Sometime around 4 he woke up with Carly and wasn’t going back to sleep. He climbed up on the bed and lay next to me sometime before 4:30. He did a great job of laying with his head on the pillow, silent and still for quite awhile. Eventually he went down with Carly again for awhile, then back up with me. He then started saying he was hungry. Eventually, I went down and got some Cheerios and his water bottle. He sat down next to Carly and ate them, then set both up on the bed and finished them next to me. He was laying down and I really thought he’d go back to sleep. We had him get back down on the lower bed again as there wasn’t a mattress protector on the big bed. But after awhile he started talking more. At one point he kept asking Carly to go take a shower.
Eventually, about 6, Carly got up with him. He had enchilada (sans red sauce) and they went out in the “fresh and rosy fingered” morning and took care of the yard. I think they were out there a good 20 to 30 minutes. I had gotten up and had tea, then they came in about 7:20. He went to the bathroom and washed his hands, then we played with the Duplos, adding to our last alligator cage.
We switched to an alligator tower, but apparently the alligators just kept jumping off the tower and dying. August got up and ran over to Carly saying “You didn’t let me nurse much last night.” Carly was a bit incredulous. Carly went and made a sandwich, and August wanted me to make a pretend cake. Chocolate and bubble gum. I said I chewed the gum to soften it for the cake. Our cakes got sillier from that point.
Back to Duplos. We trapped the alligator under the overturned Duplo container, then were playing with the animals on it. August talked about how he had put the animals in the box things with Opa and that Opa had really liked it. He went over to Carly again and was a cat that she wasn’t allergic to (earlier he had asked what dander was). He now said he had to tails; “One out my back and one out my head.”
I went upstairs and took a shower. When I came down they were outside making blue slime. I did the rest of the dishes from last night and cleaned the kitchen. I went out and sat at the table. August noted I had come out and said “We’re having a pretty good time!” He also said “That’s really satisfying!” a couple times. Carly pointed out the nice clouds today and he said but they were just white. He pointed to one that he said had some pink. He talked about how he could see like every animal: “like unicorns, and dogs…” Then a special vision: “I call it high-tech vision…It just makes you see things in different colors. Like clouds in blue, and fences in pink.”
They had made two batches and August asked to make more. She said this was enough for now: “Mama, this is NOT it for now cuz I love making slime.”
They finished up and went inside. She got him cleaned up and changed. I did the dishes and washed the table. Upstairs I heard him say “The more I walk, the smarter I get…even the more I MOVE, the smarter I get.” This was as he went into the bathroom, so he included when he shook his penis.
We got going and left at 10:30. “Why does each flower have a different number of petals?” “Why doesn’t some highways have a speed limit?…Wait, can you go as slow as you want?”
We stopped at the outside play area. Carly went in to shop. I played with him and he had me pilot the airplane. We flew different places and August said “I’m gonna do a stopover.” There was a toddler around and it walked towards August a few times. August was being afraid of it: “What if that baby gets me? WHAT if he thinks I’m a baby toy? How can I show him I’m not a toy?” He saw Rebar and wanted a smoothie. I said no as I was planning to make one when we got home. He said “I bet mama will say yes.” But then right away “Uh-oh, she might say no.” We ended up in one of the houses and were there when Carly got back. He had wanted to play with her at the indoor area, but it was being used by a group. She played with him outside and they did the running game where she tells him what to touch next. She said herself once and he came running to her. It reminded her of when he used to run to her like that when she came home from work in Korea.
We walked home. I noticed that almost all of the maybe-wild carrot flowers were covered with these little black beetles. He had been tired at the mall, and was yawning and rubbing his eyes at home, so Carly took him upstairs. No nap though, and after awhile they came down and I made a banana and peanut butter smoothie. August and I had fun joking, telling Carly it wasn’t going to be very good but then whispering to each other how good it was going to be. He drank his smoothie and said “Mama, teach me something.” She asked what he wanted to learn. He thought and said “Why things are brittle. Leonardo da Vinci pictures.” They looked at a lot of da Vinci stuff, then went outside to pick dead leaves of the plant. To Carly he said “You said ‘stupid’ is a bad word, so that means you said ‘stupid’, right?”
Back inside Carly was tired but he was hyper. He went to the bathroom. To win arguments now he says”But still, enshumgedorflug.” His word for a number bigger than infinity. He’s been saying this quite a bit.
I got him to head out with me and we got to the playground before 1:40. He looked ready to sleep at any moment and went and curled up on the shaky platform thing. He let me do a little recycling, as far as the cardboard. I tried to go to plastic but only got a few things in before he called me back. He perked up a bit and we did pull-ups and “swing-ups”, which is when he hangs by his arms and swings his legs up. He tried to sit on a turning thing and almost fell off when it turned. He said “Stupid spinny thing” I said “You can’t say that. Your name isn’t Andy or Terry.” He then said “I can change my name!…Boop!…I have everything Andy and Terry have…a Punch and Judy puppet show…” And when I said you also had to be in a book he said he had a machine that would make him into a book.
We lay together in the round swing and he had me go buy things from the spider store. We then went to do plastic recycling. He was too tired to do any of it, and instead lay down on the sidewalk for a couple minutes. He then got up and put leaves over some ant holes to confuse the ants.
We got home and he was hungry and said he wanted some of the cauliflower and cabbage that Carly had made. We went outside, but he decided he didn’t want to eat it. Carly had also made a package of mushroom noodle thing and got him some of that instead.
I took him upstairs and he played with the squirt bottle in the sink and I gave him a sponge bath while he did that and put clean pajamas on him. We then played with the guitar and garage band. I was doing chord progressions and he would strum.
We went downstairs about 4 and he and Carly played with the slime. They then skyped with Vivian to show her the slime. And Carly had a really full conversation with Vivian about school. Vivian told her about math class and how they are now doing shapes, and she told her about how Colin is starting swim lessons. We saw a glimpse of what is probably to come this summer as August was being really competitive with her. When she told him his answer to a math problem was wrong he argued with her, and when she told us that the tooth fairy is real August categorically disagreed, repeating “Nope”. He said the same thing about Santa Claus. Vivian was funny though when she told us that they had seen the tooth fairy at a fair or something and Jeff was convinced. In more arguing mode August said he changed his age to 7 so he’d be older than Vivian. After the call we talked to him about how he needs to not be so competitive with her this summer.
He asked why people can have peanut allergic reactions so we watched a SciShow video on allergies, then several SciShow Kids videos on space top
ics (galaxies, dwarf planets) and also eyebrows and why do floods happen. He finally ate some peanut butter and honey sandwich and drank about half of the leftover smoothie from earlier. Carly took him upstairs and got him ready. I said goodnight at 8:25 and he was asleep by 8:30.