He was very kicky through the night. Got up and got him socks at 4-something, but it didn’t seem to help much. Then, he woke up at 6:24. I rushed up to put him back to sleep. He was very talkative, first telling me he wanted to go downstairs, then saying something as he changed his mind and climbed on the bed. He sat there, and said something about “You put me to sleep, I slept in the night, and now it is morning” with a grin on his face. But then he lay down, near the foot of the bed, and fell back to sleep.
He got up at 7:13. He sat on the couch for a few minutes, then wanted his iPad. He objected when I went to read a book first, but then I found a book on Skybrary called The Case of Vampire Vivian. It was about bats, and at the end they watch bats leaving the bat house attached toVivian’s house. He said he wanted to read more books like it, but first, his watching time.
I exercised, and he watched Max and Ruby. August managed to fit in the small iHerb box and I said he looked like a cat. He asked “Could I be brother’s little kitty that he bought with his allowance money?”
He ate frozen mango, then oatmeal. We then played with Legos. He wanted to make a plane, and took apart the boat he had made with Carly yesterday. He said that we’d make something out of what he had made, then tonight she would make something out of what we made. I made him a little plane. He immediately started to play with it, saying “Ground control, ground control. Emergency. We are out of fuel and need to land.” Which I think is from watching a Bright Side video about a plane that ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing. He kept calling me “Ground control” I then converted it into a sub for him enclosing the pilot: “This is perfect!”
I wrote his reading pages, then we read My Little Pony. They mentioned thesaurus a few times, and he wanted me to look up words in one. He said “hat…Oh, I know one, cap.”
He ate some mango, then had a pomegranate popsicle. He talked about how he wants to bowl again next summer. He asked “What’s a magical council?” So ‘council’ was a word of the day. He then came up with a Brother story with him bleeding from the face unexpectedly. Don’t really know where that came from, although he talked about how it had happened to someone at preschool.
We went upstairs, and ended up building a pillow mountain for him to jump onto. He wanted to argue, and it turned into an argument about arguing. I need to show him the Monty Python skit.
I agreed to drive over to the mall. We were heading over for lunch. The parking lot was complete madness. I almost gave up, but then thought maybe I could find somewhere outside of the mall to park. And then I drove around to the back of the mall and found the second dirt lot. There were only about ten cars there and plenty of space. Perfect.
We went to the Druze place. I got a lafa for Carly, and August got a triangular meat pastry. I got containers of things for dinner at Natalie and Ben’s tomorrow. I got the grape leaf dolmas and a chick pea thing. They then gave me a cabbage leaf dolma. August ate it and liked it, so I bought a container of those.
We went out to a bench by the playground and ate. He ate part of the pastry and about five of the dolmas. He played around a little, using a stick to try to reach an ant nest on the other side of a low fence.
We then went into Tiv Taam and did some shopping. We left through the back exit of the mall, right to our car.
We drove home and I put groceries away and we got ready for swimming. We drove to school and went to the library. We checked out the first two Bone books, as he had seen a Bone poster last time we were there and said he wanted to read it again, and The Adventures of Ook and Gluck for him to read with Carly.
We went to the pool after 3. Ben was there with the girls, and Natalie was at the grocery store. They had a Minnie Mouse inner tube that they let August use, so he was lounging in the pool with his vest on, the inner tube around him, and his feet up on the kickboard. Carly showed up a little after 4. He also tried out their flippers (which made him quite fast) and snorkeling mask and snorkel.
As we got out and headed home, he asked “Is there any goggles at the library to see from an ant’s perspective?”
When we got in the car Carly was surprised when I asked August to close his door, then get buckled. He’s started doing both himself. The door thing started today.
At home he wanted to eat the pomegranate we had bought today. I cut that up, and he ate a bunch of it. Took a long time. He told Carly “When I grow up I want to be a professional cupcake taster.” From My Little Pony. He told me “Even if you don’t like something if you keep trying it you will.” And he sang about pomegranates staining clothes.
We read My Little Pony. ‘Chapeau’, which I had read off as a synonym for hat earlier in the day, so another word of the day. ‘Continuity error’ was another word of the day after we discussed them somehow. He told me “Here’s another theory of the universe…” We are inn a computer. If you keep going you’d find a huge version of yourself becuase you’d get out of the computer. He quoted a joke in My Little Pony: “Broom? Closet? Who knows what that even means?” We watched Marble Machine X #89, then he did his evening iPad time. He was then being grumpy sleepy with Carly. I got him some crackers and meat.
As I took him up to bed he asked “Will dada and Zinnie always be a team?” I brushed his teeth, then left them at 9:30. I went for a run.
Floating the plane:
Floating the plane 2:
Pillow mountain:
Singing about things:
Enjoying the floaties:
Trying the snorkel:
Spin jumps:
