Despite going to sleep so early last night he managed to sleep through the night, although it took some work on Carly’s part. He had a couple of dreams that woke him up. For one he said something like “Let’s go back! Let’s buy that instrument!” He also flopped around on the bed a lot and kept rolling under the big bed.
He woke up just before 7. I think he called out “Hello”, as at first I was confused and didn’t think it was him I heard. Carly’s MacBook Air was having keyboard/trackpad issues so I was trying to figure those out. They delivered the cookies to Mikaela, leaving them by her gate. Back inside they read some of the Paddington chapter book. I had also made hard-boiled eggs, but he wanted a hard-boiled eggs.
I went up and did some work, then took a shower. He was adding clocks to the World Clock on his iPad when I popped downstairs. He went to the bathroom, then I got the screwdrivers and glue to fix the toilet paper holder that’s coming loose. I did that and he played with the tools. He remembered cutting apart toothpicks and I got him some so he could do that, then he worked on his “construction site” in the bathroom. He wanted me to help, and asked “Hey assistant? Could you get me the big screwdriver?” Carly made spaghetti as we did music games on the iPad. There was a new Kids Music app that he used to compose a song. Carly headed to work at 10, taking the car.
August drank the rest of lassi from yesterday and ate some spaghetti. He then had us play the pee game, where I pretend to fall asleep and have to go to the bathroom. Back on the iPad he was frustrated by the Street Music app, which I don’t like. We went and read The Sneetches. He ate a few crackers while I rested. He asked “Does everything have fatness?” It turned out he meant three dimensional objects, and depth.
We got all ready to go, planning to swim at the school pool, and then realized he was in his clothes from yesterday from sleeping in them. We changed him and left just after 12:45. He kept saying “You can’t teach a Sneetches.” Then, “Dada, did you know I collect every sound I hear?” And he was collecting sounds that we heard. He found a “treasure” as we crossed the street. The frame of a broken toy truck. He was enjoying steering, and steered us in circles a couple of times. I sang some songs to him (our hill song, “Sentimental Wars”, and “Ain’t that Beautiful”. He asked what “curse” means and that became our word of the day. It was from a line in the last song, which goes “So I curse the air I breathe…”
We got to school at 1:20. He’d forgotten the layout of the school a bit, and didn’t believe me on the direction to the pool. We looked at the painted mural of the world, then went to get our swimsuits on.
As he went to try the water he asked about the watering can he played with last year. I had thought about it on the walk but we didn’t have it. I had some crackers in a plastic container and we took those out and used the content as a toy. That worked well. It was hard to see in the water, but we had fun ‘losing’ it and finding it. In the water he had all sorts of sensors: cup sensors in his hands, ball sensors, sun sensors. His cup sensors wouldn’t work if his hands were in the water, and they could only tell him when they sensed the cup, not what direction it was in. One of the teachers, John, came by and talked to us. He had been in Oregon all summer. August mainly said his bad words, but said them into his cup so we couldn’t understand him. After John left we had a lot of fun making up funny names using different words, and August laughed a lot.
August had spent several minutes just sitting on the side of the pool, then was pouring water on my head with the cup. When he wanted me to get him in he mentioned his floaties, but then didn’t ask for them. So he was pretty comfortable in the water.
We got out at 2:40 for lunch. Him reluctantly. Had bars, a hard-boiled egg, apple, and some crackers. A fly kept landing on him and he said “That fly keeps putting it’s proboscis on me.” I remember Vivian saying that at some point.
We went back in the pool. As August was putting on his floaties this time, Omar called. I talked to him for 5 to 10 minutes and August did a good job of letting me talk, until he needed to go to the bathroom. I finished the phone call, we got the floaties off, and went to the bathroom. Had to go over to the auditorium as there was a very loud truck by the usual bathroom.
So then it was back to the pool again. Without his floaties at first. He was playing with the cup, pretending to be a duck with it on his mouth, when Carly showed up. He wanted his floaties on for awhile. Then we met Sharon, who is from Yorkshire, and is the secretary for Mike. August did much better with her, telling her his age and name, and talking about the pool. I also talked to her about Yorkshire.
August wanted to go play in Carly’s classroom, but also wanted to stay in the pool. That was solved when the lifeguard started closing the pool about 4:50. August got right out. We went to her classroom and they did a little math class. He was trying to chew on everything in the classroom. He remembered the board game about India and they got that out and played with it. He then lounged in the blue beanbag chair before we left at 5:20.
At home we accepted Vivian’s friend requests in Wizard School and sent her some stuff. They then skyped with Cherie and Colin. Colin was very excited to see August. Vivian was at the dentist. He played some Tinybop Earth, then went watering plants and played with the soccer ball with Carly. He had rejected the spaghetti due to small pieces of onion. He now had potatoes and veggies with teriyaki sauce.
He came up to me and was Shmorgadeboop, the cat. I took him up and gave him a bath and washed his hair. Went pretty well, except when he thought it would be fun to pour water on my shorts and I had to go change. Dried his hair with the hairdryer, then were downstairs at 8:05. He showed Carly the Street Music app.
I went for a run. She took him upstairs and brushed his teeth. She had the toothbrush start talking to him and he thought it was hilarious. He was really sleepy, as he then volunteered to turn off the light and was right to sleep at 8:37.
Both Carly and I tried to talk to him about preschool today and he told us he doesn’t want to talk about it.