He was up at 5:45. After nursing he did math in Excel. He started at 7000 and kept saying his result until he got to 448000. He then typed in Arabic on his iPad. Did some Little Dragonbox Numbers as Carly went to work. He’s clearly getting better with mental subtraction. He went to the bathroom and started making a “25 20 15 10 5 0 That’s how we count backwards by 5s!” song. Wanted to read books: “I want to read Plumdog, the Dog Who Crashed to Earth…I want to read Emma, the Woman Who Crashed to Earth.”
We made a fort and read Peppa Story Collection one and a half times in it. He then ate a whole apple. Played Little Dragonbox Numbers and he made up a counting by 6s song. We tried more of the algebra app. Too hard for him, but he likes it. We then went upstairs and he watched Ask the StoryBots while I took a shower. It was the Why is the Sky Blue? episode. I came out of my shower and asked him so why is it blue, and he then had us acting out being air molecules and blue wavelength light.
We went downstairs and made zucchini bread. He helped with both the peeling of the zucchini and the grating of it. In fact he did most of the grating of the two cups of zucchini. While it baked we read more Plumdog, then I made tuna melt sandwiches for lunch. He ate most of his. We were listening to music and he liked a Drivin N Cryin song and seemed to like the new Weezer. We then spent a lot of time on Hebrew, doing cursive and block letters. He wrote some letters, and we were learning some words. We then spent a lot of time reading and translating Goldilocks and the Three Bears from Hebrew. That actually seemed like a good way to learn it together.
He then had us acting out Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Ran through the whole thing two or three times. He then had us acting out the Robot Lab iPad game, sans iPad. I was the robot, getting stars, then he was the magnet taking me out at the end of the level.
HE then got the Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life book and had me reading about random prehistoric creatures, which he would then act out.
At 1:50 we walked up to the cages and did the recycling. We came back and changed into swimsuits. We took some time with Duplos and put the last of the Duplo zoo stickers on some of them. We then made some rockets. He held one at an angle and said “It’s flying diagonal.”
We left at 2:30. As we left he told a long story about his ‘nahaleim’ (‘shoes’ in hebrew). About how he lost them then he found them then they wore out so he got new ones but they were worn out too “but all the shoes in the whole world were too old…” It went on.
Perhaps even cooler was that as we were walking he developed a whole robot counting song, where each number was a number of something on his robot body. He had one leg, which I learned when he restarted from 1. He had 8 arms, 9 powers, 10 batteries…
We got to the school and went and did the can recycling. A lot of cans had built up so he was excited to do them all. We then went to the pool and were in at 3:10, after going to the bathroom. We were the only ones in the pool for most of the time, until a woman came to do laps near the end. August said “I’m a lonely ball floating down the river…” He was being the ball from Plumdog that bounces over the wall and they just watch go down the river. I hadn’t really planned on swimming, but then when we were talking about what we could do at the school I gave it to him as an option and he immediately said that was what he wanted to do. It was a great decision, as it felt really good. The air was a little cooler, but that made walking into the pool really easy. And there were no swim lessons to stay out of the way of.
We got out close to 3:50. He wanted to get out using the ladder at the deep end. He was then a robot (“Eightybot” – which he was all day, saying it was another way of saying ‘Dino-roar’ and that it meant he loves 80) that rusted when he got out. So funny.
We changed out of our suits and then he sat on the black couch outside and ate some apple and zucchini bread as a snack. We met Carly at her classroom at 4:15 and he pretended to go from his home (the beanbags) to school (a desk): “Bye bye. I’m going to school…I’m learning about machines.”
We walked up to the studio and his class. He was being shy with the teacher at first, but mainly for fun, I think. He made a nest on the couch with the pillows and said “I’m in my green squirrel bed.” In trying to get him to come out a bit less to ask me about the time, I showed him the analog clock in the studio. We talked about the minutes, and where the minute hand would be at the start and end of class. At first he was still coming out a lot, mainly to ask what it meant when the minute hand was at 10, 11, etc. And he had to go to the bathroom. But after that he really got into playing. They were using frisbees to bat balls around on the floor. So didn’t see him for about 20 minutes, then at 5:25 he came out with what I at first thought was a sad look. But he said “I’m tired” and I picked him up. He got up really early, so not a surprise.
We headed home, admiring the gibbous moon, and for as tired as he had seemed he perked right up. More snacking – apple and a Larabar along the way – then just past the community center I realized the bike handle had fallen off. Carly continued on with him and I walked back to try and find it. Found it less than a block away, at the other end of the community center by the statues. Caught up with them and walked home together.
We were home about 6. He and I did a little more Dragonbox Plus (the algebra one) while he ate pasta and pesto and mushrooms. Carly gave him a shower , then in bed he wanted to be in a squirrel nest with me and read books. He went and brought back Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm and Biscuit Wins a Prize. We read those, then he went and got Me and My Dad and Wild About Books and the Babar book. We read the first two but then he was too tired. We went down and got his water bottle, but he told Carly he wasn’t ready for her to come up – he wanted to practice minutes.
He set a few minutes on the timer and we tried that, then I introduced him to the stopwatch and time how long he could lay still, eyes closed, and not talking. Started at 11 seconds, but got up to around 40, I think. We got Carly and I left them at 7:40. He was asleep within 10 minutes.
