He was up at 6:05. After Carly left we started reading the 8th Garfield Treasury. We read all of it and then part of the book we own. He was then typing on Skype on my iPad. He wanted to send messages to me though so I got his iPad so he could send messages from his account. I was getting ready for us to make zucchini bread. He saw my phone and said he wanted to type on that. I said he didn’t need three devices. He got upset and ended up saying “I want 14 devices!” We made zucchini bread. He did most of the peeling and some of the grating. We were listening to Bjork and I said I had a dream that we went to Iceland. He said “I had the same dream…cuz I want to go to Iceland…Lets go to Iceland sometime.” We then listened to Ask the Storybots. He stood on his stool at the counter for a good 20 minutes dancing and singing along to the Storybots.
He then played Toca Blocks as I finished up. He kept saying “Oh no!” When you delete blocks it’s a little monster thing that chomps them and says “Ammyang”. So he would say “Thank you ammyang thing!” He wanted GarageBand, and I reminded him of Figure. He played with that, and when I showed him the Gamle Oct Havet sound, which was his favorite, he clearly remembered it as he started laughing and got really excited. We exercised and listened to some Arabic, learning ‘Hello’ and ‘Thank you’ etc. He asked what we would learn after Arabic. He decided all on his own: “Hebrew then Arabic then French then German.”
We went upstairs and he watched Peg + Cat and I took a shower. We came downstairs and took out the bread and had some, then I made tuna melt sandwiches for lunch and we ate and watched Peg + Cat together for awhile. After lunch we sat on the couch and read ten chapters of The 52-Story Treehouse. He saw the electric keyboard and wanted to play that, so we brought up GarageBand and played that. He’s back to picking out all the notes (the Cs, Ds, etc.) on the keyboard. Hope he’ll want to start playing songs again soon.
I got everything set up outside for more painting of the little library. He then came out and helped. He accidentally made a hole in the plastic: “I accidentally made a little hole in the plastic…but what if the ink goes through the whole to the green light and it get blue ink in Shmuel’s nice fake grass?” He kept walking around and talking about light bulbs and ink. The painting went okay, but was a little frustrating for him as he can’t do the spray can on his own and I was mostly keeping him back to avoid the spray and fumes. We got agonizingly close to finishing when the spray can ran out.
He went in and played Human Body and did the whole skeleton puzzle on his own. I snuck up and put some more sealant under the shower divider that Yve put in, as it has been leaking again. August has slowly gotten better about going to the bathroom on his own and letting me go to the other floor without having to follow me. He asked me to install Toca Blocks on his iPad. As he watched the circle fill up to show it was installing he asked “Why’s that have to be slow? I want it filled in right away!”
We got going. Carly was going to see the dress rehearsal of the play, so we weren’t going to go to school first today, and I was taking him to his activity class on my own. We first drove down to Ace Hardware. He played Toca Blocks for a minute but was then quiet. His eyes were closing as we got to the store. I carried him in and quickly grabbed the can and paid. He had his head on my shoulder the whole time and I thought he might be asleep. Luckily he was still awake. I took the north route back to Even Yehuda, which is a mistake around 4. As we were stuck in traffic he fell asleep at 4:12. Parked at the park just south of the studio ten minutes later and got him up with talk of zucchini bread and Tic Tacs.
Had planned on playing at the park a bit, but we were running late and he was waking up. So we went for a walk in the stroller. The first thing he said after waking up was to tell me that a cat that ran away from us was probably afraid of his bluthentorp machine, which somehow chooses a color, like purple, then squishes you if you like purple with a weight that weighs 1000000% heavy.
We went to class and he carried down a round thing. He was hesitant at first. Told me several times “I’m scared.” And “I really don’t want to sit.” He was in and out several times, especially early on, but he is hardly the only one in this class. At one point he came out, couldn’t really get to me, and turned around and said to himself as he walked back in “Well, okaaayyy. I will try it.” With about 15 minutes left he came out and said he was getting tired. But then she was putting down the squares with textured objects glued to them, like he used to really like in his 5-Touch classes, and that got him back in. They were also crawling through the expanding tunnel things, something that he found too scary back in 5-Touch. Afterwards he told me it was still a little scary.
He made it to the very end of class this time, and when he confirmed with me “That’s zero minutes (left)?” he was excited that he’d made it to the end of class.
We walked down to the park where we parked and played for about 10 minutes. Mostly on one of those Jeeps with two handles on it, so we pretended to put out fires. When I wasn’t on it, a slightly older boy came and climbed on next to August, grunted at August, sat there for a minute, then left. When August needed to go to the bathroom we got in the car and headed to the school.
At the school we used the bathroom in the performing arts center building. We heard the play happening, but when I asked if he wanted to see if we could peek in, he instead headed out the doors. He then took my hand and led me around the campus, zooming down the hill, then over to Carly’s classroom. It was locked, so we zoomed back, then up next to the main gates. We sat on a bench to read. He asked “Do we have Max Axiom?” We didn’t, but we had the Magic Treehouse ninja book. We read that until Carly came out. When she came out he wanted to keep reading. The cats were really friendly and August had fun petting one.
We then headed home and got here at 6:30. I gave him a shower and Carly put together dinner. We ate, then played on GarageBand. Carly took him to bed at 7:35. He said “I’m gonna dream about…” Me suggesting what he dreams about has become a game. I said “Ninjas” and he gave me a thumbs up.
He didn’t fall asleep though and he came down at 7:50. Carly took a shower and we read the rest of the ninja book. He was then asleep by 8:30.
Falling asleep at Ace:
Walking the textures:
Sitting with the class:
Climbing at the playground:
On the Jeep:
