He woke up about 6:40 with a bad dream: “No! No!” Carly came in, but he didn’t go back to sleep. Downstairs he watched Ollie and Moon on the iPad. It restarted on him, but he handled it well. He wanted to watch on Carly’s computer, but said he wanted to watch outside so he wouldn’t see his iPad. They were outside when I came down. I took a shower, then downstairs he asked “Dada, what are feelings for?…like happy, sad, angry…” Carly liked discussing that with him. He ate an egg, then he played with his doctor kit. He squeezed the stethoscope into an X shape and said “My Dr. X Wi-Fi is for in case I have to cut someone over…I have to cut open Monkey Nice Banana.” He also asked “Mama, what is dreams from?”
Carly went outside, and I got screwdrivers out to open up one of the doctor tools that had a dead battery. He was then using a screwdriver to fix things. Then “Now I’m RoboZinnie X”. I had been a robot as well, and he had been fixing me with the screwdriver. He also fixed his balance bike, so then we took it out and he rode it around, pretending to be RoboZinnie X. He wanted me to ride my bike as well, but when I got on it out in the street he left me and went in, trying to find Carly.
I got us ready to go and we went for a walk so Carly could do some grading. We got to Treasure Hunt park at 10:20. Had a snack, then he wanted me to do Eeenie meanie. I chanted it several times, pretending there were 6 or 7 people choosing who was it. I was just pointing at the platform area, making shapes: a hexagon, then a pentagon, etc. as people were eliminated. We had just started doing treasure hunts when Shmorgadeboop showed up at 10:40. August was first alarmed, screaming and saying “Oh no! We were having so much fun without Shmorgadeboop!” and “I’m afraid of Shmorgadeboop!” When the cat started rubbing against him, August was telling the cat to go away and said ‘I’m communicating!”
But a couple minutes later August spilled some Cheerios, and the cat started eating them. This was a lot of fun, and August started picking up the Cheerios and feeding Shmorgadeboop. We did a treasure hunt, then went and played with the swings. August was winding one up and letting it go. At the end it would re-wrap itself the opposite direction: “That was so much force!” I sat on the ground and Shmorgadeboop was next to me, and August was a cat in my lap. I had my phone out, and they were both playing with the handle on it. We went to the bench and had some apple. He found a little pearly bead but then dropped it in the grass. He wanted me to find it, and remarkably I spotted it after just a couple seconds.
He sang the school bell when he was done with the park, and we left at 12. We headed towards the school and swimming. Before we got to the main street, he spotted an old tire from a kids bike and got so excited “I will take it home. I will take it home. I will take it home…” He decided that it could be a backup in case he ever gets a kids bike but then needs a new tire. He told Carly “I’ll tell mama.” He had it around him on the bike as we walked and said “I’m like a delivery truck.”
We almost got to school, we were at the corner of it, but then decided he didn’t want to swim. He wanted to head home and tell Carly about the tire as soon as possible. I reluctantly gave in, but wouldn’t let him have more of the lemon mints, as he had already had one after we left the park and had gotten very demand-y with them. He got really upset about that. This made for a really long walk home. We stopped a few times to comfort him, but then he kept rubbing his eyes and I realized they were bothering him. I asked if they were itchy and he said “Yes!” They were also getting very puffy. We hadn’t washed his hands after the cat, and his hands were also all dirty from the tire, covered in dust. His face was streaked with dirt. We washed his hands off, and he put water on his eyes, but that just made water drip on his shorts. Disaster all around. He kept stopping, but the best thing was to get home, so then I was forcing us to keep going, making him upset.
We were finally home after 12:45. He was saying “Stupid allergies…idiot allergies.” Calmed down a little, but then had a meltdown. I stayed with him in the bedroom, then we came down at 1:40. He seemed okay, but back downstairs he pinched his foot moving a chair and got upset. Carly took him back upstairs. We thought he might take a nap, but no luck.
When they came back down he had some water drink and offered some to Carly. He asked her “Why don’t you love water drink‽” He told Carly about “Eenie meanie…” She asked “Who taught you that?” He replied “The eenie meanie singer: dada.”
Ate some veggie burger, then used a safety pin to pop a nearly-dead balloon. He made up a song: “pin, pin pin, I love you so much, you can stand like an archie arch.” Then a “I washed my hand, and dried my hands, I went to the bathroom and washed my hands” song.
I took him out agin a little before 3. Carly was also dealing with a cold, so could use the rest time. We walked over to the mall to do our grocery shopping. He didn’t like that the playground was busy. We went inside, but the inside play area was gone. Or more correctly it was taken apart and stacked in a corner. Not sure if it is being taken out, or it was just being cleaned.
We went shopping. I let him choose a choose, and he chose the herb cheddar in the green wax, which we’ve had before. He had fun the rest of the time scratching up the wax. We paid and got going. Still didn’t want to try the playground. On the walk home we ate some sweet potato chips and saw a lizard. We were back by 4:30.
He was covering his ears and acting strangely. Carly came down and thought he was sad, or that his ears were hurting. He said he was just doing it for funsies. A little out of character. He asked me a couple times to open the cheese, as it was our plan to try the cheese with crackers when we got home. But I couldn’t find it, and it didn’t look like we’d paid for it. He claimed he had dropped it in the cart when he was done scratching it, but I think it may have missed. Felt a little bad, as it was pretty scratched up, I’m sure.
He wasn’t upset about the loss of cheese. He drank the water from his ice experiment – before we had left he had put some ice in a cup to see how it would melt. In the bathroom he showed me how he figured out he could pull apart the sheets of toilet paper, then asked for a piece of paper towel to do the same. Not sure how he learned to do that, but it is a nice little piece of fine motor work. Of course, then a bit later, he had a cup of milk and brought it over to the coffee table. He went to set it down and I don’t know what happened. It didn’t seem close. It spilled. He helped her clean the carpet and I grabbed the green painted box and washed it off. Carly hung up another string in the kitchen, and he got right to taping – mainly the string at the door end.
Carly skyped with Chuck and Cherie, then August and I got going to dinner, leaving after 6:20. We drove up to Sushi Ishimoto in town. He sang a “dumb’ song on the way up, and I told him to get it out of his system before we got there. We sat at our usual table and got our usual: the pad thai with shrimp. He ate all the shrimp. When I ordered (off the hebrew menu, I was able to do) I got a dish for Carly to go, and I also asked for water with lemon. When she brought the water there wasn’t any lemon with it. August tried asking her a few times, across the dining room, “Could I have some lemon, please?” When she actually came back over to us he was too shy to ask himself. She brought him four or five slices of lemon. He was very happy about that. He put all the lemon in, squishing it with his hands. He said he really liked it. Although, later, when it had soaked for awhile, he said it was too lemon-y, even when I poured more water in to dilute it.
Anyway, we als
o read a few pages of Oliver and the Seawigs. Soon before we left, August tipped his chair backwards and fell. He was okay though. When we left at 7:10 he said “Feels nicer out here!” We decided that the next time we come in the evening we should sit outside. We got to the car (just across the street in the dirt lot) and realized we didn’t have the book, so walked back and got it. August spent some time playing with a stick, pushing it into the holes in the rocks in the wall along the sidewalk.
We were home at 7:35. I think he tasted the noodle dish we got for Carly, then she took him up for a bath. Downstairs, we had the last berry brain and ice cream. When I brought it to him he told me “Don’t be scrap boy now!” He let me have a bite though. He ate it all, then when I mentioned he had a stuffed belly he stuck it out and looked at it. Apple Photos told me we had a new ‘memory’ called ‘Growing Up 2017’ and we watched that. Kind of cool.
Carly kept asking August “Can I cut your hair?” We took him up and got him ready for bed. I left theme a little before 9 and he was asleep a little after 9.