He woke up at 6:55. Another good night sleeping between us. He had sat up once in the middle of the night and sat there with his head back, rocking back and forth, sleeping sitting up. Finally looked around and then threw himself down on the blanket against Carly’s back. He got up and headed downstairs to Carly. I read in bed for awhile. When I went downstairs they were outside. He unfortunately knocked over a pot and it cracked.
He asked for Coyote Peterson and ate Cheerios with milk and mango while he watched some Brave Wilderness outside. Inside he saw Carly with her purse. He asked “Can I have some question time and nursing time before you go?” When she reminded him she wasn’t going to work he said “Oh! Then can I have a LOT of question time?”
He played with the salad spinner and was using it as a centrifuge. The idea of a centrifuge had come up at the pool yesterday when he had been spinning. Carly had then emailed Cassie and Jeff to ask what a centrifuge was used for. Anyway, he was drawing blood from me and then putting it in the centrifuge so he could then test it. I joked that Oma could buy him his first centrifuge on Amazon and that he could learn how to draw blood with Tia Cassie this summer.
Inside they read Go, Dog, Go and ended up being silly, andding the words “poopy” and “throw-ups” all over. August told me “Mama scratched me on the foot!” And then did a lot of whining. I finished reading the book with him.
Carly went up and did some working. August and I put up a nail where the embroidered bird picture had fallen. We then put some more poison out for ants that were coming in the other end of the sliding door this time. And then we played with the magnet set. He was making sort of magnet sculptures, connecting magnets to the side of the metal end table. He had had enough of letting mama work so he went up and got her. Unfortunately, he was then not being nice to her and she left and I kept him with me. He had a major meltdown. After I got him calmed down and he apologized, they got out a book of science experiments. When I went to take a shower they were testing the strength of hairs. And when I came back down they had been making paper airplanes. August was now taping one to the floor. They were also talking about a cheese holiday. I didn’t understand.
They then made slime outside, then I got him ready to go to the pool. All went fine until he went to put on his shoes. He said “Wait! My scratch! I can’t go!” And he backed away from the door. We tried to convince him it was fine. Carly filled a pot of water and had him put his foot in it to show it was okay. But then he argued it would get worse.
I got him to come with me, reluctantly, and we talked about just playing at the playground at school if he didn’t like the water. We got there, and stopped at the couches to have some banana carrot bread before going in. Omri and her family came out of the pool – we had just missed them. Omri gave August a sesame cookie thing. He did a good job eating most of it. I tried it and it wasn’t very good and then he said he’d had enough.
In at the pool, he let me get in and he sat on the edge and played with the watering can. Good idea of Carly’s to take that to the pool yesterday. But after awhile he was getting his legs and feet and swimsuit all wet and he agreed to get in the pool. Put on his floaties and got him in. He said the pool was a ton of fun and more fun than the playground. Junyeok was at the pool. Talked to him just a bit. Mainly August wanted to just stay away from the other kids and not get splashed. He did do some of his centrifuging with the watering can.
We thought the pool closed at 2, but we got out at 2:20 and there was no sign the lifeguard was closing it anytime soon. August started talking about immunizations and diseases and he invented “Rayjeon. It’s the worst disease ever.” We went and changed his clothes, then went to the nature reserve. Walked around there for awhile and played in the hut. August mainly wanted to take snails off of plants, etc. and put them other places though. I let him do it a bit but then said that was enough. We stopped and used the parabolic sound reflectors, then August wanted to go play darts.
He never really played the darts much, but we spent a lot of time in the area by the middle school office. Had some snack, he threw some leaves down from the railing, I played darts, he told me “pretend you’re in a dance” competition and he danced himself (he said it was from the creative movement class: “But it’s not really a winning game”). He also talked about his ion substance and silicone gel: “If you go to the bottom of a lake or a river or a pool of ion you’ll find silicon gel.”
We headed home well after 3. He was in a good mode until we started to get in the car and he first poked his head in the front and felt the air vents. He doesn’t like that we get all the air. He said things like “Stupid car” and wanted a new one. He got even whinier in the back seat: “Just plug me I to the wall and electrocute me…chop me up…just kill me.” I don’t even know where he comes up with language like that.
At home he cheered up after I handed him to Carly. They skyped Cherie and Chuck, or actually used FaceTime this time. I mixed up water drink and he told them about it: “sand but it’s not sand”. He then played with water in the pots. Took them outside, and he sat in the water and got nice and soaked. Took his clothes off and had naked time. Was then out with Carly doing plants. Brought in some flowers to me and said “Happy birthday, dada!” But then said “Nah nah nah nah nah we had a popcorn cracker!” He also got flowers, but then got sad when he stepped on his. I gave him mine and he was very happy.
He and Carly then did a science experiment with Carly about surface tension. It involved putting different cleaners on cardboard and then seeing how water drops respond on them. When he washed his hands at the end he said “I want to make sure there’s no deadly things on my hands, even things that make me dead over time.” He was also asking about drinking too much water, so we watched a video on water poisoning: https://youtu.be/t1nwSuWr_q8
He and Carly then did more experiments: taping paper to the edge of the table to see how it curled with and against the grain, and getting different types of paper wet and then putting them in the oven to see if they’d curl. He wanted to do more, and Carly said they could do more tomorrow. He said “But tomorrow’s not my free day…Mama, I need more free days, like 11 or 12.” Then got really sad and we both had to comfort him and talk about how preschool can be fun.
He was definitely looking quite tired too. Carly took him up to his bath, then I read Magic School Bus in the Earth. He had said he wanted a science book, so we looked at our science books and he said he wanted one with a character, so that’s what he chose. He was hungry though and we then went downstairs and got crackers and peanut butter.
I realized we hadn’t skyped with my parents this weekend, so we looked to see if they were online. At first it said they weren’t, so we left them a video message. August was all talkative, telling them about his science experiments. But then it did say they were online so we called them. Now he was quiet. Just skyped for a few minutes, as August said he thought he was ready for sleep. Up in bed he went crazy saying “Hello everybody, I just wanted to say that I peed in the pool!” in a funny voice. He had said this at the pool as well, and said that Carly let him say it. She explained that what happened was that Omri’s little brother was just peeing in the drain area of the pool. And Carly explained it was okay since it went to the filter. August was then asking what happened if people pooped or peed in the pool itself. For the pee she said you wouldn’t know, as it isn’t like someone would say “Hey everybody, I just want
to say I peed in the pool!” So August of course found that funny.
I left him and Carly at 8:40 and he was asleep within 10 minutes.