stay as-is “for now”, although he said we could make it smaller if I wanted. Might bug him about it in a week or so. Would especially like to have my wrist back. Didn’t foresee having that wrapped up. A bit later August told me”I hope your finger’s still healing.”
We went and played Duplos. Carly snuck off to work. He sang a “Ploo” song to Skip to My Lou, where every word was ‘ploo’ and he jerked his head with each note. He asked “What’s ‘plural’?” Earlier he had told Carly he had used his magic powers to change his name to Bar, and I had referenced the Seuss story “Too Many Daves”. He now said “I turned into a story: Too Many Bars”. We made a Duplo playground and then had two of the girls playing on it. He said it was a playground for just nine and a half year-olds. The younger sister was just 3 and a half and kept getting hurt. I eventually got him to go out for a walk. We left the little sister recovering from surgery to her broken finger and he said she might be awake when we got back.
We left at 3:55. I told Carly we were leaving. She was up working in the bedroom. August asked if there was any other park with climbing stuff besides the snakes and ladder playground. There really isn’t, but he agreed to the pine tree park. On the walk up he said, talking about the Duplos: “Dada, before she hurt her finger and was on the playground she was drinking alcohol. It makes you think less.” He wanted to heard “Do you wanna build a snowman?” So we listened to it a few times on my phone as we walked.
We got to the pine tree park by 4:20. He spotted an interesting gauge on a box coming out of the ground. We checked after a few minutes to see if we could tell that the numbers had moved at all but we couldn’t. We went over to the log running toy and he saw a hole dug in the sand: “What’s that big hole for?” We joked about it being hidden treasure. Yesterday he had told me “There’s no such thing as buried treasure.” We played on the log rolling thing. He pondered digging, but I said I didn’t want to dig in this sand with just my hands.
We continued on to fruit fight park (where we saw kids throwing fruit at each other once). Checked out the street construction along the way, where a block is closed and they’re putting in new sidewalks, etc. Got to the park and he climbed up on the structure asking “What are all the optical illusions?” He has been saying “You know?” a lot. He said this park was only for 9 and a half year olds. Hummed “Do you want to build a snowman” as he played for awhile. He then wanted to head home. Thought he’d want to stop at snakes and ladders back but didn’t.
We took a slightly long way home, past Holly’s house. We were magnets again going back. He counted cats along the way and did a lot of his own pedaling. He saw a padlock around a post, then was attaching himself to posts. We were back at 5:10.
He wanted me to guess where Carly was, but wouldn’t guess himself because he didn’t want to be wrong. “I always want to make guessed right!” We made him guess something wrong before he could nurse – he guessed I had something invisible in the hand when it was his water bottle. We then played Little Dragonbox Numbers, which he hasn’t played in months but remembered while on the walk. Then ate pisole for dinner and made a lot of yummy noises and was humming songs while he ate. We then played with Duplos, enlarging the playground and having the girls play on it again.
He asked “Why is glass brittle? Why does glass break if it’s really strong?” I suggested we look for a video. He said “We did when you hurt your finger and were having surgery…at the pizza place.” He demolished the playground, head first. Then we went and read all of Frog and Toad Together. Then on Skybrary he found Scrubba Dub, Carlos and we read that. Then we read I Can Do It Myself! twice with him saying the titular line. We read a book called Calendar, then one called Keep Your Distance! He played Tongo Music, which is a calm before-bed music app. He said he was hungry and insisted on Cheerios and got upset when we said no. Carly took him up at 7:35 and I left them about 7:50. He was soon asleep.
