He came out at 6:55. I picked him up and took him downstairs. He lay on me for a few minutes with his head on my chest and send to be chanting or singing something under his breath. He watched Berenstain Bears. We finished reading Shivers, and as we got ready to go he had me be Mustardio making a trap the size of the Statue of Liberty. I taught him ‘replica’ as a word of the day. As we got going he was singing a song, loudly, as he played with his stick outside. There were more words, telling a story, but I caught “Then he took a giant (something) and felled in a volcano. So hot! So hot! Mustardio…hot dog factory!!” None of which happens in the book (except for the hot dog factory).
He wanted to drill the mushrooms again but we got going. A quick walk to school, and he was right in to class, after going in first to see what they were doing. He wanted to take a container of the sourdough, so we did and I pointed it out to Marion. She said he had shared the bread with her and Andrea yesterday. He had said something about “My dad said this is for you!”
I know they played with the bee bot robots for coding time, but not much else about the day. when I came back, riding the bike, after 2, he was completing an abstract shape of tape on the table, colored with marker. He said, “Dada, why are you here? It’s not library day!” But it was. He said he didn’t like Lydia’s shape, similar to his. I told him it wasn’t nice to say that. Lydia took it in stride though, saying hers was something about a princess, and he was a boy so didn’t like it. He didn’t actually like it because here tape was messy in one section, coming off the table, but that worked.
We went to library time, and Ilana read Click, Clack, Moo! Cows that Type, and a second book by the same author about the animals singing in a talent show. He then checked out a book called The Night Before Preschool.
We headed back to the preschool and got Taya. Actually, he ran ahead and was picking her up by himself by the time I got his stuff. They went on swings, then we went and had a snack. They shared the banana and Cheerios from his snack. They played with the teeter totter and big swing. He told me a story about school, about how Hector and Reia had had a disagreement. August overheard the teacher talking to Hector: “Told Hector that disagreeing is okay. I listened and that’s how I learned that.” Which is a good lesson. But when he told the story on the way home to Carly he explained that it was about something that actually had a correct answer.
Anyway, they played in the kitchen area. August poured the rest of his Cheerios in the recipe: “I love wasting food…it’s my favorite thing!” Cassie arrived and they ended up inside. Taya and August started to make a mess of some letter squares, so we headed them back outside. We played at the empty water table with the tubes and the balls that fall through them. Cassie came out and we had more snack. She gave August a Clif Jr. bar, then a hard candy, which he crunched pretty quickly.
They headed home, then Carly showed up a few minutes later and we walked home. August was at maximum craziness. He was loudly singing “I want to sing and dance…” When dogs barked through fences he yelled, “I hate you dog! I’m not your friend anymore!” And as we got close to home Carly was telling me something about work, and he was repeating everything she said, using echo mode.
We were home about 5. We played out the tiger cub and tiger preserve story, then had pasta for dinner. He watched Berenstain Bears, then got upset, probably about not getting more time, and we went up and did a timeout. We went down and played with Cubetto. It worked for a couple minutes, then stopped. We figured out the robot needed batteries. He then played with Cubetto and did the classroom game with Carly
She went to take a shower and I made him peanut butter and honey toast. He remembered the word ‘revolutionary’, I think from the headphones commercial, and that was the word of the day. We read Shivers, volume 2, and there was a joke about Franks/francs, and we made those words of the days as well.
He was upset about not reading more and Carly took him for a timeout. She then gave him a bath. I then did the full tiger story with him. He added the details of me picking dandelions at the beginning and the tiger cub missing a tooth. Then, it is the daddy tiger that saves the cub and takes it to the mama, as opposed to just the mama tiger.
We had a funny discussion at the beginning of how both he and Mama we’re telling me important things at the same time, and he needed to tell me the scenario again. He said when two people are telling me important things that I need to listen to him because “I never get any attention.” Ha!
After that he tried on his tie dye shirt: “Wow. Tie dye shirts is really cool. Oh, tie dye shirts is like regular shirts. Wow, kind of kitchen-y like. Kind of like an apron.”
He said good night to Carly. He went downstairs to do it, and she had the lights off except for the Christmas lights. That made him want to watch a movie. Back in bed he had a scenario where he was one of 14 by dragons. I stumble across their cave and get eaten by them and the mama. Then, as he was going to sleep, he asked if dragons are real. He told me that they are on his planet. A lot of tossing and turning before he was asleep at 9:10.
Crazy boy with a stick:
Teeter tottering:
Trying to be funny:
Yelling the brown platypuses song:
Cubetto with mama:
