First he lay over the top of me and kept sleeping so I couldn’t get up. When I was sure he was back to sleep I got up and got dressed. As I was closing the door though I heard, “Dada.” I went in and lay back down with him for another five minutes until he decides to get up at 6:15.
He cuddled with Carly for a good amount, then sat at the table waiting for oatmeal. He then watched a Berenstain Bears and we got ready to go.
I dropped them off at school, then continued on to Jerusalem. August really liked Carly dropping him off and picking him up. He showed her the big rolls of paper that they have that he thinks she should get for her own classroom (but not home, as we already have a big roll of paper). But otherwise it sounds like he had a rough day: 5 green stickers and 4 red. When Carly got there to pick him up he was outside with Andrea and a few students, and trying to squish a caterpillar. He has decided they are poisonous, and he doesn’t, at least temporarily, like them anymore. Carly said a girl said they were poisonous, backing up August when he was telling Carly.
At home he let Aviva go across the street and he tried out the other blade in the food processor, slicing a carrot for fun. He had nutty noodles for dinner.
I got home at 5:15. He hid behind Carly on the couch. I had to take him upstairs for a timeout for saying mean things, then we talked about what he really meant. Back downstairs we discussed the incident papers from school and did a picture for Yaya. He then sang a “Sorry for hitting at the school” song. We read Hilo, and ‘parallel’ was a word of the day. We finished volume 1, then read half of volume 2. He was hungry, and went and scooped up his own oatmeal in a bowl. I helped him finish it. He ate, then in Skybrary we read Keep Your Distance twice. He said he loves it. We then read half of A Child’s Calendar by John Updike, but he kept going back to water freezing on a pond and asking if you could break the ice, etc. Eventually he was telling me about his huge polluting scuba suit that ran on gasoline and could move you around.
Carly him a bath and then in on the bed he put his pajamas on all funny and was dancing around declaring “I’m danger dandy and I like to show myself…Im Danger Dandy, I pee in people’s bladders…” He kept asking if he could go out in public dressed like this. He had me get a pair of pants to tie around his waist to cover his bottom as well.
Carly said goodnight and went to take a shower, and he ended up asking “How do they cut wood?” So we watched a video of how boards are cut. He told me he has all the wood and metal working tools in his lab. And electronics tools and chemistry tools and astronomy tools, etc. And he told me, Dada, after today, no one in this house will ever touch a caterpillar.”
His brain was really going, and he asked why, if the earth was curved, it seemed flat. Explained that for awhile, then he asked how he could tell that a sound was above him or below him. So we talked about hearing and the speed of processing sound. We talked about science at school, and he said he and Andrea were the only ones that really like science in PKA. Had the lights off and he was quiet at 9, and sleep within a couple songs.
Sheep:
Allen wrenches:
Picture of him and Yaya:
His polluting scuba suit:
Danger Danzey 1:
Danger Danzy 2:
Danger Danzey 3:
