He was up at 7:07. Much like yesterday we ended up playing on the bed, but with the door open. We ended up learning to spell ‘monster’ with Green Monster – by the end of the day he could spell it pretty well. We did some reading, and he can pretty much read Teacher Says on his own. We also went out and read some Bob Books before he wanted to switch to the iPad and do Todo Math. Seemed like a pretty calm and happy morning, until I picked him up to go change him before leaving. He got upset and started pinching my face. Not sure what the problem was, and he wasn’t able to explain why he was upset. Once we finished getting ready and headed out though he was fine.
Got to Teuni Teuni class. Shy at first as usual, but not for long. But then on the walking path/forward roll thing August stepped back onto the ramp and a boy ran down the ramp and they bonked heads. August got the worst of it. No screaming, actually pretty quiet, but he huddled on my shoulder. My shirt was soaked from the slobber, snot, and tears. Then, when he got back into it, he was reaching down for a toy (a fan), when another kid walked by and kneed him in the head. August huddled on my lap for this one. Luckily, no more incidents after that one. Class was about wind, and they used hand fans to blow bubbles around, and make pieces of meat roll to lions. At the end of class we realized we’d left the water bottle at home. So we went downstairs and did a little shopping, also getting kimbap for lunch. We also got a new water bottle for him.
Went home and he wanted to eat at home. So we ate kimbap there, and tried the new crackers – black bean hardtack – that we had found. They are basically the same aster ‘Jesus crackers’ we get handed from time to time that he likes. Changed him, and got in the backpack. He started saying “T E D spells Ted” and it took me a minute to figure out he was looking at the cover of the Perro Grande…Perro Pequeno book, where the little dog is wearing a shirt that says ‘TED’. We walked a couple blocks to the bus stop. On the way, we sang the A is for Apple song. He inserted a lot of new words for their letters, including “Inchworm, jump, kite, rabbit, wonder, Zax”. We sat on the bench and he looked across the street and saw the hospital. He said “Mama here. Mama go to work. Mama go to work doctor…sad about the mama go to work here.” Remembering the times we’ve had to accompany Carly to doctor appointments and then wait for her. He also liked looking for the numbers on the busses: “See the numbers. This the 100 bus.”
It is about 15 minutes on the bus. Both ways he just sat next to me and looked out the windows. At the park, we got in the backpack and started walking. At first we stopped to turn on the faucets, then I figured out a U-shaped route around the park that avoided them. He had his water bottle at first and drank a lot of water (new water bottle!), then finally settled down. We were walking over 30 minutes when he fell asleep. We sat on a bench and he slept from 1:15 to 2:05.
When he woke up he was happy but just wanted to stay in the backpack for several minutes. Like 7 or 8. He did some funny stretches while in there, putting out both his left foot and hand. By the time I got him out he had started to leak. Changed him standing up on the bench. He sat on the bench for several minutes more and played with his water bottle. He kept pointing to the cap on the bottle today and saying “This is a?” So he made up a “This is a cap” song. He also touched his own nose and said “Nose. Beep.” I finally convinced him to go over to the playground. We looked at the recycling bins a few times, and he walked around the play structure. He saw his shadow with the hat and said “Zinnie’s a queen” a couple times. Oh, and of course when we headed over there he said “Look for garbage.” While looking at the bins, he got down “Supposed to be…” and would go down the line saying “Supposed to be general. Supposed to be plastic. Supposed to be metal. Supposed to be glass.” He saw a fly and figured out how to spell it himself. “How bout ‘fly’? Starts with F L Y.”
Finally, he sat on a kind of tall platform for several minutes. There was a slightly bigger boy there playing and he watched him, pretty fascinated by him. He stood on the platform and I stood next to him. That lasted a few minutes, then we had a little snack, recycled the last of our garbage, and went across to play with the water faucets. The last time we had been here was August 15th, and he played with the same faucets and little hose. He played with it for several minutes, then noticed his shoes and pants getting wet. Rolled up his pants and took off his shoes and socks. But then back at the hose he wanted me to hold him – he didn’t want his feet on the ground. Ended up standing on my shoes as he played with the hose for several minutes more.
We headed home a little after 4. At some point when he was in the backpack he was talking about his fingernail hurting. I offered to kiss it and he immediately stuck his finger out for me. He doesn’t usually do that. After we got of the bus and were getting him in the backpack, he said “Two big eyes looking at me.” He said it was from an ABC song, specifically C. Wasn’t sure what he was talking about, but he was very clear on the phrase. Later, at home, we got out the iPad and opened YouTube. It was on the last video he was watching. A series of puzzle reveal videos where one piece of a picture is revealed at a time and you guess what it is. The narrator says it during ‘crab’.
We got home a little before 5 and were reading Picasso’s Trousers when Carly got home. She had stopped at the store. She made a spinach smoothie, as he’s been pretty anti-vegetable recently – we tried pizza bagels this week, but all he wants is the bread part; any sauce even and he rejects it.
On the iPad we found that video, and then he went to his favorite Timmy Time episode, and skipped to a part where they get messy. We played on the bed, and he went and got Peter Rabbit. Carly gave him a bath, and they had their usual fun spelling words like ‘home’ and ‘think’ and many others on the door. He also likes making up words like ‘homet’. He went to sleep about 8:45.
New words/phrases: spelling ‘yellow’, handwritten, enormous, spelling ‘fly’, reading ‘pRking’, saw-sal (3 years old), spelling ‘eleven’, ‘tricky’
Morning:
Teuni Teuni class:
On the bus:
After his nap:
A few minutes later. Note the new water bottle and the change of pants:
Playground and recycling:
Water:
On my shoes:
Evening. Wanting the balloon when playing with the balloons in the cloth book:
