He was up a little before 6:30. He went down and cuddled with Carly. They got talking about anatomy and he remembered the anatomy apps on his iPad. When she left, deciding she could risk it as it wasn’t rainy right now, he sat at the table and played with one of his anatomy apps, explaining why it was the best one. He randomly asked, “What’s ‘legendary’ mean?’ So a word of the day. He then switched to Aardvark and the Ant.
We got going, waited a few extra minutes as we were taking the car. In the classroom he was excited to see new stuff out, but he fixated on a bowl of rubber bands that Andrea had up high and wasn’t putting out yet. It almost became a problem, but I think he was doing okay when I left.
I went to the library for a little while, then drove to Herzliya to Marka’s house, PTA president, for the sustainability committee meeting. That was a lot of listening, and I left there at 11:30 and got back to school just in time to get to school before it ended for the half day.
August was in a good mood, but had done a lot of the ripping today. He seems to be moving from one behavior to another. He showed me the three books he had gotten at the book swap and said “Thank you for giving me the money.”
As we left we saw the elementary school gardening club setting up a table to sell succulents. August chose a small one for 10 shekels and we got going. It was drizzling as we left, and as we were halfway to the car it suddenly started raining harder. I didn’t have an umbrella, and his raincoat was in my backpack. We started running, then I picked him up the last little bit. He handled it well, and didn’t even need to change his pants when we got home.
We ate sushi for lunch and listened to Erasure. I went upstairs and started laundry. He asked, “Does the internet go at light speed?” We talked about that, and he asked, “What’s instantaneous?” Another word of the day. Downstairs we played with the circuits set. He asked about the word ‘jiffy’ and said it was from Berenstain Bears: “see you in a jiffy, Lizzie.”
We went and read Two Homes, one of the books he had chosen (along with Good Books, Good Times! and Puss in Boots. Back at the circuits set I found our bottle of bubbles and he blew bubbles from the air blower. He spent some time taking macro photos, then ate a bunch of strawberries I sliced up, followed by a small bowl of oatmeal. I got a message from Candy’s mom saying that Candy had a praying mantis that she wanted to give to August as a birthday present. I asked August if he’d want to play with Candy and he said, “Dada, I would always want to play with a nice person.” They were running errands though, so not available to play right now. But they came and dropped off the mantis. Candy then ran back to give him a hug.
He wanted to paint the shelves for the Zinnie house. The weather was clearer, so we went for it. He started with helping hammer the larger nails, but got frustrated when he couldn’t do it well. We went in and he watched Aardvark and the Ant. I went out and finished the hammering, then he came out to paint.
We painted together for awhile, then he stopped when I was getting concerned he was going to get paint on his shirt. He didn’t want to change it, and played around the yard, looking for insects, etc., while I did more painting. He was talking to himself, then told me, “I was just calling my mama…not my mama walking home, my mama on my planet…I have two mamas and two dadas.” I think inspired by the book he got, but that was a mom and dad that lived apart.
I helped him look for insects for a bit, then it started raining. He went in as I tried to clean up the yard and turn up the edges of the plastic so that paint wouldn’t run on the grass. Carly got home at 4:40, having walked through the rain. She showed him the books she got at the book swap, and also an old broken iPad someone had given her. One of the books is Magic Pickle: “I make magic pickles in my laboratory. They give you big strong muscles that make you really strong…” She also got The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Horrible Harry and the Mud Gremlins, a Cam Jayson book, an A to Z Mystery book, and a Magic School Bus chapter book.
I told Carly about how he had parents on his planet, and he said his other mom’s name is “Quarkenzorkenmork….I call her Quark.” I went up to do some work. He hung a string up in the kitchen, but then was acting really tired. Carly took him up, and he was asleep at 6:15, still in his clothes.
He woke up at 7:30 or so and Carly got him back to sleep. Then again at 8:10. I got him back to sleep this time, and he slept through the night.
I went back up and worked on Sabeel stuff for a long time. Almost finished the revised calendar.
At one point August sneezed about 8 times. Didn’t wake up though.
Bubbles from the circuit set:
Toilet paper holder creation:
Painting the shelves:
