He slept with me for a long time before going down to Carly on the lower bed. At one point he laughed in his sleep for a long, long time. In the morning he came down at 6:33. Carly was in the bathroom, so he came and climbed into my lap and was there for several minutes. Carly snuck upstairs, then came back down, at which point he wanted her. When she set him down on the couch he lay on his stomach and was literally falling back to sleep right as Carly left and unlocked/locked the door. He slept until 7:40. After a couple minutes, the first thing he said was “Dada, where’s that Bat-Chen car?”
“Why is it at school the teacher is normally the boring part and the students is th fun part?” But when I asked him to explain he said something like “The teacher is always doing stuff and doesn’t learn and the students get to learn.”
As we walked by the retirement home, a car stopped with a guy driving, and a teenage girl with him. He asked if there was a coffee shop nearby. I directed him towards downtown. rather surprised that they didn’t have a smartphone between them. Oh, and August asked what the retirement home is a couple days ago and we talked about why people might move there. he has since called it “the place with extra doctors”.
When we got to his class at 8:25 they were sitting down for an early morning meeting: “Morning meeting? Yuck!” But I explained it was (as Marion had just said) because they had a busy and exciting day today so he should listen to find out what it was. I was then able to wave goodbye and walk out.
I went to the library and worked. At 10:30 his class showed up. This time he ran in and knew right where to find me. I went back with him, but then for most of the time he actually sat several feet away from me. Ilana read the third Orq book and then a book titled something like Ugh. The connection was that it was the word that Orq said in the first book. During book check he walked around and found a book called My Preschool and said it was going to be another really good book.
I walked him back after library time. We were sort of walking with Omri, and as we went down the stairs August got upset that she had beaten us down the stairs. Not sure why. Then in the classroom they were sitting down for another quick meeting and he didn’t like that. Nor did he like the idea of looking at his book, saying he’d only read it at home. So I thought I might have some difficulty leaving him. But he grudgingly headed to the meeting and I left.
I went down to do some shopping. Carly needed grapes and soda for her event tomorrow. I tried to park at the Ace complex but couldn’t find a spot. Worse, it was difficult to get out as one of the exits stopped working and there was a huge backup getting out. Finally managed to get out the other exit and drive over to the Tiv Taam complex. Parked and first went to the art store, where I got some beading supplies, a Spirograph sort of set, and a cool monster making kit that uses optical illusions to make it look like they move – all art things that Carly can do with August. Her Mother’s Day drift.
Then went to Tiv Taam and got what she needed, and a few other things, like tofu for lunches.
I went home until 2:30. Then drove back to the school and dropped of Carly’s stuff in her classroom. Then picked up August from his yoga class at the end of their school day. He played on the preschool playground. He was loudly singing the school bell and said it was the bell of Disneyland. And that it was GarageBand breaking the speakers. We had talked before about how it wasn’t real bells, but a recording of a bell. We talked about his day and he told me he made a plate of clay in a teacher’s office but he didn’t remember the teacher’s name. He also told me that he and Reia made another kid upset taking apart a gear structure.
We then went up to Hebrew class. He and Lana had difficulty sitting still for the beginning part. August would copy whatever Lana would do, which was then encouraging her more. She got them calmed down eventually. Then, they made caterpillars with all of the things it eats on it. He had me help him with putting that together. There was a sheet with the names of the PKC students on it and he read then kept repeating “Lana”.
After class we sat out on the bench by the PKA door and had a snack. He was shrinking things and said “I’ll make the whole school as small as a proton.” We left at 4:20 and walked up towards the studio. We stopped and he played on the exercise equipment for a few minutes. We heard the ice cream truck and he got excited. It stopped near us and initially I told him we weren’t going to get anything. He just put his head down on the bench and was sad. He then got sadder and said he just wanted to go home. He had been happy about class a minute ago. So I told him we could get something to share. We got an Oreo ice cream sandwich and it was very, very good.
We ate it quickly and walked up to class. We were a minute late and it was very quiet, so we speculated there was no class. He suggested it was “Because Sigal is sick.” Turned out we were the only ones there so far. Sigal had him go look in the mirror to see the ice cream left on his face. I washed him off and he went to the bathroom, then Etai and his mom showed up and they were the only ones for class.
He had fun the whole time, and at the end Sigal was helping him learn how to walk on the cup stilt things. She said he could practice more outside the studio, as it was time for the next class. He did for a couple minutes, then spent another 10 minutes or so playing with all the little baby toys and things in the boxes. I made coffee that I then took with me.
We got going and stopped at the playground. He spent several minutes spitting in the dirt and saying “seep, seep, seep.” There were a couple of dogs and he said “I want those dogs to leave with their owners.” We ended up going up in the play structure and pretending it was the space station and we were doing experiments: “I made it so the cactus grows tomatoes…I’m seeing what happens to my cactus OVER TIME…It’s like a crystal.”
We left the parks at 6:30. As we walked to the car he saw a woman with a small child on the other side of the street and said it looked like Ms. Vicky. I said it wasn’t her and he said “Well it looks like her. She has puffed up nursings. Right?”
Got to the car and were home at 6:45. We listened to the song “Like I Used to Be”, which we was really liking for awhile but we forgot about. He asked “Dada, what’s allergens?” Suddenly, there was water leaking out of the air conditioner on the inside of the house. Turned it off and emailed Shmuel. Would later realize that the hose outside was bending up and full and the water washing going out.
Talking about rest time he told us he mainly stayed on Candy’s bed. Then told us he was on everyone’s bed. And said he stood on people during morning meeting.
He had some oatmeal for dinner, then I was cooking tofu for lunches and he ate a piece of raw tofu. They read My Preschool, then he ate rice and mushrooms and sauce. Carly went to take a shower. He was still hungry so had some apple sauce and cinnamon. He was on a roll, talking about black holes and which objects could defeat/suck up others. He made up “A zakzillion…it’s a zebra that bigger than the Earth, bigger than a star, bigger than all of space.” He talked more about flubong: “It’s a liquid with no surface tension and it feels like gel and you can make buildings out of it and it’s strong in all ways.”
Carly took him up to his bath. I had bought him underwear at Carter’s and told Carly how stereotypical it was, with sports and trucks being the only options on the boys. August heard and complained “I don’t like sports and trucks…that’s not fair…let’s sneak and get girls underwear.” She dried his hands with the hair dryer. He said “I’m trying to get as much water to
evaporate to the clouds as possible to make a downpour.”
Got him ready for bed and I left them at 9:05 as they finished the preschool book. Asleep a bit later.