I got up at 7. At 7:15 I picked him up off the bed to wake him up Downstairs he lay on the couch and fell back to sleep while I got his vitamins and Cheerios. Carly got him to wake up, then read more Beezus and Ramona. She read the whole section of Beezus taking Ramona to the library and then eventually having to pay for the book after Ramona writes in it. Carly and I both remembered that from our childhoods.
I made french toast with berries for them. We all ate outside. Carly was then watering plants and August played with the hammer. He then came in and played with the anatomy app (we used the augmented reality mode) and then he watched the scientific method video on Brain Pop Jr. We were listening to Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life (#57) and I did all the dishes. August did more macro photography, having also done some a bit earlier.
He let her trim his hair and he got a butterscotch lollipop. He told us that butterscotch is his favorite flavor. They played card games, but not winning games. He told her, “I learned how to play a game called slapjack.” We had done it a couple weeks ago.
I went up to take a shower as they were watching a video about robots and humans. Part of the science project website. When I came back down they were on the rug, surrounded by paper. Carly was watching a video and tying knots and August was having fun cutting up paper into small pieces. They were making a model of bones and muscles and tendons. He said, “I’m into cutting paper now.”
Carly was over on the couch and August ran over and into her and hurt her. She said she had to go upstairs for something. He stayed behind and huddled in the couch. When I went over I realized he was crying. He thought she’d left because he hurt her.
We read some Magic Tree House #30 and watched a marble video. Carly headed to the store at 12. For lunch he had oatmeal and mango. We then went upstairs and he helped me move the couch from the small bedroom out to the play area. He took the lint out of the dryer, then we charged the old phone and he played with it a little, using the compass and voice recorder. We then measured him on the wall chart for his 4 and a half year height.
Carly was back at 1:10. August was excited about telling her about the couch and being measured. She wasn’t thrilled about the couch, but later admitted it was good there.
He had been wanting to play with the “birthday camera” (he calls it that because that’s generally the only time I take the DSLR out to use it) since our aperture discussion yesterday. So we went downstairs and played with that. He particularly liked the fisheye lens. We talked about doing a stop motion video and he went up and got the box of wooden blocks from upstairs on his own. He said, “I have an idea. We can build a little, take a picture, build a little, take a picture.”
He ate noodles and chicken. He told Carly that 60 plus 60 is 120, and explained that adding seconds is like normal math: “Seconds has math in it exactly like regular math.” I asked him what 9 plus 9 is and he claimed it was 19 but he explained his thinking well. He found a tendon bit in his chicken. Carly said she had made a mistake and, “We all make mistakes.” He replied, “No, I don’t!” He spent several minutes on his own, gluing popsicle sticks together for us. We then made our stop motion movie. That went really well. He wanted to do a fish movie, like the sample movie, and we got as far as drawing fish on paper. He and Carly would later do a little more coloring, like of the water background.
He brushed Carly’s hair and told her, “I’m your special hairdresser.” Carly went upstairs to work for awhile. He watched Max and Ruby and ate some crackers with peanut butter. Carly came down and admitted I was right about putting the couch in the play area.
We headed to Ra’anana Park in the late afternoon, getting there at 5:15. I went and paid at the meter while they went in and were then hiding from me. We started at the smaller covered playground. I did some reading while they went on the play structure, which he was calling his house, then used the sound reflection things.
We then walked over to the big and very busy playground. Carly and August went and did a circuit of the big play structure. Carly particularly liked the shaky bridges. I read a book. They came back and sat next to me and he had a snack. We had a good view of the gibbous moon. He said, “When the sun sets, it’s really dangerous to be on the moon because it gets 900,000 degrees.” And asked, “Do scientists know there’s aliens on the moon?”
We left as it was getting dark. He told me he snuck to Mandy’s classroom and ate everything – the chemicals and everything. And that “I think concrete is yummy. Like a treat.” In the car we watched domino videos on my phone to keep him awake.
At home I got his bath ready, then I went for a run. He was reading Will I have a friend? to carly when I got back. He was doing lots of reading. He then chose the fossils book and was trying to read that. Carly told him about the concept of a ‘just right’ book and they went downstairs to find a just right book and he read a Bob Book.
Carly went to take a shower. August and I went on the Zinnie bed and were looking at Bedouin photos again. We went to the big bed and he was opposed to Carly leaving, but she said good night, and after some songs he was asleep at 9:30.
Carly told me he had talked to her about his reading and explained that “When I read, I first look at the word and think what is is, then I say it.”
Gluing sticks:
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Brushing Mama’s hair:
Lego explorer:
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Breakfast outside
Making tendons science
Trying out the couch in the new spot
Playing with the old phone on the new couch location
Drawing fish for the stop motion
Spots
Running down the ramp
In his house
Blue August
Snack time
Off to tour the play structure
