He was up at 7:20. I took him down and gave him the card and big chocolate egg to take out to Carly, who was outside. He did that, then inside they opened the chocolate egg and put together the penguin toy. I gave him the ‘Robot Day’ card I’d made last night. He had requested I make a card for him, and the idea of having the robot give him a card came to me last night. They did math and I made french toast. We ate, then I went up to get ready to go to the licensing office to renew my temporary license. The were reading a Dogman book as I left.
While I was gone they did an egg drop. It was basically all his idea. They put the egg in a cup, then taped balloons to the cup. He helped tape. It worked from the slide and from the office. I was afraid the office would be busy, as it had been closed this last week. Once I found the entrance to the building (which has changed due to the renovation of the building) it went smoothly. I got my new license, but then as I left I realized it had the wrong town in the address (it also said ‘Yehuda’ in it). I went back and he changed that. That’s why my license never arrived.
They were making a solar oven when I got back. He told me how he had made some sort of freezer that was all white, then a cooker out of black tape that was even better than the one they were making. They put the solar oven out with chocolate in it. He and I then looked at the remains of the hard drive. We did a little of the store game, then checked on the chocolate. We changed the countdown to summer on the chalkboard, then left at 11:20. August and I were playing at Gabi’s office today. As we drove, August controlled the car as we went through space (he had talked about how he had made it so we could go really fast). Listened to Moby on the way.
We got there a bit early. I had him pick another one of those smelly flowers to put on my backpack. When we went in, about 15 minutes early, there was a dad sitting with a boy who was watching an iPad. I held August for a couple minutes, then when we sat down I was looking for a book to start reading on my phone, so I didn’t pay attention. A girl came out of the office, then they left. August said, “Why did I just see Judson?” The boy had been Judson from his class, and the girl was Judson’s sister (who had once talked to August on the stairs about being Judson’s friend). We read the start of a book, but he wanted Polytopia. We played a few rounds of that, then Gabi was ready.
In the office we played Monopoly and Connect 4. Lots of math and strategy talk. He showed me how he and Carly had play Monopoly, so we did the same.
From there we drove up to Wiz Kids. We talked about getting another word game for Carly. We found something called ‘The Busy Day Dominoes’ which he chose, and which is perfect as it is about verb conjugation, which he still struggles with a bit. We also got a Bug Bot kit from the clearance area. August had set a 5 minute timer when we went in, so that was how long we spent looking before we went to pay. There was also another set of Story Cubes that we might get sometime.
We drove home, stopping at the strawberry stand. He went in with me, and we bought a Large box, 8 containers of them, for 60 shekels. The idea is to freeze a bunch of them. At home I had a headache so went up to rest for a bit and they started the robot. When I came down we switched. The motor wasn’t working, so I took the enclosure apart. the soldering had broken from the motor. I was able to fix it, and August and I finished putting it together. August put the stickers on, making it as scary as possible.
When we had it going, August had us put it in the bathroom, still moving, and when Carly came down he ‘scared’ her with it. This became a big thing. They had something to eat, then upstairs he had me put it in the bedroom to scare her. He then repeated this a few times, closing her in the Zinnie room, blinds closed, with the robot. He was getting pretty hyper.
We figured we needed to get out. We also needed freezer bags for the strawberries. So we walked up into town for popsicles. We went to the health food store and he chose banana strawberry and Carly had coconut chocolate. As we sat there, August asked me, “Are we seeing you live?” Which is what he asks when we are watching a video and he wants to know if it was recorded or live. We played a little Polytopia and Carly headed to the pharmacy and store. We caught up with her at the pharmacy. We then went down to the new grocery store.
We walked home, taking a slightly longer loop to do the Holly block, and were home by 6. He thought it was funny to throw his shoes again, which Carly had told him he couldn’t do anymore, as he was kicking them off across the room and could hit something. Carly took him upstairs for a little timeout. He then did find it funny to just close my shoes in the bathroom. He had me do the maze in his dry erase book, then I went up to do a little work.
Carly he made nutty noodles earlier, and we had had some after Gabi’s, and he had more for dinner. I came down, ate, and then we skyped with my parents. He was typing math problems (and their answers) to them, and figured out the + sign. He had me help him put in the commas so we could figure out enough zeroes so he could send them a nonillion.
When he got hyper we said goodbye. Carly took him up for a shower, but then decided she was tired. So we switched and I washed him and she got ready for tomorrow. When he talked about using too much soap we discussed the word ‘excess’, so that was a word of the day.
Washed him, then as we went in the bedroom he was doing. “I’m the world’s greatest mom” chant. Don’t know where that came from. I left them before 9:10.
More store game:
Checking the solar oven:
Humming and stickers:
New robot:
Scaring mama with the robot:
Crazy time:
