We all had a full night of sleep, although we got to sleep pretty late. August just woke up once and Carly went down on the lower bed with him.
I listened to Paevment and typed while Carly enjoyed the morning outside. He woke up at 9:48. He only wanted mama though and she had to carry him down.
He fell back to sleep. Finally got him to wake up to eat Israeli French Toast and milk. We then read What Do You Do with an Idea?, The Sneetches, Paddington, and a Bob Book. I had gotten a phone call from an unknown number while reading, then a WhatsApp message. It was Mikaela, our new downstairs neighbor. She had plugged in an electric kettle and it had knocked out all the electricity to her apartment. We let her in the gate and showed her where the breakers are and turned the power back on for her.
August then played a little Teach Monster, then we did a Q Bot battle. He asked, “Why am I powerless without my Q Bot?…What does ‘powerless’ mean?” We made that the word of the day, and -less words in general. I think maybe he got it from Captain Underpants.
I went and took a shower and he went outside with Carly. Inside he did a math game on the iPad, then ShapeKit. I helped him finish up an animation, then Carly tried to get him to do some independent time. They negotiated time and place and toys (8 minutes, upstairs on the bed, and Duplos) and headed upstairs.
They did that for awhile, then he was spraying things with the spray bottle upstairs, cleaning them. He was singing the chorus to Josh Ritter’s “Change of Time”. Which made Carly happy. Kind of surprised that he picked that one up. We’ve certainly listened to it before, and it may have been on yesterday, but he hasn’t said anything about it before.
They then headed to the store. They left at 1:40. I had some lunch and did some work, and they were back at 3:00. He came and jumped on the couch and went behind the pillow, talking about machines he had been making: “92 thousand, 800 machines”. He had found two treasures, a 10 shekel coin and a small hamsa. One was in the parking lot and one was in the store. He put them in his treasure box. They had bought some sweet cheesy pastries and he gave me the one and a half that were left.
They made popcorn and Carly made mango lassi and he watched Max and Ruby while I got things ready for cookies. He and I then made chocolate chip cookies. Carly wanted us to make some as a moving in gift for Mikaela. He did a little independent time with the straws. He then asked Carly, “What does parody mean?” I think I’d used the word when discussing a storyline in Captain Underpants or something like that.
We then headed to the beach. We forgot the beach toys yet again, but at least had swimsuits and towels. August said he was okay to play without toys. By the time we parked and got down to the beach it was 6:40. There was a tide pool with kids playing in it and August went right to it, playing on his own. Carly went in the water. After a few minutes he came and asked me to go get the sand toys, but then went back to playing in the water on his own. He had found a little bottle cap and used that as a toy. Carly came and played with him for awhile, then I went in the water. When I came in, Carly went out for a second time.
The last of the tide pools dried up at 7:40. August played with it to the last moment. The last of it went so fast I couldn’t get over to my backpack to get the phone. He drew some snaking lines in the sand, then said he needed to use the bathroom, so we headed out.
He changed into shorts in the car and asked Carly about all the gauges in the car. I said I didn’t know why car companies always include tachometers in cars when most people never look at them, and he suggested we could Si the companies to put in Fahrenheit and Celsius meters instead. We were driving at 8.
He spotted Venus as we drove, then Jupiter and Mars. We talked about Celsius and Fahrenheit, then he had his own temperature scale, -2 was freezing and boiling was 9888. We discussed who uses celcius and Fahrenheit and I introduced Kelvin.
Back at the house, Carly took a shower, then I tried my new running shoes. It was also the first time I used my wireless headphones with my watch. I ran the trail and thought it would make a nice loop, but it smelled really bad down by the chicken coop area. I’d never smelled it like that, although I’d heard people say it could smell bad. I was back at 9:30 and took a shower. They were in the bedroom when I got back, and I think they had done some reading.
I then brushed his teeth, and as we went downstairs I had to explain how Skype works to him. It ws almost like he’d forgotten how skype works, it’s been so long since we’ve used it regularly.
When we got home and he and Carly were washing off their feet with the hose, he was annoying Carly by touching her. Kind of been an ongoing problem, so she had decided that he needed to go to sleep with me tonight. He now plead with her: “Did you change your mind on that? Or not?” “Are you still thinking about it?”
My parent still weren’t on Skype, and hadn’t been for the last couple of days, so I called them on the phone. August and I talked to them on speakerphone. He then had fun looking at and asking me about all the activity data on my phone.
I took him up for a bath. He played for awhile, then got out at 10:50. He’s having some impulse control issues, and he went ahead and dropped the slinky down the stairs after I had reminded him we don’t drop hard things and I’d specifically told him not to drop it. When I told him he couldn’t play with it anymore he complained I grabbed everything from him. I had recently taken a sponge thing from him in the bath when he had thrown it at me, for fun, covered in soap, and a flyswatter that he was touching everything with. I pointed out I hadn’t actually grabbed the slinky from him, he had dropped it down the steps, and he actually conceded that point.
Downstairs, he got upset again about Carly not putting him to sleep. I cheered him up by telling bad jokes. Jokes like: “Donald. Trump.” And he would break out laughing. And “What do you say when there’s an elephant in the room? AAAAAHHH!!! There’s an elephant in the room! Run for your life!” And “What does mama say?” And I repeated the last thing she had said. Carly told me to look up actual jokes, so I did, but I felt vindicated when, after several of those, August wanted me to go back to my own jokes.
I took him upstairs just after 11. He was really upset at first, and wouldn’t let me touch him. I just had to block the door. After awhile he started to come to me and climb in my lap, but was hitting me. But eventually he was cuddled in my lap and arms like a baby as I sat on the floor near the door. I sang “Drifting” and he asked to move to the bed. Took him up there and sang “Animal Life” and he fell asleep. I knew he was asleep when he had a big hypnagogic jerk at 11:26. Haven’t really seen that with him before.