He was awake about 5:40 when Carly got up. She was able to get up though and he kept lying on the bed. About 5:50 he said something, th n started reading the clock “5:54…5:55”. We all went downstairs and they nursed. He then used Google Earth on her computer, finding countries and asking what they were (“What’s the one that starts with I and ends with Y?”), then doing Street View of places. Found some castles and rivers and lakes and whatnot. They nursed again, then she asked me to entertain him while she finished getting ready for work. I told the interrupting cow knock knock joke and he knew the last line. It is Hilo’s favorite joke. August then was silly on th couch and said “There’s interrupting cows everywhere!”
He then played Toca Blocks “for just a little while” and Carly headed to work. We then Skyped with my mom to say happy birthday. They weren’t online so we went all the birthday-related emojis we could find, then did a video. He sang Happy Birthday with me, then we sang again to include grampa since we didn’t sing for him last month. Only fair.
After that we listened to StoryBots songs and he was hooked to the music. Whenever it was a song from one of the episodes he would tell me what episode it is from. Did some good dancing that I got on video to the song about the color green. We then read some Hilo and then Plumdog, an illustrated journal told from the perspective of a dog. About 40 pages of it. I thought it was going to have a little more plot, but the art is nice and it is amusing, and August likes it. So a decent purchase.
He played some Big Numbers then my parents skyped back. He told them about his costume and that he will always love pink and 14 and Q. He played with the calculator on his iPad. After the call he played with ShapeKit and made a few interesting shapes, then Sesame Street Numbers. I reminded him of the rocket video, but we couldn’t find it in the numbers, so he switched to Elmo Loves ABCs to find it as a letter R video. At one point we tried the new geometry app, but it was one where you had to touch the invading monsters. Lasted about ten seconds before he decided it was too stressful and he shut it.
I had made pizza for lunch, and he ate most of a piece. I’d used the better sauce this time. He had been asking about how many days it takes the earth to revolve around the sun, so I had shown him how it all works, using him as the earth and the blueberries container as the sun. So he kept doing that and we would count off the years.
Upstairs he watched Wanda and the Alien and I took a shower. We then made a home for the hoglet in his bed and he talked about how long his legs are.
Back downstairs we brushed his teeth, then went and did Hebrew. He told me what letters to write in cursive. When I suggested we get going he said “Dada, I need to you learn all the letters of Hebrew first.” And then he stood up and applauded when we finished writing the letters. He then wanted to draw a “helping machine” “I said it’s a helping machine. It’s a machine fireman.” Finally, he wanted to clean up. He said he was done with the blueberries and put the container away, then he saw the Duplos under the table. He said he’d get them out and I could put them in the box.
It seemed like he had been stalling a bit as he wasn’t excited about getting going – he knew that we were getting flu shots and going to his dance class, which he was nervous about. But we left at 1:30.
At the school we got a drink at the drinking fountain with steps, then went to the library. First stop was the microscope where we looked at the few things they had. They’ve added a dead lizard, so that was nice. We also looked at the screen of my watch, my hat, and our coin pouch.
We then went to find a Treehouse book. No 39 or 52, but they had The 65-Story Treehouse. On the way to find it he said that he wanted to try it out in the library and if he liked it he wanted to take it home. We went and started reading it, and he was cracking up from page 1. He found all the new rooms that they added, then the fight with the ants, to be hilarious. As we were reading a third grade class started to come into the storytime area we were in. August saw them and started saying “Go away!” I took him out and he made a nest in the big stuffed animals and we kept reading there.
We checked out books (just that and a Philip Pullman book I hadn’t read – we returned the Perlutsky poetry book and issue of Ranger Rick, which he was never interested in) and met Carly just before 3. Straight to the nurse where we were about first in line for flu shots. August was strongly opposed. Carly went first, then I sat down with him on my lap and had to hold him and the nurse did his. Carly took him and started to head out. I got mine, then paid for the shots, got the bike and caught up.
August had gotten so upset that he threw up on the way to Carly’s room. In her classroom he wouldn’t calm down and nurse, saying “What are we doing here?” He kept spitting up more and more spit and we had a ton of tissues for him. He threw up again. I had him now, and had him looking outside at the strawberry field and that seemed to calm him down. She got him down to nurse in the bean bag chair but he was afraid “It will get worse!” He calmed down and they nursed and then read Treehouse while I went and got paper towels and cleaned up the mess.
Our big box from the United States had arrived, so Carly took him to the playground where a bunch of 8th grade girls were watching Taya (sp?), Cassie’s daughter, while I opened the box and put some of the small stuff (one of my books, the Legos, a vest) in my backpack. The two kids never played together: apparently she is really shy, and when August first saw her he told her to “Go away!”
But they both had a crowd of 8th graders (and Grace and Jill) playing with them. When I got there they were moving to the preschool playground. Carly went back to her classroom to do some work. He first made bark soup and some of the girls helped out: “We’re making soup that has big chunks of bark in it.” He then got the small pieces of lumber and was leading the girls to “storage” – a play structure thing they were dropping them in. He said they were still cooking, and talked about how everyone likes sugar and the big bark would make it extra sugary.
The other girls took Teya over to see some plants, so we went too. Then Gaby and a few of the girls gave us a tour of the greenhouse. They helped explain the hydroponic system to August, and I made connections to the Namoo app and what he has learned about roots and minerals. They let us taste the mint and he ate that.
We then met Carly at 4:15 and walked up to the studio for dance class. He didn’t want to go in at first, stopping at the bottom of the steps. Carly went upstairs and I took him in. I sat right outside the door and had him sit on my lap and told him we could just watch. We did a couple of board puzzles, then he went into class after there was actually music – he commented a couple times that they were just doing boring things when he peeked in through the crack. In the first few minutes he came back to make sure I was still outside the door. A couple minutes later he came and told me “I just did all that!” Then ran back. The teacher pulled back the curtain at one point and I briefly saw him crawling across the floor with the other kids. “I did it all the time!” At one point he thought the teacher was going to chase him so he came over, concerned. But he turned right around when the next song started. Gave him a high five at one point.
Made it to 5:06. Thought the teacher was going to chase him and he didn’t want that. He had had enough and wanted to go home. He was quite happy about class though. We headed home.
Back at home he did a little TodoMath. He finished his first Hundred Board Puzzle in it, with some help from me and Carly. We ate outside, then they watered and I did di
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She gave him a shower then I played with him on the bed. We read a few chapters of The 65-Story Treehouse. He wanted to keep reading, but he was getting sleepy. I suggested he practice going to sleep on his own. We started at a minute of lying down and worked up: two, three, then four. Before I suggested five he said “5 is too big. Maybe when I’m bigger.” We went down and got water, then he wanted to go back up and do more practicing – still didn’t want to nurse with Carly. Did one, then two minutes again. Eventually we did 4 minutes and 14 seconds. There were a couple of times when he was starting to get sleepy and he realized it and said he wasn’t ready for it. He asked Carly to come up and I left them just before 8. He was asleep just after 8.
