He was talking in his sleep. Carly had to get him back to sleep a couple times. He was up at 7:15. He watched an episode of Wild Kratts. We then played a little of that awful Street Music app. Then he found Chess. We did a little of the tutorial and then two games with the computer set at level 1. At one point he said “I love chess.”. We went to do magnet science and used a Duplo car to make a car we could push with a magnet.
Listening to music. He requested “Like I Used to Be” and asked to be picked up. We danced to it and “Endencino” and “Elements”. Then I set him on the couch and listened to other songs. During “Song for 5 and 6” he lay his head on my shoulder. We were listening to my Songs for August Zinn @ 4 playlist.
We started to head upstairs and he gave me a look and said “Don’t forget a little something something for me to eat upstairs.” Made him peanut butter crackers. He found wax from the cheese last night on the floor: “I think I have a special fluid that senses it. A microscopic fluid you can’t even see…” Sure that was from Wild Kratts. He watched Wild Kratts squid and sperm whale episode and I took a shower, after which he was making loud sperm whale noises. He wanted to play with the kaleidoscope cards in the bedroom so we did that. He was playing under the blanket and saying “Who knows what’s going down in the deep sea.” He was then stealing the kaleidoscope cards. He said “Do you know what’s going on?” When I said no he replied “Then you should learn it from a scientist!” He said “I’m in the subnivean zone!” That as definitely the word of the day and it came up a lot. That’s the area below the snow where animals are able to keep warm and live through the winter.
We did his bath and I had to hurry him a bit before the siren drill. He’s been pretty calm with the washing the last few days. We got downstairs and heard the siren drill at 11:05. They aren’t very loud from our house at all. We sat in the stairwell and discussed why that was the best place to be. I mentioned that Carly and her students were practicing going to the safe room at that same time. He seemed incredulous: “How do they practice going in the room? There’s a door and they go in it, right?”
We were going to Ace to get the duplicate keys for the kitchen door fixed, so I was studying them with the door to see what was wrong. August enjoyed messing with the door. He requested some of the fancy cheese and we ate some. He said “It tastes like salmon.” Because it is smoked. Also sliced an apple and he had a slice before we left at 11:35. I got him in his seat but he noted “I’m kind of loose.” I tightened it and he declared “More safe.”
We went to Ace and convinced the guy to grind down the edges of the keys. We also bought wood glue to fix the cabinet door and a couple of car wash mitts.
We then walked a couple blocks north to where the movie theater is (I carried him much of the way) and got a couple slices of pizza at a pizza place there. August was a sort of Waze machine that gives you options for how to get someplace and gives you the directions. Pizza place was much like the one in town (slices on cardboard, same sort of drinks) but had more pizza options. We sat and ate and he asked “What does three minutes flat mean?” And said “I can bake a cake in nine seconds flat.” Think it is a phrase from Wild Kratts. He asked about the word ‘instructions’ and also how the car can tell us where to go: “How can the car do that though?” He also asked “How do people make shows like Wild Kratts?” And he wondered how they know everything about the animals, and then how scientists actually study the animals.
We then drove the north route into Even Yehuda. As we parked down the street from the post office at 1:30, the song “Almost Loved” came now. He was excited and said “I think that was a mystery song!” One that he’d been humming at some point.
We didn’t take anything with us to the post office to mail a letter for Carly. Didn’t expect it to take as long as it did – probably close to 20 minutes. August wasn’t too happy about the wait, but we made it.
We were running short of time to go home and then walk, so we decided to just drive to school. Parked, then walked down to the preschool playground and found his class playing there at 2:15. A girl told us the sandbox was closed. August kept saying “I already knowed that” (he’s kind of big on claiming he already knew things) and when I said she was just being helpful he told me “I already knowed that. But still…” He played on his own, taking all of the pieces of wood and stacking them and pretending they were a fire and roasting marshmallows. The class went in a little past 2:30. We helped clean the playground up a little and played a bit longer.
Went in at 2:50 and wandered upstairs and played with the old overhead projector which they are using as a sort of light table with transparent blocks. There were also 5 plastic lemons and oranges, kind of random, that we spun. And he wore a hard hat. He went in to coding class at 3:10. I sat right outside the room (partially because the AC was too cold in there). He called me in twice to show me what he was doing or to ask for help, but otherwise did just fine on his own. They did a color-by-numbers thing (his first experience with that) then did iPad coding games.
We went to the library and played with the chess pieces for awhile. I played one game. He is getting down the piece names, at least. We then went into the kids books area. He played with the Legos and I sat and read. Carly was staying late as she needed some planning time. August got hungry and we went out to eat an apple. August was asking me why I like to follow instructions and signs, then we heard the sounds of the robot team in the back part of the library. We went and watched them try out their new robot for the first time. Pretty cool. Liz and her daughter Lilian came and stood by us. They were eating an orange. August busted them: “They are eating in the library.” Liz said he was right and they would take it back to her desk.
He played a bit more, then we picked up the Legos and went out to eat the Larabar. That was where we were when Carly showed up at 4:55.
We were home at 5:15. The keys work, although a bit rough. August was itchy again today, and even had scratches on his leg from where he was scratching himself last night. August said “The cream we bought doesn’t seem to be doing biological magic.” ‘Biological magic’ seems like a Wild Kratts phrase as well and he kept asking about it. They played with magnets, we had some yellow cheese, then they did more Tetris.
I got him a bowl of broccoli and sweet potato. He ate the broccoli but said he didn’t like the sweet potato because of the texture. He ate more broccoli, then I got him a slice of cake. I then let him “sneak” a little more frosting when he said he wanted to just look at the cake again. We then read the Swap book from the library last week a couple times. He wanted back in the cake container, but I wouldn’t open it. We joked that there were lizards in it. He had a couple spoonfuls of peanut butter.
Carly took him up and got him ready for bed. I went up at 8 and he said he wanted to fall asleep with me. I told him about getting our first cat, Jupiter. Carly came back in and took photos of his itchy spots for the nurse. He asked why we have eyebrows and lashes. He was saying something about that then said “Grr” and flung himself over on his side, his forehead pressed against my lips. He was silent for a few minutes and I thought he was asleep. Then he whispered “How do we make plastic?” I said it was from oil and he said “But isn’t it a liquid?” He was scratching, so I went down and got the cream. Carly came up and also gave him some of the allergy medicine.
I stayed with him for another 20 minutes or so but he wouldn’t calm down like the one t
ime. He asked “What’s scientists?” I said we could answer his questions in the morning and he said “What do you mean? They’re very cool. And you might not remember them again.” “Where does everything in the world come from?…My hypothesis…Everything comes from something else…but that doesn’t make sense.” Carly and I switched at 8:45 and she was back down just a few minutes later.
