He was awake at 6:40, before Carly left. He watched some Ollie and Moon, then as we were getting ready to go he was a bit stressed about the day being different, although he was excited about being picked up by Carly and the 6th graders.
We drove, and got to the classroom before the bus kids. Kind of lost the pre-busy time though as Marion and Anna, and then Emmitt’s mom, were all fascinated by August’s car vest. I left at 8:05, leaving him to look at/discuss the schedule with Anna.
I drove to Sabeel. Traffic a little better at first this time, but still got there right at 10. I delivered the pepper plant and card that Carly had gotten as a gift for Omar and his family. Met Maddie and Marie-Claire, the new interns and Omar came out and we got to work. Did sort of a late breakfast with bread and hummus, etc. The office all ate together, with Andraous and Dorothy, and the graphic designer (whose name I didn’t catch) all coming out. Dorothy is from Yorkshire, and we talked about the Moors, etc. and looked up her house on Google Maps. Omar was being very funny today, and did a lot of making fun of Andraous for his engagement to a woman from Colombia – his fiancée made her own dresses, which is very Un-Palestinian, as for the last 20 or 30 years or so it has really become the tradition for the man to pay for everything and have a big wedding.
For lunch we had chicken sandwiches from a place called Yerevan. Omar told us about Juha, and told us a story of Juha in which he and his family go on a trip with a donkey and everyone is unhappy with how they treat the donkey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin?wprov=sfti1
We had a full day of work, and I got home at 6:45. He greeted me, naked, at the door. He told me about his day. He first told me that he did art with Lincoln, one of the 6th graders, then other kids were surrounding him and doing art with him. Before that he had watched a couple Ollie and Moons in her room.
After class, he and Carly went back to the preschool for the tea party. August told Carly she could go to the adult room, but then Anna invited Carly to the tea party. He sat with Reia, and Carly sat next to Candy’s mom. They hadn’t been to the big tea party as Candy had gotten sick, so they came to this last one. They had cake with chocolate bits in it.
After the tea party they played on the playground. He and Selma played with the track thing, and did some problem solving to make pieces fit. Blanka came to play with them towards the end. Selma and August actually needed some encouragement to include her. When the other kids went in for the end-of-day meeting, August stayed out on the playground with Carly.
They went outside for a little while, then he came in. Carly had made some veggie burger for him for dinner and he finally ate some of it. But then he asked for a carrot. He was then bringing Edward, who is apparently a robot. Not sure where the name comes from. He went up the stairs and said to Carly in a robot voice “Hello, I am Edward. Who are you? Once I have the carrot can I have an entire kid Orea?”
He got whiney about the Oreo treat. Carly went up for a shower. But then he sat on my lap and ate and ate carrot. I let him have half of an Oreo treat, then told him to offer the other half to Carly. She said I could have it, so I gave him a bite of it. He was very excited about that bite.
Carly brushed his teeth, and he was ready for sleep. Still a bit stuffy today. He was asleep at 8:30.
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