He woke up a few times through the night, but overall got a lot of sleep. He dry heaved at 6, then woke up closer to 7 and then around 7:40, each time Carly getting him back to sleep. At 8:25 we heard him turn the fan off in the bedroom, then he called “Dada!” Carly went up and got him. Downstairs he curled up on the rug, but when I asked if he was better, the same, or worse than yesterday he clearly gave the thumbs up for better. He stayed on the bed, lying down and quiet, with Carly getting him to drink some Gatorade. At 9:30 he was perking up. Carly got him one of the last of the shortbread cookies and he was sitting up, joking “Let’s tell dada nothing’s going on over here.” When he was done he said “Crumbs of air here.” And he made a machine that turned daytime into nighttime. He was looking better as he sat and looked out the window as Carly went out to enjoy the wind.
After a bit I went upstairs to take a shower. When I came back down, about 10:30, he was asleep. He slept all the way until 1:05 when he woke up, sat up, and called “Mama!” She came over and he lay back down, but when she asked how it was going he whispered “Good.” He was looking at her buttons and asked “Can you teach me how to buckle those buttons?” He ate a little chocolate after having some water. When I said I smelled something he hid his hand, then they joked they were just eating carrots. Muddy carrots. Small muddy carrots.
Carly then made him toast with honey and she popped popcorn. He said it was carrot toast and popped carrots. I read him Tigger Comes to the Forest, some poems, the piglet Does a Very Grand Thing. He ate the rest of the popcorn and wanted more. “Dada, I have a Nink…It eats ink and leaves for breakfast.” Seuss reference there. Carly popped more and I read more of the story. Finished it and read some more poems and then the story An Enchanted Place. We paused as Carly started making a list and he wanted za’atar on the popcorn. He found an ant over on the rug. We shared a pita and hummus and Carly headed to the store. He was back to normal talking speed, talking about there being nine nonnillion species of ants, appliances that need 220 volts, and flowers that smell like lemon and keep the ants away.
He asked how many senses there are so we went to YouTube. We watched a Dr. Binocs video about senses, then SciShow Kids videos on archeology and paleontology and dinosaurs. He then said he was tired and paused it. He lay on the couch for awhile but then decided he wanted to watch Sarah and Duck. He asked if we could buy another season and I agreed as we hadn’t bought one when we talked about it on the Jordan trip. We bought season 3 and he watched about 5 of them before Carly got home about 4:50. I put the groceries at while she played with August. She got started making enchiladas and August and I played with Duplos. I would make a “cool invention” but it would tip over or something and he would fix it for me.
We made several cages for the alligator, who kept chomping. He said he was tired, and a bit after six I got his bath started. We went upstairs and he went to the bathroom. But when he was done he said “Dada, I’m tired…Can we skip a bath?” I got him to do a most basic bath with him standing on the floor. Took him in to the grey couch bed upstairs to get his pajamas on. He started humming one of his old mystery songs and neither of us could remember if we ever solved it and figured out what the song was.
Downstairs we finished reading the An Enchanted Place story which turned out to be very timely with August starting school. We started Rabbit Has a Busy Day. He kept saying he was hungry but rejected everything. Carly was getting closer with the spinach enchiladas. She got some for him but it was too spicy for him. So she made some without the spicy sauce and just the cheese part. He ate some of that, then I took him upstairs to brush his teeth for bed. We did that, but then he said he was still hungry. Got him some of the cheese and spinach mixture and he ate that, then we brushed his teeth one more time.
Carly came up and he was asleep around 7:40.