He was up at 5:55. On the couch he asked Carly “What’s water plus crane?” Carly taught him ‘stream of consciousness’. When Carly left for work he said he didn’t love her, but then I got him to say he did, and he added something like “But I don’t love her when she goes to work.” He played Dragonbox Little Numbers, then Music4Kids. We saw a Beat Bugs app and he really wanted it. We bought it and listened to the four songs it includes. He hummed and sang along for awhile, then grew tired of it. We agreed that the interactive parts were disappointing. In the evening he asked me to delete it from the iPad.
I exercised and we played Seuss Band. He said “I hear a gurgling noise in my pants!” He laughed when I figured out he meant there was a wocket in his pocket. We switched over and read that book, then read I had Touble in Getting to Solla Sollew and Gertrude McFuzz. He then played his piano and played one of the Seuss songs and variations of the Hebrew color song.
We went up and I took a shower and he watched Julius Jr. In his bath we watched his favorite Animusic video (“Acoustic Curves” https://youtu.be/zF26jtMA9U0), then Wintergaten videos. First the original Marble Machine video, then the newest update on making the new machine, which was all about making gears, so August really liked it: https://youtu.be/SkI22V_v-xY Then two of the videos featuring old music machines at the museum: https://youtu.be/jUApoagh64U and https://youtu.be/5UpriHcn_xs
Finally washed him and we headed downstairs. He had taken the useless door handle of the shower off and brought a part of it down with him. He played with it and made music. He just had his underwear on and at one point he stood on the couch and put his hand in his underwear and said “grurgle, gurgle, gurgle”. So funny. It was the wocket. He played his piano and gave himself a lead in – it was like in Seusss Band, and he played variations on a Seuss song. For lunch I made hima grilled cheese sandwich and he ate apple sauce with cinnamon. We watched a little more Juliue Jr. and had some Hebrew time.
We were then being a machine on the couch. Lasted quite awhile but then he got crazy and kicked my had quite hard. I had been feeling really well and we were going to get going outside but then suddenly I got really tired. I let him watch an extra episode of Julius Jr. and we feasted on the couch.
He then had us acting out I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew: “It was damp so I grew moss on my feet.” He was going through passages using the pillows and was doing it earlier: “I discovered a doorway that said ‘vent number 2’.”
He found the mop and was using it as a lever with the yoga mat. Played around outside for awhile and said “I’m wearing my magical shoes.” He scratched the paint on the bookshelves and we went in for a time out on the couch, which he really didn’t like: “you don’t love me.” He had a lot of trouble saying “Sorry Dada for scratching.” He was first saying it in a baby voice. Finally said it in his real voice. Outside he ripped apart a leaf and said “The bonds isn’t very strong.”
We hopped on his bike and headed to school. On the way he spotted one of the spots where pipes come out of the ground and go into homes and asked “Is that a gauge?” There were two, and the wheel was spinning on one of them. So we looked at several more gauges on the way to school.
We went to the library and he spent most of the time playing with the big stuffed animals. He hid in them and piled them in the chair and climbed on them. Found a few books, and he briefly did art on one of the computers. I had tried to stop him from putting stuffed animals on the chair, as he kept messing up the sort of display, with a turtle reading a book and having a mustache. When I went to return a Calvin and Hobbes book I heard him talking to Amanda. When I came back he had put an animal on the chair. He turned to me and said “Amanda said I could do it!” Seemed a few years older when he said it. He was also talking to Liz and when she left her desk he wondered where she was. He went and found her in the office and said “There you are!” He checked out our books (Seuss’s I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today and Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories, Is Everyone Ready for Fun? and The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?) Then we went to the building shapes, then read Sleepless Knight, a short graphic novel. He also did some jumping from the seating area to the squares.
Carly came about 4:10 and he was upset because he wanted to keep playing. Walking out, Bar came running across the grass and said hi. She showed us her ballet dancing, then introduced him to one of her friends.
We walked towards home and stopped at our park when he jumped off and sat on the alligator bench, Ended up playing on the teeter totter thing where he was making potions using things like pink ink and sparkles. He turned Carly into things: “You’re something that can’t see. You’re a worm.” Then turned her into oxygen, then hydrogen, then electricity. Back at home he would have me turn him into an atom, then back into Zinnie. To turn him back I thought of all the Zinnie-est things I could: 14s, Qs, his orange bike, hot chocolate, etc,
We got home after 5. We read I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today, then had pisole for dinner. He made up a song on the piano and showed it to both of us. He called it “Keese hears a who” and showed us how he was using different fingers to press the keys. H convinced Carly he could have a treat and when she asked if he’d had any treats today he said “Yeah, Tic Tacs. But that counts on a different level.” He had a Thatcher treat and said “Look at all the sugary goodness.”
He had eaten a good amount of soup, so later Carly let him have oatmeal and mango. When she put honey in it he said “That makes is a Thatcher-level treat!” He scarfed that down and wanted more. Amanda Palmer just released a new song and video called “Judy Blume” As we watched he said “I love this. Could you add it to my playlist?” He also asked “Why can our eyes see big things, but not small things?”
On the couch I made the potion to turn him into atom; another to turn him back. We then read Is Everyone Ready for Fun? and The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? With Carly he then read the first two stories in Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories.
He asked that I carry him upstairs and then he and I read the last two stories in it. Carly showered. I let him play some Tongo Music and he wanted to play music for Carly when she came back. He said he wasn’t going to fall asleep, even though it was 8. He came down and he and I read The Great Henry McBride and To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Tried again at 8:30. Back down again. He lay with me on the couch for a little whi;e, then I took him up and we did timers on the bed. At first he was hitting his foot against the bed and me, and talking a lot. We kept practicing and he did a couple minutes of lying silently on the bed and not moving. Seemed very close to falling asleep on his own, But eventually he said he preferred falling asleep with mama. I got her and left them at 9:25.