Up at 6:40. He was upset at first but calmed down on the couch and spent a few minutes waking up. Was counting on his fingers and counting by 11s and then wanted to look at the shapes book. We read Elmo’s ABC Book on the iPad and he learned another knock knock joke. We then read about 80 pages of 65-Story Treehouse. He watched one episode of Ask the StoryBots (Where Do French Fries Come From?) then we ate some toast at the table. We then read all seven stories in Peppa Pig story collection, which was just released. He then asked to play the Robot Lab game. Actually a nice little game as it had him doing a little problem solving. As he was making a robot: First arm: “Fire to burn people.” Second arm: “Rainbow to make rainbows so when people are sad it cheers them up.”
We moved upstairs so I could take a shower. But discovered that the internet wasn’t working. Back downstairs to troubleshoot, and restarting the modem did the trick. Later, August would pretend to be the wi-fi router or the modem, talking about what color he was blinking, or how many of his lights were turned on.
Back upstairs he watched Wanda and the Alien and I took a shower. Downstairs we read the end of Plumdog, then started at the beginning, then read some Garfield. He was then reading the Hebrew alphabet off the fridge and singing his Hebrew song with extra letters. He’s added additional ‘sofit’ letters at the end and an extra ‘yod’ in the middle, and kept adding more.
Then some more Garfield. I then made a mango lassi and let him lick out the tablespoon after I did the honey. We drank our lassi, then he recited a big Hebrew number and said “That’s 22!” He remembered the structure of them from watching that video once.
I made grilled cheese sandwiches for us and he ate his whole sandwich, minus some crust. He was singing and said “I made a Counting by 11s song.” He sang it some more, then counted by 11s. He asked me what came after 110, and we worked on going up to 220 a couple times. He then said “How do you count by 12s?”
He did a little Duplo zoo, then asked me to add animals while he want to the bathroom. He’s been repeating lines from the books we’ve read. From Garfield: “That’s my hot water, Garfield. I was going to make tea.” “Garfield!” “Okay, who ate my socks?” From Plumdog: “I’m gonna bite your stupid head off.” He then did a little more coloring book as I got snacks. We then practiced telling knock knock jokes, and he’s starting to understand playing both sides. He knows the ‘Boo who?’ one from Elmo and the ‘Interrupting cow’ one from Hilo 2. I also taught him the ‘Aren’t you glad I didn’t say banana?’ one.
We next inished reading Magic Tree House #1 and discussed which books to return. He randomly asked “How do you write עץ (tree)?” So I showed him on paper. We went outside, and before we left he wanted to wash off his little rake and shovel.
We left at 2:20. He wanted more knock knock jokes. I looked some up, then he would ask for ones about things: “tree” “fence” etc. The best one I made up was: “little red riding” “little red riding who?” “No, Little Red Riding Hood!” And he really laughed to cows go/cows go who?/cow’s don’t go who, the go moooo! one that I looked up.
We got to the library around 2:45. They had two Treehouse books we hadn’t read and he chose The 78-Story Treehouse. And we got the second Magic Treehouse book. He wanted to sit on the highest level of the reading area to read, he said because he wanted to see the pumpkins that were hanging up. I said “Ah yes, there are pumpkins.” To which he replied “Not any pumpkins, Halloween pumpkins.” That’s phrasing he got from the Treehouse books which start “We live in a treehouse. Not any treehouse, a 78-story treehouse.”
He was getting a bit hyper in the reading area but we were the only ones there. He was running around in circles on the rug and counting rug squares by 4s. We read 5 chapters of 78-Story, then he was sucking me up with a straw (something that happened in the book) and playing on rug.
He was being a bit loud with his voice and when he couldn’t quiet down I got him out to the big stuffed animals. But along the way he kept chanting “red, red, red” (being the wi-if router) and wouldn’t stop. We had to have a talk outside the library, then he turned down his volume back in the library. We checked out our two books, and Liz showed him a music playing and dancing dog toy thing. August liked it but seemed a bit disturbed by it as well. We looked a little at some other decorations, then Carly showed up. Before we left, August spotted two legs sticking out from under a pile of books – it was the witch from the Wizard of Oz. He was really amused by that and looked at them for a couple minutes, wondering if it was going to scare him.
We walked up to his dance class. He said on the way that he had plenty of energy and had done extra charging. Once there he had some difficulty at first as the waiting room was quite full. He yelled “Go!” A few times. We took him outside, then Carly stayed up at the top of the steps and I got him back down and into class. I thought he did quite well – he came and checked with me a few times, and asked how much time was left. He left for one minute and had a bite of banana bread, then went back in. Spying through the curtain, I saw him actually sitting down with the other kids several times. But when he came out at 5:12, with 3 minutes of class left, the teacher came over and said that all of his trips to the door were really hard for her.
He said he was done, so we got going – nice leaving a minute early anyway as the waiting room is already a zoo with everyone waiting for the next class. Oh, and I met Rachelle, the WBAIS PE teacher who told Carly about these classes via email. She had a daughter in the next class. Carly got to meet her too, as they actually hadn’t met face-to-face.
Anyway, on the way home he did a lot of bike riding on his own. We were home at 5:50.
He did a little Robot Lab, then I got It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown going and we all sat at the table and watched it. I wasn’t sure how much he was following it, but when I offered to skip through the Red Baron part he said no, and when it was over he asked if he could watch it again. I said another day.
He looked at Google Maps with Carly. When he had to go to the bathroom he told Carly how many more places she was supposed to look at. Carly took him up for a shower and I did dishes. I came up and they tried for sleep but he wasn’t ready. He came downstairs and we read 78-Story Treehouse while she took a shower. We went up and I left them at 8:02 to try for sleep again. He came back down at 8:16, which I know exactly as he announced it as he came down, having read it on the clock.
We read 7 chapter of James and the Giant Peach, then went back up just before 9. He actually wanted to try to go to sleep with the timer. He set it for just over 6 minutes. But after about two minutes he wanted to nurse. He was asleep soon after 9.
A phrase he liked today was “The gloaming”, which is from Plumdog.
Smashing an orange on the tree:
Reading and smelling the fir branch:
The witch’s legs:
Watching Charlie Brown:
Trying to sleep on the stair:
