Carly went and woke him up at 8. We talked recipes and decided to make creamy thai carrot sweet potato soup. He said he wanted peanut butter, then Carly made him peanut butter syrup toast again. We read the Supernuisance chapter of Ramona Quimby, then the book It Starts as a Seed that we checked out yesterday. August then suggested we do daily challenges in Nature Cat. We went out and listened to birds in the morning and recorded them, then drew a picture of things you wear in the rain. He drew a coat. He then sat at the table and played Endless Reader with Carly while I went to take a shower.
She made him pizza, but it turned out to be spicy sauce. I ate that and we made him a new pizza while he played the Gus Hebrew app. When he got the new pizza he said “I love it!” Carly and I were talking about the school and Carly said she thought she had the best classroom in the school. He said “No, Mandy’s science room is the best.” But his best line of the morning was “I don’t have to eat spinach AND I don’t have to clean up…says me.”
We got going and got to the school pool at 10:30. As we walked through campus he described the painting over the cafeteria area as looking like gummy worms. And he talked about the painting of an alien spaceship abducting a cow (good question as to why it is there) and called it a sad or “serious alien”.
When we got to the pool Tessa and her two kids were there. August and Liam ignore each other though so we just played with him, but talked to Tess about school. Then Sharna and her kids, Maya and Ben, showed up. I talked to her husband about Ben’s first day of preschool yesterday. Ben is in PKB and he had to stay with him/on campus the whole day. August and I were playing with the kickboard and shooting it out of the water. It hit him right in the face once. Cried, but no damage. Did some time without the floaties. He’s not expressing interest in swimming, but I think he watches Maya and Liam swimming around and has ideas. He’s definitely very comfortable in the pool now.
We got out at 12:40 to get a snack, then went back in the pool for awhile. It was time to go when August started to shiver.
We drove down to the big Tiv Taam. August asked “Do you think you’ll park in th spot that has that pumper thingy?” We did. The pumper thingy turned out to be a piece of metal sticking out of the ground in the dirt. It is at an angle, and sort of like a pedal on a piano.
Inside I had the list so did most of the shopping with the cart. Carly took him to get one of those pastry snacks and they had cheese and honey in them. They did some challenges for me, finding groceries we needed. He spotted dried strawberries with sugar on them and was very excited when I agreed to get them. Earlier, he had spotted a round tin of hard candies which he said was exactly like what Oma has and didn’t like it when I said no. I also found Pez candy refills for his Smurf Pez dispenser.
We left at 2:25. While talking about his teeth I called them baby teeth and he responded with “Baby teeth? Are you just calling me a baby?”
At home he played PBS Science and the Namoo app. In the Namoo app he’d keep calling us over to show us his favorite part of photosynthesis, etc. Carly made them scrambled eggs and veggies.
I made a thai sweet potato and carrot soup. I used less than half of the curry paste it called for, but it turned out to be too spicy for August and Carly. I ended up with really good soup for me though. Carly also made pasta and mushrooms for him. They did the cranberries and fizzy water experiment and read It Began with a Mistake. They then went upstairs and did more beading, finishing the third bracelet for his teachers from last year and this year. He basically did it all on his own.
He then exercised with his watch. I heard him ask “Mama, are you impressed?” He watched one episode of the Pink Panther. He cuddled with Carly and said “I’m leaning on your breast.” He’d never used that word before and asked where he learned it. He said from Oma.
He drank the cranberries and fizzy water experiment and said “It’s like fizzy water infused with cranberries!” In the bathroom he decided he didn’t like the tile pattern because it wasn’t like a chessboard, but the rows shifted: “I think the floor is ugly…I want them to line up.” He took a long time in the bathroom, then had me use his recycling machine/conveyor belt machine. He asks me what I need to recycle, but I can’t find a bin, and then his conveyor belt takes it away. He started it when we were by the bathrooms after going to the beach after the science center last Wednesday.
I helped wash his hands after he was done. When we finished he asked if I had used soap. I had. He didn’t believe me, and even went out and told Carly I hadn’t used soap on his hands. He did his balloon machine on the couch, fulfilling orders for balloons that I would make up. That started a few days ago as well.
I took him out for an evening walk. Couple blocks away, he yelled “Hi doggy!” to a dog hanging out the window of a passing car. As we got closer to the snakes and ladder park, he said something was “5 meters, 3 inches.” I tried to explain that he was mixing measurement systems. He didn’t agree: “No! It’s right!”
We got there at 6:20. He was wearing my watch and wanted to exercise, so we went in on the exercise equipment. After playing in there for several minutes (he found an arm machine he could use, and found he could sit on the swinging machine and swing back and forth, thanks to “momentum!”) he went over to the climbing area and did more exercise. He ran in circles around it and had me tell him how fast or slow to go. Finally, he sort of rested on the climbing wall shapes. We left before 7.
On the way back he spotted the moon again (we’ve had great views of the moon waxing and the three planets in the sky) and a plane flying close to it. He explained though that the moon was a lot farther though and it was an optical illusion.
We were back at 7:10. He asked “How’d people wash things before they had sinks?” He ate a carrot, then noodles and butter. Then ate more carrot to earn even more noodles and butter. He wanted ‘breast’ to be the word of the day. I went for a run at 8.
When I got back he started quoting Pink Panther lines: “Try artichoke with liver, yum, it’s the best.” “No more Mr. Nice guy.”
He and I read the rest of Magic Tree House #22, which is about General Washington crossing the Delaware River. We discussed the words commander-in-chief, caption, and spy. August decided they should all be words of the day. Carly had given him a bath. I took him up to brush his teeth. In the middle of that he asked, “Did you know we’re on a gigantic horse? That goes around the sun.” Then started to brush his teeth again. Carly came in and I left them at 9:55.
Bracelets for his teachers:
Pez:
