No school or work today. I woke him up again, just after 7:30. He got his shoes on and went out to Carly. They came in and were on the couch. Carly read a funny story from Sharna on Facebook about trying to get a refund for plane tickets. He then wanted to watch a video on her computer. But he didn’t want to use his iPad. It turned into a game/messing with him when she started typing everything he said. He got into it and started saying random things. Carly said he could wait until she was done t watch on her computer, as she had some work to do. They then debated whether the game counted as waiting, but Carly pointed out she hadn’t actually done any work. He then waited semi-patiently. Carly commented on how he likes eye contact as he got close to her face. He asked what that meant and that became the word of the day. I read Beezue and Ramona to him and Carly worked outside.
He then started singing a “I love bunny slippers!” song. Think that was based on a sample sentence that Carly had written for her students. Carly came in and they watched a Ted-ED video about renewable energy. I went up to take a shower. They then watched an immune system one. He was watching a Kids Health eyeball video when I came down. He then had us play out the secret science lab under the preschool.
We made cookie dough together. Although he wanted to break it into segments and did the math on how many ingredients we could do at one time. He then went to play school with Carly, and she convinced him that one of the things they needed to do was to go outside and water plants. He used his plant meter out there. He came in and was saying, “It’s actually useful, right? So I was right…Sometimes when someone wants to buy something you don’t think it’s going to be useful but then when you try it out it is.” They lost one of the tips but it seems to still work.
He played the Blue Apprentice science game. Cookies came out of the oven and they each had two cookies. Carly argued we should eat them all right now as they are best when they come out of the oven. He watched some Pink Panther and I went up to do some work. They headed to school and the store and were back about 3.
I came down at 3:30. He was playing the science app and they were eating popcorn. We then got ready to go and headed to Kfar Saba Park. We were meeting up with Sherry and her sons, Edin and Seger. When they asked how old he was he explained that he was a little more than four and a half. It was the first time I’ve heard him talk about the half. We went up to the playground and Seger took him off and they explored the playground. Very cool of him to take August round like that.
After awhile we decided to head south through the park and see if the zoo part was open. As we walked, August used the camera and took photos of sculptures and things along the way. He took a selfie and said “Stylish.” The zoo wasn’t open (although we peeked in and August liked the birds), but there was a little trampoline place near it. The two older boys went in the harness ones where you can jump really high. August went in the regular trampoline pit area for 10 minutes. He had a lot of fun dancing and doing flips on it. He asked, “How did they make this so strong, but so flexible?”
We started to walk back and stopped in a grass field and Sherry and her boys showed August how to play soccer and they had fun for 10 or 15 minutes. We continued back to the playground, and August walked Carly through the magic passage. He then was on the ship play structure area with the two boys. Suddenly, August took off running, past us and over past the trees. They were starting to count for tag and he didn’t understand the boundaries. We took him back and for the next 20 or 30 minutes they sort of played tag hide-and-seek on the ply structures.
August also came over and played with the slo-mo and time lapse on the phone. He took a slo-mo video of Edin doing a break dance move. We all went and sat in the grass and had a snack. We had brought popcorn. Then headed home after that.
We got back at 6:30. Carly went upstairs to shower and work. We had pasta for dinner and played the Blue Apprentice app, although I was falling asleep. He drank some milk to earn a cookie for dessert. We tried to Skype with my parents but they weren’t online, so we left video of August sort of dancing on the couch.
I took him up and gave him a bath, then brushed his teeth and on the bed we read part of Plants Versus Zombie Timepocalypse and he did a lot of reading in Biscuit Plays Ball.
Carly came in and put him to sleep. I left them at 9:15. She told him she would be gone next week for the school’s Week Without Walls trip and he handled it very well, just asking how long it would be.
Wind science with a hat:
Making snickerdoodles:
Exploring the playground with Seger:
Dancing on the trampoline:
Rolling on the trampoline:
Playing soccer:
Time lapse dancing:
Slo-mo dancing:
Slo-mo break dancing:
Video Skype message to Gramma and Grampa:
Explaining something (science lab, I think)
His stopwatch is still going, even after the iPad software was updated
Off to explore the play structure
When he called himself “stylish”
Trampoline
Possibly the best photo ever
