He got up right about 7. Heard them start playing with the magnet science kit a few minutes later. I came down and joined them a half hour later and did more magnets with them. They went outside and he ate oatmeal. Came back in and they did Makey Makey stuff – doing the bongos and the guitar ones. He said, with the magnets, I think, “I did an experiment to see how strong the bonds were before the bonds break!” August asked what “but still” meant and I used ‘despite’ in my answer. Carly then joked about what ‘despite’ means. I was heading upstairs to my shower, and Carly taught August ‘bifurcate’ as the word of the day. Think they ripped up a piece of paper.
I took a shower, and when I came down she was vacuuming and August was watching Julius Jr. with his headphones. He got all dramatic over having to take a bath and had to nurse. Then to Carly: “There’s one more thing you need to be nice to me: Let me love you more than you love me.” I took him upstairs for his bath. He shook his slinky and said “That’s like sound waves.” Bath went fine, then he watched Sarah and Duck and ate peanut butter crackers. He requested they do some science before they left, so they did some more magnets. That kit got a lot of use today.
They left at 11:30. They went to the plant store out east. Got plants for her classroom, tomato seeds, and pots to transfer the broccoli into. I worked. They were back after 12:30. They did magnets outside. August dropped one of the magnets and it broke, but it still works because, well, it’s a magnet. He ate broccoli and a piece of cake. And they planted tomato seeds with orange juice as an experiment. I came down to see how they were doing “Hi little ZZ.” He said “You say ‘Hi big ZZ.’ I just turned 4.” He had more oatmeal outside.
They left again. They dropped off the plants at her classroom but didn’t spend a lot of time there, then went to Tiv Taam to do some general grocery shopping. I had more work time.
They got home and Carly got to making spaghetti. August and I did yet more magnets and Makey Makey. I was then trying to get him to go do recycling with me. He got the big foam piece form the magnet set and was playing with it. He asked how styrofoam gets in the ocean. He called it “My most precious foam ever.” All amusing until he started to break it apart himself. I had to take it away and throw it away again (it had been thrown away once, but Carly realized we were missing the white disk that was part of the set).
Finally got him to go at 5:15. We went and did cardboard and glass recycling. Plastic was more overflowing than ever. Don’t know what’s happened to their pickup schedule, but it has been bad for a few weeks. The park was too busy, he said, for playing. He suggested the snakes and ladders playground. I warned that it might be busy too and he changed his mind. He decided to walk around the Holly Block a couple times. We also walked up Kibuts Gulyout, counting cats. And we made up a song about preschool. Something like “Preschool, what will it be like? You’ll learn lots of stuff, it will her be enough, you’ll have lots of fun, in the classroom and out in the sun…”
He spotted a sign he wanted to translate by the synagogue park area. It says ‘No dogs allowed’. He was then joking about magically making traffic on the street and said “There’s more traffic than in the tunnel to Solla Sallew!”
We were home at 6:10. We read Madeline (I had gotten a free copy of that and Madeline and the Bad Hat at the library). He didn’t eat much, even though Carly had made spaghetti and meatballs and sweet potatoes. I finished off the last of the soup.
He watched an episode of Wild Kratts, then we watched Omar in Mexico on Facebook while Cherie watched as well. After that was over he went to the bathroom and talked about having a malfunction. Carly didn’t understand him at first because he pronounces it “mile-function”. She had him say ‘poisonous’, which he still pronounces ‘coisonous’.
I took him up and got him ready for bed. We read Barnyard Dance and The I Love You Book. For each page of that book he would then ask me if I loved him like that. So when I read “I love you when you are sick” he would ask “Do you love me when I am sick?” I would say yes, then read the next page. He did that for every page, right through “Do you love me just the way I am?” So cute, and also good pronoun switching practice.
He talked about going to sleep with me, but when Carly came up to say goodnight he changed his mind. And she was ready to go to sleep too. He was asleep around 8:30.