I put him back to sleep at 5:45, and then again when he called down at 6:39. Didn’t last long, however, as he was back up just after 7. I read the Winnie the Pooh “Christopher Robin Gives a Party”. He then played the logic puzzle game with a knight on his iPad and I did a little work. We went over to the Duplos and I gave him a Duplos challenge to make a playground and he turned it into an animal park. We also did some math. He played the kitchen math app and I made oatmeal.
We then did another fast fuse beads design. This time, a princess. August remembered to change the countdown to ‘33’. We went upstairs to the bedroom for a brother and sister story. I used the word ‘despondent’ and that was a word of the day. We looked at the Why book, and he asked “How much does a cruise ship weigh?” We spent over an hour up there. He was asking about 1,ooo yers and we learned about the words ‘eon’ and ‘megaannum’. He made the beds, then we headed downstairs to make banana bread.
He watched the Curious Geoege Christmas special as I finished up the banana bread. We are fighting ants again as we have some tiny ones coming in through the wall by the sink. Not too bad though. We then went and finished the princess out of beads and melted it. Worked even better this time. August was looking at Apple Maps on his ipad and found the Petronas Towers. He kept asking how long it would be until we went to Mr. Gabi’s, so then he set a timer on Siri. We had some banana bread when it was ready: “Insanely good…cakey and soft…like banana cake.”
He had some more bread, and talked about the number four: “Four is a special number…you can divide 2 into 2, and divide those 2s into 1s. Other numbers can’t do that.” He was then calculating different ways to reach 100: “10 times 10…90 plus 10…60 plus 40.” I found the missing coin container with the 5 shekel coin in it. He had hidden it in his kitchen.
He read my funny phrase on the whiteboard. Today was ‘cozy pickle’ Yesterday ‘lazy’ something. He had the idea of doing a blue mook game, but then decided he wanted me to build a pyramid out of Duplos for his coins. So I did pyramids in different sizes. He kissed the 5 shekel coin and said, “I love you, 5 shekel coin.” then sang a whole song about it; “I love the number 5…” He made a little imagining scenario where we had to go save planets, after getting messages from them, but we didn’t have a shuttle and it would take months to build. But we could travel in his balls of light much faster.
We left at 1:20. We waited at the school for a few minutes for Carly. August spotter her: “I see mama!” We parked in our usual spot, and he pointed out the flowers he picks for me to put on my backpack: “They’re gorgeous. And they smell like gorgeous.”
He sat in the sitting area and watched Sarah and Duck episodes while Carly and I met with Gabi. Nothing too interesting to record. Although he said he’d gotten an odd call from the school, simply asking if he was seeing a new 5-year old. Very odd.
On the way home we went to the Moto shop and August used his chores points/coins to get a treat. It was hard for him to choose, but he ended up with the Kinder Chocolate small pack. Pricier than I expected, and I told him we might have to adjust the costs, as it worked out to be a few shekels more than what the ice cream bars cost us when we buy them at the store.
We were home at 3:35. There were two more tomatoes to pick. Carly went up to work. August was doing math in his head, and suddenly started going into the negatives. We haven’t discussed the negative number line for a long time, but Carly had done that number line with him last year, and he was now connecting it to his arithmetic skills. He read Mat Hid and Plop to me. We made mother pyramid, and did some more fast fuse beads. We need to go buy more though if we want to complete any more designs.
We went upstairs for the robot pillow throwing game (where brother finds a tiny robot, but it hurts him, and they end up trying to destroy it, but can’t). Carly came down, then they went outside and were doing math and I went upstairs to work. I heard them reading, and he played with GarageBand.
I came back down and we played a little Green Planet. We then read The Butter Battle Book and “The Strange Shirt Spot”. He had some banana bread, then some more. We went up to his bath. He He played with his toothbrush and the water, scrubbing things. He has a new head now to use for actually brushing his teeth.
I left the two of them at 9:15.
Using his tweezers:
Finding the missing coin:
End of his 5 shekel song:
Robot pillow fight:
