He was up about 7:35. He found Carly outside, then they cuddled on the couch. He watched Berenstain Bears, then switched to Hilda. He said it was “like switching planes…now I’m on the Hilda bus.”
Carly went to get the car. I let August watch an extra episode as I went and took a shower. That was a mistake, as when he was done he had a meltdown about watching more. I calmly took him up, and when Carly got home a few minutes later she stayed with him for awhile. He eventually apologized.
He did art with Carly, cutting up the Hebrew cookbooks. They made a card for Mandy, and August asked Carly to make a shield that goes on his arm. Not entirely sure how he came up with that idea. Think they also started a card for Mikaela.
They then walked to the grocery store to get a few things. They saw what he calls the “poop flowers” on the way—the big white flowers with brown/purple spots in the center. He ate two and a half bananas on the way back. They were back around 1:40.
He was grabbing at Carly so she took him up for a timeout, which I finished. We discussed his coins from Greece and ended up discussing making money, and ‘counterfeit’ was a word of the day. He asked for a story about counterfeiting. So I made up a story of a kid drawing a dollar bill and buying ice cream with it, then going to jail. He liked the story and wanted it again and again. Each time he would do a different ice cream flavor. I told it 4 or 5 times before saying that was enough. We read Nick and Tesla #2 and ‘congealed’ was another word of the day.
Carly made some sushi, but August is now less excited bout it. He and I went for a short junk walk, just up to the recycling area. Didn’t find anything, but across the street from our house he found a nice round nut. Back in the house it ended up under the couch. We moved the couch and recovered a lot of other things as well. He ate rice and soy sauce and cucumber sticks.
They then drove over to Mandy’s to pick up the plants and to giver her the card and the chocolate from Greece. They came back and I came down and he was testing batteries forCubetro. I did some Cubetto with him. He picked at the iPad we took apart and we discussed motherboards and daughter boards. He then was talking about “Titanium girl!” Like a superhero that he’s made up. We started a circuit, then he went to the bathroom and asked what I wanted him to make. He made a robot assistant for me, like in NextGen. We were listening to the new Chemical Brothers album. He did some dancing to it, then wanted me to pick him up. That ended up with me spinning him to get him dizzy. We did that until I had had enough.
He had fun piling things around my legs as I recovered. I needed to sit down, then he piled stuff around me. When I got too warm we put everything away and I took him with me to do recycling. He noticed the long shadows, and had his shadow out in the street where it got runover by bicycles. He was then tracking ants until I was done. He did help a little.
Back at home I did something I haven’t done in a long time: read Captain Underpants to him. It was book 9. Carly cooked fresh broccoli from the garden and he ate a bowl of it. She then made pancakes. She used the big salt though, and the pancakes had salt chunks in them. August liked it that way though, so we just ate them like that. I think he ate three of them.
We read some more, then Carly gave him a bath. I had a headache and lay down for awhile. In bed, I finished the Captain Underpants book. For a story I told him about my band trip to Disneyland. He kept interrupting, thinking it was illegal to go on a trip like that.
He told me he wanted to live somewhere where it snows in winter. But with no tornadoes or hurricanes. Discussed France etc. But he said he couldn’t do the language.
When I told him it was time to turn off the lamp he did his crazy kicking and accidentally kicked me. But then he said he didn’t care. Carly talked to him, then he apologized and I put him to sleep. I sang Sesame Street songs, then Skip to My Lou. He fell asleep as I sang Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. He was asleep at 9:40.
When will we?:
Finding a lot of dusty stuff:
Cubetto getting stuck:
Dancing to the new Chemical Brothers:
Circuit music:
