When Carly opened the door last night to go to bed he was sitting up in bed, kind of like a zombie. Eventually laid back down. In the night he ended up on the bed and slept the rest of the night between us. He tried getting up before 6 but Carly got him back to sleep, then he woke up at 6:30. After awhile I went and got some dry Cheerios for him and his iPad. He watched the Magic School Bus on the bed, then moved out to the grey couch upstairs while Carly worked on her closet. I got up about 7:45 and August said he was done with the show. He ended up going in with Carly and helping her. They were talking like robots and he was a “delivery service” using his claws to move things.
I made him oatmeal, or started to, then helped Carly move the desk back into the big room. Cary finished up the oatmeal for him, then he was eating it and had me play the “Don’t eat any more! Don’t get any stronger!” game. He realized he finally had to go to the bathroom. Yesterday he said something about how wasn’t it amazing that sometimes he doesn’t have to go to the bathroom for three hours after he wakes up. On the toilet he said he did the “frizzily drizzily” when he woke up – that is, he messed up the back of his hair.
Carly got us in full cleaning mode this morning. She brought down some styrofoam from a box as garbage and August got really excited by it. Told him he couldn’t break it up, but he was playing with it other ways. I went outside and washed off the car luggage bag. He started scraping it on the bike tire, which ripped it up. Stopped him and had him help me clean it up. But then he wasn’t helping, and instead was waving his hands to spread it out. I put him inside on the couch as a timeout while I cleaned the rest. Carly came along and he was upset and told her I had taken the styrofoam away. They nursed, and only after which he told her he was supposed to have had a timeout on his own.
They went and did a little magnet science, then she hid eggs outside side. He likes to spin in the kitchen with me while she hides the eggs so he can catch glimpses of her. I asked if they wanted a smoothie. He came in a second later and was upset as he thought I had already made it but now he had to wait. He drank his smoothie and talked about blocking a faucet – a topic that has come up a few times since reading about faucets.
I needed to go take a shower and he wanted to watch balance beam, so he watched the London 2012 balance beam finals while I took a shower. Before I left he asked “Do you go to gymnastics with your mama and dada?” He watched it upstairs while I took a shower. They were then watching a video about the solar system when I got out. We used one of his old diapers as an experiment in the bath water to see how big it would get. He joked “Those babies really peed!… That’s the pee storage area.” The diaper burst open so we had to clean out the tub and start fresh. He then played with bubbles and asked me to make bubbles for him and when there was enough he said “Enough already!” He served me bubbles on a letter and said “This is gourmet!” He was doing a decent job of letting me wash his hair, but got really stressed out when I said I needed to rinse his hair. We talked about worry and stress, which he’d discussed with Shmuel when he said he had been dealing with a lot of stress. Got him out and went and dried his hair. He used the hair dryer a lot on his own.
Went downstairs and he ate nutty noodles outside for lunch. He and Carly went and picked their biggest carrot yet. But they didn’t taste as good as the little ones. Back inside he was playing with the foods from his kitchen: “I made an arch out of the foods in my basket but dada didn’t look at it.” He was upset it fell down before I saw it. They went and made a Duplo arch, then he and I made a structure out of Duplos. He was then with Carly on the couch and got sad that he couldn’t smell his own hair. Carly offered to cut it so he could smell his own hair, but he replied “But then my hair would be shorter…I won’t be able to pull it as much.”
He had some dry Cheerios, then was getting sad when he didn’t have as many songs on his iTunes playlist as I do. He asked Carly “Can I have more songs than dada has on his playlist?”
Carly got ready to go to the store and they left at 2:40. He was totally chill in the cart at the store, eating his dry cheerios and making sculptures out of the groceries in the cart. And he helped get the vegetables for stirfry. They were back right at 4.
He came in, excited to once again give me a consequence for reading him ‘idiot’ and ‘stupid’ in a book: “You can’t use anything electronic for 5 minutes!” He. Wanted to play with the vegetable steamer and we took it and the salad spinner outside. He poured water through, then spilled it out on the patio. He discovered the suction effect of surface tension if he put the salad spinner hole down, and that it skated on the water. I turned on the hose to give him more water on the patio, and he ended up catching water from the hose in the spinner.
He and I then left at 4:50. Carly stayed to make stirfry and have some alone time. He was quoting Vegetable Patty from The 52-Story Treehouse “mash them and smash them and…” As we got walking he asked me “Why do trains leave at a certain time?” And asked about “All aboard”. We’ve discussed that phrase a few times. He stopped to run over some kumquats. We had to backup and he talked about how it was one of the first times we backed up on his bike and we worked together.
We went and did recycling. He did one big thing of plastic that he had to use his rockets to do, then was upset there wasn’t more big stuff. We started walking to the snakes and ladders playground, but he wanted to take a longcut through our park. I let him lead us, and it turned out it was to do the zig zags through the gate parts – basically chicanes, in racing terms.
He asked me to sing “Animal Life” on the way up. A good crowd at the playground. We did a lot of playing on the car thing, wth him being the luggage that runs away. A little hopscotch and remembering our Korean numbers, then over to the climbing part. He was hanging from the ropes and kicking the bottom of the platform thing. I talked about how if he got stronger he’d be able to pull himself up onto it. We talked about pull-ups, and how I couldn’t do one either, and we decided we should both exercise to do pull-ups. He also said I should eat more broccoli and cauliflower like him to get stronger.
We went back to the car/spaceship and he had me driving us to other universes and planets. We got off to take a tour of Mercury and we walked around. He spotted things like a sock on Mercury and he said “Go figure.” He played with the drinking fountain and I pointed out a rose bush and asked if he knew what they were. He said “I ASSUME they aren’t snapdragons.” Found a ladybug and had it on his hand. Then he smelled the roses. He and Carly had been discussing the phrase ‘fresh and rosey fingered’ earlier.
We left just before 6. Took the long route home. He was spotting/beeping at colorful things, mainly blue things as he knows I like blue. As we got close to home he said “I won’t beep at the cactuses. Too sharp.” He called to Carly from the sidewalk. She answered him from inside, through the screen windows. He said it wasn’t her though: “Its the call of Cornelia…it’s a sound museum.” That’s a Magic Schoolbus reference.
We had stir fry for dinner and ate outside. Back inside they read Tallulah’s Solo. I got out the shortbread cookies that Chuck and Chere left and we had a cookie and milk. Carly got him dry cheerios but he said they were stale. Some were and some weren’t and they played ‘stale or not stale’. Carly declared “This is the best game ever.”
They then read Where the Wild Things Are. August was getting tired and it was part 7:30 so Carly started to take him upstair
s. He requested that I carry him. Upstairs he went to the bathroom and started playing in the sink and faucet with Carly’s comb. He said his word “Enshumgederflug”, which means more than infinity, and declared it “My best word ever.” He said he wanted it on the blog. From our trip to Tel Aviv: https://youtu.be/9qu8sNgD4UU?rel=0
Carly brushed his teeth and I went up at 7:55. He wanted to go to sleep in the big bed. I sang “Animal Life”, “Big Numbers Song”, “Take Me to Church”, and “Rock Me Mama”. He didn’t say a single word the whole time and fell asleep by 8:10.