He was up at 7:05. Very calm. Brought him down and had his usual vitamins and Cheerios and Ollie and Moon. I was wearing my blue shorts. I had let him choose the colors for me yesterday, and gone with the brighter blue at his suggestion. I asked how they looked, and he said “Good, but not as good as the green. You should wear the green more than you wear the blue. The more you like something the more you should wear it.” He sang the entire Ollie and Moon song on his own as he walked around the living room.
As we got going I asked if he wanted to wear his Crocs or sandals. He said “My sandals are too regularly not powerful. My turquoise shoes are laser powerful…” and talked about how he could control his lasers with his toes in the Crocs. As we stepped outside he said “Fresh and Rosy fingered.”
On the way to school talked about all the things he could defeat, like in a movie. I would then announce them in a movie announcer voice: He was then humming a song and then singing a song and pointing – something Ike “If you go that way, you’ll go over there…”
At school we found out that Anna was sick today. Ms. Seechin was here as a sub. This threw off August, and it was hard to leave him. He kept asking “What will the teachers do to me?” He played with shells and rocks and wood on the light table with Reia, then helped crush dried bread into bird feed. Finally, I left him after 8:50. I tried to get him to hold Marion’s hand, but as I left he started crying, so she picked him up. I paused outside though and think he calmed down right away. I saw Seechin later, and she said that he got a little sad, wondering when I’d be back, a bit later, but then was okay.
I went home (seeing rabbits just sitting next to a motorbike on the walk home), then returned. Making good progress on listening to Naipaul’s In a Free State on my walks back and forth. Then picked him up at 12:50. When I came in he showed me the big structure he’d built on the light table, out of the little people, the shells, rocks, and pieces of wood. He told me “I built the whole structure… It’s a house.”
We got going, and he found a green hair band thing on the ground. We sat at the picnic table outside the third classrooms. A second grade class came up the steps and he kept asking them “Does anyone own this?” He did the same thing with a pencil he found under the table. He ate some egg and kept asking people as they walked by.
He saw Ms. Stacy and said “Hey, Ms. Stacy!” She asked “Having some lunch with Dad?’ He replied “Yep. Going back for Playball.” In the lobby of the library building he sat and ate more. He was also saying “Saturday at 12, eat a nut, Sunday, look at you.” This is from the Scaredy Squirrel book, although it is actually “Look at view”. He decided ‘you’ is funnier though. And Debbie, the registrar, brought out a couple of wood game things for him to pay with. He liked them both, but especially the one with the magnet to move the little balls around. We went into the library for a short time and into the children’s area and he invented the big bladder game. He started a new game with the librarians, calling Liz the wrong name on purpose.
We then went back for the Playball class. It was the last one of the year. Don’t know why they aren’t having any specials next week. Going to be a rough last three days for the teachers. I sat on the grass and had a phone call with Omar to discuss our plans for Ramallah this next weekend.
After class, we went back to the library. We read some of Star Wars The Clone Wars R2 to the Rescue, then he built a bridge out of the big bookmark things they have kid use on the shelves nowadays (I’ve seen these at multiple libraries, but don’t remember them at all from when I was a kid). he had stuffed animals on it. We then checked out Magic Treehouse #19 and #20.
After 3:15 we went down to the preschool to ask Marion about bringing bread tomorrow (when I’d mentioned making banana carrot bread August had the idea of sharing bread with his class again and was very excited about it). She wasn’t there, but we saw Myriam, who offered us cookies. She said there was white chocolate and brown chocolate ones. August thought about it and said “Well, I have always had brown chocolate, so I will try white chocolate!”
On the way home he stopped to look at a lot of things. And a screw had come out of one side of his sunglasses. Luckily, they would still hold together okay and he could wear them.
We were home at 3:50. He played with the screwdriver set (later, after he was asleep, I would find the little screw to his sunglasses in the pocket of my last pair of shorts). We made water drink and had crackers and peanut butter, then started the banana and carrot bread. Carly got home. She had gone to the toy store to get toys for their class visit to the gan to read stories, and she’d brought back a new pack of the soft pink clay. They played with that, but then August was having problems, and put clay on her.
We finished the banana bread and he licked the spatula. He said that Ms Anna was a better teacher than me, but wouldn’t sy that anyone was better than Carly. Played more with pink clay, then I got him spaghetti. Ate, then he had fun telling Carly she should try white chocolate, which she refuses on principle.
She took him upstairs to his bath. I took over to wash his hair. Downstairs he ate banana bread and cherries – lots of yummy noises. We read through chapter 5 of Magic Treehouse #18.
Took him up to bed and I left them at 9:10. Asleep after a bit.