He was up at 7:40. We read some Ramona Quimby, Age 8. He played Dragonbox Big Numbers and I typed. He ate some carrot cake and we finished Magic Tree House #21. I boiled eggs for later and made scrambled eggs with cheese and cauliflower and mushrooms for breakfast. We sat at the table and he ate about an egg’s worth. He then played Fritz and Chesster. I exercised and took a shower. He played some Tinybop Solar System, then came in and sat on the bathroom floor as I got ready to take my shower. I told him about how NASA had just launched a mission to study the sun, and that it would be the fastest thing we’ve ever made, and that he could watch the launch. I pulled it up on YouTube and we watched it, then he spotted a Pink Panther video. He watched while I took a shower and got us ready to go. He was laughing and laughing, like when he watches Curious George.
I had mentioned I’d found a treat when cleaning out the cupboard, and he was excited about it, but then joked “I’m expecting it’s just gonna be cilantro.” We left at 11:50. It turned out to not be very good, and so I told him about getting lunch at Ikea, and he put two and two together and remembered ice cream.
When we got there it was the busiest I’ve seen Ikea. Had to park further away than usual. When we went in August wanted lunch first. Not a long line, but it moved slowly. A couple women with a child cut the line, arguing there were two lines. A couple of other women in the line in front of me took it up verbally with them. I just did some pointing to the real line. August was a bit impatient, but we made it. Got our food (a hot dog for him and falafel for me) and two ice cream tokens. Not really anyplace to sit, then August decided he wanted ice cream first anyway. I gave in, and we shared one of the ice creams, choosing the soft serve with chocolate. I had the idea of saving the other ice cream until we were done and sharing both of them.
We packed up the food and started shopping. Walked around the top floor. He found one hopscotch. I grabbed some toy cooking utensils for his kitchen at home. We then stopped at a table and ate our lunch. Then headed downstairs and got a cart. Got a few more bins, a throw pillow for one of our pillow cases, a nice mixing bowl with a cover, and a cake pan. Did not find measuring spoons with long handles. This was a minor thing on my list, but August really wanted me to ask someone. I did, however, ask about sheets, as they didn’t have the small size that Maaian said in her preschool supplies list Ikea would have. I did ask, as they said they don’t carry sheets that small. So, we already have twin size sheets at home so didn’t get one.
We checked out. I was holding August as I signed the credit card thing and realized just a second late that this is something that August has really, really, really been wanting to do for me. He was very sad about that, but then had our second ice cream. With strawberry this time. He felt better. We left after 2:30.
We got to school and spotted Carly coming out of the library. We went to her classroom with her for a few minutes, then he and I headed to the pool. Carly got there later. In the pool he was quoting a line from Fritz and Chesster, the chess game. Something like “In winter’s cold and summer’s heat, the best time is when it’s time to eat.” We played with the kickboard, but mainly two squirt guns that were left there, likely from the party. We made games of shooting the flags, trying to catch the drops, and trying to hit each other. We also played with a ball, throwing it into the basketball hoop.
We left a little before 5, changed, and headed home to grab his x-ray. A good choice. The dentist was supposed to have received the x-ray via email, but didn’t seem to have done so. She looked at it, said yes the upper tooth is pushing, but that it is really early for an extraction. Kind of left us in limbo. She kept the x-ray and said she would talk to a pediatric colleague of hers and get back to us. August said that it isn’t bothering him quite as much, so for at the moment we are okay. Might have to seek a second opinion at some point.
I had told him he could have 20 minutes of iPad at home. He had soup for dinner, then spent it watching Pink Panther and laughing a lot. He had some of the iced tea I’d made earlier. Went outside for a little while, then practiced rest time. He started listening to music, but then powered off his phone. He had spent a couple minutes looking at the cat’s meow book on his own before were started, but then didn’t want to do it. He mainly put a bunch of books on the couch and lay on top of them. Which is progress, I guess.
I got ready for a run, and Cherie had just called to Skype as I was leaving. I got back at 8, and he came down from a bath a minute later. He told me “I just invented a bike that when it rains it has a parachute and it has a telescope on it and it has a bell that barks and it has automatic told up and down wheels that when you park it they go up and when you ride on it they go down.” And it had steel walls to protect from lightning.
Carly to a shower and he and I read Ramona Quimby, finishing chapter 2. We decided on ‘overwhelmed’ as the word of the day, and also discussed the meaning of ‘conspiratorial’ and ‘blissfully’. All words from the book. Carly took him up to do one Skybrary book in bed and they read What Does It Mean to be an Entrepreneur He requested me, but wanted Carly to put him to sleep. We told him it was one or the other and he stuck with Carly. I left them a little before 9 and Carly put him to sleep
Think I forgot to mention his crown. It is a silver plastic crown that he found hanging in a bush or tree the day he and Carly went to the park when I ran. A day or two ago we were up in the little room and he saw it, and he said it was something that he wouldn’t take with him when we move. Much like the old bicycle tire which he spotted outside the other day and said the same thing about. I don’t know whether to consider it a good thing that he plans to move, or a bad thing.
Also, I think I forgot to mention the white spider that Carly saw on one of the flowers yesterday. It was holding a bee at the time, but dropped it right before I took a photo. Carly figured out it is a crab spider. It was still on the flower today. Pretty sure it is one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomisus?wprov=sfti1