So a rocket landed about 3 miles southeast of us sometime around 5am. August and I slept right through it, but Carly woke up because of the alarms, or the sirens after the attack. She wasn’t quite sure.
Carly brought August down at 6:45. He watched Max and Ruby. The robot ad came on, and he told her, “I love it. It’s a robot ad.” We did our usual breakfast and also had banana bread with butter. We got walking, and saw some butterflies. One briefly landed on him, and he said, “What do you think I an? A flower?” It was sunny when we left, but then a cloud came over. There were dark clouds around, so we went back for our rain stuff but didn’t need it. As we got close to school he talked about not getting red dots today.
I rode my bike home, then rode back at 12. He had had fun building, but otherwise had a really rough day. He had a long meltdown after being denied rubber bands he had climbed up to get. Marion was keeping him from hurting her/other people, and he couldn’t stand her touching him. When I showed up he was with Vicky, wearing his noise blocking headphones, and had put flowers in a jar with water and was stirring it to make them swirl around. He showed me that.
We walked home, and he noticed that the butterfly migration wasn’t really happening now. At home we did composting. One of the things in the bowl was a grapefruit. We didn’t cut it up, and I saved it and we washed it off and then juiced it. It was a little overripe, but good for juice. He drank a good amount of it. We then made banana bread dough, and put it in the fridge to bake later.
Before we left, he found a ribbon from a present and decided to wear it as a necklace to STEM class.
We drove to school as it was raining a bit. There was an all-staff meeting to address the rocket attack and safety, so Vicky did STEM class instead of Andrea. They read Whay Do You Do with an Idea? then made things out of playdough and parts. He made a big satellite, then worked with Candy to build something.
After class, we were about to go find out what Carly was doing, when she came along on part of a tour of all of the safe rooms in the school. She walked upstairs with us, then she headed back to her classroom. We took his robot costume to the car, then walked over to Heather’s room to see about picking up the printer to take apart. She wasn’t there. We looked at the art out in the halls, and August chose his favorite pottery piece: a pink house.
We went and returned Fing to the library. Along the way he told me all about one of his inventions, which was like a water wheel but very different and you could charge anything with it. Carly met us, and we headed home.
On the way out, Mikaela spotted us and gave us a set of keys to her apartment. We drove home, and she let us go check out her apartment to figure out which keys does what, and decide what we would do if the rocket sirens went off again. It was interesting to finally see the apartment. It is small, just going under our kitchen and part of the living room.
On the way down the stairs, I talked about how our couch was on the other side. It suddenly made sense to August: “That’s why you don’t want me to kick the wall!”
While they were downstairs I went upstairs and ran around and jumped and made all sorts of noise in the house. The conclusion was that Shai was, in fact, crazy. Carly did mention being able to hear the chairs sliding and August’s stool clanging on the floor. So when they came up August helped me put pads on the stool and three of the chairs.
We had forgotten both his morning bar and his pre-STEM bar today, so when he asked for the STEM bar I let him have that. He then went upstairs to wrestle with Carly.
Downstairs, he did 14 minutes of playing alone time. He came to the kitchen once, wanting to cut up a tomato with the yellow scissors. When Carly objected he said, “It’s Scissor Sunny…one of my characters.” Carly did a quick talk with him and he explained, “It was going to be for my story: they were going to have tomato and pasta.”
He chose a piece of noodle for one of the characters instead of the scissors and went back to playing. He was making food (his coins, some tomato, bits of spaghetti) for the characters, the main one being his robot toy from Simone.
After his time was done he kept playing for a few minutes. He then took out compost with Carly. I had baked the banana bread and it was done, then found a spill on one of the cupboard shelves. I called it an “unfortunate spill” and later August would ask if I’d cleaned up the “unfortunate spill.” By taking things out we figured out it was one of those juice pouches from the pizza place, leaking very slowly.
He ate noodles and veggies for dinner and I let him have the juice pouch, but he said it didn’t taste right. He had banana bread with butter instead. He told me, “This is way better than your cornbread.”
Over on the couch he asked, “What’s a janitor?” I explained and he exclaimed, “Like Ms. Sveta!”
He was then playing by himself with the spaghetti and the circuits set with the gears on it. He was taping pieces together to spin when the motor was on. He kept doing more and eventually needed my help.
He asked me how I was doing putting together the kit car he gave me (the one with wings) and we discussed that. Then, “Here’s another kit: real inflatable underwear.”
Carly came down and wanted to try out a hook for one of her classes on us. We sat on the couch and she started. It involved explaining rules. August asked, “What’s stricter mean?” So another word of the day. August kept repeating what Carly said, and then agreeing with it: “Kids learn better if they’re not hungry. Yeah.” Carly took him up and let him play and gave him a bath. I read Nick and Tesla for 10 minutes, then she came in and I left them at 8:40.
STEM creation with Candy:
His teenage girl voice:
Playing by himself:
Working on his circuits invention:
School time with carly:
Working on his letter writing:
