Right at 6 he got up and hopped in bed with me without saying a word. He cuddled up with his bottom in the air for a couple minutes, then sat up but clearly wanted to lie down again. I pulled a pillow over for him, and he lay down and cuddled against me and I pulled the covers over his legs.
At 6:56 I heard the door and he came down. Lay on the couch for a few minutes, then asked to watch something. We found the actual Berenstain Bears YouTube channel and he chose an episode (where Hillary moves to town). Yesterday he talked about how he was going to just watch Berenstain Bears until he runs out of episodes and forgets about it. Should last him quite awhile.
We got ready to go, and he told me, “I figured out how to open my bar. You just twist it and pull.” He’s talking about the little cereal bars that I put in his lunch. He’s been struggling to get them open on his own for weeks.
I headed home, on my bike, and did Sabeel work and work on resume and a few other things. I rode back and checked in before dance class. I’d forgotten an extra snack for before dance, so I told him I could go to the cafeteria. I went and got a little croissant sort of thing. I thought it had a filling in it, but it didn’t. August was happy with it though. He had found a caterpillar at school and put it in a bug jar and showed it to me before I went. He and Candy were looking at it when I went. I got back and August had plenty of time to eat, as Amelia was a bit late in getting class started. August went up on his own once, and I heard him call down, “Simona! Class is starting!”
He came out at 3:55. He said Amelia was going to read one more book, but she knew I was down here and let him go. We went over to the playground. The kids had tied the ribbon and stick things to the car, and there were plenty more to add. He said it was Ms. Marion’s idea to bring the ribbons outside. They had been in the everything room (the upstairs room). It was Eve’s idea, yesterday, to tie them on, and August asked Marion if they could.
We did that, and August had to use the bathroom and went to use the PKB bathroom. I asked if being in PKB brought back memories, and he said he still had all the memories. Back out on the playground we played the silkworm game. He had a class of students collecting silkworms now, and feeding them mulberry leaves (we looked up what they ate). We then had them go on a field trip to see how silk is made. August said the class was taking along the silkworms in a cage, and I had to tell him how silk is actually made, as the worms die in the process. We watched a YouTube video about it.
We played a bit longer. Getting dark by the time Carly got there. He knew she was coming, but he didn’t respond very well, blowing raspberries. It stops his playing time. But on the walk out he saw Andrea in the room and slipped in with her. She was cutting out x-rays from a kit that was already in the storeroom. August got to be the first one to see them. I talked about printing out x-rays of my broken arm and August’s extra tooth.
We started heading to the stairs, me carrying him. Quite dark, and August asked me to set him down. He had to run back to touch the door, which somehow made his hand into a flashlight. Well, he told me it lit up like a flashlight, but was still useful like a hand. It didn’t actually turn into a flashlight. It was 5.
He was pretty silly on the bike. He talked about seeing his planet in the sky. He said it was purple with spots or something on it, and you could see it with binoculars, even though it is in a different universe. He was also naming the other things he saw in the sky.
At home he had soup and I made us pizza to use more of the corn and mushrooms, and to gauge his interest in pizza for lunch tomorrow. He watched Berenstain Bears, ending with the Double Dare story. He played a little school game with Carly on the couch, then ate some of her pita. He lay on her, on his back, lounging there as he slowly picked apart the pita and ate it. He then had Carly pretend to think he was eating playdough. That was from Taya and Cassie yesterday. Another parent had given them rolls. Taya already had white playdough. When she was squishing up the bread, Cassie thought she was eating playdough.
We read more of The 91-Story Treehouse. ‘Cryptic’ was the word of the day. Carly gave him a bath. Later, she told me that she told August we’d buy him girl underwear. He said he wants to donate the truck ones. He really doesn’t like trucks. Carly took a shower. He took the book and rubber bands from yesterday and added to it. He rubber banded a shoe and sock to it, then kept adding more and more rubber bands, and a marker. It was a musical instrument that he kept having me try. I was his assistant. “You can also tune it, like this.”
We went upstairs at 8. I brushed his teeth, then we did a storytelling dice story. He requested a quest. It was “The Planet Tarex Famine”, with someone having to travel to another galaxy to find plants that would grow back on Tarex. He told me which dice would be the “obstacles”. He then he requested an August and Teegan story as he fell asleep. I thought he was asleep at 8:45 as I finished the story. But a few minutes earlier he had asked me to turn on the air condition. Now, he sat up and asked, “Did you turn on the air conditioner?” I turned on the heater, then he lay in bed, eyes open. He looked up at his “Favorite piece of art” but then complained, “I’ll never make gooder stuff than that.” And told me, “You never teach me anything.”
I got him to lie back down and sang “Rock Me Momma” and part of “Common People”. He was asleep right at 9.
A new mode:
Today’s music on the way to school:
Twister mode song:
Getting sillier:
Eating pita on mama:
His musical invention:
Plenty of craziness and his square cylinders speaker experiment:
With his caterpillar
Waiting for dance class to start
Tying on ribbons
Silkworm eating mulberry leaves
Silkworm at school
Eating pita on Carly
With his invention