He was up a bit before 7. I came down a little later and the iPad froze on him as he was watching Juliue Jr. I read Life on Mars to him, then we played with the blocks, making a big structure out of all of them before he knocked it all over with his head. He played Sound Rebound with Carly but got sad when she didn’t like when it made a lot of noise. He wanted the screen to fill up with the balls so it would quit, while she wanted to balls to fall off the screen so it would stay more music-like. He stayed sad for awhile and Carly asked what he was sad about. He did a good job of expressing his feelings: “Because you didn’t play with me!” Then turned it into a game by being sad together. We heard the gas get delivered outside. They played Toca Store on his iPad. He told Carly he lowered prices because customers didn’t like it being expensive. Carly turned it into a lesson in supply and demand. At one point she asked”Do you know what ‘stealing’ means?” He replied “That means taking something that belongs to someone without their permission.”
He switched to playing Toca Blocks on his own and Carly went outside. He finally agreed to go out with her if she got him crackers with peanut butter for him. I went and took a shower. When I came down he was sitting outside playing Toca Blocks and eating his crackers and peanut butter.
He got really upset when I tried to take him up to a bath – hitting me and biting my shirt. Carly and I switched and she got him up and in his bath. When he came down he did a nice job of entertaining himself while we finished getting ready to go. He built a structure out of Duplos and I suggested it was a preschool. He said it was the playground outside it: “Every time the kids go to preschool they can play at the playground for ten minutes. That’s nice, right?”
We left at 10:30. I remembered we hadn’t looked up a Velcro video. He said we forgot to look up videos of how you see. I mentioned rods and cones. He said no, when your eyes are closed. He’s very interested in the colors and shapes when his eyes are closed and when he covers them with his hands.
We drove to Ikea. A pretty successful shopping trip: throw pillows for the pillow covers we got in Jaffa, a couple outside chairs, a frame for my Shepard Fairey print, bins for books in Carly’s classroom, and various other small things. August did some foot prints and hopscotch, but his favorite thing was helping Carly get the bins for her classroom. He said “I can’t believe you let me get so much…It was so nice of you to do that.” Carly stood in line and August and I went to get food. It was just at noon. But no falafel for a half hour, so we settled for hotdogs and got one ice cream, which was sort of for sharing, but he had most of. He was really thankful for that as well.
We got home at 12:40. I did the pillows and picture frame and August stayed outside and helped Carly with the chairs. He really got into using the wrench. He also made a stick breaking machine and broke up his stick. When he came in he didn’t like the new throw pillows on the couch and threw them on the floor. He got over it pretty quickly though.
Carly was getting them food in the kitchen and he played with rubber bands on the cabinets. One broke and he sort of got sad when it did and hid between Carly’s feet. We sat outside and they ate (I’d already eaten). August excitedly told me “Dada, the secret ingredient is maple syrup!” We were then talking about the flowers and I said his flowers were really nice (the ones from seeds). He said “We’re so lucky there’s purple ones because I love purple!” “Huh? Different kinds of pink?” Earlier he had told Carly “I don’t like when it’s sunny because then you go outside and don’t play with me.”
He wanted to play Toca Blocks with me so we went inside. We played on his iPad, and did all of the block mixing to discover all the different objects.
Carly headed to school at 4. It is the MUN/Conflict Resolution thing. I’m not really sure what all is going on, as it sounds like more than a regular MUN conference. August and I played with some music apps, and in particular were getting into looping in Auxy, which we haven’t used. He liked a song we made and wanted to make sure we saved it. I asked what we should call it and he said “Odin and Newt”. He then wanted to watch Julius Jr. He watched that and I did some reading and we ate broccoli and cheese for dinner. He ate a good amount, so then we had milk and cookies. He wanted me to sing the Julius Jr. song, and I found it on Apple Music. It was the long version and we listened to that several times, and he used my glasses as a sort of instrument, but he was a bit bothered by the song being different than in the show. Then I found the shorter versions from the opening/end credits and we were listening to that on repeat when Carly got home at 6:20.
She went into the bathroom with her and I heard him say something like “I can’t believe there’s kinds of pretty toilet paper.” We read a few pages of Sisters 3, then he played GarageBand, mainly with Carly. He yawned and she noticed. He said “Mama, I’m not really tired. I just did that for funsies.” He then asked “Dada, why can’t I stay up in the night time like you?”
They played cards – he basically just wanted to sort the cards, he dislikes having a winner so much. Carly said something about something be impossible and she asked if he knew something that was impossible: “Not getting any food or water or air to breathe” “living without any sunlight” “Living without a brain.” “Not having any stores to buy anything from.” Carly pointed out that some people grow their own food “But what if they don’t have any seeds?” “Eating tons of food until you explode.” “Choking on a rock and a doctor never fixes it.” We also taught him ‘improbable’ – I gave him the example of Oma and Opa walking through the door in 5 minutes. He sat, deep in thought.
I read Kipper’s Birthday, then Carly took him up. I left them at 8:15. He nursed, but then lay down and was still awake for awhile, then fell asleep on his own about 8:30.