The rain started today and it is looking like the rest of the week will be rainy. He was up after 6. Watched Kipper, then we took Carly to work and listened to Story Pirates on the way. Wasn’t raining on the way there, but started raining pretty well on the way home. He watched more Kipper, then after I gave him vitamins he asked about them, then turned into a machine of turbines that were grinding up fish. I made eggs with mushrooms and olives and cheese and za’ater. He ate a good amount of that, then got stuff out of the cupboards for an experiment.
We did a mixing experiment, then skyped with my parents. We showed them some of out experimenting. He wanted popcorn, but started to get upset when I said one of the smaller bags. We said goodbye on skype, talked about it, and he agreed to the plain popcorn and we put some real butter on it. Watched a little more Kipper and I exercised. Went upstairs for a shower and he played TodoMath – making change, etc. I could tell he’s getting better, but he kept jumping to the highest levels and wanting help, even as I was trying to get in the shower. After my shower he asked “Can I play with the giraffe in my room?” He had it walking around the room and making little giraffe voice noises. And he gave it a name. He found the rest of his doctor supplies and we played with those a bit.
Then his bath. He watched Marble Machine and Animusic videos. He was really into them and let me really wash his hair. He then described his own music machine: there were lasers and solar panels and levers and all sorts of things. He was also letting me trim his ear, which went well until I was almost done and he twitched and I nicked his ear. There was a little blood, but more snot. I managed to keep him from seeing any blood.
We went downstairs and had a popsicle, then did Hebrew in Drops. We played Piano Maestro, and while practicing songs he started to play the melody up an octave. Progress. He was asking what was/wasn’t a children’s song and wanted me to call non-kids songs children’s songs. I sang and we listened to “Imaginary Bars”, which I used to sing to him all the time. He was asking what it was about and we talked about dreams not making sense. I asked him. He said “Sometimes they doesn’t. Sometimes my dreams make sense and sometimes they do.”
We played Monster Physics and had a ton of fun figuring out all the puzzles. We got to a hard one, and he made a big invention and had fun turning on the rockets and destroying parts of it.
We got going at 3, but were suddenly delayed when his trip to the bathroom turned into a long trip to the bathroom. As we headed to the car August said “I love ads…we should buy all the things they want us to buy.” He was specifically talking about the short ads in the Kipper videos on YouTube. And he had to do a little of his music machine before we left, and he asked “Do you think I like music or not?”
We got to school and Bat-Chen’s classroom just after 3:15 and she wasn’t there. We hung out there for a few minutes, then went up to the library. August was ready to find a book and grabbed the stepping stool and was looking up at the shelves. But I suggested we go look one more time. We went back downstairs and she was there. We figured out the miscommunication, but she went ahead and gave him a slightly-short lesson. They did more art and watched a song about the rain that he really liked, called גשם גשם משמיים. At the end she gave him another crem-bo treat like last time. I suggested he go and share it with mama, and Bat-Chen gave us another one for Carly.
We went up to her classroom and they had their treats. He wanted to print something, then wanted to play school. They played school for a long time. She asked him “Have people ever walked on the moon?” He replied “Yes, but they don’t want to fall down and break the air system.” At one point he said he wanted to be the teacher and he went up and was writing math problems on the whiteboard. They played for a long time. When they were done he came over to me on the beanbag chairs and we played dada and baby owl for a minute while Carly got ready to go. It was about a quarter to 6 before we left.
We listened to the end of Story Pirates 4 in the car and were home just before 6. At home he was playing a song on his ‘bassoon’ that we recognized and he wanted to know what it was. It was a new mystery song. I knew it was a Christmas song, and he said it had a ‘meba’ in it: “a germ”. He said it was a “Christmas intelligent song”. Which was a cool phrase for a Christmas song that taught us something. I search our iTunes library and found it: “My Christmas Amoeba”. He listened to that several times. At one point he laughed and asked “Dada, how can he even hold a microscopic candy cane?”
He then danced to the 12 Days of Christmas. We played more of Monster Physics, having way too much fun with it. We tried something out and he said “That’s a good experiment!” I got out carrots and veganaise and he ate a bunch. But I made the mistake of taking the second to last one. I saw him pick up the last one and set it down a couple of times. He seriously wouldn’t eat it, even after I talked to him about it. He wanted me to cut up more carrot. I did, and he ate a few more pieces.
Took him upstairs just before 8. He had his water bottle in his mouth, hanging from his mouth by the straw. He said “Actually, bathroom first.” and it sounded funny. Carly called him ‘straw boy’.
Carly suggested he dream about popsicle sticks “and popsicles, and sugar…and french fries with top on them.” Didn’t explain what ‘top’ was. He finished by saying “I love you dada “ in a scary voice. He was asleep around 8:20.
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