He was up just after 7 and called me up to turn off the air conditioner. Downstairs, he watched a couple Ollie and Moons (I keep almost typing Holly and Moon, as that’s how he pronounces it) and ate his vitamins. Didn’t really eat anything though, which has been par this week.
We left right at 7:40. Watched a claw truck on the way to school.
Coffee filter drawing, then a digestive system with the squishy string things, and then a direction pointer (like a compass rose) where the line would light up to tell you which direction you’re going.
Left him 8:35. He was very clear about what he needed: He wanted Anna to hold him. She sat down and he curled up in her lap – I think so he didn’t have to actually see me leave. Then, as I walked up the stairs I realized I still had his water bottle. I’ve always feared that one. I snuck back, and placed the water bottle in the holder. August was trying to stick the compass rose on his cubby again – the top pieces had come unstuck. He spotted me and said it wasn’t working. I quickly said it was okay if they weren’t all sticking and took off. He seemed okay, and from the stairs I could still see him back inside the classroom.
I picked him up at 12:45. He was still outside at lunch so I helped him pack up. He then went over to the big dino kale plants and ate some, right off the plant like a rabbit. Other kids do it as well, and the plants look like they’ve been attacked by three foot tall rabbits. He ate a bunch, actually. Marion told him that what she does is take salt and “give it a massage” (in her french accent) to make it soften up and puts it in a salad. So he picked a piece and wanted to take it home and try that. There was also a carrot that someone had pulled but not eaten. We took that with us, then walked upstairs and rinsed it off in the drinking fountain and he ate it. He saw Sveta, the cleaner for preschool and gave her a thumbs up. I asked how his day was and he said “Not so good. I asked them to call you multiple times.” But he seemed fine, they didn’t say anything, and he never brought it up again, so pretty sure that wasn’t the case.
We sat on our bench, and at one point saw Lillian and Teegan, his two favorite 6th graders, walking from the library, back to middle school. Unfortunately they were too far away and didn’t see us. He said he was hungry, but was being a slow eater. He said he wanted to go to the cafeteria and get a treat instead. We moved inside the building it and it continued. He kept moving his chair around. He went to the bathroom. He likes the wheelchair handhold tubes, but the one that moves. As he told the one fixed to the wall, in a funny little voice, “I don’t like you, tube…Cuz it’s a boring old dumb tube.” Back in the entryway he sang “You’re a bear, you’re a bear, you’re a big brown bear, walking to your house, to comb your hair” When asked, he said it was from morning meeting.
We went in the library, and he wanted to do art. While charging the pencil he played a couple levels of Lightbot Jr. Clearly he learned something at coding class, as he passed a couple levels on his own, easy peasy. But he then turned to making a big pile/chair/sculpture of pillows and stuff. He would have pulled all the books off the shelves if I would have let him. I didn’t, but he used the books and water bottles, etc. from the backpack. He said it was bigger than the chair he made with the girl (he said Bar, but it was actually a different girl). We then did some art on the iPad.
We went back to the kids area and he sang “every single cell in my body is well.” He said it was from yoga class. He played with the legoes, putting them in the big plastic ship. He said they were all wanting to steer the ship. Juhyeok and his sisters and mom showed up. He climbed on the seats and sat on the edge with him. Juhyeok’s mom had set down a stack of Scaredy Squirrel books, and August wanted to read Scaredy Squirrel Goes to the Beach. We read that, then he was up looking out the window again and asked about the outside path around the library. I said we could walk around it if he wanted.
So we did. On the way out he and Amanda were calling each other funny names, and he said “Bye, pumpkin berry” to her. We then saw Ilana and he told her how we were going to walk the circle. We walked the circle, then sat on our bench and ate a granola bar. He made a lot of yummy noises. He was then asking me ‘What happens when your muscles get tired?” This comes from when he was making a bridge of his body between the couch and the coffee table, and we talked about how he couldn’t stay like that forever because his muscles would get tired.
Carly drove home, but August wanted to walk, so we did. we sang Down by the Bay most of the way and were home at 4:50. He was hyper. We salted his dino kale and he ate it. He was then Teegan and Carly was Ms. Althauser. Carly was trying to get him to read something, and he said he was reading it so fast we couldn’t understand it. Carly said “Doesn’t count.” He said “Aargh! I’m in charge!” They went outside, and he accidentally sprayed himself with the hose and got upset. Still grumpy, when he guessed what Carly was having for dinner he said “Boring, old, dumb salad?”
I got us food for dinner. We still do the joke about how he can only stare at his milk and he asked for “staring milk”. I made a joke about the milk starting at him, and then he pointed out that there were two cartons in the fridge: “That’s the milk that stares at me and that’s the milk that I stare at it.” We ate spaghetti outside. He sort of threw a clod of dirt at my bowl. Luckily I was done, but we went inside. He wanted to take a tissue out of the box with his teeth, which Carly didn’t like because of the dryness of it. We read a chapter of The Magic Treehouse #20. He then noticed the sticker on his water bottle wearing out, so he took it all off. We went outside and ate more of his dinner. Played with his stick and found the plastic eggs in the vase.
Went inside and I took him up to his bath. He sang “Im a bear, I’m a bear…” And this time he said he learned it from Omri. That made sense, as I’ve heard her sing it. After his bath he strummed the strings on the guitar. He said that each string called a different thing: “This is the mermaid, gorilla, sheep, horse, sand, seahorse call.”
Downstairs he ate a piece of toast with honey and peanut butter and watched Ollie and Moon. We then skyped with my parents. Paul answered, and August sang the Ollie and Moon song to Paul, then to them again a few minutes later. He was wild but calmed down and talked for awhile. Carly took him up about 8:10. He was asleep about 8:30.
Earlier, he had asked Carly if there was a black hole at the center of the multiverse. I had told him about the big one at the center of the Milky Way. Carly said she didn’t know, so they wrote an email to Mandy and Matt. He said “Hi science teacher, is there a black hole at the center of the multiverse? Not the universe, the multiverse. That’s more than one universe…That means I taught her something, right?”