August was up at 5:53 when my alarm went off. He went downstairs and yelled “Mama!” and ran to her. He watched Wild Kratts for awhile, then we did some reading and playing. We were walking at 7:33. He did some new humming on the way to school, and did it the whole way. He showed Andrea the iPad screen and camera. As I left, I talked to Marion outside, just thanking her at first. She started talking to me about their whole profile of a learner thing that they’re working through, and how she had a big talk with August about ‘boundaries’. Which, while not bad, seemed to kind of miss the mark as to why August is haven’t trouble.
I headed home, worked, and rode back to pick him up. They were over on the playground at 12 today. I peeked around the corner to make sure he was doing okay, and he was listening to Vicky read from a big (oversized) book. But Hector saw me and started yelling “August, your dad is here!” I was quite annoyed, as I could have had another 10 or 20 minutes. I’m going to change how I pick him up in the future, waiting on the bench until they send him out. He’d had a two dot day, although I guess it was better than yesterday.
We headed home, discussing cars along the way. He asked if race cars have trunks, and that led us into a discussion of open-wheel racing versus sports car racing and aerodynamics. There’s a small black dog up close to school that I’ve seen out on the street before. August was nervous as we got close to it, as it was loose. It started following us, and followed all the way down Hashomron. It continued as we went down Vatikim, often taking the lead. It continued with us on the bath between streets, and then through the park. August and I were joking about how it was making sure we got home. It went all the way to our house, then continued across the street to the garbage area.
At home we ate banana bread and made a strawberry and mango smoothie for lunch. I installed a new Sesame Street Music app on his iPad and he played that and something else for awhile. He then wanted to play with the light circuit set, and wanted to build the big layout shown on the front of the box. We got that about half done before needing to head back to school for library time. Before we left, he saw a bug by the door and caught it. He wanted to take it with us.
When we got to school they were out on the playground. We left the bug in his cubby, then went over to them. Eve gave him a big hug. We got ready for library and walked up. August was doing fine until we were in the library and he started to run and tripped over the foot of the TV stand. He managed to rip some of the masking tape on the floor. I got him back to where the class was, but he wasn’t calming down. He screamed once and I took him away to the center. He seemed to be calmer, and I let him go. But then he flung two containers full of colored pencils. That was the end of it. I cleaned up one, and he cleaned up the other, and we went back to library time. Ilana read Harry by the Sea. He checked out Fix it, Sam.
We went down to the classroom and got the insect, then went back up to the library and asked Liz for masking tape and fixed the small bit he had damaged, and another spot that needed it. He showed Liz the insect and she said it was a silverfish, and they come out of the books.
We went down to find Taya. We waited a few minutes and Cassie showed up. We went out on the playground with Taya, and Cassie went back to her classroom for awhile. They played together, and we played hide and seek. We headed over to the bigger playground, then some friction. August tried to climb on something next to her, and she used her grumpy voice to tell him she wanted to do it by herself. August watched her doing tricks, but the she said she wouldn’t come to his house and he hit her, lightly. I had him apologize. A couple more minutes, and they were talking about what she was doing, but she then said something kind of mean and he hit her again. Another apology. They then went different directions. She went across to the big structure and he kept playing where he was.
Cassie came and had Taya apologize, and we all got going. Carly was walking home so we drove. In the car we looked up ‘silverfish’ on Wikipedia. While we talked about it, he asked, “What’s ‘wingless’?” A word of the day. We drove home, and when we parked I looked back and found him almost asleep.
Carly was already home. They went out to get leaves for the compost, then went up and did a little wrestling. She then went up to work. He played with the drill, then we had noodles for dinner. He didn’t like the cooked cucumber in it, so he requested fresh. He happily ate half a cucumber, then we watched Wintergatan videos (68 and 69) and he had frozen treat. He asked me to put up his iPad out of reach this evening so he would have watching time tomorrow evening. He said he would have liked to watch Hilda, but I had said no since he’d used all of his watching time in the morning.
We fed the butterfly sugar water, then read more Nick and Tesla. He said that if he found eggs on the ground and they were chicken eggs that he’d let them hatch and he’d want a chicken as a pet. He then started taping things to the iPad, and when he taped the egg timer to it he said it was a bomb. He must have gotten that from Pink Panther.
Carly came down and they talked about “The snuggle monster.” He cut off its tentacles and killed it. He played with his butterfly and liked how it would ‘stick’ to his finger when it hung on it. He told Carly, “Feel the stickiness.” When she gave in and put her finger in and touched it she said, “Woah.” He replied, “Told you!”
Carly took him up for a bath and they read Madeline. I came up and the A to Z mystery book about the falcons. ‘Ring’, as in a metal band around the falcon’s leg, was another word of the day. We skyped with my parents for just a few minutes, as he was needing to go to sleep. We did a baby bird visualization and discussed his day. As we were trying to go to sleep, he told me, “I’m leaving.” I got him to lie back down and he was asleep just before 8:30.
Music on the way to school:
Dog leading us home:
Playing with Taya:
Spinning:
Silly before bed:
