He got up himself at 7:25 as I brushed my teeth. We read a couple chapters of The 13-Story Treehouse, then were able to get going by 7:50. So we walked. Spent a couple minutes in the classroom with him refilling his water, then Andrea told him the schedule. She asked about our break, and we told her about seeing the planets. He said something like, “The schedule’s easy enough.” I carried him outside and Andrea took him from me and was still holding him as I left. He was calm but apprehensive.
I went home, then was back to pick him up. He ran out to me at 2:45, then went back in for the goodbye time. When I went back in he ran to me and said “I eat-ed!” Turns out it was just two bites of cake in his lunch, but it is something. They had also done stop motion with a lizard toy during maker space and he asked if we could do stop motion at home. Actually, it turned out he did movement for choice time. The stop motion was earlier in the day. And he’d done a bunch of challenges with chairs, etc. during playground time.
Maaian walked by and showed us a photo of him eating cake at lunch. He went in to use the bathroom and ended up talking to Andrea and Vicki about microscopes. I reminded him why he had gone inside. I asked later why they had ended up talking about microscopes, and it was because he heard them mention microscopes. Back out on the bench he ate a bunch and talked about how he recognized Dion’s voice. He wanted to go watch the after school Play Ball class and went over and sat on the stairs. The kids said “Hi, August!” and Dion said hi as well. We also talked to Amelia when she walked by, about the dance class. August said he had liked being bees today in the creative movement class.
About 3:45 we headed over to the library. He reminded me “We need a word of the day!” We returned Magic Tree House #29 and eventually checked out Magic Tree House #30 andBeezus and Ramona. He lay on the library time rug and said that he turned into whatever he lay on. He said, “I’m like a chameleon, except better” because he actually turned into the thing and didn’t just look at it.
He did photography and macro photography around the library. He took a lot of photos of Bar, Omri’s sister, playing that egg first-person shooter game because he likes it. While he did that I was able to read a graphic novel by Øyvind Torseter calledThe Heartless Troll. We checked out the books (Eve checked them out again) and went out to have a snack. He had various things from his lunch and snack, then wanted to go down the elevator. We went down and he made some noise and then excitedly showed me that he had grabbed the Cheerios again.
We went back up and Carly told us she was getting ready to go. We headed over to her. He wanted to go down the stairs by the library, then back up the stairs by her classroom. He told me “Look how fast I can gallop!” as he ran there. There were guinea pigs in cages and we looked at them. He found that guinea pigs were easily startled.
Carly had already headed to the library and called us. We met up with her and he didn’t want to go home. He wanted to go to Carly’s classroom. He had told me he wanted to be a guinea pig startled by noise and hiding under desks in her classroom. So kind of a chore to get him on the bike and headed home. Carly had to start walking, and I sat with him on a bench for a few seconds. He agreed to get on the bike so we could catch up with her.
At home Carly turned around and headed to the store, taking the car. August watched some Max and Ruby and when he was hungry I heated him up some soup and pita. He ate all his soup and asked for seconds. After that he wanted some Cheerios leftover in a container from this morning, so I let him have those.
We read some Beezus and Ramona but he wasn’t really into it. Carly got home, and he got upset about not using the iPad. Eventually he ended up being a robot kitty again. We read some more of The 13-Story Treehouse and Carly took a shower.
She took him up for a bath. They came down to cut his hair. They had negotiated to not having treats, but then he was still trying to get a treat. Carly only pretended to cut his hair. I was confused as to what was actually happening, so I said I was going to go get cake. August and I had some cake.
She told me he now fully understands hyperbole, having used it with Carly upstairs, then was able to come up with another example. He told me “I solved the hair cutting problem…compromised.” We went back upstairs at 8:45. I brushed his teeth again and left them by 8:55.
He came back down, laughing, about 15 minutes later. He had been making Carly hit herself. We went upstairs and in on the Zinnie bed so she could rest. We looked at more photos of Bedouins, then I sang several songs and at 9:45 he was ready to go in with Carly. She had gotten up though so we went and found her downstairs. They went back upstairs. I still heard him awake at 10:05 but fell asleep soon after that.
Watching the Play Ball class:
I’m like a chameleon, except better:
In the echoy place, sneaking Cheerios:
Walking down to class in the morning
Watching the Play Ball class
Getting closer – he then called that spot his science lab at school
One of his photos of Bar playing a video game
Watching them play
On the table
Hiding
Guinea pigs
