We were all up around 7. I put stuff away upstairs and August and Cherie were doing a big pretend bubble bath that lasted a long, long time – the bubbles covered every place August knew, then all the countries, then the whole universe. August then ate his oatmeal and mango that Carly made. Cherie went upstairs and August came over to me and played Robot Lab on my iPad. When Carly came down he went to her and they ended up reading the 52-Story Treehouse. August was acting out having all the things like a really strong hair dryer that blew all our hair off. He said he had snake repellent for the snakes and ladders game. For each thing “I have that too!”
I took a shower, then remembered skyping with my parents. We skyped with them and August did much better. He spent a lot of time looking at himself in the video, making faces and pulling down his eyelids. My mom taught him the words ‘parallel’ and ‘perpendicular’ after he showed them that he knew what ‘diagonal’ meant by walking diagonally on the floor tiles. I drew them on the chalkboard, then August was really thinking about it, drawing parallel and perpendicular lines.
After he went to the bathroom we said goodbye. He then tasted chalk and said it was yummy, then tried dumping out all the Duplos.
Cherie then took him outside and they painted Easter eggs. He had a lot of fun. But he liked finding the Easter eggs even better. She hid them outside and he was so excited to go find them. After two or three times of finding the eggs I asked if he wanted a smoothie. He said “Ready to find. So no time for smoothie.”
Eventually he agreed to a smoothie and was playing with the honey container while I made it. Chuck told him he should put it on the counter and August called out “Opa’s telling me what to do!” It was a mango and strawberry smoothie with orange juice and he really liked it: “I love it. I love it more than you love me.”
Cherie was then making apple crisp. August was going to have a hard time waiting. I took him up for his bath. He sat in the bath and played with bubbles for a long time: “I’m gonna attack. I’m gonna make a war.” Admiring all of his bubbles, he whispered “Holy mackerel”. But then he made a game of scooping them out of the bath and said “I hate bubbles.” That was why he was taking them out of the bath.
We finally finished his bath and went downstairs. For lunch he ate rice, peanut butter, apples, meatballs. And Cherie let him try the apple crisp.
We packed up and headed to Poleg Beach. We got to the busy beach at 2:30. It was windy and warm, and there were tons of kite surfers out on the water. I counted more than 50. We plopped down in a spot and August immediately got to paying in the sand. I went for a walk down to the stream area and where most of the kite surfers were, then came back. He and Carly had been playing in the sand. He was saying “Holy mackerel” a lot and asked what “originally” means.
I then took over playing with him for awhile so Carly could read. We were pirates burying treasure, then sailing away, then coming back later to retrieve our treasure. One time he said it had been replaced by garbage and that Opa had stolen the treasure. He wanted to make Opa walk the plank. He was talking like a pirate and has a good pirate voice. We were pretending that Carly couldn’t know about our treasure, and when I was afraid I’d accidentally said “treasure” so she could hear he covered by telling her I’d just said “Tr”. So after that we were just calling it ‘tr’.
He loved the sand so much he didn’t want to go in the water at all or for a walk. I waded in the water and roamed the beach a little as Carly started playing with him again.
We left the beach at 4:20. He was eating Cherie’s snack mix and was eating all of it. I tried some and it is definitely spicy. I told him if he liked that he should be able to eat anything that I eat that is spicy. We stopped at the strawberry stand and Carly got two packs of strawberries. Took exact change so they couldn’t try to talk her into getting 4.
Chuck and Cherie went to the mall to look for food, and Carly went to school. I hid eggs for August. We did several rounds. Carly was back at 5:40. She had brought the globe from her classroom: “Mama gotted me a globe from her classroom. Wait, how can she teach her students?” He and Carly looked at it and he marveled at the size: “We go everywhere and it’s very big.”
Carly hid the eggs outside. With me I had taught him ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ as hints to find an egg. He asked Carly to do it, but he changed it all on his own, telling her that a high noise (and raising his hand) would mean he was getting close, and a low noise meant getting farther away.
He had two hilarious cartoon moves today: When we were skyping and he had to go to the bathroom he picked a leg way up in the air, perpendicular to the ground, paused, then swung it towards the bathroom and started running to the bathroom. Now, when Carly was doing the high and low thing he did a funny lunge to see if she’d get higher or lower.
They went outside and he picked a couple carrots and ate them. And a third. She asked if he wanted another and he said “Well, I could deal with another carrot, of course.”
Cherie and Chuck had brought back what they thought was sausage from the store, but it turned out to be some sort of interesting fake sausage. We ate dinner, and August said “Just so you know, the sausage thing that isn’t sausage is very good.”
He went to the bathroom and was in total music mode. Then Cassie and Colin called on Skype while we were starting to eat the apple crisp. Had a long skype call with them. August was impressed with how much apple crips there was: “With all these people eating it it still isn’t gone.” He was then grabbing at Chuck or Cherie’s leg and was asked “What do you want out of this leg?” August replied “Your BLOOD!” We were done skyping at 7:25.
I went upstairs for a bit and Derek called on Skype. I went down, and we took August up to bed. we had a good session of mosquito killing. I left them at 8:35. He wasn’t going to sleep though and gave Carly a “real” so she would go get me. I went up and we read one chapter of The 52-Story Treehouse. He seemed sleepy, so I turned off the lights and sang a few songs. He started singing along to “Imaginary Bars”. Carly took a shower, then came back in. I left them about 9:10.