He was up before 5:30. He asked me to turn on the flashlight so he could turn on the lamp to see if he should get up. Carly came in. He was quite stuffy. They went out, then he came back in and asked for the dice. I told them where they were and they told stories with them. At one point they went outside while the rest of us were still in bed and he was chanting “Pollyndra Pack Wallace!” too loud for 6am so Carly made him come back inside.
When I came down he was watching Smurfs and they were eating pizza. I made the pancakes after awhile for breakfast. We were about to start reading Giants Beware! when he knocked my tea over. Luckily, not much in there. He talked about an experiment with a gigantic balloon that blew up borders. He then had me act out someone who wanted to go to another country but couldn’t so he blew up the border for me.
I was talking to Carly and lamenting how sick he’s been getting this year. She gave the ‘it’s building a healthier immune system’ argument. I said I didn’t really believe that, and that it’s just something people say to make themselves feel better about being sick (after all, people who don’t get sick also brag about their strong immune systems). As Carly and I were disagreeing on this, August caught her and said, “You said stupidest!”
He as still hungry so I made him oatmeal and mango. He told me to try to say “King of the dweebs…dweebs, like stupid people.” I wasn’t fond of him knowing the word ‘dweeb’, but it is from Hilo. I’ve never defined it for him, skipping over it as quickly as possible. So I was impressed he could define it, having figured out its meaning on his own.
He wanted to play with the guitar, so we went upstairs and did that. Carly was outside, working, and he wanted her to hear so we took it in the office and played it out the window. He went outside and put all of the tree things in the bag in order to get a Halloween treat. That only took a minute, so he came in and helped me do small things around the house. He then chose M&Ms, which he had me hide for him to find.
We read A Bed Full of Cats, then he watched Sarah and Duck. Carly then taught him the Brown Platypuses song, which is a song her homeroom made up. He really liked it. They then looked up an experiment and he was talking about frying plants in oil when I went up for a shower. When I came down he was adding spices and stuff to a pot on the floor. She had told him he couldn’t have too much of the oil because it is expensive. A couple minutes later he came over to her and asked, “Mama. Learning is more important than money, right?” When she agreed that of course it is he replied, “So you should put more oil in my concoction.”
They went to do recycling. He wanted me to add to his concoction while he was gone. When they came back he showed me a key ring he found. I potted the palm seeds I had picked up in Ilanot. Carly cleaned tables and vacuumed and helped him clean up the rubber bands. He was then doing the “Ugha Shaka” dance from Smurfs, holding my hands to do it and actually sort of teaching me the dance move.
The two of them played the Preposition Game. He was getting really silly. He was quoting Hilde: “How’s your little baby paper doing?” And Hilo: “Furback Clan!” He kept playing with the big broken rubber band, which he had been playing with all morning.
My parents and I went to do the grocery shopping at the big Tiv Taam. We took our time, but that was nice as it allowed me to figure out the bulk sausage counter (to get Italian sausage for the soup), bulk spices area (for cardamom for coffee) and a few other things. We were back at 3:20.
While we were gone they had walked over to the mall and gone to Aroma. They had a berry smoothie and a pastry thing. He played at the outdoor playground by himself for a good while. On the walk back he was finding snails and dropping them near the ant nests for the ants to eat. Carly said that I wouldn’t like that, and he told her to focus on how he was helping out the ants.
He was watering the plants when we got back from the grocery store, putting the hose into the entry pipe for the watering system to get water to come out of it. We went inside and he ate broccoli and shrimp, then we boiled his concoction. It went through some good transformations, making a green froth, as it boiled.
We then sat on the couch and told the story about a school with lots of rules. We repeated his favorite part a few times. Cherie called and talked to Carly. We read a few chapters of Hilo, volume 3. His nose was itchy, so he got his potion and sprayed it on his nose. We then read more Hilo, to chapter 7.
Carly then made the cat gut soup that she last made in Lynnwood. I took August up for his bath and got him going, including the Lego boat. Mom watched him as he played in there and I was able to go type in a different room.
We went back downstairs and had soup for dinner. He sang the platypus song and added a little dance movement at the end.
I took him upstairs for bed. He showed me his different emotional faces in the mirror. I mentioned we didn’t have a word of the day, and he chose ‘stick figure’, which he has heard somewhere. We looked up XKCD comics to see stick figures. I told The School with the Most Rules, then he was asleep at 8:10.
Rubber band music:
Balloon popping:
Not deep enough:
Legos with Grampa:
Floating the ship:
Echoy mode:
Loud guitar:
Guitar out the window:
Chubby giraffe…:
Brown platypuses song 1:
Brown platypuses song 2:
