He went to the bathroom about 4:45. Then back to bed until a little after 5. He sat up and started talking about the stuffed bears: “the small and smiling one is the best”. I got it down and he said it was his favorite. Very cute for a minute, then he was bothered that it was wearing out.
We went upstairs and Carly got him an english muffin. I was outside with him for a couple minutes. We checked on the bird and squirrel food. They then ate outside, in back. They came back inside and bought and read some of the first Captain Underpants book.
He asked “Why, when I was one or two, I spent an entire flight buckling and unbuckling myself?”
August then watched an episode of The Magic School Bus – the first episode of season 2, since it is available here in the U.S. I got us some blueberries and raspberries. Cherie came as he was starting a second episode. He paused, then played Legos together. They took apart the space station (not sure when he had made that, as he’d taken his moon scene apart yesterday) and started something new.
I went and took a shower. Chuck and Cherie were leaving as I came up. He watched more Magic School Bus. We went into the kitchen and he turned on the fan and was dropping things in front of it. He asked “Did I do that experiment last year or not?” He saw the jar of jam on the table – it was jam with cayenne pepper in it. I told him it was probably spicy, but I don’t think he heard me. He got a spoon on his own and tried it. Seemed okay tasting it until I told him what was in it, then he thought it was spicy and ran and got his water bottle.
We went down and watched some soccer with Paul. He watched and asked “Are there girls? Like mama?” We were talking about how the game is played and I explained the goalkeeper tries to stop people from scoring. He said “The goalkeeper’s not nice.” He was then singing “One wheels off and the others broken, won’t you’ve my darling.”
He spotted the old Underwood typewriter that was from Ed’s. We got it down and studied it. I then got the newer orange one down and we played with that. Put paper in it and there was just enough ink to show up a bit. I explained we couldn’t really get new ribbons and he didn’t like that: “But typewriters is fun, right?”
We went upstairs to eat. He had macaroni and blueberries, then peanuts. Paul had gone for a run and was back at 10:50. August asked “How come uncle Paul doesn’t talk much?” August and I did some iPad art at some point, and then he spent a long time doing Legos with Gramma. They were finding and sorting pieces – something he had also done with Cherie. “No uffing! Uffing means not doing much stuff, like reading…” They kept playing. He checked to make sure I was in the kitchen a couple times. He then told her all about bonds.
We went downstairs and watched Argentina get beaten. He did more typing on the typewriter. We talked about going to town to the bookstore and ice cream. He asked Paul “Are you going too?…Yeah!…You won’t just be bored watching soccer.”
He was in a good mode upstairs as we got ready to go. He asked “Do I have time for a quick dance?” And then did a little dance.
We left at 1:30, all of us except dad, who was working on installing the blinds in the garage. As we walked he was an airplane with large cylinder motors going mach 2.
We got to the bookstore and started looking around. He went upstairs with Carly and found sample sets of these puzzle piece-like building blocks and loved playing with them. When I went up he said he was working on his ostrich. I talked to Libby and she has a friend who did theater stuff in Gaza and wrote a book called The Hour of Sunlight. I also talked to her about old bookstores in Chelan, but she didn’t remember the one that I remember that was between her current location and the bridge. Carly found one book for him and read a bit of it and he declared it really good. Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Go to School. Then I found Hilde Cracks the Case: Hero Dog! Mom bought those, using the rest of a gift card.
We then walked to the ice cream counter at BC MacDonalds. August and Carly shared a scoop of bubble gum. He was very excited about bubble gum and didn’t want to consider anything else. They ate that, and I helped mom with some of her coffee ice cream. August went to the bathroom and when he came back he saw the woman at the next booth. She had a cover on her laptop that looked a lot like the new cover to his iPad. I got out his iPad and he went and showed it to her.
On the way home we walked by the post office and went in. Mom’s birthday card to Dee had been returned as undeliverable, but the address was correct, so they took it to try again. We then got home at 3:20.
At home he played with the puzzle piece building toy with Gramma. He then found the laser pointer and played with it, wanting me to pretend to be a cat. He was then a plane again: “Now I’m an airplane with big cylinder motors going mach 9 faster than the speed of sound!” He was hungry and I made him peanut butter toast. I just cut it into quarters; we haven’t done eighths for quite awhile. But maybe because of the popcorn cracker math on the airplane he wanted them cut further, and he taught Gramma how to cut them into eighths the way he likes.
Carly was out washing and cleaning the car, making it as presentable to sell as possible. It’s going to be so nice now we won’t want to sell it. We could put a new head unit in it and it would feel almost new. Just need to keep the mice out…
We went downstairs and he played with the fan in the bedroom. Suddenly though he was cuddling with me. Very comfy, but unusual, as he was hiding his head as well. I asked why and he said “For funsies.” But it turned out he was also scared of the door noise. It was softly banging against the frame due to a draft.
We went upstairs and he controlled me as we went: “Command you go this way. Command you set me down.” We played with the puzzle piece things, and he built the “Oncresso 2000”. It made things bigger, I think. He heard my parents talking about how Iris was trying to steal Cindy’s food, so then he was acting that out.
We did leftovers for dinner. He had mushrooms and asparagus and macaroni. He wanted to earn more macaroni. He went over and got the oranges, but then when he convinced Carly to peel one for him he didn’t really eat it. A bit later he was begging for a carrot instead. Wasted food aside, it is impossible to say no when a kid is begging for a carrot. He ate a lot, but then seemed full. Carly gave him a bath. We were going to wash his hair, but he was really tired and pleading not to do it. We said tomorrow during the day. Took him down and he was asleep at 7:20.
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