He cuddled up with me for much of the night and I shared my blanket with him. He woke up at 6 and Carly got him back to sleep. But we heard him yell and think a bad dream woke him up at 6:30. He watched Peg + Cat and Carly headed to work. We then finished rereading The 39-Story Treehouse and also The 7th Garfield Treasury. Another line from Garfield he keeps repeating is “Oh sure, hog the floor.”
I then made a mango lassi and he played Toca Blocks. He then played with the GarageBand sequencer and we then went upstairs to the guitar where he was really liking the sustain effects. He went into his room and saw the piles of clothes on his bed. They were the clothes, mainly Thatcher’s old clothes, that were in the boxes from the U.S. He made a mess on his bed and told me to tell him to clean it up. Then he really wanted all the clothes put away so he helped me sort them and I put them in his closet. He got upset though when I got a couple sheets that were hanging and folded them. He kept grabbing them so I couldn’t fold them and wouldn’t stop.
We read the Edgar book and played “Nevermore” and then he did the coloring book on the iPad and I took a shower. He switched to Toca Builders and Robot Lab and we had fun calling the magnet the “magnet-a-floofer”. We were upstairs on the bed and he had to go to the bathroom. He said what he has been saying every time he goes to the bathroom: “I’m gonna go to the bathroom. When I’m done you will come.” I then gave him his shower. Slightly better today.
Went downstairs for lunch. He ate the rest of the zucchini and cheese, shared the last of the pizza with me, and then we had onion rings. We built a Duplo rocket, then did some Hebrew on paper. He got out his doctor stuff and gave me a shot. He then asked “Can I make a card for Josephine?” I cut a piece of paper and we started on a mosaic but he lost interest and ended up using his Hebrew notebook instead. We went and played with the splat balls and had fun making slo-mo videos of them hitting the ground. We read some more Garfield.
We left the house at 1:35. Had a Tic-Tac as we got in the car. As I put him in his seat he said “When you get older you get a little shorter.” Apparently he and Carly had discussed this. We drove up into town. He was tracing some Arabic. We parked around the block from the bank and got cash at the ATM. On the way back we stopped to look at some statues at a yard and he picked dead leaves out of a bush.
We then drove into Beit Yehoshua. We parked at what appeared to be a promising bike path. Got out the stroller and got walking, only to find it is the shortest bike path in the world. Like 50 meters. I sang a little “Pathy path” song and he kept wanting more, then was singing it on his own. We wandered a couple of other paths between buildings and sidewalks. I found a Minions sticker on the ground and he wanted to throw it back on the ground so someone else could find it. We walked past something and I said I thought it was a school. He said “Yep, see: school.” He had read it off of a sign. He then asked “Is the school microscopic?” The first word on the sign said ‘Microsoft’.
We wandered around a bit more. Translated a few words on signs for him. Then made our way up to the playground. Sat on the merry-go-round and ate half of his peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He needed to use the bathroom. We got in the stroller and walked around and found one. As we walked he told a story about how someone had put an 8 on his gate and it gets bigger when he grows and will soon be a 9.
Didn’t play at the park long and he was ready to head to the school. Along the way I found a car with a Pearl Jam bumper sticker. At the car I picked him up to put him in and he put his arms around me and I held him for awhile. He then reached out and was moving the car door back and forth. He said “We’re a machine. The sticky stuff is going on the conveyor belt. The sticky stuff is sap. It’s being turned into honey.”
We left at 3:15 and drove to the school. We went to the library and quickly found a bunch of books: The 8th Garfield Treasury, Magic Treehouse books 4 and 5, Du Is Tak? again, a graphic novel called Max Axiom, Super Scientist: Forces and Motion, and a book called Ada’s Violin. We started to read a little of Garfield and Max Axiom, then went and checked them out and then read on the stuffed animals. I started to say “We didn’t get…” and August finished my sentence with “a single bookmark.” Liz wasn’t at her desk, so we did without. We walked up to the drinking fountain with steps and got a drink, then met Carly on the walk back to the library.
We drove up to his class. On the way he seemed surprised that he could control the window and I hadn’t taken control away from him. I said I trusted him, and he said “What does trust even mean?”
He was fine with class and looking forward to it. But as we walked down the stairs he asked Carly if she could go in the room with him. He then talked about how they close the doors and he can’t see us, and he’s locked in the room and can’t come out. We tried to convince him that he could come out, but he wasn’t convinced. Not sure if it was my talk about trying to come out of class less, or perhaps the teacher had said something to him at the end of that class two weeks ago. I’ve also talked to him about coming out of the Thursday class less, and he’s been okay with that.
So we didn’t even make it into the waiting room and turned around and headed back to the car. I asked if we could try again next week. He said “Yeah…maybe.” with a good 3 second pause between them.
At home I made grilled cheese sandwiches and heated up soup. They skyped with Cherie and Chuck. He talked with them more than usual and sent a lot of messages. After they hung up and we had all eaten August and I were sending messages back and forth on Skype as we sat next to each other. He was doing really well with reading all the sentences I sent him. He’s definitely reading now. Of course he’s been doing bits of reading for a long time, and I’ve suspected he can read a lot more than he lets on or wants to show, but today he was demonstrating his reading a lot more.
We read part of the Magic Treehouse #5: Night of the Ninjas and the Forces and Motion book. He was then having me be a passage from Toca Blocks and he would travel through me by climbing over me. Brushed his teeth and was pretty straightforward getting him up to bed and asleep at 7:45.
Cleaning his bed:
Photo he took of me:
Hebrew magnet:
World’s shortest bike path:
Sandwich on the merry-go-round:
Peael Jam sticker:
Skyping with Cherie:
