He was up before 7:10. He cuddled on the upstairs couch until I got there, which had been what he has been doing. Downstairs I read a couple chapters of Ben Braver. He then continued to pretend that he could eat everything “even hot glue. That is still hot.”
He told me the first thing we do is add to our songs. We did that, then talked about our plans. I talked about wood projects for the fall, and he said we wouldn’t have time, as he would have to go to school. We talked about that, and he clearly wants to stay at home.
We played our few minutes of Green Planet, then he ate frozen mango and then oatmeal. He watched some Curious George, then we went up and played a Brother and Sister peregrine falcon game (where they’re on an island and find a baby falcon and raise it). He wanted to play Polytopia, but when I said we couldn’t right now it turned into a real life Polytopia game, with him being one of the warriors and us both dictating what was happening in the game. It went on for a long time, and we switched roles.
We went downstairs. He sat and sang as he counted his money: “I have more than a 20 shekel bill!” I downloaded the regular Khan Academy app and we did part of a math course together. He really liked it. We did adding and subtracting within 20 and adding three numbers. There’s a lot of reading involved, so I have to do it with him, but he also gets to see the math as it is written, which we don’t do a lot of.
Back on his iPad we made a new song. He did the looping and layering on his own, doing three tracks, then he had me sing our alligator song over it. He made a structure out of Duplos and had me copy it. The schnitzel was ready, so we had lunch, then I finished the copying. He asked, “Is 100 million a hundred thousand thousands?” It took me a while, but yes, yes it is.
We read a few chapters of Ben Braver. ‘Integer’ was a word of the day. We discussed our powers for a long time. He says that I have fire power and Carly can put her shoes on fast. His is the ability to eat everything, which yesterday we decided makes him a multivore.
We made the beds and he told me he had discovered the “Bullet beetle…it runs 150 miles per hour.” August was playing with Siri, setting timers of 1 second and the such, and he found a sort of glitch, where if he asked for a timer of “2.8 second” she would just ask “For how long?” over and over. He read me two Bob Books: The Trip and The Swimmers. He hadn’t eaten his carrots at lunch, but ate them before we left.
We walked to school and went to the cafeteria. He got a small muffin with chocolate chips and I got a small cappuccino. We sat and played Polytopia. At 3 we went to the library. He jumped off the platform onto the carpet of squares. I got a new Elephant and Piggie book, he found the Fix It, Sam book he likes on the preschool tables, and we also got Dragons Beware to read again.
We sat and read part of Dragons Beware, then I got a message from Heather saying they were available until 4. We went and found them, and I went with the three kids to the big playground while Heather worked on the show. They all went to the climbing stuff first and were practicing their climbing. They kept telling me to “Watch this!” but I managed some reading. They then all played together on the big structure. August found a little toy truck in the play structure. He showed it to me, and he wanted to give it to the PKB kids playing with other cars we had seen. August was a little too shy to do it himself, although he walked over to them. But a couple minutes later he came and told me he had given it to Zoe to give to them. That was very nice of both of them. He kept looking at the time on his watch and saying things to Eve like “Nine more minutes for play time. Right? Your mom said you’d go at 4 o’clock.”
I had them all with their shoes on and ready to go when Heather got there at 4. Carly had decided to drive home at 3 but said she could come back to pick us up. We called her, then sat in the shade for a few minutes and played Polytopia, then went out and waited on the street until Carly showed up.
At home I went up to work after awhile. They were outside, and making paper airplanes. I think they threw one over the fence once. Maybe it was a card for Mikaela, as I think I saw August writing on it. He did more music in Tabletop. Later he told me he had read to her as well, but it turns out he had not. Perhaps he was thinking of yesterday. Carly read all of Lawnmageddon.
I came down at 7:30. They had had fried rice and then a swedish pancake, then she made him another swedish pancake when he was still hungry. She went up for a shower. He went to the bathroom and made the perfect travel bag for me. He said it had no weight, even with stuff in it. So it could float in the air and I could push it along. We did more Khan Academy, taking a test for earlier stuff that he already knew, and doing some more new stuff. In Skybrary I read Lucky Beans and Left, Right Emma.
Carly took him up for a bath. I did the dishes. She decided to put him to sleep. I first read The Butter Battle Book and then, as fast as I could, which August found funny, “Too Many Daves”. I left them right at 9. Heard him talking for at least awhile.
Singing and counting his money:
Siri glitch:
Polytopia’s the best game ever song:
Running in the cafeteria:
Jumping slo-mo:
Almost giving the car:
Playing on the structure:
Creating the loops for his song:
