He was up at 6:37, rather stuffy. I got in bed with him and he tried for several minutes to fall back to sleep, stretching out and curling up in different positions on the bed. Eventually he started softly humming. We went downstairs and he cuddled with Carly. They went outside for a few minutes, then came in and eventually started figuring out the Busy Day Dominoes.
He played Math Tango and Carly headed to school. He got bored of that and we played the phone game that they’d played yesterday, with him calling me to save a planet and me trying to figure out who to get to do that. I made him oatmeal, and we played Green Planet while he ate. We went upstairs and did the Brother and sister game with robots. Carly emailed, saying there might be a problem with the town’s water and that we should boil water. We went down to do that, and August got upset, I later found out that he thought it would take too long, and had his biggest meltdown for quite some time. A bit later she said it was a false alarm and it was another town.
We did more taking apart. He was trying to get the electric razor apart and poked his finger with a screwdriver. He cried about that one a bit. We got it apart though, and used the multimeter to test the batteries (dead).
We took the phones upstairs to use with a Brother and Sister game. In this version they woke up on a deserted island. The last thing they both remembered was heading to school. He said they used the telephones to communicate on the island they found themselves on. All that was his creation. So I had it be the site of an abandoned resort and the telephones still worked. A seal then helps them out, but they are more comfortable than in the other version as they have beds to sleep on, etc.
I found a scratch on the back of his hand. He said it was from earlier. That must have also been from taking things apart, but must not have hurt so much. We went back downstairs at 10:30.
He had pizza and milk for an lunch. He watched Wild Kratts and I typed. He read The Jet (which used to make him sad) and Bump! (which was hard when he first tried it, but now isn’t) to me. We added both to his stack of books he can read on his own. It is up to 9 books. He was pretty proud of that when we told Carly later.
He went to the bathroom and told me of a bad disease called “tiger pox”. It makes your face bleed. We went upstairs to make beds. That took a long time. He asked me how many Fahrenheit degrees are in a celcius degree. So I explained why it is 1.8. He asked for the explanation again. We also discussed the concept of ‘ratio’ and that was a word of the day.
Downstairs I got him to slow down enough to read the months poem that I’d written out yesterday. He then wanted to count his Israeli money. We determined he has 46 shekels, 50 agorot.
We went outside to play around. It was windy and the yard was full of the tree things so I started picking them up. August joined in and did a good job when he remembered that yardwork was one of his errands on his watch. He then played on the slide and said “I’m whackadoo” and pretended to shoot a ceramic fish from his belly button. He was being the DJ robot from Hilo. We lay on the grass and played some Polytopia, then he played more on the slide.
We then drove to school. We were to Carly’s classroom a little before 3 and it was locked. She had had a meeting of PLC leaders at Mandy’s house in the morning, then they had other PD in the afternoon. August didn’t want to change in the scary men’s room near her bathroom. We played a little more Polytopia for just a couple minutes until she showed up. She took him into the women’s bathroom to change for the pool.
On the walk over we saw Howard, and then Matt. We pointed out that they were both science teachers. August said he has meetings with them in his lab. As we walked to the pool he told us about how he still makes them wear safety suits in his lab.
The weather was warmer and pretty sunny, but not as hot as we had expected. It was fine getting in. We saw Ben Ben and his dad as well, and August said he has meetings with Ben Ben’s dad as well, even though he isn’t a scientist. Ben Ben waits in his waiting room, which can hold 10,000 people. When I got out 3o minutes later or so it had clouded over. I was going to sit and work, but August decided he wanted out a minute later. He is really swimming around the pool now, very flat and kicking hard. Need to be more convincing in getting the floaties off of him.
We drove home. He took things apart. we got the pot of ice out of the freezer for him. Carly said she was concerned about him putting his tongue right to it and August got upset and she took him upstairs. Back downstairs he let it melt a little, then was drinking from it. He really liked the cold water. He spilled on himself once and requested new clothes. I magically produced an extra set that were by the backpack.
I made us schnitzel and broccoli for dinner. We sat together and ate. Carly suggested documentary and popcorn, so we watched more of episode 2 of Our Planet together. About 20 minutes until August ran out of popcorn.
Carly went up to take a shower. He talked about a number with a 100 zeroes, so I introduced him to googol. Another word of the day. I found Wikipedia articles about different number naming systems, and we read some of the names. He made up his own scale: “On the crazy scale…ten preptecillion…a thousand zeroes…” He played GroForest and a new free reading/word app that I found. He wanted to restart GroForest so he could explore again, so we deleted it and reinstalled it. While we waited I started reading The Super Life of Ben Braver. He liked that well enough. He did some GroForest, then Carly took him up for a bath and washed his hair. Was going to trim it, but we couldn’t find the blue scissors.
I came up and put him to sleep, the first time in several days. We read a few more chapters of the book. I sang a few songs, he suddenly calmed down, and he was asleep at 9:45.
Playing with the phone:
Playing by the pool:
Reading to mama:
