He woke up and asked me to take him down to Carly. But by the time I got out of bed he had layed back down and fallen back to sleep. He then woke up about 6:50. Carly took the car to work as it was raining hard.
We watched Julius Jr. He really liked the one where they turn everything pink. A lot of laughing on that one. I suggested we build a Duplo zoo. He got really excited and reminded me that he had put two pieces of fence in for it yesterday but we never built it. We built a zoo, then I made a mango and strawberry smoothie. Exercised and he watched Julius Jr. We then built a Duplo playground to go with the zoo. He spotted a big bug on the Duplos that maybe looks like a kind of cockroach. It disappeared but found it again when he destroyed the playground with his head. I captured it.
We went upstairs and in his room he made an infinity sign from one of his bracelets. I took a shower. He came in and told me he got some poeanut butter on his bed. I told him thanks for telling me. When I went out I couldn’t find him. I found him in the big bedroom. He had moved the iPad to the bed on the floor because he didn’t like being by the peanut butter.
I started some laundry and then we did his bath. He played with Carly’s water bottle, dumping water in the bath. After his bath we went in and played kaleidoscope cards: “I made a design with equilaterals!? Thats pretty cool.” “I like how the volcano shapes are sticking out.” “I was reminding you…”
He talked about liking my toothbrush and I wondered if he’d like an electric toothbrush or if he’d find it too tickly. So I let him try my toothbrush and he liked it. I suggested we walk somewhere for lunch. He of course settled on Sushi Ishimoto: “Why do I love the noodle place? Because it’s the best noodles in the world. I love it.”
We got going at 12. Randomly told me “I call the Hebrew teacher Daria now.” He was humming a Seuss song. We were using ‘left’ and ‘right’ in Hebrew and he told me “We should work on north and south.” So we worked on ‘north’ and ‘west’ on the way up and ‘south’ on the way back. He had fun squishing a big mushroom that was lying on the sidewalk for some reason.
We got to the restaurant and August chose our usual table. He wanted the same thing – noodles with shrimp – but we went for the normal noodles. He used his chopsticks again and was picking up shrimp with them. He ate all the shrimp. When we were done I suggested we play cards. He talked about not liking having a winner and I came up with a cooperative version of Go Fish, where we were putting all of our pairs together to try to sort the whole deck. He was skeptical at first as that wasn’t how Carly did it. He also wanted to know how the blinds on the window work and we looked at the gear part and I taught him how to raise and lower them.
When we were done we got walking. He wanted a new playground, and there is one near our path to the school that we’ve never played at. On the way we stopped and watched a construction crane. We walked by a cat who was trying to eat a can of salmon or tuna. The can was turned upside down. So I used my foot to turn it back upright and the cat kept eating. August asked me twice to explain what I’d done with the cat. Finally, August was following the lines of white bricks in the sidewalk. Oh, and August talked about generating power as he rolled and I told him about power regeneration in the cars we watch race.
We got to the playground at 1:50. He thought I sounded like a pirate when I said something, and so we became pirates. And this became ‘Buried treasure playground’. Much of our time was spent running and climbing around pretending to use a map and the binoculars to find buried treasure. The treasure chest would then be full of socks or shoes or something, but then the gold would be hidden inside them.
He then asked “How can a bakery make the thing someone wants if they make a mistake?” No idea where that came from. But that led to a second game of play acting ordering a cake. He made hilarious recipes though with ingredients like nails and all sorts of other things. I think I made a reference to mookah mook something and then August asked if I wanted to know the Mookah Mook alphabet. So he told me and I got a video. I was curious when he came up with ‘Mooka’ and I searched and found that he had first made a ‘Mookah mookah’ tower almost two years ago on February 18, 2016 when we were playing with the wood blocks at the Folk Museum in Seoul and he played by the Russian boy.
We left at 2:50. As we went he said he gave me a hat that is pointy “like a wizard.” It told me things like how much power I’m making and all sorts of other stuff. We were home at 3:30.
I had some pita and hummus and za’atar. He had a few bites with hummus when I suggested it would make the za’ater stick better. We were listening to music and he said “What song is this? It’s kinda weird. Add it to my playlist!” It was Brad’s “My Fingers”.
We watched some smurfs together. It was the Meany episode. Carly got home a couple minutes before it was over and he basically ignored her until it was finished. They nursed, then we read Is Everyone Ready for Fun? We played Seuss Band. I let us buy the last song, “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” and he was really excited.
Carly made a cheese sauce and broccoli and he ate that for dinner. He and I then started reading Sisters 3. Carly tried to take him up for bed but he protested that he’d never had his soup, which he’d let get cold on the table. She reheated it and then he ate all of it. Then he protested that she had said he could have a treat if he ate all his soup. He got the last chocolate coin from the Thatcher treats. We took him up and I left them at 7:50. He was asleep soon after.