He woke up and asked “Can I go to the bathroom before we go?” I asked go where. “Downstairs.” After he went to the bathroom I told him he could go downstairs and mama was there. He started down the stairs then stopped and asked “Are you sure?”
Nursed and then Carly got up from the couch and he lay there. And then asked “Dada, could I have some Cheerios?” in what sounded like a British accent. He had fun putting Cheerios down his shirt, then did a “Magical disappearing hug” with Carly. He watched some Smurfs. Carly had locked the gate when she left and asked me to unlock it. I went and did so, then got an email a couple minutes later saying the gas delivery guy had already come and couldn’t get in. August played Easy Music, working on the rhythms and songs parts, then he was being a sick bird on the couch. He asked “Do animals get sad?” We then played Sound Rebound. At one point, when I hadn’t made any jokes, he said “It’s not nice of you to make jokes…I just don’t like jokes.” We then played Musyc. So a lot of music creation in the morning.
I exercised, then he was making a machine with the mop, chair, and a pillow on the floor: “This is a complicated machine…that’s the pivot point.” “Squeak…it broke cuz it’s out of oil.” Earlier he had made machines from Cheerios, as if they were gears. He drank the leftover smoothie from yesterday, then played some Seuss Band
We played xylophone and piano. I taught him the G major scale as the xylophone starts on G and played two octaves at once. We took the xylophone over by the piano and were playing scales together.
He was then going through different vents, a la I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, and went through vent 5: “I discovered a tiny trap door.” He started discussing Max and Ruby and tried to argue that it teaches you things: “That’s one thing it teaches you; it teaches you not everybody likes eggs.” He made a conveyor belt out of a rubber band on the cabinet handles.
We took crackers and peanut butter and smoothie up on his bed and I took my shower. He said “Hi merry! Here’s my bracelet!” I forgot Angeles was now Merry. He used it as a conveyor belt. We watched a Julius Jr. together. He played with his bracelet: “It looks like lips. It’s my latest invention.” He had me take photos of his different shapes.
During his bath I chose a SciShow Kids video on why we see color. Then watched some Dr. Binocs videos and a video on brushing your teeth.
I made a tuna sandwich and apple sauce for lunch. He just ate the apple sauce. We trimmed his nails and cleaned them, then he played with the clippers and was figuring out how to use them. He also asked how they work and we talked about levers.
Played some Seuss Band, then finally got outside, where he played on his teeter totter and hummed Seuss songs. We had planned on driving to Winter Lake Park, but he decided he didn’t want to drive. He just wanted to ride his bike. He said “The walk will be fun.”
We decided to go to the mall and get chocolate chips for our cookies tomorrow. On the way he asked “How’d they cook things before they had stoves?” We were to the mall by 2:30. Stopped at the play area outside. Did some climbing around, then there were a couple of girls he was trying to play with. But they kept moving somewhere else when he got close to them. I got him and told him it looked like they wanted to play by themselves. We got on the airplane. He said “Dada, I have a glitch in me.” Then a minute later he said “The problem is I’m not designed to play with other people…I’m not. See? It’s not in my program.” He cheered up as he was a machine delivering things “Its a pretty complicated machine.” One thing it delivered was “Butterfly glasses…Actually, it makes you see like a unicorn.”
We went in the train. He saw a girl with balloons – she must be 8 now – and said “But I don’t EVER want to get balloons. Because I might let go of them.” He had me act out having balloons floating away. When I pretended to cry he told me I shouldn’t: “But it’s okay for big people.”
He tried again with some of the girls and this time it worked: he was chasing a girl around, and she was chasing him back, and a couple of other girls got involved, including the girl with balloons. She got the balloons snagged on the train and one of the small balloons broke off and floated up in the tree. August said he liked that part. Maybe not if it was his balloon.
We played on the train again: “I’m going back in time, you know. To see scientists! The father I go more scientists!”
He declared he was done playing and we headed in to the grocery store. I first pointed out the restaurants we haven’t eaten at yet and he was excited about trying them sometime.
Shopping went well. There chocolate chip selection was minimal, so we got a variety to try them, including white chocolate, which he wanted. He told me he doesn’t like tuna anymore. He announced, probably thinking of the balloons earlier, “When it’s oma’s birthday I don’t want Oma to suggest a party. Too much people.”
We left at 3:40. Studying his arm he said “I really don’t know why those hairs is there.” He had noticed hairs on his leg a day or two ago. We talked about what it does and evolution.
We got home and watched one more Julius Jr. I made a joke about something and then said I remembered I wasn’t supposed to make jokes. He now told me that jokes are funny. Carly came home. They nursed, then he was whispering nonsense to me.
We had dinner. Carly gave him some of her leftover noodles from lunch at school, but he didn’t like them as it was too peppery. He had some soup instead.
I went upstairs for some work time. August didn’t want to let me go and came up with me. Got him back downstairs to Carly and they watched a toothbrushing video at his request and a couple of videos about Golgi apparatus and other cell parts. “I like where it stores the things and packages them up…and the part where it shrinks when it doesn’t have water.” He talked a lot about it. They then ended up using the Namoo app. They came up to me before 7:30.
He liked jokes again after I made one to Carly: “Jokes are funny.” Carly was about to put him to bed when she remembered she was going to ask him “What does peace mean to you?” It is something that her students are doing. She took him into the office and he asked “What? You’re gonna put my foot in a scanner?” That’s a reference to The Sisters when Maureen wants to scan her cast. He really liked making a video and answering the questions, then did a freeform video. Took him to bed and I lef them at 7:50. He was asleep by 8.