He was up before 6:30. Way too early. I came down at 7 and he was watching Pink Panther. The internet stopped working, and he took screenshots in Sky Guide for awhile before reluctantly watching Sarah and Duck. They mentioned pictures in the Sarah and Duck, and August wanted to take photos so asked for my phone. He tried taking a slo-mo video of me drinking coffee.
Carly made french toast and we each ate a slice. He used his iPad to measure things and asked that I switch it to metric. He then said, “I know a word of the day: perimeter.” He had heard it, but said he didn’t know what it meant. So discussed that a bit. He got my iPad and was then making music in Tabletop using a sequencer.
Carly headed to Tira to meet with two teachers there about their Get to Know You days planning (each of the three schools will be hosting days this year).
He wanted the Tabletop music app on his iPad, so I installed that and a couple of other music apps. He really liked an app called Medly and spent quite awhile making a song. He said, “I’m in charge of MY music.” He was happy about his song until he heard the samples. “I’m so dumb with this app.” But then I encouraged him and he added another track and asked, “Since I added a new instrument, can I work on my song more?” He kept working on it, and was excited about his song again.
We then played the preschool game, then he was doing rolls on the couch and did one right off the couch, landing sitting on the floor. He was startled, but said it didn’t hurt. We moved up to the bed and continued the preschool game with the students visiting on his planet. He was showing them ‘tricks’ on the bed and started by saying “Kids, lesson one.” We thought the kids should have names, and we named a few: Leo, Stacey, Dan, Zoe, Rudy. He morphed into a bird and had me make a nest of pillows for him on the bed. He was actually getting tired and seemed to rest a bit. He was telling me things about birds, and made up how high they could fly. I asked if he wanted to know the real answer and he said no. I looked it up anyway: 37000 feet. He found the old phone (the one that is sort of his) plugged in and recorded himself doing some singing.
Then, over in the office he saw the 5 Little Monkeys popsicle sticks from Hebrew class last year. He agreed we didn’t need them, but thought the sticks would be good for something so was taking the tape off them. We then played another preschool game with him coming through the ceiling.
Carly got home at 10:25. He had chocolate milk and and played with Sky Guide. Carly was looking up stuff about Hubble. He observed “I don’t think that videos that teach you stuff isn’t as good as apps that teach you stuff.”
We then got going. We were going to the pool first, then to Ikea to do chair shopping. At school we first sat at the couches to have a snack. He took some photos and videos. And he wanted me to take portrait photos of him. We got in the pool about 12:30 and played for an hour. I took his floaties off and for awhile he was just holding onto my hands, and starting to kick to tread water. Progress is happening.
We left the pool area at 1:35. In the car he sung the tune of a song he said he learned at school, “Run along, Jimmy John Jonesie…” He then sang along to the song that was on the radio.
We headed Ikea and looked at chairs. Hard to decide, but we all agreed on a green chair. Unfortunately, the big box was just a little too big to fit in the car without folding down both of the seats. So I’ll have to return sometime without August. Carly got a few plants though. We stopped and got a food: a falafel sandwich for me, a hotdog for them to share, and two ice creams. At some point in the store August was telling me things and said, “You know I have a computer? I suck up all the knowings…then I shoot them out.”.
We headed home at 3:15. In the car he listened to his own song in Medly. He said, “Wow, that is so amazing.” At home he was acting tired again. I got him peanut butter crackers and we sat on the couch and read Hilo 4, finishing it. He was then acting out a robot invasion, etc. We went upstairs to play on the bed and we told a couple August and Teegan stories together: The Cloud Planet and The Pizza Door. We headed downstairs at 5:50. Carly suggested that watering the plants should be his chore. He said, “Cleaning the toilets is my chore.” He also agreed to water plants.
So he went and washed the toilet. Then had soup for dinner. I took him up for his bath and he was singing away, basing his song on “I don’t want to live on the moon.” We used the hair dryer on him, and he told me “Do you know that to those beams of fire that the sun makes (solar flares) the Earth would be tiny? Microscopic!”
Carly put him to sleep and I went for a run. He was asleep by 8:30.
Working on his song:
Working on his song 2:
Tune he learned at school:
Singing along to the song:
Down the stairs at Ikea:
Bird in a nest
Photo he took of me
Portrait of him
Finding treasures in the parking lot
Photo he took of Carly trying out a chair
Helping buy the plants
Plants and hot dog
