He was up at 6:10. Watched Sarah and Duck, and he had me do some Duplo inventions before we left. He was hesitant about going and asked “Can we go to preschool just some of the time?” We left at 7:50. He had us stop along the way to watch bees on some interesting flowers. Took a photo of the flowers so we could try to identify them later.
Got to preschool and he was undecided what to at first. Nicholas came over to him and told him some sort of secret. Still trying to decide what to do he told me it was my choice. He wanted to play with clay but they were doing one person at a time.
We experimented with the different train/car/boats and putting them down the ramp. We did a long ramp piece at first, then a shorter triangle piece. He noticed how when it was steep they would hit and fall over.
For morning meeting he stuck close to me. They were introducing a new song, and it turned out to me Do-Re-Mi and he started singing along to the words as he knows them. One of the kids suggested the Daddy Finger song, which they didn’t know. August recognized the tune from Cherie and started singing “Where is Thumbkin”. We went out for snack and August sat on a chair full of water from the rain. Dried it off and changed him into his red shorts. Ate a good snack of corn and pickles. He was being clingy and I couldn’t go get my book without him getting upset.
Out on the playground he played on the car, then was dropping a trio of leaves (a tool) and noticed that it acted like a parachute and also spun “Why do you think they do that?” He then went over and played at the kitchen area.
Next was music class. He liked that and got well involved, particularly with Wheels on the Bus. They also listened to parts of Peter and the Wolf, which the high school band is performing later. He kept coming over to me, saying he was tired, but kept going back.
They went back to the playground 11. He played in the bushes by himself, then showed Bar the blueberries then went and cooked with them.
Inside one of the teachers read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, then they planned the party tomorrow for Candy’s party. August sat in the circle this time but said “I don’t like you being so far away.” I was about six feet away in a chair. After that he used watercolor to paint a card for Candy’s birthday. His first time really with watercolors and he was frustrated with the watery colors at first so I got a paper towel and taught him how to dry his brush.
He got his laminated attendance photo and we looked at all of them. He said “Nicholas is funny.” Got out the mattresses, then went out for lunch. He had some of the noodle thing but of course sort of choked on a bite. Luckily didn’t throw up. Ended up mainly eating Cheerios and apple.
He was tired and at rest time he actually rested a fair amount. He found he could climb into a cubby (he insists we call them “boxes” instead for some reason) and curl up in there. I read the book Max the Brave and he ate Cheerios as he rested. Then read Seven Little Mice Go to School. For video storytime they watched Me and My Cat, which was really funny, and then Rent Party Jazz, which was really good but didn’t hold their attention too well.
They went down to Playball with Dion. He started playing at first and I made my big mistake. I went the short distance to the classroom to get my iPad. He got upset when he noticed I was gone, then didn’t do anymore of the Playball class. Back inside Mariam read Giraffes Can’t Dance. It was time to go home. He wanted to fill his water bottle and the water cooler ran out. He wondered where they fill it up from so we went out and asked Anna to solve the mystery. I talked to her about the field trip on Thursday and they said I could chaperone.
After 3 we went across to Bat-Chen and had our first Hebrew lesson in quite awhile. She read a coupe books to him and they played ball. And watched a good song on YouTube, השפן הקטן – שירים לילדים קטנים
She also gave him some chocolate twice during the lesson, so he’ll always enjoy going to Hebrew lessons. We went up to the library and he played with the stuffed animals a bit. We stopped at the bathroom by the library and he was slamming the door to the pipe area shut. I asked him to stop but then had to threaten a consequence. He was upset about the idea of a timeout on his own when Carly called. I was assuring him he hadn’t gotten that consequence yet.
Carly came over and we walked home together. He steered just fine, as usual, until we got to our park, at which point he was running into posts and being a magnet, attaching to them. Home at 4:40. Carly had brought home a package from Cherie. He said “Oma never sent me a present before, right?” We reminded him of the magnet set. It was a cook quick-drying towel. They decided to do an experiment, getting it wet and putting it outside. August chose to use a hand towel as the comparison and they got that wet and put them both outside.
Inside he told her “Nurse first since I’m so cute.” Before his bath, that was. He said “Oma lets me do a bubble bath on the floor.” Carly pointed out it was only pretend.
Carly gave him his bath and washed his hair. Brave of her. We used the hairdryer to dry it, then he and I hung out together on the couch for a minute. He claimed that Cherie had given him a real bath while she was here. Don’t think that actually happened, although she may have hung out with him while he played in his bath.
We had dinner, and as he sat at the table he ate some cabbage. He got it stuck or something and gagged and threw up. He was shocked himself: “Why’d I do that? I’m not sick.”
Played with Duplos for awhile, then was hungry again. Carly made him oatmeal and mangoes. He tried to convince me there was no sugar: “Just sand in this oatmeal…just mixtures of sand in the honey bottle.” He was talking about his cubby at school, which he insists is a box, and said “Cubby…eh, box.” I said I caught him calling it a cubby. He said “You didn’t hear that! I put your headphones on.” He ate his oatmeal and asked about asteroids, meteors, and meteorites.
Carly took him upstairs. He played with the water and spray bottle in the sink and hummed “Animal Life”. He then decided to give me a consequence, because why not?
I took him in and flossed his teeth and brushed them. We then read the first 4 or so chapters of the Magic Treehouse book(#15, I think). He got hungry after a chapter and I got him some Cheerios. The tag on the shirt was then bothering him so I got scissors. Carly switched about 8 and he was asleep after 8:15.
He was twirling his hair today quite a bit, to the extent that when we headed home I noticed a sort of braid from where he had been twirling it.
Music class – Wheels on the Bus:
Pretty cool: Light table ramp: Hebrew lesson: Checking on the towel drying experiment:
Giving me a consequence and humming Animal Life: