He was awake at 7:28. On the way to school we were singing counting by 2s, 6s, etc. songs. He asked how it was possible to donate hair, and how did other people wear it – was it glued onto a person’s head? He had found out that Teegan had donated her hair, and Carly told him why. Said he is growing his hair to push behind his ears.
I lleft him at school as Anna was telling Nicholas and Blanka something about being dogs. I had a short time in the library, then came back at 9, as that was when their water party was supposed to start. They were on the playground for a bit and I played with Selma. They had the sugary Cheerios and milk for snack, and I poured milk. August then went and ate some dino kale. They had a short meeting, then got water shoes on. This time, Anna asked if Yaya could wear his extra shoes. August agreed, nicely, then asked me “Do I get a treat?…If I don’t share, I don’t get a popsicle.”
The water party was divided between two areas: the mud area on the grass, where kids could paint and body paint with mud, and then the Dion playground area where there were the clean water tables and the new hand pump. August played with the pump area the entire time. For like an hour. He had a few turns actually pumping it, but he was also very content scooping water into the bucket for it, and directing the water out of the two outlets, and tilting them so he could pour water in one side and it would come out the other side.
I went to the library to work, and was back at 12:45. They were having pizza. Marion complained to me, saying that they had all the food up at the pool where the two older classes were, but everyone had forgotten about PKB. Maaian had just been enjoying the moment. Marion eventually had to walk up there to get their attention. PKB got the leftovers, but it was just enough.
They were having kind of a late lunch, so I hung around as they finished eating. One student handed out chocolate-covered cereal things to everyone. At one point I moved around August and he started to panic, thinking I was leaving. He told me “First of all, I thought you were leaving. Second of all, you moved like you were leaving.”
We left and walked to the water fountain. We realized that they never had popsicles, which was also a promised part of the party lunch. We talked about options for getting a popsicle or something, and we magically heard the ice cream truck out on the street. He was traumatized by that one time we missed the ice cream truck, I guess, as he didn’t want to go and try and catch it. He wanted something from Tiv Taam instead.
We walked home. He stopped at a tree that had an old gash in its bark and we discussed bark and its layers. We also discussed how skin cells protect us and die. We were home before 2. Mixed up some water drink, then made August vacuum up his crumbs when he made a cracker mess. We read some Magic Tree House and left for Tiv Taam a little before 3.
At Tiv Taam we first went to the bathroom. It was crowded on a Friday afternoon, but August didn’t want to get in the cart. At all. He wanted to walk ahead and steer. This caused problems at first, but eventually worked out. We got ingredients for the berry brains and zucchini bread we plan to take to the end-of-year part next Thursday. At the end we looked at ice cream options and got Oreo ice cream sandwiches. Perfect, as they were smaller sized than the one we ate together from the ice cream truck.
Out in the car we each had one of the ice cream treats, then we drove up to Ace to get roach killer, as I saw two, one upstairs and one downstairs, last night. Unfortunately, it was already closed.
We drove home and he was falling asleep right at the end. We were home around 4:30. Carly then drove to the Even Yehuda school she worked with to drop off certificates and also got gas.
August was making a concoction outside, then studied the cockroach. For dinner he was taking tiny bites of food, then coming and resting on me between them. Carly asked him to tell her about preschool and he said “I’ll tell you at nighttime… That’s when I tell stories.” They threw out the fig experiment, which had gotten impressively moldy. He told me, about something, “Let’s go to my bath and see if I can sneakily do it.”
I gave him a bath, then downstairs he had crackers and peanut butter. We read some more of Magic Treehouse #20 and he started asking if kangaroos could jump over different things. He then had the idea to watch the size video on YouTube and used the persuasive argument “Science! Better to learn than not learn!” https://youtu.be/isppUA0MZmw
After that it was up to bed, and he was asleep about 9.