7:10 “Look at the machine I built…dangerous parts…” “Time for wakey!” They went downstairs and when I wet down a little later they had the globe out and were reading Thr Sneetches. They got up to get honey milk for him and he joked I was still asleep: “Can you believe dada’s still asleep?” “Can you believe dada’s still upstairs?” “Maybe he has a headache.”
He went outside with Carly and helped her take care of the plants. He was a broccoli plant with spikes all over so the moths couldn’t lay eggs on him. He got his pajama pants wet and took them off, then put his shoes on and went back outside in his underwear.
Made him oatmeal with syrup. He and Carly gave me all sorts of advice on how to make it properly. He was so excited when I put in “extra” syrup that he fell off the stool. He ate at the table and asked me about the rock climbing ropes we had seen. I looked up images of harnesses and rappelling setups and we discussed them. Carly squeezed an orange for him in the fruit press thing that Cherie had brought. They then went to make a stress ball using a balloon and flour.
They Skyped with Chuck and Cherie in Denmark as they made stress balls outside. I typed and did the blog and watched Formula 1 qualifying. They came in to get soap to experiment with making slime and freezing it. August said that seeing how long it would take to freeze would be another experiment. I took a shower. When I came down August told me about freezing the slimes. One of them froze solid. He was clingy to Carly throughout the morning, and who was looking trying to now look up slime recipes.
She started cooking the chicken and he shared some pita with me. I showed him how a piece of foil was like a parachute and he stood on his stool and dropped it. Then dropped other items to compare. He helped shake seasoning on the chicken. He wanted to touch the chicken, then we washed his hands. He tried dropping other objects but was choosing objects that were too heavy. I took apart a tissue. He noticed he could see through one part it not the other. It had two layers still. He got another tissue and took the layers apart on his own.
Carly had invented a sort of Israeli wrap, like something they had had for lunch at school. August ate some and liked it. He grabbed Carly’s grey sweatshirt and wore it as a scarf. He asked what repetitive means, then asked “Speaking of repetitive, can I watch Max and Ruby?” I said yes, but he chose to watch The Magic Schoolbus instead. I did the dishes and Carly did laundry and wrote one postcards. With Duplos he and I built a big crane, seeing how long we could make it and making a big counterweight. We then turned it into a bridge.
He was getting upset about wanting to nurse as we were getting ready to go outside. I stayed with him and he calmed down, although held on to her grey sweatshirt for a couple minutes. Got him to the bathroom and we went outside at 1. They sat on the swing. August let it leak that Carly had dumped out the cat’s water dish, which I had filled yesterday. I thought the cats had knocked it over so had already refilled it. There was some cat poop in the yard, and I cleaned it up following Carly’s specific instructions. One of the cats has been up on our patio as well as you can see footprints in the dust.
We got walking to the mall. He said we were showing Carly the way as it has been quite awhile since she’s actually walked there. We got to the outside playground at the mall and he wanted to play. He started by showing me around. Then went on the plane and he flew us to China. He asked what we should do there and I said build a wall. He had some sort of argument with Carly and said “But still enshumgedorflug.” It was his first use of his word for beyond infinity in one of their infinity arguments.
He then took Carly over to one of the houses and showed it to us. He cooked food and put ice cream on potatoes. When I said that didn’t sound good he told me “I learned that in food school.” He then took us to the second house, which had his bathroom and work area. He said “I use stomach acid in there to cool the air down.”
We went inside and he was frustrated he couldn’t get a treat at the candy stand. Got over it though and played in the inside play area, chasing me with the squirrel thing. He was then a hurt squirrel, breaking his leg: “Well in this country people drag me by the foot a lot.” “In magic land a week isn’t that long.”now you have to lay in bed 298888 million years.” “This is my lab to make surgery better.”
Carly went to the art store and got school glue and other supplies for making slime. She and I then took turns in the pharmacy. Got August some flosser things. August kept playing in the play area and Carly headed down to Tiv Taam. I convinced him to follow after a few minutes so we could help look for things for our school lunches.
We then went to the Wok and Walk restaurant outside for lunch. Got the veggie pad Thai and we shared it. We left at 3:10. On the walk he asked me something, then told me “You’re probably wrong so I’m gonna tell you my information.” Just a couple weeks ago he was telling me I know everything. Then he said “I just discovered that every country has bad things except Jordan.” He meant monsters to blast.
We were home after 3:20. He found a rubber band in the kitchen and asked “Why do I get sad when a rubber band breaks?” They went outside and started making slime. I watched him mixing some with his hands, and he randomly said something about “One year ago there was a dinosaur war.”
I went up to work. They were still doing slime at 5:50. they did a few different recipes, using things like shaving cream, glitter, and little ball things. We talked about something being high, I think we meant a pitch, and he said “You mean like this high? Like house high?…Like up to a galaxy?”
We had dinner at 6:15. He ate the stir fry. Continuing the gamification of getting him to eat and drink healthy things, Carly was sneaking him milk against my permission. He was giggling and I said “I smell something fishy.” August assured me “The smell of something that makes you stronger is coming from off in the distance.” And he said “I put milk on the roof to see if it would get moldy.” It was dusk, and the mynah birds and Eurasian jay were going crazy, making a lot of noise. We’ve watch the birds chasing off cats and a hooded crow recently, and we found egg shells on the ground under one of our trees.
August picked up the tree things, seeing how many he could hold in one hand. He was excited there was watering the cat dish since Carly had dumped it out earlier.
I took him up to his bath at 6:50. He told me “I learned a word called ‘Green Olive Chaser’…from Magic School Bus.” I think they were small and an olive rolled after them. He told me about writing with pen on his leg when Carly was looking at slime recipes and didn’t notice. He asked if just a few germs could make you sick. We talked about immunities and resistance. Played with bubbles, then finished his bath.
I went into the office and he climbed on his Zinnie bed and held Merry (née Angeles) and had a dialogue with Merry about knots in Merry’s hair, ending with calling Merry “little buddy”.
He wanted me to carry him downstairs to find Carly, but downstairs he then chose me to put him to sleep. I was surprised. A month ago I wouldn’t guess he’d actually be picking me like that. Said goodnight to her there and I took him up. We read Mendel’s Accordian for the first time (got it at the book exchange). He told me that how he goes to sleep is that “Someone sings to me with the light on, then I sleep with mama.” He didn’t complain thought when I turned the light off and started putting him to sleep at 7:53. I sang Imaginary Bars, Idaho, and Animal Life. He was asleep before 8. Easy peasy.