Saturday, October 27: Spooktacular

He got up at 6:20. He got his shoes on and went outside with Carly. They started to read Horton Hatches an Egg but then he wanted to see the video about how far humans have dug down into the Earth. They watched that, then he wanted to watch a video on how a gun is made. He said that would be okay because it wasn’t shooting guns, only making then. When I went down around 7 he was editing photos with Waterlogue. He asked for my help using BeCasso and Brushstroke. As I was making tea he said, “I’ve got this thing down.”

We played a preschool game. He was outside the school with machines: “I show them to the school one time every century.” When the parents came they could play with them too. Carly made him chocolate milk and he went outside with her to savor it. I was listening to Hank Williams for the Rolling Stone list. From outside he had me add “There’s a Tear in My Beer” to his playlist. He had heard ‘deer in my beer.’ He came in and did a long time lapse. We set one up on the tripod of him playing in the living room. He drew on his cardboard box and things, and a coupe of booklets from recycling: “Mama! I am writing on important books!”

He said “A ‘menalsee’ is when you want to remember something but can’t.” We then finished the Hilda book. He made ‘stagnant’ the word of the day when Hilda’s mom said they couldn’t drink the stagnant water. He asked, “Can I please sink into the page and you can 4ad about me.”

I went up and took a shower. He watched Wanda and the Alien as Carly and I cleaned. He was then playing with the weight and rope. Had a meltdown after we took him off the table as he was trying to tape the end of the rope to it to keep the weight, tied to the other end, off the ground. “I can do it by myself!”

Carly took him upstairs. When he came back down he worked on his machine. We got the 2kg weight and had the rope over the chalkboard with the 1kg weight hanging on one side and the 2kg on the other. He then added the loudspeaker thing with the bracelet string.

Carly headed to the store and I made us pizza for lunch and added more to his machine. I did more cleaning upstairs, then Carly got home. As she drove up we were getting ready to take up recycling. He saw the car pull up and said, “Hi Skoda Mama! How are you driving on your own? Is there somebody with you?” He was then singing “Theres a keister in my hair, there’s a keister in my moustache…” And parts of “Pumped up Kicks”

We left and did recycling, then played and exercised at our park. He mentioned pushups and then said we should go to the Snakes and Ladders playground to do pushups. When we got there I realized he meant pull-ups, as that was sort of what he’d been doing on the ropes before.

On the way up he wanted a song like “Pumped Up Kicks” and he had an idea about a song he said was from the summer: “I’ll give you a hint: door and girl” I figured out he meant “It was Like that When We Go Here” by Camper Van Beethoven. I remember signing it to him last spring on our way to school.

We played and rested up on the rope area at the spider web playground, then eventually headed home, getting here at 3:40. We started the next Hilda (Black Hound). He was then singing through the microphone thing. At one point he asked, “Has it been like one and a half rest times?” I like how he uses rest time (20 minuets) as a measurement of time.

He knew that the school Spooktacular was longer (2 hours) thn the preschool party yesterday. He also knew that Carly had had to work during yesterday’s. So he asked her, “Do you need to work during the two-hour one?…Oh, so can you be with me?” I told him he was silly and he said, “That’s because I have a whole silly computer.”

We got to the Spooktacular at 5:30. First thing we did was get popcorn. She had kids doing dance moves to get popcorn, and August danced for her.

We collected candy at the first half, then wandered over to the games area. The only one he wanted to do was spinning the wheel to get something. He just got a plastic spider but seemed okay with that. While we waited in line for that he watched Lydia throwing beanbags or something at an activity across from us. We then went and did more candy collecting. We saw Eve and she gave him a hug.

We went out and got dinner. They shared a hot dog and I took a brisket sandwich. We sat on the curb and ate. Actually a nice view with the sun setting. We went in and used the bathroom. We saw Omri on the way out and he said “Hi!” We left at 6:30. As we walked to the car he found a wristband on the ground but it hadn’t been broken. He guessed that someone had it on the antenna of their car for some reason, then said “Hypothesis!”

He sang “There’s a deer in my moustache.” He was changing the misheard words of the song from earlier for even more comedic affect.

At home, he went outside with me about 7:15 and we sat on the bench again. he was keeping it a secret from Carly, telling her “We’re not going outside!” He looked at the astronomy app, and he wondered why the flashlight would light up the tree, but not show up on things farther away. So we talked about how it goes out in a cone and there is less light to reflect back. I asked what the best thing is about preschool and he said yoga. He said the worst thing was Lydia.

Carly gave him a bath, then we played and he cuddled with me in the play area and I brushed his teeth. Carly was putting him to sleep in the small room, as we had rearranged the rooms and were going t sleep in there. I left them before 9. He told me “Just turn off the light.” He was giggling, as he was waiting to use the second switch to turn it back on after I turned it off.

He was asleep around 9:15.

Yesterday he had said “I’ve been working on this all year. I’m making an art project and sending it on airplanes.” Not sure what that was inspired by.

Exercising: