Thunder and lighting hit at 11:30 last night. I watched it from the kitchen and kitchen door for 20 minutes or so. There was one big bolt that was quite close. All the street lights went out when it struck and they came back after a few seconds. Carly was woken by the thunder, but August slept through it. During the night he ended up on the bed though and was waking up a lot. In the morning I got up with him about 6:40 and Carly got up a bit later. One of the very few times he and I have gotten up before Carly.
He watched Julius Jr. At one point he asked me for water. It was right on the ground next to the couch, after he had pushed it off. I said he could do it, and he said “I’m watching a video.” I set it at the other end of the couch for him to get.
Carly had opened the sliding door to admire the rain. August went over to her and realized it ws open and ws concerned the rain was getting in. He said he was a cold baby. Carly didn’t understand him and basically asked “What’s a cold baby?” They played with Duplos. He ran over to show me how 1 Duplo plus 2 Duplos makes a triangle. Carly told him to walk on the way back: “Why? Is it Saturday morning? I HATE Saturday morning.”
Back on the couch he dumped Cheerio dust on me. I asked Carly to vacuum me off. He was with Carly for a bit,then wanted to play Sound Rebound. I put Sound Rebound on his iPad. “Can I play with you? That would be even more fun.” Rain poured down again outside. They played Sound Rebound and got it to quit. Carly taught him the old blowing-in-the-Nintendo-cartridge thing. He got up to go to the bathroom and asked “Could you do interesting stuff for me while I go to the bathroom? Hey, do I need to go to the bathroom?”
More Sound Rebound, then he and I finished reading Best Friends for Frances. Then read I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Then switched to the iPad for Too Many Marvins, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket, and The Shape of Me and Other Things. He said “I want to learn about a nature app on my iPad.” Then played Earth Primer and the Nature apps. Carly made cauliflower and made me a pita sandwich. August had pita and hummus and za’atar but rejected the cauliflower.
I took a shower. When I came down he was watching Smurfs. Carly finished her tea, then took him up for his bath. There was a moderate level of screaming. He tried to tell her that I filled up her spray bottle with bath water. They read some Bob Books on the bed.
She came down to enjoy a couple minutes of not-rain outside. August came and wanted to play on my iPad but I was completing a work task. He waited patiently, sitting next to me, until I was done. He then played Toca Blocks. Carly picked some of the plant in the window box and made him lemon tea. He was upset when she wouldn’t put more homey in, then got his shirt wet and took it off. He had taken his pajamas shirt off earlier after Carly washed his hands. When he was still wanting more honey Carly thought he asked for a hug when he said honey. He ate pita and hummus and some salmon salad and we finished the mango juice. He asked Carly to move over to the couch so he could sit next to her.
He made a bridge out of books between the couch and coffee table. They had a Lego person on it. Then they sort of played cards. Carly made a shopping list and he said “We need more Duplo persons, and Lego persons, and edge pieces, and water bottles!” He talked about how many water bottles he has, and I got out the pink Hello Kitty water bottle we got but he refused to use. He played with it and really liked the way the cap pops open. I told him to try drinking from it and he gave it a try, but was instantly disappointed. He doesn’t like how the water come out.
He asked “How does springs work?” “I have a spring in me that you can’t see that has bumps on it and it hits me to make me walk.”
They left at 2. They first went to school. Later, when I asked Did you play school? He said “Yeah, a little bit.” When I talked to Carly she said they actually played with the spinner from an old board game she found in the cabinets. He also played with Word and projecting things on the screen, printed some things, and played with the chair going up and down. And they enjoyed the thunder and lightning. They managed to miss all the rain though, as it was dry when they went to Tiv Taam in the mall. They got back at 4:20.
He came in and said something about “Like peas in a pod”. He’s really into idioms and saying, and was also using “a great balancing act” a lot. Carly tried to get him out on a walk while the weather was good, but he refused. Ate some crackers and hummus. He sat on the couch and played with the motorcycle Lego. He asked who built it and where it was fron, and he told me I shouldn’t have played with them when I was a kid because then it means he has less to play with now. The logic wasn’t clear on that one. He also asked “When did you stop playing with Legos when you were a kid?”
We then played with the salad spinner and talked about momentum and friction. He then threw the lego tree in as it was spinning. Some times it would spin back out, other times it would press against the side.
We went upstairs and brought down the box of blocks to do dominoes. He and Carly had talked about the “domino effect” earlier when they were making the bridge of books. From dominoes it turned into a game of seeing how far he could get the cylinder-shaped blocks to roll, starting on a ramp. He then made towers with their base in his bowl. The towers would make gold once you added sugar or something to them.
He wanted to play Piano Maestro (not something I can do too well right now), and he helped Carly set up a profile and get started. She played for while, then he switched to his account, but was still only comfortable playing the one-note songs and the two-note tutorial. Not ready to start any of the two-note songs.
Played Sound Rebound and had great fun making it quit. We then read some more of The Sisters, about 10 pages. He hadn’t eaten much of the stir fry that Carly had made earlier. He finally agreed to strawberries, and ended up eating quite a few. He’s rather picky about his strawberries now – no green bits and he likes them cut pointy. He talked me into taking him up to bed. I took him to the bathroom, then got his pajamas on and brushed his teeth. He told me I should just drink tea in the morning so I could go to bed earlier. He pieced that together on his own. I left them at 8:20.