He was up at 6:20. I heard him tell her she could read her book (about an Israeli and Palestinian friendship) and asked her to teach him about it. He told me “I always wake up in the night cuz my power cells are full.” He went outside and played Musyc with Carly. He then came in and played Musyc with me on the couch. Came up with word questions: “What antidote mean?…What counteract mean?” Played some Seuss Band, then Dragonbox Elements. He copied something Carly said, asking “How on Earth am I gonna solve this puppy?”
Carly couldn’t find her pick comb and we eventually found it in the cupboard under the sink. That turned into a game of me hiding it in the bathroom, play area, or his room and him finding it. There was a ladybug sort of insect in his room and we caught it and looked at it. He took the whammy bar off of the guitar and saw the screw part and said “That’s a winding inclined plane.” Using the bug viewer he said “I’m lucky someone didn’t buy this cuz I love bugs.”
Right before they left he went over to where the blanket was folded up and said “I need to do something before we go…I haven’t done this in awhile.” And pulled it out and dropped it on the floor. The winter-long battle between Carly the folder and August the unfolder.
They left at 9:20. The first went to Appolonia (he he liked the it sounded like Castedonia), as Carly is going to be taking a field trip there. Unlike last time, August had a lot of fun there this time. There were a wooden ballista and catapult that he climbed on. And a lot of families with smaller kids. They then went to the big Tiv Taam and did grocery shopping and played on the playground there.
They were back by 1:30. He knocked and I let him in. He told me “We learned about history. Yeah, right mama?” He went to the bathroom and asked me “How does a vacuum cleaner work?” He wanted to find Carly and didn’t realize she was resting on the couch. We searched the whole house, first the yard, then going upstairs, then back to the first floor, with him giggling and looking for Carly the whole time.
Heated up some beet greens and ate them outside. He was then getting really tired and got upset about not being able to use the food processor as a toy. Carly took him upstairs at 2:20 for a few minutes. Came back down and played a little Robot Lab, then GarageBand. He had some peanut butter and crackers, then asked for more. When I took the plate he joked “You took my buttocks!” Carly was watching a video as she made soup. He played loud and said “Mama! You can’t hear your video! I’m playing hard rock guitar!” Carly realized she’d bought mint instead of basil. I suggested we could make mint lemonade and August said “Yeah, mint lemonade! That’s a great idea!”
Carly needed to wash some green and he asked “Can I salad spinner that?” Like how he versed that. He got upset again as I tried to take him out. They nursed, then I got him to help me go do recycling. We then went to the park at 4. He made potions and turned into a creature that made concrete nests. He saw two girls on the swing/his spider web and joked the girls had broken into his safe. He then saw a teenage girl walk past the play structure and thought it was Carly, actually calling out to her a couple times. We went over and played on the exercise equipment. He saw another kid pour some water on the ground so he wanted to do it too. Used his water bottle and refilled it a few times from the drinking fountain.
He got on the bike and we did a little walk, but circled back to the playground and sat on the crocodile bench for a snack. He asked for a Bippolo Speed story. That is, instead of ‘Bippolo Seed’. I made up a story where a honey badger found the lost Bippolo seed and then used it to accidentally wish to go as fast as possible in a race, but then couldn’t slow down and just kept going and going at Bippolo speed. Didn’t get a good review though as he said “That wasn’t very good.” I think because he thought it focused too much on the seed part and not the speed part.
He asked a few times today “What does bellow mean?” He meant like the blacksmith uses, but then later he was asking about the other definition since I had mentioned it. Another little walk and I thought we were going farther, but then he steered us home at 4:45. On the way he asked for a new verse to the On Top of Spaghetti song. Came up with
That is unless
You want a tree
That grow spaghetti
And sauce for free
If that is the case
Here is your plan
When you have to sneeze
Remove your hand
We got home and when Carly went to the bathroom he turned the light off on her – punishment for locking the door so he couldn’t get in. He ate artichoke with Carly outside, then we read some of Zita the Spacegirl. He then did school time with Carly and they did math, then played with Cubetto. He helped clean up and said “It’s not a game with a winner. It’s teamwork.”
Soup was ready and we had some soup for dinner. I noticed that the lights were on on the car and went out and found that the dial was turned. They played a round of cooperative go fish, then we had a cookie. He spontaneously started to make up and tell jokes: “Why did the cookie fly away? It was a bird…Why did the book move? It was a human.”
I took him up and got him ready for bed, then Carly came up and said goodnight. At one point he asked “How can we stop the Earth from having too many people?” He asked me for more stories. Took awhile, but he fell asleep at 7:45.