Carly woke him up. He finished watching the Wallace and Gromit movie. As we got ready to go he was playing with the walking stick from Korea and asked, “Did you lie to me? Is this really a gun?” I said it wasn’t, of course, but that led to a line of questioning about whether you can take guns on airplanes. He knows, from experience, that we always have to dump out liquids on planes. We got going right at 7:30. As we left, he looked at the little library and said, “Dada, you red to put this outside. No one’s gonna ask for a book if it’s in the yard…set a reminder.” I told him we need to discuss it with mama. He told me to set a reminder.
Nice and early to school and I was able to say good bye and leave. When I came back I was a bit early and watched them playing on the playground. Lydia spotted me, and August came running over. He then told me to watch from the grass while he kept playing. He and other kids were having fun chasing Nancy, the substitute teacher, around. And at one point Vicky had him come over to me and tell me how he had done a good job of calming down fast today. He had three red stickers though.
We left when they took the class in for meeting. I then realized we needed a note for guards in order to leave. We went back down and sat on the bench for a few minutes, then went inside. August went right to the cupboard where he knew the sheets were. I filled one out, and Andrea signed it for us.
We came home, and I heated the rest of the tempura veggies and he ate them with sweet and sour sauce. And we made a mango and strawberry smoothie. He then climbed on my lap and cuddled at the table while we listened to Stehen Malkmus. He seemed to be a bit cold and covered himself with my sweatshirt.
We went and read Treasure Island and finished it. We discussed the word ‘sincere’ and that was a word of the day.
It was library time today, so we drove back to school. When we got to the school they were still over at the playground. Lydia spotted him and came running, yelling “August! Come, come!” and pulling him by the hand. A great greeting. They brought the class in. I tried to put his hair clip in, but Lydia saw me doing it and asked why a boy had a hair clip, and August took it out, saying he didn’t want to wear it.
He sat with them for the brief meeting before going to library time. Andrea gave them a wink when they were looking at her, and when August got his wink he told me, “I got the wink!”
We went up to library time. Back to the usual routine. She read Green Eggs and Ham. One boy punched another in the stomach and I had to take them to the teachers. Then I had to escort a couple of students to the bathroom. He checked out a Captain America Golden Book. As we were getting going I told Andrea how he was on the superhero bandwagon now, and that it wasn’t my favorite bandwagon.
When school was over we went back in the library and played with the Legos. He wanted to look for the steering wheels. Think we found six. As we looked we made an abstract sculpture. We went to the bathroom once, and when we came back the WBAIS robotics team was about to start a round of their competition, which was streaming on a TV in the library. So we watched that. August didn’t like it: “I hate it becuase everyone was acting like they were a part of the game.” Basically he didn’t like the cheering and excitement. We went back to the Legos. He saw Amelie and Jill playing the shooting game on the computer. He talked to them, and they were calling each other “nubby” etc. He then watched them playing for awhile. Interesting to see Amelie in particular interacting with her friends, as she’s quite different than when she is calmly playing on the computer around her mom in the preschool.
We watched another round of the robotics competition. August watched as well. They won both, and later would end up winning the competition, their first win.
Thunder was starting, and then rain. We went to Carly, and it was raining a bit as we left. Packages had arrived from my parents and Cherie. After putting on our raincoats we headed to the car and were home after 4.
We had hummus and pit and crackers and Carly made sushi. August told her, “Mama, you make better sushi than the shrimp place does.” He meant Sushi Ishimoto. We ate, and he was then asking about lightning, and it hitting the house. I used the word ‘disperse’ and we discussed its meaning, so a word of the day.
We started reading King of the Sky but didn’t make it far, as we got talking about Korea, although I don’t remember why. But Carly asked him if he remembered Teuni Teuni and the teacher. He said he remembered them and specifically said he remembered climbing on things. We were then looking at photos and videos.
He then picked up the apple he had made into a sculpture at home yesterday, took out the toothpicks, and started chomping into it. He’s never done that before. He was really excited about it, and went up to show Carly what he was doing. He said it was better than slicing up the apple.
Back downstairs we made popcorn and watched two of the Hilda episodes we’ve already seen. He didn’t want to watch the last episode yet. Carly came down and we did a little role playing, with her being Andrea, saying she couldn’t look for bugs with him right now, and him responding appropriately.
He then suddenly started looking under the couch and came up with a puzzle piece. He said that Ms. Deborah had asked him to look for it. He was very happy about finding it, and we took a photo and sent it to her. Carly took him upstairs to wrestle. I did dishes. She gave him a bath and he played in the sink. Deborah wrote back, and he was happy about that.
He was randomly saying “Pieces of eight, pieces of eight” like the parrot in Treasure Island. Still early for sleeping, so he said, “Let’s do a visualization with the light on. But don’t expect me to calm down or go to sleep cuz this is just for funsies.” So we did a worm visualization, which was tricky because of the lack of visualizing. We had to imagine feelings and sounds. We then did some wrestling and the food game. He needed Cheerios, so we got some, and he said he wanted to go to the library in town again. I looked up the hours, and remember why we don’t. The only couple of days they are open in the afternoon they don’t open until 4.
Carly came in and we got him ready for bed. He brushed his teeth and I left them at 8:35.
On the playground with the preschool:
Watching the robotics competition:
Watching the girls play on the computers:
Walking through the rain:
Eating the apple:
An unfortunate song:
