At one point last night he sort of started to push himself up. got as far as on his elbows and knees, said “poop’, then lay back down and fell back to sleep. He was also a bit stuff, and stuffy in the morning. He was up right at 7. Didn’t hear the door or him say anything. Instead, I heard him sniffling as he was sitting on the steps. First thing he said, a few minutes later, was “Could you pick me up at the start of rest time?”
On our walk to school he started singing “Better Not Wake the Baby” by the Decemberists: https://youtu.be/cwqXNCl5-OM He had me sing the chorus over and over and over.
We got to school and walk in. By his cubby he started playing with the pottery objects on top of the cubbies, like he always do. There is one that is sort of rabbit head shaped, and when he touched it one of the ear parts came off. It was already broken, or cracked, as he hardly touched it. He was really worried about it though, and that it was his fault, and wanted to glue it. We talked to Marion, who was outside with some kids watering the plants. She said she lost needed to glue the handle on her cup, so she would bring in some super glue. Also, his glazed tea cup was finished and looks really nice. Got him to help with watering just a bit, and I was able to leave. He wasn’t really happy about it, but I don’t think he had to be held. I left by 8:40.
I worked, then picked him up before 1. We sat outside the library and he told me “I played with Hanako on the playground.” He said they did challenges, like getting pieces of wood and that Tomaso stole one from them.
We then saw Carly bringing her students to the library. And Teegan and Lillian walking together. In the younger section of the library he and I got a copy of Magic Treehouse #20 off the shelf and finished reading it. August was walking around and told me “The people that have dark skin is a boy, the people with light skin is a girl.” He was also happy that he had light skin because it meant he was a girl. I asked where that came from, and he showed me these signs/posters that Ilana has for how to behave in the library, and it did kind of hold up for those photos. A good example of faulty inductive reasoning.
One of Carly’s students talked to him at one point and gave him a Pokémon book. He was excited about that, although he didn’t like the book. He played with the Legos, putting them in the big ship again. After they had left, he had us out on the computers, pretending to be Lillian and Teegan and doing school work and playing games.
We went outside and sat on our bench and ate Cheerios and apple. He was watching a group of high schoolers who were loudly talking, standing in the walkway. Pretty sure I saw the high school principal catch them as one of them was loudly talking about cheating on a final that just happened. I think the principal said something like “Must have been easy for you, huh?”
Saw Carly again, then at 3 we went to the pool. We were there for about an hour. Floaties on at first, then he let me take them off. He was feeling more comfortable in the water, and spent the last several minutes playing with the floaties on the stairs and sort of using them as a kickboard and practicing his kicking. And before that he was letting me hold him while he stretched out more flat than he has before and kicked.
On the walk home he was winding around a lot. At home, Carly tried to get him to go with her to the mall to get a plant for a present for Omar and his family. He really didn’t want to go though, so he stayed with me. I was supposed to get a call from a financial advisor and he was going to watch something, but she never called. Instead, he made a tape sculpture and I boiled eggs. I got out ingredients for zucchini bread but realized I had cucumber instead.
I also baked a frozen pizza. I warned him it was hot, but he was impatient and he touched the tray it was on and got a decent burn on the knuckle of his right pinkie. Had him holding a frozen package on it as he watched Ollie and Moon when Carly got home.
He went outside with her, but was then upset when he saw that his finger was developing a blister. A little later he told us how they had cut down all the rocket kale at school and divided it into bags for all the kids…and then the realization set in that we hadn’t gotten a bag of rocket kale. Tough time for him.
He calmed down and I took him upstairs for just a sponge bath, as he was concerned about his finger. Got him to stand in water though and did a pretty regular bath. He was then drinking from Carly’s spray bottle, which he loves, and when I said it was time to go downstairs he said “Not until I’m done drinking from this precious water.”
Downstairs, naked, he told us “I’m not naked cuz I have my hair. It’s a kind of clothes.” He wanted to do more taping, and went looking in all the drawers and cupboards for it. He found it, but then as he was taping and ripped a piece off, the tape dispenser recoiled and hit him in the face.
He was then talking about his blister and knew that a wood sliver can cause a blister. Seemed to know the difference between a water blister and a wood blister. Not sure where his knowledge of blisters came from. We read more of Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the UFO. He stopped, telling me that that he didn’t have a camera in his brain, but he had a “A remembering process”. Think he had our short/long-term memory discussions in mind. He was then acting out remembering things. We read a little more, then Carly got him ready for bed.
He told her about ‘natural’ and ‘enforced’ consequences – a conversation we’ve had a couple times, recently on a walk home from school.
He wanted to sleep with me. Did some singing and was with him for about 20 minutes before he wanted Carly. She was up by 9:10 and he was asleep after a few minutes.
His glazed teacup:
His plant, blooming:
