I let him sleep until 7:15. He watched one Sarah and Duck and we were off, walking at 8:40. On the way he told me, “My favorite time of the day is when I take my mat to the teacher…because I get to walk around and stand…”
Got to school just after 8 and I left at 8:10. I saw the rosemary he and helped them find yesterday and the focaccia they had made with it. I had him take the paper schedule out to Andrea and he said I could leave after she read through it. So she did that and he asked me to pick him up. I picked him up and said goodbye and handed him to Andrea. No crying, so smooth. Left campus by 8:20.
When I got to school at the end of the day he didn’t come running out. I went in, and he was with Andrea looking at her computer. They had celebrated Marion’s birthday today, and he had asked who’s birthday was next. It turned out to be Bibo’s in October.
They had had a good birthday celebration for Marion. He ate focaccia bread and drank water. He did the movement/dance class with Ms. Amelia after rest time. He had gotten his timer out of his snack bag and told me I’d forgotten to take it out.
He had handed me some of his treasures – a blue bit of wire, a nut of some sort, and a blue rubber band or hair band. He grabbed the cornbread and was out on the bench eating before I was done packing up his stuff. Out on the bench he told me, “I saw the note you gave me…it was a good gift for me.” I had drawn a picture of a robot saying hi to him.
He said everyone had loved the bread. And he had been on the playground earlier in the day when some people had gone to do gardening. He told me he had “wandered”.
He took photos around outside. A nice one of the beads on the teepee thing, the vines, and then all sorts of textures on surfaces. We headed to the library so he could find more textures, and he found a lot in the different rugs and fabrics. The battery was running low so we plugged it in, and he did art in MS Paint on the computers while I looked for books. We got Magic Tree House #29, Cam Jansen and the First Day of School Mystery, The Word Collector, and a rather dated DK book called Space Exploration. August also had fun watching the people on either side of him play computer games. His favorite was the one to the right, where it was a first-person shooter game, as he told us later.
Carly arrived and we checked out the books. Eve checked them out again. We went outside and August wanted to run around the library. He went to the left and Carly went to the right. August took quite awhile to show up. It turned out that there had been two teenagers sitting on the walkway, blocking it, with their feet up on the railing. He had solved the problem by crawling under their legs. Carly asked if they had found it funny. He said they hadn’t laughed, but it seemed like they thought it was funny.
On the walk home Carly found him more amusing than last year. On Vatikim he found a tangled length of thin rope. It was then dragging behind him as he steered with his feet and tried to untie it. He said, “My string is really causing problems.” At the house he figured out how to tie it to the swing and made it into a machine, using the string to make it move.
In the house, Carly cut up a starfruit. He was being very teenager-y about it, not thinking it would look like an actual star. I tried to film it, but missed that part, but caught his surprise when she sliced it and handed him a star-shaped piece.
He and I started to read Magic Tree House #29. The books change into more of a fantasy series now and they are in Camelot. One of the characters explains they are now in a ‘legend’ and defines it, so that was our word of the day.
I started to take him upstairs for his bath. He said something, and Carly said it sounded like he said I was pooping in the living room. She ran with the joke, and I had him say, “Mama, you’re being uncouth.” I was then saying random phrases to make him laugh. That continued upstairs in the bathroom.
He had his bath, and then as he went down the stairs to say good night to her he was singing a “Mama” song for her and doing a little dance.
I took him up to brush his teeth and put him to bed. In the middle of the brushing he spotted a lizard up in the corner of the ceiling. I was going to capture it, but Carly decided it could stay. August didn’t like the idea at first but went with it.
We read more of Magic Tree House #29, until they leave with the Christmas Knight. Turned off the light and sang and then were quiet for quite awhile. thought he was falling asleep, but about 8:50 he insisted on Carly. She went up and he was asleep soon.
Eating after school:
Running around the library:
Tying his string:
The swing machine:
Starfruit joy:
Making him laugh:
Staring at the fan
Sitting in the cubbies
Today’s treasures
Digging into corn bread
MS Paint art
String treasure
Contemplating his evening snack
