Hallelujah! He slept through the night. He came down at 7:50. I got him his vitamins and the last cookie to start him out. He watched some Magic School Bus. When he was hungry Carly got him apple. We played the science lab game several ways. After he went to the bathroom he told Carly he wanted to clean the toilet so they did that. He then wanted to clean up the rug area and was ordering Carly to help him. He got distracted and wanted to take a photo of the window screens. He got the macro lens and did that, then was speculating on how many little squares there were in total. He then went upstairs with Carly for awhile and he was taking videos of himself singing. Downstairs he and I played a little Polytopia on my phone. Then we read The 13-Story Treehouse. He was hungry so had a piece of peanut butter and syrup toast.
We played more of the science lab game, taking an adventure from a gumball factory all the way to a gumball machine, being chewed, then through digestive system, to the waste treatment plant, to a river, up to a cloud, rain, through a plant, etc. He said: “More adventure!” He was talking about a kind of power plant and said ‘hypothermia’ when he meant ‘hydrothermal’. I explained what hypothermia was and that became a word of the day. He was nice and dramatic when Carly was trying to do something and couldn’t play with him at the moment and he said, “I don’t think you’ll even play with me anymore.”
I took a shower, then played with the straw thing with him. I asked what he wanted and he pointed to a cube and said he wanted four squares. “But it has to be a flat square. Like it has no bones.” We ended up making one big square on the floor that he could lie in. He was then a cat in the park that I took home. He requested oatmeal from the packets so I made him some. Carly was cutting up mango to freeze it. He ate oatmeal and mango and Carly headed to the sushi place to get some sushi and pad Thai.
After a bit we went on the couch. He looked at anatomy and I studied Hebrew. And we listened to Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall (#68). Then to Led Zeppelin IV.
Carly got home and we ate sushi and pad thai. I went out to look at our plants for a few minutes. When I came back in they were playing school and he was an assistant. He had a couple math problems on the board. He asked if I was the student. He explained some math problems to me using the blueberries and was then knocking over towers I was building out of them.
Carly made him a sort of chocolate milk with chocolate chips, then she made corn fritters. which he tasted and rejected. Carly was up watering plants so he climbed up on the counter with her. We went outside and discussed pulling up the one papaya plant that had never really grown. August went and tore the leaves off of it and he and Carly pulled it up together. I had pulled a muscle in my neck/back when I woke up and Carly and August shared giving me a massage.
They went outside to sweep the yard. August had wanted a lollipop and she had said he could earn one by sweeping the whole yard. There had been negotiations going on and they ended up splitting it into thirds or something. He had his lollipop, then we went for an evening walk from a little before 5 to close to 6. We walked to the southwest, then on the way back August started doing time lapse videos as he sat on the bike. I said we should have done videos like that when we first moved to Israel to show people our neighborhood. Also, I’m generally wishing we’d been more into the time lapse videos back in Korea. I did that one way back when I was first alone with August and we walked down the stream in Seoul, but it hadn’t turned out too well. We should have gotten a Go Pro, attached it to the backpack, and we could have done time lapse videos of the Fortress Trail, etc.
At home he did slo-mo videos of me jumping and running. Cherie and Chuck had called us when we were on our walk, now Carly talked to them as she sat outside. He ate more pad thai and watched The Pink Panther. For listening we were on to Billy Joel’s The Stranger.
Carly gave him a bath, then we read Hilo and had some Cheerios. They went up and brushed his teeth. He came down and told me “Mama can’t read that book I want to read. It makes her nauseous.” I went up to read the Plants Versus Zombies Lawnmaggedon book to him. At one point he stopped to tell me “Dada, do you know what I have in my car? A microwave, oven,…” And listed several appliances. This was a response to a car in the book that cooks pancakes, and also a video he has watched several times on Skybrary that has a kitchen sink and other things in it. He also asked me, “Why do some plants not make it?” Referring to the papaya that he pulled up.
We finished the book, he said good night to Carly, and we played one round of the science lab game. He insisted he was hungry, so we got some Cheerios and he ate those as he lay on the bed. Seemed like he was almost asleep. I got ready for bed, we had lights off at 9:35, and he was asleep by 9:50. I went to sleep soon after.
Carly had told me that yesterday, when I was on my run, August had spotted a cockroach in the kitchen. At least, that’s what she thought it was as she didn’t have her glasses on at the time. He called it a beetle and wasn’t happy about it.
Singing:
View from the Zinnie bed:
Goodbye to the papaya:
FaceTime with oma and opa:
Walking home time lapse 1:
Walking home time lapse 2:
Walking home time lapse 3:
Dada slo-mo 1:
Dada slo-mo 2:
On the couch
His photo of the screen squares
In his square
On the counter
FaceTime on our walk
