He slept solidly through the night. I remember him laughing at one point. The only time he rolled over against me was at 6:15. He let out a little cry, then rolled over and pressed himself against my back. He woke up at 6:45 and asked to go to the bathroom. I took him, then we went downstairs where he wanted to nurse but we distracted him with one of the ThinkThin caramel bars instead. I went back upstairs and slept and rested until 8. I had a fever of 37.4.
Back downstairs August developed a sort of detective/spy game where I would leave a mess on the rug and he’d figure out who did it by taking videos/photos of me doing it. Think it was inspired by Cam Jansen. Carly made french toast and we all ate outside. He didn’t eat much of his. I asked if he was hungry and he replied, “No. Cuz it’s the middle of the morning. I’m not hungry in the middle of the morning much.” Back inside he asked how vitamins are made, so we watched a video. He got chocolate milk instead of nursing. He dripped a couple drops on himself and took his pants off.
He started taking macro photos of his iPad, did time lapse of his astronomy app, a slo-mo of Carly, took several other photos, and played with the manual controls in Moment.
I went and took a shower, then he and Carly were playing with Scratch Jr. Carly headed to the store, and he and I did some pretending games, then read Hilo. We finished the first volume and started the second. He then played with music apps, primarily Tabletop. Carly was home at 11:30. He had been saying how he likes our couch and he wants to spend the rest of his life on it. He was then trying to understand what life was like before air conditioners. Did more music, and took more photos.
He ate some pad thai, then Carly made him proper chocolate milk using chocolate syrup she had bought at the store. While he drank it he laughed about something and I said it sounded like a mad scientist laugh. He said it wasn’t, and demonstrated his mad scientist laugh. At one point I picked him up and asked how long I’d be able to do this. He said maybe a year, as he didn’t think he’d want to be picked up in kindergarten.
I went up for another nap. While I was upstairs they did a stop motion video of a drawing they did. the stop motion also included piling objects on the picture, and later August added music to it. When I was going to come back down Carly made me stay upstairs for awhile. August was supposed to be playing by himself. He was just hanging out on the couch, sort of talking to himself. When I came down we played the science lab game.
We were going for a walk, and August insisted on more chocolate milk before we left. He had just had most of an apple and a couple servings of cereal. He didn’t like our options, and instead insisted that we “Please end this now!” by agreeing to his plan. We ended up sitting on the swing. He told me that I was in charge and could give him chocolate milk. I said Carly and I were 50/50. Or 51/49. He said I was the 51.
He agreed to go on a walk just before 5. We walked up dropped off the cardboard recycling, then walked up Kibuts Galuyot. A few days August had talked about how we weren’t seeing as many cats this year and I had said it was because we weren’t walking streets like Kibuts Galuyot as much this year. We saw 10 cats on this walk, bringing the total to 114. Carly had brought a sort of peanut butter sandwich snack bar for him on the walk. He had eaten all of it except the last couple bites, which is his usual. Then said he was done and handed it to me and had some water. It was getting peanut butter on my fingers so I ate it. This time, however, he asked for it back after a minute. He almost insisted we head back when I told him I had eaten it.
We got back at 5:30. He had his long-awaited chocolate milk, then we did some cleaning up. We read some Sisters. Carly got him food, which he swiftly rejected, t lest for the time. He checked his stopwatch and it is up to 1400 hours. He sneezed 3 times and I asked how long I’d be able to count his sneezes. He said I could count hair sneezes as long as I want. He played some Endless Reader and decided ‘zest’ was the word of the day. He did another stop motion of Carly. They then added the music to their video. I was upstairs for something, and he said “My bad.” He said he learned it from a high schooler – likely Gaby and/or her friends. Don’t know what other high schoolers he could be thinking of, unless perhaps he meant Shary’s kids. He also used the term ‘Literally.’ Correctly, I think.
He ate more of his dinner. He was then using the no-more nursing thing to his advantage, asking, “I really want to nurse but what can I have instead?” I started his bath. He had more chocolate milk, but was then whiney about not enough chocolate. Upstairs he watched some of the F1 race on my computer. He said something about really loving the cars. When I went to the bathroom he grabbed a pen and wrote on some of the Hebrew flash cards. I gave him a bath. I took a photo of his bottom to document the spots for the nurse. He talked about how he can’t take a photo of his own bottom and wanted to take a photo of mine instead. I refused. He made a lot of bubbles and was lying on his stomach in the bath. He then started piling bubbles on his head, making a hat of suds. I had to rinse his hair, and when he got out we used the hair dryer. He was trying to use his wet hair as an excuse to have Carly cut his hair so he could then get a lollipop.
He chose a bunch of books from the shelves for bedtime reading and covered a pillow with them. Carly went up and brushed his teeth. He came downstairs to eat a carrot and watch a little more of the race. They went back upstairs and they read The Sneetches. He read parts of The Zax. Carly took him to wash his hands, then she left us a little fatter 9. We played one round of the science lab game. I then turned off the lamp. He stole my pillow, and when I went to move him he accidentally kneed me in the chin really, really hard. I still felt it as I went to sleep. I sang a little and he was asleep at 9:30.
Meteor time lapse:
Strange vocals:
His laughs:
Stopwatch slo-mo:
Drawing time lapse:
Suds hat:
Breakfast outside:
Grainy August:
Smile:
Kittens we saw on our
Stopwatch:
Spots:
Suds hat:
