He slept late and I finally carried him down at 7:35. He then needed two Pink Panthers before he was ready to go. Just fine after that, but I told him we’d move the lights out time up to 8:20 starting tonight. As we were leaving the house he said, “I want to play a game called Catch the Bottlecap.” He would drop bottle cups down the slide and I would catch them at the bottom.
I talked to him about who he might play with. He had told me on Friday that he had helped Reia build a home for the spider the class had caught. And when Cherie asked him who his friend was at school he said Reia. But now he told me he might start playing with her and the other kids in kindergarten. We got to his class a little before 8:30. They seemed like they had just started the meeting when we got there, and August picked up the container of blackberry bread and took it over to show everyone.
I walked home and spent some time fixing a shelf in the bathroom, hanging up a couple smoke detectors, and cleaning the microwave and oven.
When I got back to school and picked him up he told me he had eaten most of his lunch. He’d eaten all the pizza and the bar, and eaten the blackberry bread for snack. We spent a few minutes on the bench, eating a little more, and he told me he made a picture of a butterfly. He tried to find it, but Andrea didn’t know were they were and Marion was still dropping off the bus kids.
So we headed to the cafeteria, where August chose a banana sstrawberry one. We sat at our usual 4th grade table. We read a little Geronimo Stilton, then got out the storytelling dice. I told him a total of three stories/chapters. In one of them the symbol was a harp, so I had a bard. ‘Bard’ became the word of the day. I mentioned that our stories were more like chapters in book and he liked the idea of it being a book. He asked, “Will it go to the world?” “Could we write a book of our stories and put it in the library?”
We then went to the library and I showed him the Hilda books and we started reading Hilda and the Midnight Giant. He was really into it, Nd when Carly showed up he wasn’t happy and told her to leave.
We headed home and he started singing the “Telephone” song. He said he hasn’t heard it recently, but remembers it from PKB. He didn’t remember much, however, as he kept singing the “I called you on the telephone, just to see if you were home” lines over and over and over and over. Eventually he was changing keys and telling us which key he was singing in, making up names for new keys.
He found a small orange plastic tube as a treasure and was looking through it. He talked about how it turned everything green. When we got home at 5:30 I looked through it and he was correct. At first I thought there was plastic in it, but there wasn’t. He had discovered an actual optical illusion.
He watched Pink Panther and I made a big pasta dish with sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms, and olives in a cream sauce. We had dinner, but sadly he didn’t eat much as he didn’t liked the tomatoes. Even when Carly picked them out he didn’t eat much.
He played on his iPad for awhile, then when he was hungry Carly thawed some mango for him and he ate that. I gave him a bath, and did a chant that he said Marion had taught them: “Ickle Biffle bumblebee, who can say this name for me? Everybody shout Eve!”
After his bath we finished reading Geronimo Stilton and the Emerald Eye. Carly read him Madeline. They were then playing a school game where he was a goat. I got him a few Cheerios and when he was done I brushed his teeth.
I left them with lights out at 8:20 and he fell asleep pretty quickly today.
I called you on the telephone, part 1:
I called you on the telephone, part 2:
The music machine:
Ickley bickly bumble bee, part 1:
Ickley bickly bumble bee, part 2:
Popsicle
The signs he likes
His green optical illusion
The filter Shmuel gave us for our sprinkler system
His music machine