He was up a little after 6. He and Carly headed downstairs at 6:25. When I came down a bit later he was playing the synth. Carly went out to water plants and he went with her. He started banging the swing with the bolt thing. Probably waking up the neighborhood, but they probably thought it was the construction site across the street getting going. When Carly stopped him I heard him say he does it “when there are volcanoes” and I think he said he was warning ships. Must have been undersea volcanoes.
He wanted to take photos and borrowed my camera. He took a few really great shots. He got the macro lens to take some shots, went back outside, then came and sat next to me and did a video of himself singing the Pink Panther song using his potty words, then scrolled through, looking at past photos.
I got his vitamins for him and a full apple. He ate most of the apple. He watched Brain Pop Jr. videos and I made eggs and pancakes. After breakfast he was playing with the anatomy app: “I’m taking the body parts from this person then giving them to my machine and my machine makes parts for the machine.” Then, “It makes things that don’t turn into dirt turn into dirt.” “I’m really taking apart people’s brains.” “Now I’m going to turn the body parts into metal parts…crank, crank, crank…” “I invented a machine that turns snot into MONEY!”
I went up and took a shower. When I came down he was doing the pictograph activity in TodoMath. Carly headed to the store. August asked me, “Can you help me dissect somebody’s body? ‘Dissect’ means ‘take apart’.” So that became or word of the day. He made another machine “Its called the bangersmasher. When anything is broken, you turn the crank and it starts fixing it.” We did some exercise, then added to the mosaic a little and he added to his dream picture.
Carly came back and he took photos again. Lots and lots of photos. He started outside and took a lot of funny selfies while on on the swing. Then inside he took closeups of all sorts of things. And a lot more selfies, particularly of his hair.
I went upstairs to do some work. They did the balloon pump science experiment, getting it to work a little, then wrestled and made a new batch of slime. They experiment with different amounts of the ingredients. This batch turned out very dry once it dried and much different than their others. They missed the ice cream truck a couple times and she told him he could have ice cream later, which I think he did at some point. He also got really upset about getting some crazy math problem wrong as they were reading the Math Curse book.
I came down at 3 as he was watching pink Panther, having lost most of his clothing due to the projects and getting them wet. I got him some crackers and hummus. I organized book shelves and made a book basket for the bedroom. He played on on his own on the couch downstairs and we were both upstairs for several minutes. He went to the bathroom and noticed the toilet was dirty and wanted to clean it. So I squirted the Duck cleaner (he really likes the name on it) and he did the scrubbing.
He took his watch Nd set a timer for when we might get to Israel Cassie’s house for the party. We started listening to #27 on the Rolling Stone list, U2’s The Joshua Tree.
Carly drove to Tel Aviv. They live just a block of the river and port area where we’ve been several times. We parked at 5:30 and went in. Except for a couple of Noah’s, her husband, family members we were the first to arrive. Taya was excited to play with him but then was sitting in her loft watching her Kindle. August had really wanted to bring his iPad to play the synth for everyone. So he climbed up to the loft bed as well and was playing the synth. He was then out on the main floor playing it as people started to arrive.
Cassie got magnet blocks out and he played with those, then the Kerns and Chris, HS social studies teacher, arrived. He was up on a stool and let Jill, the youngest daughter, lift him down. They ended up in Taya’s room playing again and I talked to Matt and Chris about music. I’d also talked to Noah earlier about the preschool. Didn’t know how I’d answer if he asked about what work I was doing, but it didn’t come up. At one point August walked over to me and told me that his anthropology note was “Mandy’s holding two drinks.” I found out later that Carly had sent him to me to say it.
We ate dinner and August was too excited sitting with Taya and the Kerns girls to et much. He sat on the edge of the patio and was making noise with his feet and they were teasing him saying that he was waking people up and they were coming to complain. August seemed a little scared by it but kept doing it. He also chewed on his chair or something and explained,”that’s cuz I have an extra tooth that’s itchy and I go to th dentist.”
Cassie was taking the kids with her to walk the dog. August wanted me to go with so I did. Gaby tried having them play red light, green light, but mainly he just ran. Cassie was asking him about preschool and I asked if he ever saw Omri, who is in the other class. He said, “Only if I’m very lucky.”
Back inside he had some brownie for dessert, and more apple and honey. He spotted kitchen scale in a cupboard that was open and he got excited: “A weigher!” And at some point he went up to Noah’s brother and asked, “How many M and Ms could you fit in the entire universe?”
We got going after Cassie had loaded us up with a container of food and dessert and an iced latte from her machine. We saw three cats on the walk back to the car. We had lost count, but decided on 67, which seemed about right. So now it was 70. We left at 8:30.
On the ride home he played the synth: “This is the goodest app on my iPad to play at night… Because it keeps me up.” He checked the stopwatch on his iPad. Up to 899 hours. I said he was close to 1000 hours. He totally did the math himself when he said, “Only 101 hours.” And he told me, “So you knew how many M and Ms it would take to lift up a pizza truck? 20 billion.” Earlier it was to cover the Earth. I found out from Carly that the M and M thing was from the Math Curse book, and was the math problem he got upset about.
He fell sleep at 9, right before Even Yehuda. I carried him up to bed, no problems.
Potty words song:
Adding to his dream picture and spying on pirates:
Crazy boy:
Making music in Taya’s loft:
Making noise on the patio:
Running on our walk:
Worrying about the battery:
Synth music on the way home:
Exercise
Cleaning the toilet
Meeting the dog
In the loft
Music for Taya
Jill helping him down
Scale
Tired boy ready to go
