A little after 6 he fell out of bed and landed right next to me. Luckily, a pretty soft landing. I tried to get him back to sleep in bed, but after fifteen minutes or so he wanted to go down to Carly. I walked him down to her, then I went back to bed for awhile. He updated his countdown to 1, which is an oval in Mooka Mook. He came up to the bedroom awhile later for his iPad. Carly got him oatmeal, and he was watching a Wild Kratts when I came down.
He then wanted to go upstairs for a Brother and Millie game. Brother kept being woken and scared by Millie as different animals, and was so tired he couldn’t function at school, which August found funny. He made a play on the word ‘defrost’ and invented ‘ceefrost’, which makes things colder. He ws then asking about the “Denomicle” in math. It turned out he meant ‘denominator’. So that was a word of the day and I drew some examples of fractions on the iPad and labeled the numerators and denominators. He mentioned the half-shekel coin, which does indeed have a ½ fraction on it.
We played a little Polytopia then headed downstairs. He counted by 999s on the calculator and explained the pattern to me, with the thousands going up and the ones going down. He sort of helped me wrap Omri’s presents (stuff from Max and 4 of our snickerdoodles) and wrote ‘Omri’ on the package. We were doing more math along the way. He ate some toast and carrot. He played with the Solar System app, then was asking me big calculations of bits and bytes. He then observed and concluded “Does light go infinite fast?…Then why does it take infinite energy for mass to go infinite fast…Scientists are wrong.”
Carly had a headache and was doing a lot of resting. August and I left for Omri’s party at 10:40. As we drove away, we saw the older girl from across the street leave her house and start running up the street. He speculated on why she was running, and said she was trying to run as fast as a car. He also sang a “Welcome to the academy” song, and a couple times, as we drove on the highway, pointed out where the girl was trying to run along the side of the highway. But gave up by the time we got there. He was also speeding up time as we went to make the drive go faster.
We got to the party just after 11. There were two blow up water slide/bouncy house sort of things in the yard and a table for food. August had me hold him for a few minutes, then got to his favorite activity, grazing for food. The spread was healthier than at the last party, and he ate some pretzels and chips, and also a bunch of mini corns. We saw and talked to Sharna and her family and Reia and her mom, and Millie was also there. I got to talk to Sharna and Huy (sp?) as we sat on the benches. I sat across from the bouncy house. August wouldn’t go in it, but climbed up the outside of it with his hands on my knees and was then jumping on my lap.
We went over when Omri blew out candles, then got a slice of cake. August was ready to leave after that. We stayed a couple more minutes, then saw her blow out another cake (they were small), then got going.
We left about 12:30 and he fell asleep soon after we got in the car. He was asleep 12:40 to 1 as we got home.
He played something on the iPad, then we were taking apart stuff, mainly the big printer. Mainly I was doing the work and he was my boss. He played the job well, taking regular breaks for him to rest, but telling me to keep working. He was then Millie being a baby crocodile. We readBen Braver. He said, “My power is moving my hands and levitating.” We went upstairs for more of the Millie game. He was then a baby alligator that Brother has to buy back, then steal from the mama alligator. He got his bottom bitten. He was then a mole.
When the clock changed to 4:00 he said, “I want stuff to be done exact, not almost.” We kept playing, then finally went downstairs. He was bothering Carly as I made a smoothie. He was then climbing on the two red chairs and we did calculator math. I showed him 5514 and 35007 upside down on the calculator, and he was wanting me to write all sorts of other things. He did his turn on the watch game. He got Siri to play “Science Fiction” by Arctic Monkeys when he asked for a science fiction song and he did some dancing to it.
I walked over to Tiv Taam as they were skying with Cherie. A guy at Tiv Taam asked me for help finding white bread. I asked if he was new here, as they don’t do a lot of regular white bread (he said his wife was being particular about what kind of bread she wanted) and it was also Saturday, so there was almost no bread on the shelf. I directed him to the closest he was going to find.
I got home at 6:45. He was talking about music tempos and said, “An equilateral song is when the tempo doesn’t change a bit.” We did a Brother and Sister game where the parents don’t believe them about it raining on the beach. Millie helped convince them to go back to the car. I switched with Carly, and they did some building with Duplos, I think.
I got to packing, and August helped choose some Bob Books to take. He tried on his poncho that he’d made at preschool. He said it was comfy, but was still sure he didn’t want it. We talked about Millie, and the word ‘flattering’ came up. He asked what it meant, so another word of the day. He then invented a wireless charger: “Trionic plug…it can charge your phone from miles away…the other side of the earth…” Much like yesterday, Carly took him up for a bath. Skipped washing his hair again, but he said we could do it during the day tomorrow. I left them at 9:15.
Writing Omri:
Bouncing 1:
Bouncing 2:
Chocolate pop rocks:
Dancing to “Science Fiction” 1:
Dancing to “Science Fiction” 2:
Poncho:
