He kicked me in the head in the middle of the night, then ws jabbing his feet into my side. I got up and got him socks and he was fine the rest of the night.
He got part way down the stairs and said “Dada” around 6:15 and I put him back to sleep. Then, at 7:20 he got up. I carried him downstairs, thinking he was awake now, but he fell back to sleep on the couch. I started waking him up at 7:55. He finally admitted he was awake at 8:15 and got up. He went to the bathroom, then we read Perimeter, Area, and Volume: A Monster Book of Dimensions. We played the terraforming game for a couple minutes, then he watched videos.
He watched Berenstain Bears and ate oatmeal. I exercised. We went upstairs to play for 30 minutes. He agreed to a timer. He played with the Shark Bite game, then it was a trap to catch sister. After which we did the whole chaos game. We were listening to the new Ride album.
After 30 minutes we went downstairs. He read the Dress Up Bob Book, then Gum on the Rug in Khan Academy Kids. He had tried to sneak outside without doing any reading time, even though that had been the deal. We now went outside to look for a bug, but ‘caught’ a line of some sort of sealant or glue that was out on one of the boards around our yard.
We then got going to the mall. He agreed to take the bike; the first time we’ve used it since being back. On the other side of the bridge he was pedaling on his own.
We had fun at the mall, although we weren’t too successful in our missions. The barber was still gone, but at least I learned that he will be back on Monday. August chose one of the strawberry marshmallows from the candy stand. He really liked it, and told me I had to have a bite.
We left the bike down at that end of the mall, as it was all very busy due to it being the market day. We stopped at the toy store to see if they had swim flippers. They did not. August, however, found plenty of other things he wanted, like a doll and a squishy ball that lights up and a tricycle. We then went to Tiv Taam to look for a spray bottle. No such luck. Nor did they have one at the health food store. Well, they had plenty of nice ones, but they were all full of stuff. Finally, we went to the pharmacy. They had different types of little bottles, like for shampoo, etc. but not spray bottles. Actually, they did have one set of little bottles, like for a bathroom kit, that did have a spray bottle, but it was more than we needed.
They had food vendors set up where the indoor play area usually is. We bought a lafa wrap with labanah from the Druze woman and a container of the dolma. We made our way out to the playground and ate the lafa while sitting on the plane. We then headed home.
It was supposed to be movie and popcorn time at home. August just wanted to watch Julius Jr. though, despite me showing him other movies and shows. We started with popsicles, each having lemon, then made the popcorn. He watched a few episodes of Julius Jr. and I studied Hebrew and Arabic.
We then went upstairs and did the Brother game where they are all stuck in a void. He had the baby sister being born while in a void. Then the baby sister chose to watch Baby Shark, which annoyed everyone else.
We got ready and headed to school just before 3. We met Carly outside her classroom about 3:10. She was actually standing outside Jeff’s classroom, talking to him. August recognized her and ran down to greet her.
I then walked home and worked. Rita was at the pool with her kids, including Omri. Omri and August didn’t play much, but at one point were looking at ants together. Omri had a bunch crawling on her hand and didn’t mind. Carly learned that Rita had been in Florida studying Scientology, and plans to take the four kids with her for four months sometime later this year.
They got home after 5, and Carly made cauliflower. I came down after a while, and she went up to rest. I read him part of the graphic novel of A Wrinkle in Time (liniment and tesseract were words of the day) and we then played with blowing up balloons. He finally ate enough cauliflower (he’s only eating the tips, so I had a lot of scraps to eat) and then had crackers and meat, then a small bowl of oatmeal.
He joked around, saying “This is August speaking. We’re at an altitude of who cares and headed to South America…marshmallows…Candy Land.” Apparently the ‘who cares’ line was from Inspector Gadget.
We went upstairs for a Brother game. The watching baby shark one again. Then back downstairs. Carly went for a shower. He was asking about nosebleeds, so we watched a video about treating nosebleeds in children. Then watched the Marble Machine X video, #88. He said he had a comment to write about it, so we submitted that. His suggestion is that he uses styrofoam or fabric to dampen the sound of the machine itself. He then talked about comments he had for other videos, but he didn’t want to submit them. For the nosebleed video he said “Another comment I have is if you have a nosebleed” you can get a container from the drawer in the kitchen and bleed into that, then “you even have blood to look at.” He liked the ad for Simple Piano app, but didn’t seem ready to use it again himself.
Finally, he found the egg dying kit that Cherie had brought for him. We talked about how it worked and about dyeing eggs this weekend. I got him up to the bathroom and gave him a bath. Went pretty quickly, after he played for a minute. I left him and Carly at 9:30. I thought he might be hyper for some time, but it seemed to go pretty well.
Ninja moves in the mall:
Roll onto the bed:
Playing with the shark in character:
