He came down at 7:35, a little after me. He cuddled nicely with Carly for several minutes, then started getting hyper. I tried asking him if his feet were cold during the night, but he wouldn’t answer me. He made one Berenstain Bears episode, then made a spicy soup. He did it in a pan, and we heated it on the stove. He had a couple small pieces of bread that he soaked in it.
Carly took recycling down to the bins, then when she came back she asked August if we could throw away his treasures outside. He said that was fine and we threw away all the stuff out by the front porch. He saved a round metal piece at first, but then came back and said we could throw it away “I made a copy of it in my lab.”
He made a second greensand experiment and was outside when I went upstairs and took a shower.
When I came down he was watching Max and Ruby. They had also gotten a piece of styrofoam from the junk pile across the street. It looked like a wall, and they painted it. She made him oatmeal, then we got the news that Eve wasn’t coming as she was having a bad day. He curled up on the floor, then moved to my lap. He was really disappointed. After a few minutes we transitioned into the tiger game. He then wanted to do another imagining game: “One that starts normal and ends with chaos.”
Carly had an appointment in Herzliya, and August initially wanted to go as well. I said we could go to a park after dropping her off. He insisted he go into her appointment and couldn’t compromise on that, so Carly went and he and I stayed at home.
He wanted to type to satellites in Pages on my iPad, so he did that, then wanted a bandaid to put on the iPad. He put it where the crack was. He then wanted more, and used a total of 4 to make pads where the iPad touches the keyboard when it closes. He called them “Pinchpads”, which seemed to be a term he got from school, but I’m not sure what from. We listened to the newest Prodigy album and heated up the leftover Swedish pancakes and he helped put on the cinnamon and sugar. He snuck up on the kitchen counter to turn on the cat ornament. As he was wanting sugar he asked me, “When you were a kid with Gramma and grampa did you want to taste all the ingredients and have lots of meltdowns?”
He ate the pancakes and asked me, “What did you learn when you were 4?” I told him I remembered learning that a baby goat is called a ‘kid’ in preschool and I learned how to do macaroni art. He wanted me to show him how to do macaroni art and we’d get to it later. He wanted to watch something, and asked why I had Netflix on my iPad. I said I watched shows too, but he told me I wasn’t supposed to watch as much as him: “Don’t watch so much cuz that’s for kids. You’ll get in trouble. You can watch less…” He watched the seahorse episode of Wild Kratts.
He went to the bathroom, and said he had made a sucking machine like on the show he’d just watched. He uses it to study rocks and clams. He then asked for frozen mango and pineapple and made toothpick lollipops. We read Shivers 3 and ‘bellow’ was the word of the day. We did the macaroni art, making a face, but he wanted me to do 95% of the work.
Carly got home at 2:30 and I headed upstairs to do some work. He made a structure for her to lie in on the couch. He was hyper, and I heard him telling Carly “Stop it!” a lot as they were playing round. And I heard him say he’d cleaned the glass table.
They then went to the store and school. I think to school first. She has a new door now with a nice big window. And the room had been cleaned and didn’t smell like cats. August wrote letters on the whiteboard, and I think he did a lot of his work, satellite and other, as they were there for a long time. They then went to the store. August figure out on his own and said to her, roughly, “I figured out the trick to getting stuff at the store: kids can only ask for healthy stuff.”
They were back at 6. He was then sitting on the couch and asked, “Can I have water please mama please dada?” I started to look for it and then realized he was giggling. He had it hidden behind his back. He told me he wanted an orange food that he had seen both on an add and at the store. it turned out he was talking about a chicken pattie. As I prepared one for him he said, “Ads work, right?” At least he is aware of it.
He has also been wanting corn, and Carly got fresh corn cooked that. He wanted it on the cob, but quickly changed his mind and wanted it cut off again once he tried the cob. We ate dinner, then read Shivers. He was turning pages and said, “This is the pirate page you’ve been looking for.” That’s a play on the subtitle of the book: “This is the Pirate Book You’ve Been Looking For.”
He requested water drink and I made that and tea for myself and we read. He went to the bathroom, then when he came out he wanted Carly and me to line up and he asked “Who likes pepperoni pizza?” When we raised our hands he then ran by and tagged us. This is a scene straight out of the book.
I tried to get him up to his bath. But then Carly realized the extra set of keys for the front door was missing. I had taken then out of the door around the time we were throwing away his treasures and they may have ended up getting thrown away. Eventually I gave him his bath. He said good night to Carly, and we were in bed at 9.
He was hyper though. He said “I need to get a new butt.” I talked about the weekend, and he said, “You can’t really call it the weekend because every day feels like the weekend right now.” And, “It’s the weekend weekend, I would say.” Then he said, “I just said ‘I would say.’” Some self-awareness there.
He then was imagining: “I’m growing my two hands into dorsal fins. That will take all night. So when you wake up don’t be afraid.” that went on for awhile. It was then wings, and his feet were turning into wings as well so he had four wings. Finally, a story. He gave me his version of Jack and the Beanstalk. He said there was no trading for the beans, the boy just found them. And his mom hit him for doing dangerous things. It ended with the boy climbing up and never being seen again. With lights off and singing it seemed like he was going to sleep, but it took awhile. At one point he sat up and asked, “Dada, can you get me a net so I can catch fishes?” He finally fell asleep around 9:45.
Styrofoam sound wall thing:
His timeline of when we lost the keys:
Throwing away the treasures
Pulling up the dying tree
In the classroom
