He woke up just before 7. He walked back into the bedroom, but then wanted me to pick him up. I carried him downstairs, and he fell back to sleep on the couch. He started waking up around 7:40, and sat up against a pillow, but kept falling back to sleep. He woke up for good at 8. He changed his countdown, then requested his iPad and watched a little Wild Kratts. He went to the bathroom, then had frozen mango and oatmeal. He played a little of the line drawing game, which I had put on his iPad, while I finished up a little work.
We went upstairs for a full version of the Brother and Millie game, which has turned into a full story. And he was working on three digit math with carrying in his head.
We got going, and drove to school. At the bottom of the stairs we saw the new welcoming tiles from this year and found August’s. We had taken bags of snickerdoodles for Marion and Vicky, as they are both moving away (to India and England) and I wanted him to have a good last memory of each. We saw Vicky first, in PKA. August was a little shocked, as all of the furniture was stacked in the art room. He talked to Vicky about that, and she said some really nice things to him as they said goodbye.
We then went over to PKB, and we found Marion there. He gave her her bag of cookies, and we also saw Anna and Amelia. We found out that Marion is doing an RV road trip, 8 people total, from Portland to Glacier and back to San Francisco. We also saw Andrea and gave her a smaller bag of cookies, as she will be back next year.
Carly called, saying the library was closing in a few minutes. We hurried over there. He waited by the entrance and I went back and checked out Giant’s Beware andThe 26-Story Treehouse.
We headed out to the car. There was a truck idling, and August was trying to figure out the tempo of its sound. We left at 11:40.
At home he wanted salmon for lunch, so I baked the salmon and he played Polytopia. We ate, and Carly got home. Looking at the circle on the ground, he talked circle math with me. A quarter in degrees, a third in degrees, etc. We did more Brother and Sister, and he created a new creature: “The snake is the head and the tail is the snake. The body is a tiger…so triple animal…brother freaks out.”
He did more math on his own in his head, starting with 155+155=310, then 620+620=1240 and figured out the next was 2480.
We got going to Tel Aviv and to see Cassie and Kai, who is a week old. We read The 26-Story Treehouse on the way down and were there by 2:10. In response to the ice cream part in the book, he made up decachocolate ice cream.
We had fun seeing Kai, and Carly and I both got to hold him. Taya wasn’t there. August and I played in her room a bit, particularly putting together ice cream cones, with as many kinds of chocolate ice cream as possible. When he was starting to demand Carly’s attention too much, I got him out with me and we walked to Lika, the Swedish bakery. I got a cappuccino and we got two pastries. He instantly chose the chocolate one when the woman said it had three kinds of chocolate. And I got a saffron-flavored one. We sat outside and played Polytopia.
We played for quite awhile, until he needed a bathroom. I asked inside about getting an iced coffee for Carly, but they were out of ice. We went back to Cassie’s place, and we left at 4. As we went downstairs he gave Carly the challenge of going down to the musty basement area. She did that (he’d had me do it before), then he had me carry him down. He was pretty excited by it. ‘Musty’ was a word of the day.
As we got in the car to go, he saw broken concrete on a post, exposing rebar. He talked about the apartment building he made, and that “It’s rebar made of trutanium.”
In the car he had us do a brother game where
“There’s a bad stench outside, only worser…they batten down the hatches.” We read more ofThe 26-Story Treehouse.
At home he did math with Carly and was converting dollars to Euros. He then had a new power, which he quickly used to change me: “My second power is changing life…scared little kitten floating on an iceberg.” (Which is a reference to a scene in 26 Story Treehouse) We went upstairs and did a Brother and Silky (a flying cat) game.
I went out and cleaned garbage out of the car. August helped, sorting things out and climbing in the trunk to get stuff. We did some packing, had dinner, and I snuck off to do some work. We played chess, and he said “The king is trembling in check.” A reference to Magnus Kingdom. Carly gave him a bath, and I left them around 9:15.
Gift to Marion:
Holding Kai 1:
Holding Kai 2:
His safety clothes:
Trutanium rebar:
End of his rhythm:
