He came down at 6:45. After they nursed Carly needed to get going. She was holding him and I started reading the Kipper Collection. That got his attention and he came over to me. She left, and we ended up reading all four stories. Had some zucchini bread, then played a little Metamorphabet. At the end of U there is a ‘U’ floating up into the sky holding an umbrella. He let the U enjoy the ride and just left the iPad on while he played at being a lamb (I tried to turn off the screen but had to turn it back on).
As a lamb he ate grasses and stuff. He told me “You’re tender dandelion…you’re tender rosemary growing.” We played the magic banana game and he was acting out the things when he figured them out instead of saying the word. From that it was to the Pip and Pop and Otto game and we made a stump for them.
He was then singing the ABCs to our Hebrew alphabet tune. I finally went and got him clothes so he didn’t have to hold his pajama pants up. I was fine until my stomach hurt again at 8:30. We were listening to music on random and he heard a Peg + Cat Song, then decided he wanted to watch the show. He said specifically The Hanukkah Problem and where they catch Triangulo. So he watched and I rested. At 9:45 we played the Shrew Crew and Mossy game. We made a big stump out of all the pillows and he got really into plugging the holes with “objects” like his pajamas and the objects from our magic banana game. ‘Objects’ has been one of his favorite words recently and seems to be a little awareness of the concept of abstraction.
We went upstairs and did Toca Builders on the bed. We finished turning all the trees turquoise but then he wanted to turn all the ground white. I told him I was a bit done with that. He played Toca Nature and I took a shower. After, he asked if I was feeling better. When I said I was he said “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”
We went downstairs and got ready to go. Left right at 12:30 but before the end of the block I realized we could swim. Went back for the swim bag then walked up the back path and quickly headed to the bank, which closed at 1. Got there at 12:50. Figured out checkbook ordering at the ATMs this time and got the same 606 error message. So back inside and upstairs to the same offices where the guy had initially told me they wanted people to do things on their own. That had sent me on a quest to the website, the app, and the ATM and full circle only to find that the error message means it is a foreigner’s bank account and we in fact aren’t allowed to order checks on our own. They have to do it for us. So they did that, and we headed out.
We went to the coffee shop for a smoothie. Got a menu and was going to order a smoothie/shake. But then found out they didn’t have them today for some reason. Just juice. August got an orange and carrot again and I got apple. August was very insistent that he wanted ice in it though. August had us move into the main room as he thought it would be cooler. He was correct.
He played Pet Bingo on his iPad and was surprisingly good with some of the math, understanding the divide by 10 problems right away and doing well with others as well. But he was being loud at first, just talking at the top of his voice. Seemed kind of stressed over having to actually make the bingos, which isn’t really a big deal. Got him to calm down though and he was fine after that.
We left there at 2 and went across the street for a couple slices of pizza. We went up to the counter to see what they had. Their full selection of slices (cheese, corn, and olive) and a folded pizza thing (like a small calzone, but I forgot what they call it). August confidently ordered for us, saying he would have corn and a cheese for me. I changed his order for me to the folded pizza. He didn’t eat a lot of pizza though as after a couple pieces he got a piece of corn stuck in his teeth. He seemed more annoyed than anything. At one point he walked up to the front counter almost as if he was going to complain.
We left about 2:30 and walked some back streets to the school. We stopped to look at a big purple flower plant. It had a big long branch that hung down and rubbed against his leg. He said it was attacking him. Had a good overreaction when I moved it intentionally to touch him.
We got to the school before 3 and he wanted to swim. Spent a few minutes playing on the couches and looking at the big world map painted on the wall, then went in and got changed. Spent an hour in the pool, swimming and watching and dodging kids taking swim classes. I met Bart, the swim coach, who we have seen there before with his 4 year-old son.
We got out at 4 and Carly met us after we had changed. We walked up to the studio. August and I had been talking about going to the activity class, and we talked more about it on the way up. He was hesitant about it as he didn’t want to be in a different room from us. He got off the bike right before we got there, and Carly had to persuade him the last little distance.
We had to wait a couple minutes for the teacher to arrive and open the studio. She saw him, and said hi, then asked if he could help carry things inside. He started to be intrigued, and carried a stack of cones inside. There were only two other kids at class today, sisters named Daria and Abigail. Carly and I talked to their mom. We sat right by the door, so August could come back and forth and see what was going on in class. Before class started he rolled a cylinder back and forth with one of the girls a few times. But when it started he hung out out in the waiting room. Their mom suggested that he help Daria, as she was smaller, but he said he didn’t want to help. He ran in a couple times to participate, but then was first concerned that the teacher was chasing him, then said the music was too loud. We got him to tell her those things, and she turned the music down. Finally, he was concerned that she was going to tickle him. Once he was able to tell her not to tickle him he was then more comfortable, and was inside for most of the rest of class. When the teacher was putting rings down and saying their colors and asking for things of that color, he ran out to us and asked “Is basil green?” Also, before and even during class he kept asking “Is this dance class?” Hard to keep the classes straight when they take place in the same room and he hasn’t been to either in a couple weeks.
So class went really well. We walked home and got here at 6:10. We spent time outside watering and picking up tree things that fell due to the wind, the went inside to play TodoMath and the new games in the updated version. There’s a 100 grid puzzle, a couple of matching things, etc. He was the asking me to count by 4s, 8s, 11s, etc. And since he keeps asking me what is after nonillions and I tell him he can make it up he finally settled on it being ‘baanillions’.
He seemed to be doing fine and wasn’t tired. He went to the bathroom and after that we said it was time for dinner, then a shower. But he couldn’t handle any of it. He was exhausted from the swimming and class. It was pretty much straight to bed and asleep by 7:25.
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Filling cracks:
Math and juice:
Pizza:
Map:
Crawling into class:
