After I went to bed he had sat up and lain down on the covers, feet towards the pillows. At some point, he got back up and crawled under the covers, putting his head on a pillow and pulling the covers up to his chin. I don’t think he’s ever done that before.
Carly got him up starting at 6:30. He spit out one of his vitamins this morning, saying it didn’t taste good. Carly headed to work and he watched Pink Panther while he ate oatmeal with mango and zucchini cornbread.
On our walk to school he asked, “Why an I seeing more minivans?” I reminded him of patterns, and how when you learn about something new you then recognize it more easily. He replied, “Oh, like crane flies.” We also saw Bryan’s wife and kids, and had fun seeing all the Purim costumes of kids going to the Israeli school: a sumo wrestler, hotdog, and all sorts of others. Not sure how to feel about a couple boys dressed as Arabs.
At school we walked in to the classroom to find that Eve had the gecko. She had also made a picture for the rules, which mainly involved not opening the cage, as it would escape.
I walked home and worked, finishing the PTA website, then drove to school. August had had an okay day, but not treat worthy. We hurried to the car and drove home. There, he got his tape measure and compared it to our other one. His goes to 10ft, so just barely longer than the 3m of the other one. We measured the swing and grabbed IKEA bags and headed to IKEA.
When we got there he asked, “Why do you think Ikea is a big block?” We talked bout building shapes. Later, as we left, he compared the size to the new mall just to the north, and to the Pepsi bottling plant. Back at school he would talk to Marion, I think it was, about the size of IKEA versus the Pepsi plant.
We went inside and planned a quick shopping trip to get back in time for library time. When we went upstairs though he spotted the cafe area up there. We decided to get lunch. It was a short line, three people in front of us, but there was only one woman working there and it was slow. We got a salmon and cream cheese sandwich, a peach iced tea, and a cinnamon roll. I let him taste the cinnamon roll, then saved the rest as a reward for when we had to wait in the checkout line. There was lots of discussion of seat belt laws and then the metal pipes of the ventilation system.
We then did a quick shopping trip. He chose (thankfully cheap) pillows and blankets. We got matching ones for home and school. And we got a round pink rug for under the table at school. We had just enough time to also find cushions for the swing in the yard. We had also gotten another tape dispenser and a couple pairs of small scissors. At checkout he ate the cinnamon roll as we waited to check out.
We then hurried back to school. We walked down to his classroom as they were lining up to go to library time. We headed to the library. I could tell that they had talked about library rules, as the kids were much better behaved today. I confirmed this with Andrea later. Ilana read Harry the Dirty Dog for library time, then August checked out Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat Are You Going to School? At the end of library time Eve was a bit confused and upset that August was taking the gecko and not them. We walked back to the classroom and set up the calm area under the table under the stairs. Very cozy.
After school we went out on the playground for a few minutes, then went up to Heather’s art room. She had said he could get parts for his robot costume. She was gone, but David and the girls were there. They helped August find a few parts in the big box. He then hung out with Eve a little and she gave him some art that she’d made.
We drove the car home. I put the cushions on the swing, and August opened and started the tape dispenser. We had some meat and crackers, and set up the calm space at home. We were then adding to the costume, using the hot glue, when a big glob dripped on my left pointer finger. I used fingers on my right hand to get it off, burning them as well.
We read Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat Are You Going to School? and worked on the Lego-like kit, making the spaceship, until Carly got home. He watched something and they read Captain Underpants. I went upstairs and rested for awhile. He ate pasta and we finished the spaceship. Earlier, he’d been in denial about being involved in burning my fingers. He had told me I was joking about it. Now, he conceded, “Well, if I did get hot glue on you it was an accidental…” Carly took him up for a bath and they read Two Homes
I put him to bed. We read 104-Story Treehouse and did a lizard visualization. He had his usual “I have a question for you…” and asked something bout the size of buildings or something. He took rather awhile to fall asleep, at 9:15.
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