I started waking him up at 7:30 and he was up by 7:40. We read D.W.’s Guide to Preschool, then he watched videos and ate oatmeal and I exercised. He watched big marble races. He told me of one shape “That like a bladder, cuz it’s shaped like that and the pee comes out there.” We then went upstairs for a Brother game where Bar made a weapon using all of Sister’s marbles. They used robot suits to go look for money in a dump. It sort of turned into a competition between Little Sister and Brother to find cool stuff, with Littler Sister finding amazing things while Brother found things like pennies. Of the machine he said “It’s called the marble spinner cuz it flings radioactive marbles…This will be a doozy, cuz I have a googolplex or marbles.” Little Sister hurting him by playing while in the robot suit. We ended with a machine that allowed them to access different voids. One was a void full of pies, and I tried to find a classic pie to the face skit. I was thinking Abbott and Costello, but no luck. We watched the Watched I Love Lucy chocolate factory assembly line bit instead and he thought that was hilarious.
We went downstairs. He wanted to play with Guess Who. He wouldn’t play the game, but it was a machine that could identify people. He then watched a Julius Jr episode. I wrote some Lunch Robot and a couple pages of words: one page of random words from the sheet of 100 that he hadn’t tried to read yet, and then a page of space words. I had him circle the words on the first page that he knows, and he got most of them. He then was practicing drawing ovals and squares and circles. He did a few pages. I was trying to get him to practice pinch grip, but he has gone backwards in this regard and prefers to hold it ham fisted style. Will have to work on that more.
We read My Little Pony issue #9. He asked what a ‘landlubber’ is. It is from Julius Jr. So a word of the day. He then had a little Brother game where they were making up rules as they go, like the Julius Jr. episode. We then read the next issue of My Little Pony.
We left at 11:50. One small game/story where Bar was riding a super scooter and flashing past Brother. In the car he told me about his WDHAA, which was a kind of fake tree that cleans air. And he’d also made some sort of UFO. As we got out he asked “What’s Mayor Mare?” It is a name from My Little Pony, and I explained the joke.
We looked at the preschool class lists and he found ‘Taya’ in PKC. Found out from Cassie that they don’t have separate classes for different ages this year, so Taya’s class has 3, 4, and 5–year olds. Seems odd.
Taya was eating lunch, then they started to play. They were digging with the shovel and looking for bugs:
Taya: I hate bugs.
August: Well I love bugs. They’re so interesting.
When Cassie changed Kai August was interested in the yellow poop. August and Taya then did the teeter totter together, the most I’ve ever seen him do that.
They then decided it was time to leave and go to our house. August definitely wanted them to come, which was nice, given his reticence to have people over. They held hands a bit as we walked out.
Taya rode with us. She wanted to vest in the car until she saw it, then wanted the seat. At the house they took a while to settle in, not knowing what to do. Finally, I asked if they wanted to do art, and then came up with the idea of the egg drop. They worked on their egg things. Taya finished first, and threw hers from the slide a couple times and it didn’t break. She then had me drop it from the window, and it did. I let her do a second one. August was going to have his in his pinch pot and break the pinch pot, but never finished it. He then wanted me to drop it from the window attached to a string. It fell from the drying though as I was just lowering it, and it broke.
When there were a couple broken eggs on the fake grass I suggested they hose it off. I was inside when I heard the noise of someone getting sprayed. Taya was full on spraying him with the hose…and he was liking it. Pretty amazing. After a while he wanted dry clothes. He got a shirt and underwear on, but never put shorts back on.
They took care of the baby and were doctors, with me as their patient. They were writing down my symptoms. August asked for the Apple Pencil and took my symptoms in binary. He let Taya write and draw as well.
Taya and I played Guess Who, and August watched. I was then blowing up balloons and they were taking them outside and playing with them and popping them. Carly got home, and Kai woke up from a long nap on the couch. August made funny faces with Kai, and watched another diaper change. Taya and August had also played with modeling clay for about 10 minutes. Finally, they made some sort of clock-like creation using a round stencil and things like cotton balls.
Before they left, he said of Kai, “I never want him to age.” And told Kai “You aren’t overstaying your welcome! I want you to stay forever!” They also joked about a sleepover.
The only rough moment was when Taya had decided to take back the two plastic rings that she had given August earlier in the day. August got really said and went and huddled in the corner and started crying. She gave him two rings, then eventually gave him two more, then regretted those. Cassie made her keep things the way they were though. We also learned that Cassie hates balloons. They left sometime before 6.
Carly read to August. I went up and did some work, and they finished reading the Caveman book. I then went for a run. They were upstairs when I got back and he asked me to get him one of his rings. He told her they were priceless, then joked it was because he would sell them for nothing.
Downstairs I heard him trying to convince Carly that zombies must be real somewhere in the universe since it is infinite.
I took a shower, and Carly read a new book while he ate oatmeal, then gave him a bath as I did some clean up. I heard water running through the wall that Shmuel/his workers had been working on by our couch. I went out and found the water meter running like crazy, and could hear water dripping/flowing in the construction area. We filled up all our containers, and I shut off water to most of the house (we still have it to the washing machine area though) and told Shmuel. He later called back and said they’d be back in the morning.
We were in bed at 9:30. He had a short Brother game with a girl with An infinite long tongue. He wanted a song, and wanted me sing “Ants Go Marching” to 20. For a story I told him about The writing contests in elementary school. He told me that in space you could communicate with sign language. He was asleep right at 10.
Digging with Taya:
Teeter Totter with Taya:
Taya’s egg drop:
First time getting sprayed by a hose:
Popping Taya’s balloon:
Popping his balloon:
Funny faces with the baby:
