He was sleeping between us when he woke up at 6:20. Rested and nursed in bed for awhile before they got up. I was up at 7 and they were watching part of “The Deep” from The Blue Planet. He was then a baby squirrel. He then showed me his popcorn machine and how it puts on “salt, extra oil, and too much za’atar.”
They nursed and then read The Sound of Silence. Carly tried to get him to rate the book when they were done. She explained the stars, then he changed them: “I have rule power on the stars: 1 is sad, 2 is lots of noise, 3 is sound of silence, 4 is eh, and 5 is wonderful” They then read the Seuss book Time for Up and My Many Colored Days.
He played with the Atlas app, then showed Carly Rockmate and Zen Studio. She headed out to read and work. We tried to skype with my parents but they didn’t appear online. We played Musyc and August kept saying things like “The music is awesome.” He then played with Notion. Looking at his list of compositions he said “I love these so much. I can’t stand it. Let’s never delete any of them.” He went to the bathroom and asked “What’s ‘hilarious’ mean?…You’re hilarious.” Then to Duplos. He said “Look how much progress I’m making.” He was making a new popcorn machine and on this machine the popcorn slid down a slide once it was popped.
My parents then did call on Skype. They were online but Skype is having issues. August answered a couple of questions and then said “I’m doing all the talking.” And he showed them his popcorn machine. It was late for them, so not a long call.
He helped Carly water the plants through the kitchen windows and I took a shower. When I came down they were taking crackers and peanut butter outside to eat. Carly then took him up to his shower. Before he went he had drank from his pink water bottle and I said the magic would make him like getting in the water. He joked “Dada, you were wrong for the first time.” I had joked I was never wrong. But he also said, on his own, that he’d maybe stop getting upset about his baths.
Carly gave him his bath and he did indeed get upset. He came down and interrupted me working. Then back to the Duplos and popcorn machine. Finished it, then made a new attachment part. He ang a funny Yellow Submarine song and discussed having songs stuck in his head.
Carly was outside, and he asked “Dada, do you mind me if I go out with mama?” They were outside and ate food. Inside he was a baby squirrel and cuddled with me. We discussed opposable thumbs and which animals have them and which don’t.
They left for a shopping trip at 1:20. At Ace they got a watering system for the plants and a sprayer to spray their cat repellent mixture around the yard. They then went to Tiv Taam. August didn’t want to play on the playground outside as there were too many kids.
They were back at 2:40. He hummed a song for me: “Maybe it’s a song I heard, maybe I made it up.” He helped figure out how to use the sprayer and spent a lot of time spraying the yard and helping put down orange peel pieces.
I got him out for a walk at 4:15. I managed to avoid the oranges with the bike as we went out the gate. He said “Good job, dada.” He then asked, as we walked, “What’s the esophagus?” “How can food get stuck in your esophagus?” That’s a reference to Darrin, who we found out was in the hospital.
He first wanted to go to our park and to his lab in the teeter totter thing: “I’ll do a spell that does is both pink.” “Screws, unicycles, trees, leaves, shaky things, baby toys…”
We played around with the ‘store’ area and swing, then went over to look at a big box of books that was left by the paper recycling: “Why do you love books so much?” Went back to the park for a few minutes. He asked “Why don’t you let me be mean like other kids?”
We got walking again by 4:50. We went to the snakes and ladders park. On the way he saw a guy running with two dogs and said “That’s hilarious.” He asked about what would happen if one thing went one way, and another thing went a different way. He said he was talking about machines, but he was inspired by the guy and dogs. He spotted some water gauges and we looked at those. Walked the back route into the park. He spotted the half moon and said that name makes more sense than ‘D moon’.
Got to the Snakes and Ladders Park after 5. It was busy and he immediately said “Let’s go then.” But I got him on the spinning thing with me where we are planted. Then played snakes and ladders. He wanted me to drive the jeep thing and asked “Can I be your luggage?” He was the luggage in the back as I drove us around the world: South Pole, “Let’s go where the animal kiwi lives.” He was then escaping luggage, escaping out of the back of my car.
Went over to the climbing stuff for awhile, then on the U-shaped sliding thing. He asked “Can we be a pendulum?”
We walked home. He asked to add punctuation to the A Ah Apple song. So it was verses like “Period period period period period period…” He heard an electrical box that was humming so then he was an electrical box.
We were home just before 6. He asked “Dada, why do you always call mama ‘girl’? But she’s not a kid.” In the bathroom he made a big mess of toilet paper. We had to have a talk about that and he helped clean it up.
He then did art in Zen Studio and played Seuss Band. We read The Cat in the Hat and Oh, the Places You’ll Go. Carly then Skyped with Cassie.
He ate noodles for dinner. He drank from his pink water bottle and said “I turned into DNA!” He then watched a DNA video with Carly.
Carly looked out and saw that the usual black cat was back and seemingly unbothered by all the citrus in the yard. In fact, as she had the door to the kitchen open the cat came right over to us.
Carly took him upstairs. I went up about 8:30 to try to put him to sleep. He tried for awhile, but said he was “Sad” without mama. Just wanted to get him used to the idea of lying in the dark with me, so didn’t push it. We switched at 8:45 and he fell asleep a bit after that.