I was sleeping in the other bedroom because of my book group meeting and heard August get up at 7:25. I was up at 8 and when I went down he ignored me and was watching videos on how machines work. I got him cornbread and his vitamins for breakfast, and after he watched a few Pink Panthers we read a few chapters of Magic Tree House #29. He had sung a full song about how you make a s’more out of the gummy vitamins and the chocolate vitamin in the middle. Got sort of a version of it on video, but the original was much more involved. He then asked where Carly was and he noticed the kitchen door wasn’t entirely shut. He asked her if he could come outside with her and she said yes, so he went and got his shoes and headed outside.
They looked at plants. Carly found one that had some sort of bugs all over it. He played with the pedals on my bicycle and also with his swing and string setup. Back inside he played a time machine house game, where I pushed buttons on the wall that accidentally took us farther and farther back in time, with him describing each time period. He ended up being a baby from all the time travel. We watched the video of him sleeping on his first day after being born.
Carly headed to the store. He was being born from a womb of pillows while I read. We finished Magic Tree House #29. The word of the day was ‘cauldron’. As a result of that we played the magic water game: “you’re someone getting the magic water and then it all drains…I drinked the entire cauldron.” He was hungry, so I cut corn off a cob and cut up a hotdog and served those together. He really liked that. We went upstairs and I took a shower and he watched Max and Ruby. He found a flashlight and took it apart and put it back together: “It’s like I’m doing maker space at home.”
My old laptop, which generally stays up on the desk, has been having the fan on basically all the time and started to shut off on its own. I brought it down and August helped me take off the bottom of it and get dust out. We used to vacuum cleaner to clean it really well. He used the macro lens to take photos of the inside of the computer.
Carly got home. Put away groceries, then I went up and did some laundry. The vacuum cleaner was out, and August did some vacuuming. Downstairs he played some Dragonbox Little Numbers, then they made a bracelet for Mikaela. A bead rolled under the couch and we spotted it with the flashlight, then he used the brown tube he has upstairs to reach it and get it out. He talked about how he sometimes gets the crusty bits from his eyes: “I get some out of it every once in a while.”
He and I went upstairs in the bedroom so he could take photos up there. He did a video and sang a song about dinosaurs 25 billion years ago that didn’t drink water. Very random. I taught him the difference between slow motion videos and time lapse and we tried both of those out with him dancing and swinging his hair and pretending to sneeze.
Downstairs a bead went under the couch again and this time it was further back. August and I had to move the couch out and he was able to squeeze back and get it. He found the 2kg weight and exercised with it, making Carly nervous. He made up a bunch of exercises and was my personal trainer, having me do each of them.
We went for a walk at 4:45. He took his stuff-touching stick with him. He found a really cool 3-sided comb and claimed it as a treasure. More cat counting, up to 87. We walked down a street to the south of us and he laughed when he spotted the big Israeli flag. Think he was surprised by it as we haven’t walked that way since being back. I talked about how I could see four planets in the sky at night and used the phrase ‘naked eye’, which was new to him. On the way back he spotted a garbage corner and got off to find treasures. I told him a maximum of three small things. He found a green plastic thing, a green block, and a firetruck piece from a wooden puzzle. I then spotted a Duplo-sort of person and let him have it. He really liked it, except a couple blocks later he poked a wall with the stick and it broke. He burst out crying. I was afraid he had been poked with it, but no, he was just sad the stick broke. He blamed it on me: “You let me get too many treasures and I couldn’t see…”
He calmed down and we stopped at the small park. He first was trying to get seeds to go down a tube in the ground. It was a machine that would teleport them around the world. He didn’t like that they were stopping where he could see them though. He wanted them to go deep into the ground. I told him he probably just had to shake the tube. He didn’t believe me, but when I showed him he said, “Oh yes, you’re right.” We took a bunch of the seed things to the top of the slide and he was dropping them down, saying “Incoming!” He was also saying “Gravity, man, gravity.” Which I eventually figured out is from one of the robots in StoryBots. We did slo-mo videos of the seeds rolling down the slide and of him dancing. And a time lapse of him dancing slowly. Looked like ballet. We did both kinds of videos of him on the swing and then merry-go-round. He had me spin him on the merry-go-round a lot, but then said he wasn’t feeling well. He blamed this on me as well. I carried him over and he lay on the bench for a few minutes. We headed home at 6:15.
At home I went for a run. Carly washed the car and August watched Max and Ruby. I came back and took a quick shower. He had been decorating a card for Mikaela (he covered it in 1s and 0s and was using a lot of colors in it, but said it wasn’t anything, just decorations) and when I came down they were delivering the bracelet and card to her by lowering them on a string from our kitchen window.
I got August’s bath ready and watched a Max and Ruby with him. Gave him a rather quick bath, then he ate noodles and chicken. We read another chapter of The Scarecrow and his Servant. He said good night to Carly and we headed upstairs. We brushed teeth and he picked up Will I Have a Friend? and read the first page all by himself without any prompting from me. He started on the second page then stopped and told me to read the rest. Around 9 we had lights off and were trying to go to sleep. I sang Street Songs, like “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” and others. He took a long time to go to sleep. He was finally asleep at 9:50.
Vitamin s’more song:
Vacuuming:
His dinosaur song:
Slo-mo 1:
Slo-mo 2:
Slo-mo 3:
Slo-mo 4:
Time lapse 1:
Time lapse 2:
Being my personal trainer:
Looking for treasure:
Seed slo-mo 2:
Dancing time lapse 1:
Dancing slo-mo 1:
Merry-go-round slo-mo:
Merry-go-round time lapse:
Swing slo-mo:
Swing time lapse:
The present for Mikaela:
Another little treasure he found
