He jumped on the bed with me at some point in the middle of the night. Threw himself right down next to me, but facing the wrong direction. He then proceeded to roll all around the bed for the next couple of hours, often with his feet on me or by my head. He was getting close to edge of the bed and I tried to block him with a pillow. I slept soundly for quite awhile, then realized that he was at the very far corner, at the foot of the bed. Carly picked him up and put him back down on the lower bed.
He was waking up about 6:30 and seemed surprised that he was back on that bed, as the first thing he said was “Why am I up here?” A slow wake up for all of us, and a few minutes later he said “It’s daytime.” We went downstairs and he had Carly read The Sneetches and he played some of the horrible Street Music Game and Khan Academy and others. Carly gave him a hard-boiled egg and he ate that quickly, then had some Cheerios and milk. Carly also gave him some of the medicine as his tooth seemed to be bothering him.
He and I read The Butter Battle Book, then read it again. He and Cary played some version or Candyland, then he wanted to play with Cubetto.
‘Program’ was the word of the day. He and I played for while, then I went up and took a shower. He and Carly kept playing it and were doing challenges with Cubetto.
Carly headed to work at 9:45 and he and I did some Dr. Seuss Band, then tried out a couple of rhythm games to replace the one I don’t like. Not much success there. He then tried out Marco Polo World School and played Khan Academy Kids while I did some work. We played the comet/asteroid game together and finished a planet. I had hoped that would be the end of it, but he really wanted to start a second planet, and he would bring it up later in the day when pleading for more iPad time.
We read Kipper A to Z together, then after a bit of a meltdown over iPad we played with Legos for a long time. We finally built the rest of the set that Paul had got him, making the car garage and another car. We then started making a whole town, putting the street pieces from my childhood together and adding all the cars and people. We built a red house, then a couple of trucks.
Since he had rejected the spaghetti sauce yesterday, today I took the noodles and added olive oil and cheese, then added mushrooms and tofu and he liked that well enough. I let him use the iPad for Skybrary books and that went well enough. We read Ted’s Week, about a hedgehog bullied by blue jays, three times, then read Umma Ungka’s Unusual Umbrella, and Toads and Tessellations (which is kind of a cool math adventure story, but didn’t do a great job of actually explaining tessellations). He ‘snuck’ a watching of Lucy and Pogo in there, but I didn’t mind, since it is pretty much a book. He had some crackers and peanut butter as a snack.
I had just told Carly he was doing good, but that he was literally running circles around the table and we should get him outside soon, when he then had another meltdown over the iPad, wanting to play the aforementioned games again instead of just reading books.
He calmed down enough and we played with the monster card game from Korea up on the bed until Carly got home at 3:35.
I finally showed August the new binoculars I’d bought from REI, but he was less excited by them this time. We reluctantly got him going in the car and headed up to Ilanot, the tree place, and were walking at 4:35.
He had fun when we were there though. He poured water down a pipe coming out of the ground and we refilled our water bottles from a drinking fountain a couple times. He scanned a lot the QR codes on signs. We spent the most time admiring the eucalyptus macrocarpa (Mottlecah) and the Washingtonia robusta (Mexican Fan Palm). we were looking for a treasure for his treasure box but didn’t find anything today.
We got to the end and looped back. I then remembered geocaching and looked on the app and saw that there was a cache near the entrance of Ilanot. I gave August the phone to carry as we made our way to it. We found it in the middle of a tree with 5 trunks. He was very excited to find it and we high-fived.
We got to the car at 5:45. He really wanted to do more geocaching and I saw that there was one by the Drorim Mall, where Tiv Taam is. He told Carly about his extendo arm and how he stores everything he grabs with it inside him: “Extendo arm…trees, caterpillars, poop…inside me.”
We got to the mall. August and I walked over to the trail to find the cache and Carly went to go buy new headphones, as hers stopped working. He found the cache in a pile of rocks behind a rock bench.
We went and found Carly buying her headphones at Kravitz. They went to the bathroom and I got a cart. He sat in the cart and helped us shop. He did fine until we were checking out and he started to get grumpy. Said he was hungry but rejected a carrot.
He continued to be grumpy at home and rejected potatoes and veggies and teriyaki sauce. He then continued to meltdown over not playing iPad. Carly took him up after she’d eaten some food. He just fell right to sleep, at 7:20. No pajamas or brushing or bath.
I went for a run, then finished an entry for Sabeel (Al-Quds University)
Carly and I heard him laughing really hard in his sleep. Lasted a good ten seconds.