He came down after 6:20 and fell back to sleep cuddling with Carly. She pulled out the bed and he slept on the couch. He was up after 7:40 when I came back down with his clothes. “Big. Boom. Big. Boom.” He then asked, “can super slow motion slow down the speed of light?” Lots of silence for several minutes, then “You _could_ go faster than the speed of light but you can’t.” He never got upset, but he was slow to get going, and I felt it was best to not push him. He said he got to watch something in the morning, and I let him watch one Pink Panther. We then got going. He went to the bathroom and did his mouthwash, telling me, “Watch me.” And he told me, “Dada, you shouldn’t call my head a brain anymore. You should call it a computer.”
We left at 8:15 and drove to school. As we walked into the school he said, “Everyone in the school is a blockhead.” Seemed in a good enough mood though. I carried him as we got down the stairs, and I asked what his goals were at school today. I suggested talking to Lydia, building things, and being nice to people. He thought for a second, then set goals for himself in a robot voice: “In my box, in marker that will never come off: be nice to people, do things that I don’t like.” I liked his idea of writing the goals down in his cubby. Don’t know where he got that.
I went home and did Sabeel work and worked on updating all our account balances and started looking into other non-profits. Excitement though when I realized logging into our Raymond James account for the school allowed us to see all the financial information of three other people at the school. I called and left messages with the head of the business office at the school and the Raymond James representative and also emailed them.
I walked back to school and picked up August. Andrea said he had an awesome day and seemed really happy. He was adding shells and pieces to a house/scene that Sophia had made. He then took it apart when I said he could, and made one on the floor. He was then distracted by Eve and Candy over in the house area, playing with some new medical toys. Candy was having a baby, apparently. The main toy was a breathing mask, with a tube attached. August listened to the other end of the tube. After they were done with it, as they were getting picked up, he wanted me to breathe into the mask so he could hear me. I didn’t have any desire to put my face on a mask that had been used by a number of preschoolers.
He didn’t want to leave, but when all the kids were picked up I forced him out. We made plans to play with Eve Thursday after school. We were on the bench for a couple minutes, but then went out on the playground and jus sat on the ground. He ate some snack (he’d eaten a decent amount of the teriyaki salmon/broccoli/mushrooms/rice) and we started reading Amulet from the beginning. We got to the part with the pink crawly creatures, then he stopped the book and started a game where he was one of the creatures, which he named an emmo, and I found it in the forest.
We played that for awhile. I didn’t learn much about his day, except that he supposedly didn’t have yoga because the teacher was sick again. He was upstairs at some point though, because he had lost a treasure he had wanted to give to me and he thought it might be up there. And he told me he did a lot of building, but didn’t tell me what he built. Carly walked home, and we took the car home a little after 4. We listened to “Common People” and August was intently listening to it.
At home we found Carly outside, and he got pita and hummus from her. Me driving August home had been me taking the emmo to my home, so I then built him a house using the chairs. When he wanted to eat he got upset bout not being able to eat his soup on the rug. Carly took him upstairs, and they came downstairs as wolves. I went up and did a little wok on the computer. They read at least part of Welcome to the Symphony.
When I came down they were now “coisonous” spiders. He made me sick by spraying poison at me after I tried to call an exterminator. Carly made him chocolate milk. He wanted to watch something, and we watched a couple videos about the size of things in the universe. Then a couple of videos about black holes: “If I wanted to go in a black hole, I could DEFINITELY escape it.” He then acted out escaping from a black hole.
He went to the bathroom, then Carly was ready to give him a bath. I let him watch 6 minutes of a Berenstain Bears video, the episode on competition, and we watched together.
Carly gave him a bath and watched a few more minutes, to the end of the story, with him. She then read a few pages of the first Harry Potter book to him. He gave it a thumbs up at the end. They came down and he had oatmeal and mango, then I took him upstairs. We did a storytelling dice story, “Valian’s Quest for the Beetle.” He sang “I’m getting the treasure for my boss” song as he went to the bathroom. It related to the story I was telling. We went back in and finished the story, then he asked me to sing. I sang two songs (“Driftin’” and “Rock Me Mama”) and he was asleep at 8:40. Not quite as early as I would have liked, but better.
Medical stuff in preschool:
Couch silliness:
Bedtime dancing:
