He woke up at 6:30, right as Carly was about to walk out the door. She brought him down. The first thing he asked for was vitamins, which has never happened before. I got him those and some bread.
He watched Pink Panther and ate Cheerios and we got our timing down perfect again. Only hiccup on the way to school was that he had dropped a handle off the bike. Luckily, it was less than half a block that we had to retrace.
At the school we saw Anna taking in the bus kids. He gave her the bracelet he had made. I dropped him off just before 8 and that went smoothly. He said, “So you’ll come back in two hours. Then two more hours.” He and Andrea were talking about taking care of the plants. Andrea was asking him what they needed to do to take care of it. She was looking for “Water it.” He said, in his thinking voice, “Well, is it a shade plant or a sun plant?” He said it looked like a shade plant.
At 10 I checked in on him and he was doing fine. Marion said he didn’t eat anything again today. And that he spent a lot of time walking around and not settling down or playing with other people – I thought she meant for snack, but maybe meeting as well. But that he had been doing better since then. He gave me a couple beads he had found and seemed okay to me. Told me to come back in two hours.
When I came back just before noon he was standing in line waiting for me. Andrea said they had worked on their rocks and taking care of the plants. The rocks have their names on them and are for checking in to class each day. They will pick out there rock and put it in the ‘here’ pile.
We sat at the tables and he ate the fruit cup, part of his egg, and some of his bread, since he hadn’t eaten anything since some cheerios this morning. Reia and her mom came and sat with us. Her mom (How-ee) said that Reia had told her that August hadn’t been playing with her. I said I didn’t think he’d really been playing with anyone yet. I had a good talk with her though. They are from Hong Kong and spent 5 years in Michigan. She really wants someone to do a reading program with her kids and suggested August do it with them, with me leading it, but I don’t think that will happen.
They gave him some alphabet biscuits (cookies) from Ikea and he liked those. August was getting on the tables, but then told me “I need some attention!” I talked to them about the names of the new kids in their class. August wanted me to learn the names from his teachers. I suggested we go in and look at the names on the cubbies. We did, and learned all the new ones: Judson, Bibo, and Eve, in addition to Lydia, which I had already learned.
Reia and her mom don’t have a car and have to wait around campus until her older daughter is done at 3. We arranged to play at the playground together tomorrow. I had promised August pizza today though so we got going a little before 1. We got to the mall at 1:35.
I think he was both frustrated that the play area was so busy and tired out from school. He zoned out and lay on the side of the play area for several minutes. When I went to get slices of pizza they only had two slices of olive left. August picked off the olives, and also refused any of the sprinkle stuff he had liked last year. Seemed happy enough about it though.
We went to the pharmacy and got vitamins for him and a new sponge for me. He insisted on choosing one though and settled on the pink one of what I wanted, after initially wanting a purple one I didn’t want.
We then went to Tiv Taam. Cheese and hummus and a couple other things. As we were checking out he found a little plastic hippo figure on the floor. A pretty good treasure find.
On our walk home we thought of three things we should have gotten/done at the mall: a haircut for me, fruit for smoothies, and teething medicine for him. Neither of us felt like turning back though. We were home at 3:25.
He played Camping with Grandpa on the iPad. He excitedly said “I know what a black-hearted Susan is!” and pointed to it in the game. I think the game had told him, but he’s heard about them somewhere else as well. We read some Ramona. He asked “can we buy a cat?” Luckily, I turned it around and once he remembered he was allergic to cats he didn’t want me to get one. He said “I can have lots of words of the day.” We settled on ‘seething’ and ‘pry’.
Carly got home. He got grumpy and mean. Wanted to only play iPad or smother Carly. Didn’t want to do anything. He ate a little pita, then was drinking milk and spilled it. The two of them went upstairs to wrestle again. When they came down he showed Carly his treasure from the mall. He talked about his ability to sense treasure.
They went outside, with him in underwear and shoes. He pointed out a seedpod, but later gave her credit for finding the treasure since she had picked it up. It was very nice of him. But then another meltdown and being really sad about the iPad. But when he was calming down and still sad he was able to talk about it to me well.
Carly made him a piece of french toast and he ate that. I then gave him a bath. He was quoting Pink Panther: “And I still brought home a doggy bag… Congratulations! You’re the first one that’s made it this far. Are you ready for the challenge?”
We finished Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and read Gustav the Goldfish and The Butter Battle Book. We went downstairs and while Carly finished getting ready we read Oliver’s Own Office in Skybrary. She took him in and I left them at 7:50. She was back down by 8:05.
Watching the kids play:
