He was up at 6:55. We went downstairs, and I read most ofMonsters Beware. He then did his move on his watch game while I got frozen mango and oatmeal for him.
We played some Easy Music, then he watched one Wild Kratts and a Pink Panther. He talked about shooting weights and stuff around, like in Pink Panther. I finished taxes. We went upstairs for a Brother and Sister game, but wrestle instead. We started cleaning the toilets, and he remembered the toilet that had lost the porcelain coating. He meant Ruby, but said, “the person that doesn’t have an iPad?” And remembered that it had something to do with baby poop.
We played some Polytopia, the he sang a song about his watch that went:
“Bb-8 is my best friend
Don’t pound the drums if you have BB-8
Don’t pound the drums if it’s the last thing you do.”
We then played Brother and Sister games, mainly about finding the bird in plastic again, then went down and had a lunch of crackers and carrots and pate. We played Math Tango, working on multiplication. I was teaching him some of the tricks for multiplying by 5s (ends in 0 or 5) and 9 (digits add up to 9).
He then wanted to play with the new fast fuse beads. Didn’t actually finish anything, as his idea was another Brother game, with the animals destroying everything as he worked on them. He went and updated his summer countdown to 16, but decided to switch to numbers from his planet, in the language of enshmugadorflug. He added a 5, also in the language, at the end and said it would confuse Carly.
Shmuel was downstairs, showing Mikaela’s apartment. He left a bag of small electronics (modems, etc.) by our gate. August took two of them apart. He then read two Bob Books to me and added them to his ‘I can read’ pile. I wondered how many were now in the pile and he thought it was 20. He brought them over and we counted and he was correct.
We then went up and made the beds. That got him 5 coins, and went down and he had an ice cream sandwich. In the morning we had stopped reading Monsters Beware with just a few pages left. We sat down to read it now, but he wanted to start from the beginning, saying he really likes the beginning of it, so we did that.
We packed up and got going to school. As we got to the car he asked me for my phone and he calculated, on his own, how many hours are in a week (168). He’d later use that later in the day for discussing something we would do in a week. We parked and walked in. We had about 10 minutes before the bell, so we sat on our usual bench and finished a game of Polytopia. We hadn’t heard from Carly yet, so we we walked over to her classroom and met her as she was about to come to us. Handed her her swimsuit, then we went ahead to the pool and changed and got to the pool about the same time as she did.
Omri saw us walking by as we had walked down there, and she was also going swimming. August, Carly and I got in the pool. Omri and her sister were playing with diving rings, a couple of which wouldn’t sink, and her sister gave August a couple to play with. He created a game of floating them back and forth on his kickboard as messages/mail. Carly then took him over to play with Omri, and he was throwing the rings out for them and us to get. I got out of the pool to read and they played for another 15 minutes. Omri is now swimming on her own, and her mom told us about how great the swimvest was that she had used, as it allowed freedom of movement of the arms, and lets them actually swim more. Carly later found it on Amazon and we are ordering it for the summer.
We were home before 5. A small meltdown, as he kicked his shoes off as he came in the house. One knocked one of the popper toys off the table. A couple inches different and it would have been the glass vase of flowers. I tried to gently remind him and have him clean it up, but he melted down over picking up the pieces of the toy putting his shoes away. Seemed like he was probably hungry, and he calmed down with the corn crackers.
He then asked Carly if she wanted to make mistakes with the circuit set: “Come over here to make mistakes…this is mistake city.” Carly made spaghetti for dinner. As he ate he asked her, what ‘be my guest’ meant. A word of the day. He was then doing math on the calculator, and I taught him how to use the x^y button. He was then using it: “Let’s see what’s 3 to the 3rd power…27.”
He and I did some art together. He was using the stencils to draw the shapes, and I was going to color them. He was being negative about his own art. When I said how much I like his abstract art, he said, “Well, okay. If you like my dumb art…” He did a lot of mistakes, but then got frustrated when he made a mistake. We stopped, and moved over and did Prodigy Math. He was doing a good job of estimating grams and kilograms—all that time weighing things on the scale, and on adding up perimeters. He was doing several three-digit number problems in his head.
Carly came down and looking outside saw a big printer/copier at the junk pile. They went and got it. There was still a piece of a kid’s art in it, which was a fun surprise. They started taking it apart. I ws looking up Abu Ghosh for our outing tomorrow, and found out that one of the restaurants had the world record for the largest dish of hummus, 9000 pounds. August said, “That’s 4 tons and a thousand pounds.”
Carly took him up for his bath. When it was time for me to come up and take over to put him to sleep he told me, “I invented a battleship called Breaker. Did you know that?” It shoots really loud sounds to hurt people. And it absorbs people’s DNA. “Thats actually one of my powers. I can absorb DNA.”
We started readingHocus Pocus, which is a choose your own adventure graphic novel. After awhile he seemed quite tired, but was hyper for awhile, and resisting me singing to him. Finally, he asked me to tell a story or sing a song. So I made up a song about how I used to draw a lot back in elementary school. He was asleep at 9:45.
Explaining the numbers from his planet:
Pool time:
