He was up about 7:15. When I came down he was playing with the Legos and magnet set on his own. Cherie said he had been humming and digging through the box on his own. He had also had some oatmeal. He asked me why his Lego crane was falling over and then about counterweights, so we built a crane out of Duplos and experimented with it. Cherie did some yoga with him. They joked around with Oma hairs, then I realized the plant was the same height as him or taller. He stood on his tippy toes and claimed he was still taller.
We played with the microscope and looked at our fingers and his bowl and leaves. We then went out and looked at the progress of the watering system, which Carly was working on. He told me “Look at this calculation screen…I can type in a name…” He could give himself a new name, like Bar, but we would still call him Zinnie. We read the Thump, Quack, Moo book, then he ate some of the potatoes and eggs that Chuck had made. He went upstairs together and he asked about the edge of the universe. When I said we couldn’t actually travel to the edge, his rockets of course could and he was blasting through the edge of the universe and into Hilo’s universe. There was a beeping noise from somewhere and he said it meant there was something wrong with the universe I asked “Can it be fixed?” He replied “Well, just me of course.”
It reminded me of the argument he had with Carly a couple days ago about whether the Earth was in space. He argued that in space there wasn’t any gravity, so the Earth wasn’t in space. He kind of won that argument with her.
I took a shower and he waited in the bathroom. He asked how a water filter works, then we were acting out the water molecules making it through a filter and the bacteria not making it. Gave him his bath and washed his hair. He didn’t like it, of course, and had me just hold him for a few minutes downstairs. Once I set him down in his towel he said “I’m gonna wear this all night and all day.”
He had some peanut butter and almond butter with crackers and I had some lunch, then we all got going. We drove up to town and parked at the west end. Walked to Malkin and had lunch there. August with hot chocolate and me with a Turkish coffee. The five of us shared a green shakshuka and a cauliflower dish. Worked out just right.
I took him to the bathroom, then we all walked over to the park by the library. He went on the merry-go-round with Carly, had me and Carly get upsidedownia, played tag with us, and went down the slides and played on the teeter totter with Carly. Of the teeter totter, which was really bouncy on the tire, he said “I like wearing out things.”
We walked back to the grocery store in the basement of the mall and got snacks for our trip. I was going to walk August home with Chuck, but August didn’t want to separate from Carly. So she took him in the car and Chuck and I walked. Home about 3:40.
August and I tried the candied fruit we had bought then did art together on the iPad. Did some dot connecting pieces (where I make dots and he connects them) and a mosaic that we did together. We then watched part of the Australian Grand Prix together. He went upstairs with Carly for awhile, then we did more iPad art. He heard a noise upstairs and wanted to investigate. It was Cherie’s hairdryer.
I went out and tried the cargo carrier on top of the car. They had made potatoes and broccoli for dinner. We all ate outside. Cherie joked about taking August to the United States with them in their luggage. He liked the idea of going to the U.S. with them but insisted he would sit in his own seat. He got sad when we said we would actually do that but it would be a few months.
After dinner I went up to do some work. He had peanut butter crackers, read some Zita, and Carly blew up the ball. He came to me close to 8 and Carly took a shower. We went down and he wanted to see the rain cover on the backamapack. He was really interested in it and we talked about how we had used it and the reasons he didn’t like it. He said he didn’t like it because I couldn’t hear him. hadn’t thought of that before, but when we had it on it meant that my orange coat was also on and there was a lot of rain noise, so it probably was hard to hear each other. A couple times he asked me “Why are you so nice?” For no apparent reason.
We went up and got ready for bed. he talked about his batteries and blasted the house to Hilo’s universe. We had talked about reading up in bed but he was too tired. I left them at 8:20 and he was asleep soon after.