He woke up at 5:50. While Carly went to get the medicine, as he was warm again, he looked up on the bed and asked “Huh? Are you done with your shower already?” He then lay on the bed for several minutes while Carly got ready. He pretended to be camouflaged into the bed and asked Carly to find him. This continued downstairs, where he then turned into a living towel.
Carly thought it was funny that I was cold, and had August bring me a sweatshirt. He also picked up a book and said “Special delivery!” Then dumped it on the floor halfway.
She got him to go outside with him by saying there were animals in the yard. That turned into a poop yard: “Good! I love the poop yard. It’s 5 centimeters poop.”
He convinced Carly to work with him on the “water factory” out of Duplos before she went to work. He heard birds outside and said “That must be our chickens.”
Reluctant to let Carly leave. He grudgingly agreed to watch Julius Jr. He watched an episode and was excited to discover that the song at the end included the line “You’re as great as peanut butter.” That was they mystery line that he had been singing to the tune of the Llama Llama song. We found it on Apple Music and ended up listening to it a lot during the day.
I made chocolate pancakes but he only ate one eighth of his. Then said they weren’t cholatey enough for him. Got him to eat a little more, then we had popcorn with plenty of oil and za’atar and we watched an episode of Magic School Bus together. One about ants. Cherie had suggested that his mystery word from the other day was ‘crook’. I showed him the video and asked if that was what it was and he said yes, and said it was the guy on Wild Kratts who tries to cook endangered species.
We went upstairs and he watched one more on the Zinnie bed, now in the office. I took a shower. We then spent a long time playing mandolin and guitar plugged into GarageBand. We made a little song together. He asked what ‘borrow’ means and we discussed a story from Julius Jr., then he had us acting out different borrowing without permission examples. I used the letters from his ‘August’ magnet train and realized he doesn’t actually know how to spell ‘August’ yet. Need to work on that one.
Gave him a bath and played with the toys for several minutes. It was over 80 today, so had a lot of windows open to let the heat in. Had to close them all before we got going.
August was excited about going to his favorite pizza place and walking there. We stopped at Duplos before leaving, but suddenly he was up with his shoes on and ready to go out the door. He said “I know I sometimes so a great job of steering, but you still need to tell me where to go, right?” I suggested we would stop at the grocery store to look for Drano on the way, and he got cranky about that plan and that I wouldn’t change my mind right away.
We got walking at 12:00. As we walked he asked “Why can’t a baby stay inside a mama forever?” A bit later he nicely asked if we could please get pizza first. This time I said yes. We went VIPizza and got two slices. I also got an iced tea. We ate, then walked to the bank, as August chose that as the first errand. He helped me use the ATMs as we figured out which ones would work. We checked to make sure our US debit card worked and we got some cash.
He then wanted the park so we walked down to the library. I suggested the merry-go-round was a time machine again. He changed it to the Magic Schoolbus. In the bus we travelled up through the tree. He then said we were in a flower, in the nectar part. He told me what he knew about flowers and bees and told me that more lines means more bees – he must have learned that from Wild Kratts.
We sat on a bench and had the second grape juice thing from the pizza place. Think he still had a little fever as he was acting tired and said he was cool. He had me being an astronaut and getting upsidedownia. He was the doctor, and for each astronaut he would say something different: “If you want it to go away forever you have to have antibiotics…have to eat eight leaves…eat any food you like.”
We went to the small grocery store in town. August asked if he could sit on the floor while I looked for Drano. I couldn’t find it and he scooted on the floor as I moved around. Then said I was taking a long time. We went to the hardware store. The old guy, Eliaoh (sp?) helped us, and talked to us, and August, a lot. August was really out of it and seemed exhausted, and here was a guy asking him questions and joking with him. Handled it just fine though. We got a sink plug and Drano and August got some pink gardening gloves.
We left there at 2:10. August had bright rosy cheeks and was really quiet, but kept saying he felt okay. We were home at 2:35. Two of the road construction workers said something about his bike. August had enough energy to pedal himself for most of one slightly-downhill block.
We were home at 2:35. We watched a couple of Hebrew videos. For the numbers video he said that the girl who is 17 looks like Carly: https://youtu.be/7WwQL6hr02A He convinced me to let him watch Magic Schoolbus. I did library stuff. Finally getting most of the books out there.
With Duplos he made the slidanator: “When someone goes down it it gives them energy.” I then got him outside and interested in the bike. He watched me ride it around, then he got as far as putting on his helmet and sitting on the seat. Thought we might actually get riding. But once he was on it he was scared by the shakiness of it as I held the bike. So definite progress, but then he wanted off. He was asking about the gears though and he was learning all about changing them when Carly got home.
He was then stuck between learning about gears and asking Carly to teach him something. He stayed outside with Carly for awhile and played on the slide, then was a baby lying at the end of it. His hair was all sticking up with static, and I put his garden gloves on to show Carly.
Inside he was on the couch next to me and sleepy. He said he had an unsleepifier that made him not sleepy. He opened his eyes really wide after turning it on.
He then was learning from Carly: About trains, da Vinci, and how a baby is in the womb. They then got the number line out and were doing math, then read Stars, Stars, Stars, which is for the outside library. He said “I love the word twinkly.” He was then turning everything in to stars and cookies. They played with the musical instruments and he turned Carly into a button with his powers.
He ate Mac and cheese and broccoli, then they read much of Magic Schoolbus Inside the Earth. They nursed and he was falling asleep at 6:30. He hadn’t gone to the bathroom since getting home though, so I took him to the bathroom. We thought he’d go to bed soon after that but it wasn’t the case.
He and I then finished Hilo 3 and he immediately asked to read the first one again. We started that and read a couple chapters.
I took him up and put on his pajamas. We finished a chapter of Hilo, then brushed his teeth. He said “Row row row your boat…She makes up versions of it when she brushed my teeth.” Read a few more pages, then Carly said goodnight. He practiced with me for about 10 minutes. It was his idea, started downstairs, to practice with the stopwatch with me tonight. Good job of actually practicing this time.
He then wanted Carly but when he heard she was on the phone he got upset. I held him until she came up a minute later at 7:40. Surprisingly he didn’t fall right asleep. She switched with me again so she could call the woman back. She told him he could talk to me, so he was fine. We read Boynton’s Snoozers, including the “I’m not Sleepy” one several times. He was then singing a “Sleepy” song. Carly was back up at 8. Surprisingly again it still took awhile, but he was asleep about 8:15.
Gardening gloves:
