He woke up about 5:50. Carly came in and got him back to sleep, but he was awake again at 6:05. Less than 9 hours of sleep. Downstairs he played with the synthesizer and was really excited when he found there were a bunch more settings he could use to change the sound. He then remembered how he wanted to watch Puffin Rock. He watched the episode with the sleeping hoglet, the puffin way, and Bernie and the bee. He watched the next one and really laughed at the story with Mossy’s flea, especially when it got on Flynne.
Before we left he talked about the schedule. But he said, “Only yesterday was a really good schedule.” He meant that he wanted me to stay in the afternoon. I asked if he wanted any of the Bob Books to look at during rest time. He initially said no, but then said, “I need the Bob books I can already read…I was talking about for the future.”
We left on schedule at 7:30. Everything went fine as we got to school and dropped off his stuff and went outside, although at one point, in talking about his sniffles, he said “I think it’s a cold.” Andrea was back. And I thought I was about to leave at one point, but he stopped me. He sat on my lap for several minutes, but went downhill. Eventually they started circle time outside, but he really didn’t want to participate in that. He started crying, and there was lots and lots of snot. I figured he hadn’t had enough sleep and was sick enough I could spare them from having to deal with the snot. We talked to Marion and headed home 8:35.
Lots of blowing his nose on the way home but he ended up with lots on his arms and shirt. As we started he said, “If I ever have snot on my arm when we are at Gramma and Grampa’s, please let me go upstairs in Grampa’s garage cuz I think there’s rough stuff I can put on me.” To rub off the snot. We had gotten a permission slip from Marion to leave campus before we left and he asked, “Can permission slip be the word of the day?” And we spotted cat #54.
At home he asked about making a toy chair out of clay. When we read When You Give a Mouse a Cookie I understood why. The mouse made a whole room out of clay. We haven’t read the book since we checked it out and he remembered that detailsl from months ago.
We also read Mr. Mouse’s Motel. After that he played with the synth. He watched an Ollie and Moon, then did some art on his iPad. I suggested a science experiment and he showed me the floating egg one. We speculated in whether it would make the egg salty or not, so I fried the egg. Result: not salty. He ate the whole egg.
We played a few minutes of Green Planet, then he watched some Pink Panther and I worked. We were listening to Elvis. He requested popcorn and we shared some.
He had some lunch, sneaking the second bar before having fruit or egg. We then did a second science experiment: putting salt on ice and seeing what happens. You then put food coloring on and see how the ice has been pitted. He then played with the eye droppers in water and we put regular and salt water in the freezer to see if they freeze differently. We exercised and he then played a Sarah and Duck game. He randomly said, “I hate Ms. Karen.” Wouldn’t give a reason, but later he apologized and said he was just joking. He also said, “I’m so negative today…about food. I only want treats.”
He asked, “Why does Gramma and Grampa have the most impressive things in the world?…Like their tools and stuff.” I talked about going outside and taking photos, as he’d talked about wanting to take photos last night. He suggested he get on the counter, like when he waters the plants, and look for birds through the window. He took photos out the window and closeups of things around him on the counter. He took a photo of the dirty pan. A nice photo, actually, then used it as evidence that I should wash the pan. We were also taking apart the burners on the stove so he could photograph them and see how dirty they were. And he took a video of himself making up music as he sat on the counter.
He then wanted to go take photos outside. I asked if he wanted me to go with him and he said no. He went out in the yard by himself for about 5 minutes. Back inside he took more photos around the house.
When I wouldn’t let him play iPad yet he told me, “I’m never gonna make rules.” We read half of Magic Tree House #27, then on Skybrary we red Mr Mouse’s motel and he watched a video about interesting jobs. Earlier he had watched the one about the Jewish/Arab Jerusalem school. I showed him that we still had old Bob Books on the iPad and he read the first one easily on his own but then didn’t want to read anymore.
We went upstairs and wrestled on the bed. He was enjoying having me push him over and saying “push” or “shove” at the same time. And often I would miss him completely, which was even funnier. I did the thing where you get someone to put their hand in front of their face, then I pushed him over with that, and he found that really funny.
We went and started a load of laundry. He helped and pushed the button. We headed downstairs and read more of Magic Tree House. He had eaten one piece of carrot, but had otherwise refused any of the options for the last couple hours. He was now ready for noodles and tofu and veggies and ate all of that. Carly got home and went to take a shower. He and I ate hummus and crackers. We had listened to Elvis Presley earlier and now finished The Velvet Underground and started Abbey Road as we continue our listening project. Carly came back down and he was spinning the straw things around in the air so you couldn’t see the end. Carly asked why that was and he explained, “That’s because it’s moving so fast your eye can’t take pictures fast enough.”
She got dinner for her and when guest saw it he said “Yummy!” and went to eat some with her. I went up to do some work about 6. I heard them playing Dragonbox Big Numbers and he had the last of the pie. She gave him a bath and I heard him having a good time in the bath. He was telling her about computers at one point. I went in for a few minutes before she put him to sleep. They were going to read the Sneetches as I left. He was asleep at 8.
I got the new website set up in the evening. Still a little more work to be done to get Ulysses to post to it, but after this initial work it will be a lot less work to publish the blog posts.
Shwoing me the floating egg experiment:
Laughing hysterically at Pink Panther:
A little song and a yawning thing from yoga class:
Taking photos on the counter:
Singing and fork drumming on the counter:
Taking photos outside:
Pink panther song and special magic:
To find the special magic:
Probably a sign of what was to come
Before we left school
Science experiment
Eating the egg of science
Exercising
His first selfie?
Photographer Zinnie on the counter
Taking a photo of a ball in the yard
The photo he was taking
