He slept on my side of bed, so I slept in the middle. He was up at 7:25. He mentioned again how he’s run out of good shows to watch, so I found something new on Netflix. The first one looked promising, but is just in Arabic, but then we found the Ollie and Moon Show. He watched the first 11 minute episode. Funny, and with a global/friends focus. And a snail as a character. He asked what ‘energized’ meant, then asked what not energized is. So I taught him ‘lethargic’. He asked “What’s the god of weather called? Zeus? That throws the lightning bolts?” He then asked who the god of the sea is, and I could just name Neptune. I blanked on the Greek name.
We got walking about 8. He spent much of the time talking about dozens or hundreds of fans drying zucchini bread. At preschool he didn’t want the extra cookie I had brought to make him feel better. We sat outside at the elementary school bench for a bit. Inside we found the goggles picture of Ms. Stacy he had mentioned – it was the picture for the schedule, with her and the students pretending to make goggles with their fingers. He didn’t want to let me go, but so much better than yesterday. I handed him to Anna inside, and this time he just loudly said to her “Let’s go for a walk in the yard! Let’s go for a walk outside!” I left at 8:45.
As I was walking up the stairs I saw him leaving with Anna and Emmitt for a walk to the garden. I later found out that they picked a bunch of carrots (white, orange, and purple today) and more strawberries. When I came to pick him up at 1 he was playing with a big ball of clay, hitting it with a rolling pin. He looked up and was surprised and asked how I got there so soon. He showed me a picture that Omri had given to him. He was happy about that. Anna gave me a thumbs up, and August and I headed out.
We went upstairs and sat at a picnic table outside the elementary office. He said “Ms Leron had the first shirt I’ve ever seen. It makes me want to wear it.” He said because of the colors, at least purple and pink. We heard the bell and he sand along, then said “At preschool they asked me to times to sing the school bell two times.” And “Library time is my nother best time cuz I get to see you.” We saw Bat-Chen and she talked to us for a minute.
We then went to the library and he returned the Perlutsky book and Zita. We went and sat out in the lobby and had a snack. Debbie, the registrar, came and talked to us. She was really nice to him. Knows how to talk to kids. She asked him about preschool and he told her “Preschool is the funnest class.” She asked who his teachers are and he named everyone except Marion and Anna – Vicky, Myriam, Ms. H, and probably someone else. She said she wished she could go to preschool instead of work. After she left he said “Why does she want to go to preschool and not work?” Ada then came by, and she talked to us. She talked a little about the intern moving in downstairs and how she wants to start setting up the apartment for her.
We had a couple tic tacs, then went in the library. We got a couple books, then read them on beanbag chairs: This Book Just Ate My Dog! and Magic Treehouse #17: Tonight on the Titanic. This one proved too scary for August. I had to go to the end and show him how it ended, then he was still covering his ears at point and I skipped several pages. We put it back and got #18 and a book called Has Anyone Seen My Emily Greene? We read the latter, then checked both out. Went to the bathroom after the bell rang, then Carly found us and we headed to the preschool.
Carly stayed with him during coding class. He ate pretty much every last bit of food we had with us. And he let Carly sit outside the door. I was next door, meeting with Anna and Marion about how I can help with tea party book project. Still seems odd that the simple answer isn’t ‘help with the kids in free time while a teacher pulls one or two away at a time to work on the project’. Instead, they’re having me do some of the pull out to have kids work on their pages for the book. But I get to start with August and Emmitt and work on a page about how to not spill at the tea party. They showed me a video of the class discussion they had about tea parties, and August sat their patiently with his hand up for about 4 minutes waiting to be called on. That was amazing to see, since at home it takes about 10 seconds of me and Carly talking before he’s shouting “I’m not getting any attention!”
Anyway, afterwards Carly headed back to her classroom. August played with some horseshoe magnets in PKA, figuring out what they attach to.
We then walked home. We stopped to see what food was left and I found a picture of his name in his lunch box. I was confused at first, but then figured it must have come from coding class and Ms. Karen. He claimed Bat-Chen had done it. He sang Down by the Bay most of the way home, making up verse after verse. a few of them rhymed: “stick eating a brick” “goose drinking some juice”.
We were home at 4:40. He asked “Dada, what’s Poseidon?” I realized that’s the name I couldn’t remember this morning. He was then singing a snippet of a song about Poseidon. Seemed to be just enough to make me think it was a real song, and he said it was from music class. We were then trying to list the students in his class alphabetically. We realized the first 5 letters are all covered: August, Blanka, Candy, Devin, Emmitt. We were most of the way through the alphabet when Carly got home at 5:20. He was then asking her to list her students’ names.
He made up ‘weframium’: “another substance to make houses out of that is stronger than concrete.” We he dinner (curry) inside, then a cookie. He then went outside with Carly. Took him up for a long bath. We were talking about field trips and we were kids from his class. He was then asking “who’s Ms. Amelia? Who’s Ms. H? Who’s Ms. Seechin?”
We went downstairs, and I was carrying the iPad. We were listening to the Jimi Hendrix album that just came out, and he said “I’m going down the stairs the rhythm of the music.” We read a couple chapters of Magic Treehouse #18. Then had energy balls, then mango. He almost spilled the mango juice on the couch, intentionally, when he was done. He was upset when I snatched it out of his hands.
Upstairs, he was a little upset it was my birthday and not his tomorrow: “I’m mixing a potion to make it my birthday too!” “In my birthday I go around the world in FIVE seconds…it’s funner” “My power comes from every dam in the universe.” “When it’s daytime, remember to say happy birthday.”
He found his little car (from Bat-Chen) next to the bed and I told him how I was going to sleep a couple nights ago and found out I was lying on it. Carly spotted a mosquito, so we had a mosquito hunt. He reminded us of the bug zapper light. Left them just before 9. he was down at 9:20 for water bottle. She tried again with him. Got quiet around 9:40. But she said he didn’t fall asleep until about 10.