He went to bed late and slept late today. Kind of failing on adjusting him to the new time. He was up around 8:15. Not sure if Carly woke him up, or he got up on his own. They were upstairs chatting for quite awhile. They came downstairs and Carly was able to convince him to go upstairs on his own to get his iPad. She gave him chocolate chips for blowing his nose. They read Captain Underpants together, then she made him oatmeal.
He ate and watched Wild Kratts. He went upstairs to find Carly, then came down and started digging in the fridge. He found the big leaves that Carly’s students had given her and ate some. He then wanted to make a mixture, and did that in a small pot, measuring out small amounts with the measuring cups and a butter knife.
Carly headed to the store. We played with the Legos and watched F1 and F2 qualifying while we did so. He expanded and revised his ship from yesterday. He said, “Its like the Goosey Grow 2000.” Which he said was from Captain Underpants.
When he wanted to move to the circuit set he did a good job of cleaning up the Legos. He took apart the circuit that we had made before and chose a new one to make. I heated us up pizza and we ate that as we built it.
Carly got home and handed him a big bag of balloons. He had been asking for balloons for a couple of days, and when he had heard she was going to the store he asked her. The first one we tried had holes in it. The second one he started bouncing in the air, seeing how many times he could bounce it.
We got him to pause that and pick up the spices, etc. from his mixture earlier. He then gave Carly the pink one and told her she could practice with it, and gave her some pointers. We filled a blue one with quinoa and he played with that. Paused to put the hourly cream on, then when he was playing with it it popped, showering quinoa around. He went and hit Carly. I talked to him, and he calmly went and got paper and drew a picture of a face on it, crossed it out, and handed it to me and said, “That stands for no love.” But at least it was a calm response, and a new strategy on his part. He then apologized to Carly.
He was going to try alone time, but wanted to play with his iPad instead. He played with music apps. He then did do alone time, playing with the straw things, and I went up to take a shower. When I came down Carly was giving him some of the soup. “I love it.”
We then got going to International Day. It had been moved inside due to the rain. We parked and walked in. He explained all the reasons he doesn’t want to ever wear a wristband: it is too tight, it is sticky, you have to wear it for the full time, and he doesn’t know how to get them off. He wasn’t reassured when I said we could solve some of those.
Anyway, we headed in and to the gym. Full and overwhelming at first. Then the treats started: pie and cookie from Poland, waffle from Germany (he’d told Carly earlier he’d wanted waffles sometime). We watched some of the capoeta (sp?) demonstration, then went back to treats and a little learning about countries: chocolate thing from Brazil, a maple cupcake with maple syrup infuser from Canada, cotton candy from the United States. For that he had to answer a question, and while we waited our turn I talked to Anita. Very understanding about everything. And August waited very patiently. He answered the question (colors of the New Mexico flag, which was on the wall) and got his cotton candy.
He really liked that. It was his first cotton candy ever. He said it tasted like cherry medicine. And he asked Carly the question he had had to answer.
We walked over to the cafeteria, where there were more booths. He wanted something from the Kazakhstan booth, but it cost money. We walked to the other end, and I bought some of the food coupons. It was run by teenage boys, so they handed me a bunch of extras.
Carly and I got coffees and I got the bread thing August wanted and some pad thai. We sat at a table outside for awhile.
We headed back into the gym one more time. Candy saw August go by and yelled at him to come back. He came back, said hi, and she ran off again. Back in the gym we had a bread-flavored drink from Russia, learned about Kenya and Zambia (he correctly guessed that giraffes live in Kenya, based on the photos he saw), and at the Netherlands booth he was given bread with chocolate sprinkles on it and told that’s what Dutch children eat for breakfast. He liked the sprinkles, but not the bread.
We went to walk through the cafeteria one more time on our way out. Outside, August heard the music and started doing some impressive dancing. The song was in Hebrew and included “du-du-bong”, which is what he used to repeat with Omri last year. Don’t know if it is a common Hebrew phrase, or from the song.
We headed out. They took the car home, and I rode my bike, not wanting to leave it taking up space. We were home around 5. I saw a printer up by the garbage place and got it and set it by the door as it was wet.
August was pretty hyper. I had him go open the door and find the printer. He showed me the structure he’s made during alone time, explaining it had a security system that caught bd guys and threw them away. Carly headed up to talk to her parents. We took apart the printer as we listened to the Spacemen 3 album Losing Touch with Your Mind. She came down and August told them all about taking things apart. We figured out it was the 10th thing we’ve taken apart. ‘Engineer’ was a word of the day.
August got a bunch of springs and little pieces out of a larger piece and showed Carly how he’d done it. She then took over and helped him, then they started making a sculpture out of the parts using the hot glue gun.
Carly headed up to take a shower. He came over and we discussed the endurance race (Nurburgring 24 hours) I was watching in the background as I typed. He’s been categorizing races based on which ones the drivers can go to the bathroom during (endurance races) and the ones they can’t (shorter races). He was hungry, finally, and ate a full bowl of the chicken soup that Carly had made earlier today. He then had a slice of toast.
We went upstairs and read a little of Nick and Tesla. Then started a game where he sat on my stomach, and put his feet on my hands and those were a gas and broke petals, and he drove a car. He was doing everything to avoid a bath, and started to get upset when it was time to go. Carly came in and helped calm him down, and I took him in and gave him his bath and was able to wash his hair.
In the bedroom, as I dried his hair, I noticed some hairs that needed trimming. Carly came up and trimmed them, and gave him a couple chocolate chips. I was pretending to be grumpy and said it was maddening. “What’s ‘maddening’ mean?” Another word of the day. We did the car game again, and ended up discussing hearing and not hearing things, and ended up discussing sign language. He had good questions, and we discussed hearing aids. “What’s ‘amplify’ mean?”
Downstairs he showed me their sculpture and speculated on whether we could find anything to take apart tomorrow. We got him to brush his teeth, and I left them at 9:10. He had been taping things to the wall, and I heard him tell her, “Everything is attached because this is called the signalmaker.”
Playing with the balloon:
You eat the rest, scrap boy:
Watching at the international fair:
Leading us through the gym:
His first cotton candy:
Dancing to the music:
Explaining his straw structure:
Taking apart the printer 1:
Taking apart the printer 2 – the Sophia ad:
