He woke up at 7:30, just as I was going up to wake him up. Downstairs he found a one shekel coin on the couch. A few minutes later the first thing he said to me was “Dada, can you put this coin in my treasure box?” He watched Max and Ruby while I got ready to go and had dry Cheerios. I brought down a couple of new shirts. I compared them to the white shirt he’s been wearing and they were no bigger. So I put the green shirt from Thatcher on him, but then realized the sleeves were long. August really liked it though. It was soft and he also thought he looked like a big kid in it. So I let him wear it. He also took his bracelet and wore it the whole day.
We were walking right at 8. He sang a “How did you fix my bracelet?” song. I explained that I had transferred it to a new string. Dropping him off at preschool was smooth, just before 8:30. He was happy to see Anna and she commented on his shirt. He later said she and Ms. Karen commented on his bracelet, but Ms. Marion didn’t. He wanted to look at the calendar before I left, but was then okay.
I went to the library for a bit and did some work, then walked home, sometime after 9. As I walked past the preschool, I spotted him over by the bushes pulling some berries or leaves off. He then ran under the cover of the play structure and I couldn’t see him.
I worked at home – all Sabeel today – then walked back to school at 2:30. I sat down for just a minute ended the elementary building, then took my headphones off and realized August was crying. He came out before I could go in. I didn’t think anyone had spotted me, but the door was open so maybe another kid told him I was there. He said he had just been upset for a little while. Held him, and after a couple minutes went inside. He told me he had made a piece of art – a chocolate chip cookie factory – and was looking around for it. Anna told me that it had really started during rest time. He would start to get upset if he was alone or bored. They could redirect him and he would be okay for awhile. But I think at the end, when he knew it was time to get ready to go, it was too much.
Still looking for the picture, we went over to the art atelier area in PKA. He said that was where he made his picture. We found them and he explained his picture to me, and that the cookies had honey and brown sugar and a little white sugar.
He said he didn’t want to go to coding class, but we went out to the big kid playground for a few minutes. He ate a couple of the nut treats (almost out of those) and he felt better. He told me he ate bread, apple, and cucumber for snack: “I’ll show you how how long the stick of cucumber was…” He marked it out on the playground: about 12 feet long. We went up to coding class and he had fun there. He called me over to choose which game he should play, but otherwise played on his own. He also brought me the picture he drew at the beginning. He had folded it and told me it was like an invitation.
At the end he told me he had invented an “Unstickifier” that unstuck all kinds of things: glue, stickers, magnets. Carly showed up as we were still in the room. We headed home. Slightly long, as August kept stopping along the way. Near the house he found a long bean pod sort of thing that he was able to open up and examine. We was calling Carly Ms. Seechin, one of the PKC teachers, and he was Lana
We were home at 4:30. He sang the full coffee song for Carly. They went outside and I heard them playing red light, green light. I got him soup and stirfry noodles for dinner. He ate a good amount and then had the mango popsicle we had frozen a few days ago. Ended up getting the mittens, then putting it in a cup and using a spoon. There was more mango juice left, so we froze another popsicle when he was done.
He accidentally popped a balloon. Then Carly mentioned my parents babysitting when we are in Chelan. He didn’t like that idea. I taught him the game ‘Would you rather?’ He wasn’t amused by it at first, but started to warm up to it a bit, as we asked questions like “Would you rather eat a spider, or a slug?”
I took him up to his bath. He played and played. Listened to Erasure. Carly took over after awhile. They came downstairs and we were asking him about school. He also had the puppet time today. Carly asked him if he asked any questions at school and he said no, and seemed to think that the other kids didn’t ask questions either. Carly said there should be question time and he liked that idea: “Can you be the teacher and say ‘Okay class, it’s time to ask questions about time?’” He then asked “How fast does time travel?” He was then asking questions of Carly, and it turned into a big Q and A session, and the balloons were other students. At one point he told Carly “You’re a good, good teacher.” Carly said thank you, but then he added “I turned you into a good, good teacher.” One of the students was a Duplo he grabbed. He said the student’s name was “Duplo McMarshmallow”.
Carly went up for a shower and I made him crackers and peanut butter. He ate them in the squirrel nest I built, then we did one hibernating season and ate nuts. We went upstairs at 8:20. Brushed his teeth and I read My Preschool twice. He really likes the book. I left them before 8:55, but heard him for quite awhile. He was talking to Carly about how the kids don’t play with him. He was saying how he doesn’t like the games the boys play. And how the kids won’t let him play with the gears. He did say he plays kitchen with the girls sometimes. Think it was closer to 9:30 by the time he fell asleep.