He was up at 7:20, as I was getting dressed. Carly was staying home today, and I mistakenly sent him downstairs, thinking she was down there. I heard him open the door downstairs to look outside. I met him coming up as I walked down and he told me, “She isn’t.” We found her in another room upstairs. He was a little upset, but handled it okay.
When they both had to go to the bathroom he raced her to it. As he washed his hands: “Why do germs think of water and soap as enemies? Predators?”
They read Fix It, Sam and then I read him part of Cycle City on the iPad. He didn’t want to finish it, and asked to play Dragonbox Big Numbers. He then played the new belly button snack game where I tried to fool him into eating something gross, but then he turns out to be an animal that likes the food I describe (worm cookies, etc.). I mentioned ‘symbiotic relationship’ and that became a word of the day when I told him about fish and whales, and microbes in his gut.
He spent a long time outside with Carly. He was finding slugs and they put them in a big bucket. He found a butterfly wing. He came in with a big stick singing a stick pony song. I made calender signs for our homeschooling and he played more Dragonbox Big Numbers. He played with his food machine and told me, “With just the red plugged in it makes the most nutritionist food.”
He came up to the bathroom with me while I took a shower. Downstairs he went back outside. He taped up the slugs after feeding them some plants. He then played with hose, having different spray settings with his finger. He had ‘supersonic’ mode and started watering the plants: “supersonic to the cactus, supersonic to the mint…”
Back inside Carly asked if we could take down the yellow string from the kitchen. He said yes, then said, “Could I say one last goodbye to my string? Goodbye string!” We then realized that the slug we had taped up last night had escaped through one of the bottom holes of the pot. August and I looked under the couch with a flashlight, but didn’t find it. We found his watch, lots of beads, and other things though. He randomly told me,”So for my birthday I want a big helium balloons that says 6 on it.”
He looked at the thermometer and I said the temperature was pretty consistent inside: “What’s consistent mean?”
We got going, and drove to Planetanya. Carly stayed home to work. This time, success. The security guard recognized us from yesterday. We got our tickets, and looked at the fish in the indoor pond. August said it looked like a little swamp.
We talked about how the building was big but didn’t have much in it as we walked out to the outdoor science playground. I guess I agreed to much with him too much, because once out there August was convinced and he wanted to leave and go to a real science center. We did end up spending about 30 minutes though, so give that the whole thing only cost a little over 5 dollars it wasn’t bad.
we looked at the optical illusions, and his favorite part was the fun mirrors. He spent a lot of time dancing in them, and getting closer and farther away. Skipped the music, and then spent time at the solar power area, aiming the mirrors at the panels.
We did the bikes that power things, and the big hamster wheel, which August had done a video of me walking in last year. This time, he sat on the ground and had me gently walk forward and backwards.
Finally, in the gravity area he rode the bike with the rotating flywheel, and we played on the spinning disk where you move in and out to change the speed. A little more time in the gravity area, then we headed out.
We drove to the Tiv Taam parking lot and walked to Max. There were a couple specific things I wanted: white board for writing down project ideas, and a paper trimmer that August could use and I could use to make all the signs I want. I told him he could get one thing, and he knew exactly what he wanted: the white-out tape things that he had considered but passed on for his one item yesterday.
We found the whiteboard. August wanted a magnetic one as well, so I got him a slightly smaller one in addition to the wood-framed one that I got for the wall. he found his white-out tape pens and I got one more set of drawers, and he convinced me to get a set of small bottles for his potions.
We asked about a paper trimmer, but they didn’t have one. So we stopped by the art store on the way back to the car. They had one for 99 shekels. A lot more than everything we had bought at Max combined, but still only 25 dollars.
We drove home, getting here at 2. We started with the paper trimmer, figuring out how it works. He then opened the white-out pens and we figured out how to work them. He was doing pretty well with them, and making random shapes that he said were kingdoms: “It’s the kingdom of Castilist.” Later, he wanted me to save one, telling me “people live there.”
He had pizza for a late lunch, along with some dried mango and milk. He went outside with Carly. They were pretending to be slugs. His idea; she was disgusted by the idea. He was joking around and said, “I’ll tell everyone in the world my mama has a penis.” They watered plants together. He then came in and told me, “I discovered a color: lightning red…a little visible to humans.”
I then took him to Tiv Taam with me. We needed ingredients for gingersnaps and a few other things. On the way he asked why motorcycles go fast when they take short cuts. I talked about how some drove too fast, and he said, “I don’t think Ms. Rena does that.”
Shopping went well. I got him a pack of cheese crackers and he ate them on the way home. We were home at 4:20. Carly was upstairs.
We were squirrels and made a nest out of the pillows and chairs. He then started a beaver imagining game where I found a beaver that had been flooded out of its home by a dam.
Carly came down and they went outside and were catching slugs again. I went upstairs to rest. When I came down they were making bookmarks with the paper cutter. He had also done most of a circuit project, and when he got frustrated he climbed into her lap for comfort. She colored on a bookmark and he said, “You’re writing DNA waves.”
He and I read Nick and Tesla. When it was time to eat he asked, “Dada? Could you read while I eat? It’s getting super scary and creepy.” He was then saying, “Something’s fishy around here.” Quoting the book.
We all sat on the table and ate together. I had made rice to go with the chicken soup. We then added to the sculpture and we started to call it a city and discussed what all the parts were, including power plants and train lines. He said, “People call this the Electrical City.”
Upstairs he taped up a cupboard so we couldn’t get into it. Luckily, one we never use. But then he kept going and taped up some of the drawers. He brushed his teeth, and Carly put him to sleep. I left them at 8:45. It was quiet around 9, but I don’t know how long it took.
I am Mr. Pony Stick song:
Hose fun:
Supersonic mode:
Fun mirror:
Spinning chair:
White out pen:
Silly time:
Drill slo-mo:
