He was up at 8:24. We read several chapters ofBen Braver, then he played Magnus Kingdom. He ate banana bread and frozen mango and stopped on his own when time was running low. He requested oatmeal, so had a small bowl. He requested I be Brother not winning running races, so we ran through a few scenarios. I had gotten out the Space Shuttle Lego set and we started building that a little. He wanted the space shuttle, but didn’t really help make it. He did make a little symmetrical shape thing, although he never told me what it was. At one point he somehow hurt his finger. I never saw a mark, but he was upset for a couple minutes. Handled it well though.
I made a list of the things we old do today, then we cleaned up the Legos and went over to the circuit set. he made something and told me “This is for you to hypnotize mama.” He went over to the big poster and read out all of the calming strategies on his own, then read the small poster below. We then looked at the emotions poster that had fallen down and read all the emotions of the different animals on it, comparing it to the other emotions poster. ‘
He then wanted a Brother and Sister game, so we played downstairs and they found a fox and took it home. We had crackers and cheese and watermelon and strawberries for lunch again, along with milk, and played Polytopia. August found Carly’s shopping list from Sunday on the ground and read a few things off of it. He said, “She buyed milk AGAIN?” He had me write a shopping list for him, then read it as I wrote it and pretended to go shopping for all of the things on it. He read it through a few times, figuring out the words.
We read part ofHilda and the Stone Forest. He then had me be Brother doing math on his calculator. He got Willy’s Wish and asked me to read it to him. He then did alone time after I got the side off of the big printer and exposed a lot of screws for him. He had an Oreo, then went to the bathroom and talked about launching things with a pivot point and huge weights to Saturn etc.
We got going to school. We walked in as people were still leaving, right after 3. They were handing out cupcakes for Mike leaving, and August was handed one as we went in. We went downstairs to find Eve and talked to Candy and Andrea. Andrea directed us back upstairs, and we found them in Heather’s room. But first, August found a little USB speaker thing with a suction cup on it in the junk box.
They chose to go to the playground. Zoe stayed with Heather at first. I followed August and Eve to the preschool playground. They played on the swings and experimented to see what things they could attach the speaker to. They then went down to the big playground. At first it was the usual activity where they each climb on things and are calling to me to watch. August also went on the spinny thing a few times. He invented a “shamillion. A thousand nonillions…rapillion…a thousand shamillions.”
But there were several other kids there in the K to 2 grade range and they started playing hide and seek. August wouldn’t hide himself, but once when the two other boys had hidden really well and the group of girls couldn’t find them he led all the girls in the right direction. He then asked me for my phone and was spying, taking videos to track which direction people went when they were hiding so he could provide hints to the seeker if they needed them.
Heather came and picked up the girls a bit after 4 (Zoe had joined us on the big playground), then August and I headed to the library. We returned all of the books we had checked out. August wanted to play chess, and we went over to the board. It was a mess, so he was setting up random positions for me to play. We then went home, getting here at 5.
He wanted another piece of banana bread at the gate, then we went in and he was taking apart things with Carly. I cooked rice, then went up to work. I came down to eat dinner with them, then went up to work again. He called me to ask me to give him two stars, as he had read to Carly and made the beds. He put both of the books in the I Can Read It pile.
He then redeemed his stars for 30 minutes of Polytopia time. I came downstairs and he did that while Carly took a shower. We then went up and he took his bath in the shower again. We were done when he remembered it was supposed to be a hair washing day. Really he wanted a lollipop. So we got that, and I washed his hair at the sink. He brushed his teeth right after finishing the lollipop, and said “I guess magic lollipop and strawberry toothpaste don’t go together.”
As we got him in bed he asked “What’s alloy?” A word of the day at the end. He talked about making super strong alloys, then I left them at 9:55.
The hypnotism machine:
Reading his shopping list:
Spinning 1:
Spinning 2:
