He came down right at 7, but then lay down on the couch and I thought he might fall back to sleep. He didn’t, and a few minutes later got up and had his vitamins and some zucchini bread. We talked about school today and he said “80…mama will be at work 80 percent long.” I put on music and realized the first song I had him hear today was “Jesus Shooting Heroin” by The Flaming Lips. I was looking at their preschool calendar and realized that it says that yoga is actually on Tuesdays. I asked him about that and he said “You’re telling me nonsense.”
On the way to school he asked “Are wars a rare thing?” We drove, so he still had his mango candy as we got near the preschool. As he got to the bottom of the stairs he crunched the rest of it so it would be gone when we got to class. We walked in and looked at the schedule, then I left him as he started to build with the color blocks next to Blanka.
I got in the car and headed to Sabeel in Jerusalem. Took an hour and 45 minutes. So much traffic.
Carly picked him up at the end of the day. She taught until 3, so ran right over after that. He was sitting on the waiting bench and ran to Carly when she picked him up. He was a little sad as to him she seemed late.
They hung out in her classroom. He did art. He painted. He got to blow a whistle that she doesn’t let her students blow. Four times. Played with the chairs. They did math problems on the board. And they played some darts.
They came home and they did another layer of paint on the table together. When I called on my way home, stuck in traffic again, he was pretending to be Lana from PKC. He then had oatmeal for dinner.
I got home at 6:40. She got his bath started, then I played with him. Did the bladder game, then he asked what people do if there isn’t enough water. We talked about water tanks and rain collectors (like at Tent of Nations) and bringing water in trucks. This then turned into a game with me using up water, then having to go get water in a truck, or waiting for it to rain.
When he was done he wanted to hair dryer his hands because he likes how it feels, even though we didn’t wash is hair. We did that and discussed how hair dryers work. He created a system where the air goes to the sun, gets heated, and comes back to dry your hair.
We were downstairs at 7:40: “Mama, I invented a magic hair dryer…there’s a big steel pipe that goes through the sun and the cold air goes through it, gets heated by the sun…” “It’s pretty unusual, right?”
He then asked her “Why doesn’t a scientist want another scientist to know what they’re doing?” This was a big discussion yesterday, I think, on our way to school or back. Basically, the difference between scientists who work on open science and scientists that work for companies that are trying to get patents.
He said that at school for snack he had corn flakes and milk. And crackers. And an apple. Carly went up to take a shower. I made his lunch. He had some apple sauce and cinammon. We discussed what ‘phrase’ and ‘term’ mean, then discussed temporary exhibits again. He then had some crackers and peanut butter. He had another garbage power plant and described a human-sized slingshot. I asked where he got that idea and he said it was from Story Pirates.I discussed the roadrunner cartoons and said he might like the funny inventions that the coyote uses. “Dada, here’s how you can catch a roadrunner.” He was then talking to Carly about her students and asked how she would give them a time out: “How would out give them a time out? Throw them over the edge of the walkway?” They read Perro Grande, Perro Pequeno. He said he had lots of dreams about monsters. But he said it was good monsters.
We were all in bed 9:25. He discussed why he was sad mama was late picking him up. He told us “I rocket blasted to Leonard to play with the puppet.” And he said he played with Reia and Selma. I forgot to mention that last night, when he was up late, he started to do a voice impersonation of Selma. Which was surprisingly spot on. Then, he simply did a ‘different’ voice. That was even more shocking, as he suddenly sounded like just a different kid.
And he was a bit worried about water truck thing – a truck had gone around a bit later with a loudspeaker to tell people that water might be interrupted tomorrow due to work on the water main. He was asleep at 9:40.