He was up just after 8:20. He went outside and found Carly, then came in and cuddled on the couch with her. I got allergy medicine. He randomly reminded us “Remember to brush my molar.” He Looked at weather maps on my phone, then had oatmeal. He sang “Could you read to me at the table!” But got distracted when he asked Carly if they should play rock, paper, scissors sometime, then asked what it was. She showed him.
I went upstairs to work, and they headed to school at 9:40. He played with Eve and Zoe and Max and his sister until 12. They were mainly at the preschool playground, it sounds like. Zoe tried to lead them to her fort area, but couldn’t find it. She walked around the library, the space below, etc. Luckily, August wasn’t upset. Back at the playground, August came and got help when the other kids had taken apart part of the structure that Eve had made with the car, then was suggesting they take turns.
I got to school at 12:40. He showed me the obstacle course he had made in Carly’s room, then I took him outside to the picnic bench to eat his lunch. He ate the broccoli, but not much mac and cheese. He asked about the pipes coming down, so ‘downspout’ was a word of the day. He wanted to me to read to him, and we almost started reading Ben Braver on my phone. He told me that “9 times 9 times 2 is 9 times 9 plus 9 times 9…” on My Planet. Which was actually another real way to understand it, but he didn’t seem to entirely believe me. He wanted to drop something over the railing and we had a big long debate about where he could and couldn’t drop things down, luckily, we came to a good agreement, and he dropped a leaf down in a safe spot.
He examined the lockers, then when Jeff and Alex showed up after 1 to work with Carly he initially got a bit upset and wanted to go back inside. I was able to stop him though and he calmed down and after a bit we headed to swimming.
We got changed and he got in the water at 1:30. He was disappointed that there weren’t more people. At one point even we were the only ones in the pool. We played and played, nothing in particular. He started holding his breath, big cheeks, and swimming with his mouth in the water. Then he was holding his nose and putting it in too.
At 3 the Kern girls showed up with Max and his sister. Max said, “Hi, August!” I think they played together a bit more today. There were more people at the pool, which made August happy, as he likes watching them. Max had to stay in the shallow end, and it became a great spectator sport when he kept trying to get past the red line and Grace and Gaby were stopping him. August was rooting on Max, which I had to get him to stop.
Carly got there around 3:30. She changed and got in, and I got out. He and I had figured out the best way to put on his goggles (very loose, and back on first, then tighten them) and I had also taught him how to loosen and tighten them on his own. Now, he was showing Carly how he could swim with his mouth and nose in water. Carly said if he put his eyes under he’d be able to see really well. He did it and was amazed: “That was so good! That. Was. Amazing…I can see everything!”
Finally, got out of the pool at 4:30. I noted it was a record for longest time in the pool, at 3 hours. And Carly noted that he had been at the school for longer in one day than he had ever been before when it wasn’t a school day. It was 7 hours by the time we left.
On the way to the car he had me lift him up to pick a little fruit from a tree. He was hungry, so I gave him the last strawberry Altoid. He then used the can (“I reused something!”) and put the fruit in it, and called it a musical instrument. He was rather excited by this, and showed it to Carly as a surprise once we were home.
But first, there was a bunch of junk across the street. We picked up a wi-fi router and a computer monitor. Carly and August were outside for awhile. He found that ants had been attracted to the fig he left out. He moved it over to the garden area to lure them away from the house, then put down some more ant poison by the house. I finished the broccoli and schnitzel, then we ate dinner.
August wanted to play a Brother game, making use of the wi-fi router as a prop, but upstairs he saw the cardboard house and wanted to work on his expansion plan, which he had dreamed up yesterday. The big cardboard boxes that Carly had had had been picked up, but luckily she had just gotten an email saying there were cardboard boxes by the tech room. So we all got in the car and headed to school to get some cardboard.
We loaded up the back of the car and headed home. Upstairs, August and I started planning. We decided to incorporate the book shelves and a couple of the real walls, meaning less cardboard necessary. We used the existing box s the entryway, and were opening up the back of it to enter into the rest of the house. We went downstairs to get tools to take out the big staples. I found his lip gloss, Nd he put it on and asked Carly “Is it still princess-y?”
Upstairs he and I worked together to get out all the staples. a real team effort. He asked “What ‘diameter’?” And then “What’s ‘diametrical’?”
Carly switched with me as he was playing in the sink a bit, and I went for a bike ride. When I got back they were reading Dog Man. I took a shower.
I took over for his bath. He played in the sink, getting a plastic straw stuck in the spout. Luckily, it didn’t seem to affect the flow and I should be able to get it out pretty easily. When he went to the bathroom he asked “Dada, should I touch my pee again?” He also asked “What’s a lie detector?” We talked about how the work.
Eventually, I washed him. I then realized, in bed, that he had a big red circle on his forehead: he had attached the bluetooth speaker thing to it earlier. He rather liked the look of it, although he also said he didn’t want other people to see it. I said we hadn’t noticed it at all when his hair was down.
Carly came in to put him to sleep. I left him at 9:40. He was upset about her leaving in the morning, and initially tried to go downstairs. But he went into the bedroom to talk to her. Initially he wanted to take her to work in the morning, and visit her for lunch. Later, at 10:15, he said he just wanted me to be in the room when he woke up. I agreed to that. Think he was asleep soon after that.
Breaking open the palm nut:
Classroom obstacle course:
Putting his face in the water 1:
Putting his face in the water 2:
Putting his face in the water 3:
