He was up just after 6:20. Down on the couch he was humming a line and I figured out it was “Do, a deer, a female deer.” He watched Julius Jr. as Carly headed to work. I made a banana, mango, and strawberry smoothie. He was pretending to call through vents and pipes again and asked me to clean the floor under the dining table. Too dirty for him. He then made a little Duplo play area on his own.
I was getting things ready in the kitchen to make cookies. He calls rubber bands “ribbon bands”. He confused me a day or two ago asking how strong ribbons are. Turned out he meant rubber. Also asked “What kind of conveyor belts did they use in the past when they didn’t have run by motors?” I asked if he was ready to make cookies. He said “I’m going to learn this Hebrew word first.” He made one of the letters, then was seeing very abstract letters BETWEEN the magnets in the shapes that were made: “That looks like a lamed and that’s a dalet.” And “Look at that shape. It’s like a tusk tooth of a Narwhal.” He then said “I’m gonna wash my hands to want to help you, you know.” He then ran off and washed his hands and came back, all on his own.
We then made cookies. He poured the eggs into the big bowl on his own. He also talked about how he was doing better making cookies this time and not getting upset. As we baked them he got excited: “I’m ADOPTED to cookies…I’m magnetical to cookies!” Meant ‘addicted’. When they were ready I gave him a funny-shaped one. He said “That’s the biggest one you’ve ever given me.” He said “I have a mystery for myself about how many cookies we’re going to make.” The answer turned out to be 43.
He then asked what drowning is and we had a discussion of swimming and lessons. A couple minutes later he said “I have another way to save people. You go to them in a boat and they sit on a floaty thing and you take them back to the shore.” “What if there’s not enough floaty things?”
I exercised and he played Figure on my iPad. He then had a mystery song, and correctly guessed it was from TodoMath. He then played TodoMath and we went upstairs. He refused carrots as a snack, saying he doesn’t like carrots or vegenaise anymore. I took a shower and we watched a Julius Jr. During his bath we watched an Animal Cell video. He mainly watched the guy running from the police part at the beginning. Then watched SciShow Kids Why Do We Get Goosebumps?
He randomly declared “There isn’t a tooth fairy that has a wand.” Then downstairs on the couch he said “Maybe magic is hard so it doesn’t exist.” I suggested we take a little rest before we got going on our buys afternoon. I pulled him over to me and he lay with his head on my side for a few minutes.
We walked up and did recycling. Or mainly I did, as he said “I’m more excited about school.” He did the glass though. He was asking if I liked his music and I said I loved the songs he made up. He replied “And I love the songs you make up.” We sang some “I Lost My Helmet in the Spaceship” on the way back.
While I put the bike in the car he hugged/protected the car and talked about not wanting anyone else to touch it. He then played in the car while I went in and got the backpack, etc. At the gate he asked “How can it lock if it’s kitty cat shapes?” Indeed the shape of the hole that the deadbolt goes into looks remarkably like a cat. He went in to go to the bathroom and asked “What’s the largest number invented?”
We listened to episode 12 of Story Pirates in the car today. We stopped at the Even Yehuda library to return the two Hebrew books we hadn’t really read. I apologized for not reading them and he said “Well the books doesn’t really have many feelings.” He wanted to put the books through the slot next time.
Back in the car he noticed the clicking of the engine idling. Sounded slightly different for some reason. Left there at 1:50. Drove to the school and went to the library. He walked in with the bag of cookies and gave them to Liz and said they were for the librarians. He played in the big stuffed animals. The fifth grade class was back in the kids area. We found Best Friends for Frances and checked it out and were going to head to the playground when the fifth grade started to leave. August wanted to head back to that room. He found Life on Mars by Jon Agee and I found Is that WISE, Pig? by Jan Thomas. He was hungry and wanted a snack and I realized I had forgotten the snacks at home.
We were about to leave and run home but then I realized we should ask Carly. Went and found her leaving her room. She got us her container of fruit and a plastic knife. He wasn’t happy about it, especially after Carly had a cookie. Didn’t really get upset, just grumpy. We sat in a chair together outside the library for a couple minutes. I asked if he was nervous about the Hebrew class and he said he was. We talked about it a minute and that seemed to do the trick. He then agreed to go deliver the bag of cookies to Mandy, then head to the preschool.
We stopped by Mandy’sclassroom but she wasn’t there, so he left the cookies on her computer. We looked at an aquarium with tadpoles in it, then headed to the preschool.
We went in and found Miriam, who was at Bar’s house and who teaches the Hebrew class. August had a few minutes to look around the preschool and liked it much more this time. Class was upstairs, and there were 4 other kids (including Bar, who technically isn’t in the class as she knows Hebrew). They did some greetings (we learned ‘sababa’ – very good/awesome). Then most of class was watching/acting out a Hebrew version of the song Five Little Monkeys. I participated. August was the doctor the first time. They then all got little sets of the monkey family and doctor and colored them so we can act it out at home. He asked a few times when class was over, etc. but at the end when she asked if he had fun and was coming back next week he said yes. And we shared some of our fruit with Lana and Thomas and Bar. I didn’t catch the name of the other girl, but she is a friend of Bar’s and they played together the first time at the playground.
Outside August ran around with them playing hide and seek until August decided to play on the playground. He climbed on top of the car thing on his own. He worked on the engine up there (that goes back to playing with Liam up there and working on the engine). He was singing the Julius Jr. song. He had talked about how much he liked it earlier. He used “Tin can foil…it helps it not squeak.” I briefly met Lana’s mother.
Carly came over and met us. He showed her how he can go down the slide with his legs over the sides, then we walked up to his activity class. Carly walked with us, then walked home while I stayed with him.
Class was a full parent and kids class today. Which worked really well, as all three of us participated. August was dancing and looking in the mirror. He got close to the mirror and said “Now I can look up my nose! That’s what I like about mirrors. My eyebrows are BIG.” They played with frisbees and he was balancing it on his head and his hand. And he surprised me by sitting on the frisbee and spinning himself pretty fast just using his hands. When they were being animals he chose snakes. For the big setup at the end he did a great job of pushing himself on the scooter across the floor with a frisbee on his back and then stacking the frisbee on a stack. But his favorite part was the mat that had arrows on it pointing different directions. You jumped from one to the next, spinning in the air.
At the end of class she has them sit back down and throws a pretend star to them which they catch, then throw back. He was excited about that part.
On the way back to the school and car we stopped at the park. We saw Gaby and Grace along the way and let them know it was us who dropped off cookies on her mom’s computer. We got to the park and it was still quite light – days are gett
ing longer. He did a bunch of climbing, then left at 6:20. As we left he saw a little kid with one of those push bike things that looks like a car. He said “We should get one like that. It has a steering wheel and everything.”
In Story Pirates they get hit by a tornado. In his continuing attempt to figure out what is real and what isn’t, he said “Tornadoes don’t really exist.” I had to tell them they actually were, but they don’t usually suck up people. He thought about it and said “I don’t EVER want to live in a country that has tornados.” I told him that meant we couldn’t live by Vivian.
We went inside and they nursed, then he drank the rest of his smoothie. Soup for dinner. Encouraged him to eat more and more bites until he was stuffed. Then show Carly how he could eat bites when she came inside from taking care of the plants. Ate a decent amount, then had a cookie, which he happily ate on the couch. When he had a couple bites left I remembered milk. Got him some milk for the last couple bites.
He read Is That Wise, Pig? and at least part of Best Friends for Frances with Carly. She took him upstairs and I left them at 7:30. Think it took quite awhile to get him to sleep. I heard talking, but not crying.
Delivering:
Big cookie:
