He got up at 6:10. Sat up with me for a couple minutes, then said he was going to go find mama. When I came down he was watching episode 2 of Wild Kratts again, about whales and squid. He had been telling Carly about water pressure. When Carly headed to work he said “I love you so much” without any prompting. He showed me the Duplo that he and Carly had made last night and sat there admiring it for awhile. He then destroyed it and we made a big snake-like sort of structure that he then had the sisters play on.
Over on the couch he said “We should try a new food today.” It turned out he meant in a restaurant. We read a little of the Thea Stimson book, then watched one Smurfs story and a Julius Jr. episode. He then went and invented things under the table and on the couch. He asked me to clean the floor under table. He found the spring and made a bubble machine from it. We looked at the “Imagine” shirts that Cherie had sent for him and me, a black for me and pink for him. He said “What? I thought they would be different…I like the shirts Oma sent us.”
We then did a sort of hide and seek game with the spring hiding it in the shoes, etc. and giving him clues. We went up and I started a Wild Kratts episode for him. He chose the walrus episode. I meant to go take a shower while he watched but I ended up watching the whole thing. I then took my shower. He started another episode but then stopped it and came into the bathroom. In his room he hid the C from car puzzle from me, then was hiding it from himself. He said “I already looked under, between, front, and back of all the animals.”
He played with the squirt gun from the zoo in the bath. We went downstairs and he took the keys out of the piano, then helped me put it back together. He was then pretending to be a whale that was so big it destroyed our house. He was asking a lot of questions and making it har for me to make a smoothie. He told me “If you tell me when you were a kid it might not be exciting.” Made a banana and mango smoothie and we drank that. Then played Sound Rebound and Rockmate, a new little music app that we bought, and Zen Studio, which is sort of a meditative geometric coloring book thing.
He wanted more crackers and peanut butter and said “I’m gonna be thankful for that. Please. That’s how I’m gonna get you to give me crackers.” Instead he ate the peanut butter sandwich from yesterday. He wanted more and I told him there was just one slice of bread and I could make a half. He said he didn’t want but I made it anyway. He was surprised to find it folded over – he had pictured just a slice of bread with peanut butter on it.
We got going and he was out on the bike when I went back in the house to get the backpack he yelled “Buuuuuuh!!!” I asked “What was that?” “Uhh, a loud noise.”
We walked over to the mall. It was busy because of the Friday market. He went and played around the playground for a few minutes. Sort of tried to run around with some other kids, but mainly climbed on things. He then said he was ready to go.
We went inside to the hair place and the guy, Egan, was able to fit me in. August walked around the chair, wearing my hat backwards, and watched him cut my hair. Pretty fascinated. At one point he said “Look at all those special tools!” And when he used the blow dryer August went “Whoa!” Later August would say he didn’t like how the guy moved my ears. That would be really ticklish for August. Egan gave him a couple little candies. He ate one lemon Mentos while he watched and another after. When we got to the grocery store I couldn’t find the fruit chew thing for a second. August started to get upset, then I found it and he happily announced “Mystery solved!”
Did our shopping, but no raspberries, fresh or frozen, for our breakfast bread recipe. Got zucchini instead for zucchini bread. He did most of the putting of food on the conveyor belt. On the walk home he decided on the long way, but then we went down the steps that lead to where the big Israeli flag is.
At home he said he didn’t want to make the bread today. We played the kids world atlas app and he liked the game where you put a flag where you think an animal lives and it then shows you how close you are. We were discussing the different continents and which animals live there. Then some of the Rockmate app, and finally Zen Studio. He did some of the templates, then drew a picture on his own and said it was a police app. He went to the bathroom and was now a whale again that could go “Twice as deep as the deepest whale that ever lived could dive.”
Then to Duplos: “It’s going to be my greatest invention ever…it’s not done yet but I call it a popcorn projector.” Carly came home. He kept working on the popcorn machine and added a part that adds toppings. He joked “It has za’atar, baby dinosaur bones…” Carly went outside and he and I kept playing Duplos. He was upset when I wouldn’t let him watch a show or eat Cheerios. Carly came in and we were getting food. She told story of when she was pregnant she tried to run to go get pizza at school but couldn’t. She ended by saying “But I still got pizza.” I said “Surprisingly, a Hollywood film hads never been made about this saga.” August was saying something and stopped to say “Oh, dada” and went back to his sentence.
He ate a little peanut sauce and rice and tofu. We did more of the atlas app and pins game. They read The Sound of Silence and finished it upstairs. He had tried to complain that Carly doesn’t read as well as I do, claiming “She makes up words.” Then read The I Love You Book. I said good night and he was asleep by 7:30.