He was up at 7:30. That woke me up. I went downstairs 8. They were sitting in the ‘parlor’ figuring out the watering system. He had some oatmeal, then they tested the sprinkler system and ate french fries outside. Back inside they played kitchen. “I learned that in food school.” We all went out for awhile. He was then a baby: “I was just born. Can you say ‘Wecome to the world?’”
Back inside we made a morning of cleaning and rearranging. He helped vacuum downstairs. Not bothered by the sound. We then went upstairs and moved furniture, August helping at every step. Mainly, we switched the Zinnie bed into the office (I’m going to sleep on that and Carly and August will be on the floor) and the couch into the Zinnie room (to be another sitting room) and the desk out on the porch to get it out of the way. When we were figuring out how to move the couch I suggested cutting it up into pieces with the saw. He thought that was pretty funny.
Also while we were moving he said “Every sound has a different color.” And he asked “What’s Gimlet Media?”
On his iPad he played some Toca Blocks. He looked at Netflix and said “I watched all that second season of Wild Kratts…so you were wrong.” I wasn’t sure what I was wrong about.
I took a shower, and he had more oatmeal. He and Carly were playing in the living room and ended up calculating how many seconds he had been alive. Word of the day was ‘digits’ as talked about the numbers on the computer. He then said “When we go outside we’re going to discover some new numbers.” Meaning number names past ‘nonillion’.
I gave him his bath. He was then hibernating. At one point he said “Let’s learn more about vibrations.” He was then a mysterious animal: “Scientists have been trying to figure me out…” “I don’t have thumbs because when I brachiate they get in the way.” He used his tail for holding on and to dig a little bit. “if I bite you, I would hold on until sunset and I have coison…it doesn’t make you die, just throw up.”
They left 1:35 and I worked. They drove to Ace and as they got close Carly wondered if there was a fast food place around. August spotted a McDonald’s out the window. They had a chicken sandwich there. They went to Ace, then to Tiv Taam. Played briefly at the playground, I think. They took quite awhile. On the way home he worked really hard to get the plastic off one of the toilet brushes and got it as the pulled up. They were back at 4:35.
Carly had bought a pair of gardening gloves. They each wore one and he was really into weeding. When they were done I tried to get him to go to the park. He was adamantly against leaving the house again. So we went upstairs and played with the Smurfs. I first made up a story where the Smurfs meet the new characters: the two purple figures from August’s treats from the ice cream truck and the two figures that came with his new tooth brush. They then all worked together to chase Gargamel away by tickling him.
August wanted to act out the story where the food storage burns down (from the comic books). We got the wooden blocks and he made a castle, then we acted that one out.
We then went downstairs, where Carly was making macaroni and cheese. He was eating the cheese, and I said “Don’t eat all the cheese or we’ll just have Mac and…” He got that and thought it was funny. We sat on the couch and read Will I Have a Friend? (One of the books we picked out at the book swap) three times.
He watched while Carly cut open the artichoke heart but didn’t eat any. We then read one of the early reader books he had chosen at the book swap. He ate some mac and cheese and broccoli and had seconds. We then read some new Smurf stories (volume 14 or so). Ate some apple slices, then I read some of The Young Dragon Book of Verse. Got the doctor equipment and we took care of Green Monster and Monkey Nice Bananas. Monkey had surgery. He was discussing heart massage, which had come up a couple days ago when he asked about touching the heart.
He then randomly told me “Did I mention I love you so much?” Carly said he had said the same to her in the car. He went to the bathroom, then asked to read Magic Schoolbus. Played in the parlor for a bit, then Carly took him up by 8:40. She put him to sleep by 8:55.
Sprinkler system:
