He was up at 6:35. I said happy birthday and told him mama was downstairs. He started to go down, calling for her, but she didn’t respond. I figures she was outside so accompanied him down and helped him find her outside. A bit later he ate his oatmeal and mango outside. They came in and she taught him some spanish and he destroyed the power plant. They shared the musical instruments, then did some glitter glue. He said he liked it on his hand: “I squish it and glub it and moosh it and…”
He then opened the presents from us: the play kitchen and accessories.
He pretended the grapes were prunes and was pooping everywhere. Don’t know why I didn’t take a video of that. Carly started putting together the kitchen, which came in about 70 parts.
I skyped with my parents. August was pretending to be a baby, so not too communicative at first. Got him to start giving them hints as to what his present was, starting with stovetop of his kitchen. They got it when he brought the faucet, I think.
After skyping, Carly and I were discussing the cake and what shape it would be. He had previously said he wanted square. Carly asked him “Do you want a rectangle cake?” He replied “Yeah, because I like pink.” Interesting synesthesia response. I asked “What color are squares?” “Black. I mean red.”
He watched two episodes of Wild Kratts and Carly sat outside, reading and enjoying the clouds. August went and got her and when he came back in he said “The inside is a disaster.” They went back to working on the kitchen.
I went up and took a shower. Back downstairs they went outside and ate more oatmeal. The kitchen was half done and he and I played restaurant. I would cook all sorts of strange dishes for him. We let him skip his bath as it was his birthday. When he was in the bathroom he took off the roll of toilet paper and asked me “Do you wonder why I have this toilet paper…Its because SOMEONE got peanut butter on the safety bed!” And broke out laughing. He was repeating my line from the other night when Carly was wondering why I had a roll of paper towels upstairs.
He then had his own Thai restaurant and served food to Carly: “What food would you like from Thailand?” We played dominoes, then he played a little Gro Recycling on his iPad. I asked him what color triangles are and he answered “Triangles are green, squares are red, and circles are yellow.”
We took his bike and all walked over to the mall. Parking lot was nice and empty on a Saturday, but August pointed out that the playground was busy. We went to Rebar and ordered a medium banana and chocolate smoothie and sat on a bench in the sun and shared that. We then went to Tiv Taam and did a little grocery shopping, mainly for his cake. They found both regular birthday candles and a ‘4’ candle.
We then headed home, getting here before 2:30. He ran a Thai restaurant and I made a batch of raspberry iced tea – our first iced tea in a few months. He was impatient and wanted to try it right away, so drank a little outside at the table. He wasn’t too impressed, and I didn’t think it had much flavor yet. Carly said she thought it tasted strong enough and I said Carly’s sense of taste was better than ours. He didn’t like that: “Uh-oh. Eck.” He wasn’t really convinced when I tried to explain that it was neither a good thing or a bad thing.
He was a bit whiney for awhile. But turned around when he and Carly had popcorn and broccoli. I went and got a little popcorn and he informed me I had to have some broccoli too. Carly worked on the kitchen and I made the cake with August. He played kitchen with Carly while I then made the frosting. Talking about something she was making he said “I don’t want it until the day that no cars drive on the street.” Referring to Yom Kippur.
We then left for dinner at 5:10. Outside he picked up his shovel and said his joke again: “Do you want to know why I have the shovel?…Its because SOMEBODY got poop on the safety bed!” He was then a plant, wanting to be watered. He asked me to make up a song and we came up with:
“August is four
What is that good for?
Having a cake
And a kitchen we will make.”
We parked a block from Sushi Ishimoto. They’ve changed the menu, so didn’t have an English menu. Translated the online menu though and we got a couple kinds of veggie sushi, the Thai shrimp soup, and the shrimp pad Thai. August used his chopsticks and the wooden ones and said “I put sticks in there and made a lovely sculpture.” He liked the sushi but had trouble eating it: “How can people eat this‽” The food was all very good. He made a very good choice for his birthday dinner. As we finished up they skyped with Cherie and Chuck from the restaurant and August tried wearing the headphones to hear them.
We went for a little walk through downtown, then headed home. Continued the skype call with Cherie and Chuck and August opened his present from them: the Magnet Science kit and the Makey Makey kit. He instantly got into the magnet kit when they opened it up to play with the magnets. They had to hang up to start their English class and we had cake. We sang for him and he blew out the candles.
We had milk and cake at the table. Then Cassie called and we skyped with them. Carly took him up and got him ready for bed. I went up and we played some music apps, then read Tallulah’s Tutu. He wanted Carly and I got her. I left him at 8:35 and he fell right asleep.
