They were up about 6:40. He came down and watched a Wintegarden video on YouTube, then asked for the new StoryBots: “I like the cranky guy at the beginning.” He watched the episode on how the ear works, then went to the bathroom, then watched the one on how volcanoes work. He said he was feeling better so I didn’t have to take his temperature. I did anyway, and it was 38.1. So lower than yesterday, but still high.
He did a little beading with Carly, then read a little of Magic Tree House #24. Didn’t last long though. I finished french toast and he ate that and played the Sesame Street word cookie game. Carly took recycling to the cages. After we ate he played Sound Rebound. He applied what he’d learned in StoryBots about the ear: “I put a wall of these here so it absorbs them…it’s the eardrum…then sends it to the brain. “ He then made brains underneath “Mama! Look what I made! It’s an eardrum!” And he explained it to her.
I took a shower and they read Skybrary: Hungry Fox and the Midnight Pies, Oliver Otter’s Own Officr, Scrubba Dub, Carlos, and Happy, Healthy Ajay! They then did a science experiment with an egg. August was very excited about it. August pretended to build something and said, “I’m a great builder machine. You accidentally built it on Saturday.” The experiment was to float an egg in salt water. As they put salt in it he said, “Well, it’s rolling around. Maybe that’s what the salt does. It makes it smoother…” Carly transferred the egg to plain water and it started to make a little squeaking sound that sounded like. Bird. Carly joked that it sounded like an animal and it kind of scared August and he went and sat on the couch.
They switched containers and got the egg floating. He had an idea for another experiment: “Add pepper, baking soda, and an egg like this and the egg will explode!” They then did another experiment, seeing how food coloring moved differently in hot and cold water. August said, “So it’s a hot day, so we can easily get hot water, right?” carly asked how did knew know that and he said, “Well I put-ed a tube in your brain that puts it in my brain, so now you don’t know it, right?”
After that experiment he then whispered the water and oil experiment with me and he did it with Carly. They put food coloring on top and watched it drip through the oil to the water.
Carly headed to the store. We read Let’s Investigate with Nate: The Solar System and read most of it. We then did another experiment – our classic with putting oil and water, then putting baking soda and old spices on top and seeing the clumps work through the oil and fell to the bottom. Then, bubbles of oil escape and go back to the surface. We played 5 minutes of Green Earth, then I tried to get him outside. He went back in for his shoes, but then wouldn’t come back out.
We read more of Magic Tree House #24. It talks about dynamite, so I showed gust photos of dynamite, and we watched a video of a house being blown up with dynamite.
We ended up with several words of the day, after August asked “Can we do ANOTHER word of the day?” They were ‘higher concentration’ (which Carly had explained to him during the egg experiment), ‘lend’, and ‘dynamite’. Carly got home. He and I put the words of the day in Writing Wizard. He managed to switch over and play Endless Reader on his own, then we made a person detector machine in The Everything Machine. We made it say things in a creepy voice when it sensed a face.
He blew his whistle and scared us. I asked “Who gave him that necklace?” He then called it “The goodest necklace in the world.” His temperature was now down to 37.4. He played on his own with the globe for several minutes. He ws talking about the Atlantic Ocean and Atlantic coast and some other things.
We cleaned up the experiments, then went upstairs to get Duplos. We discussed how I was still trying to fix Carly’s computer. He said, “Let’s go to the mechanic. The mechanic knows everything about computers.”
We built with Duplos and sort of did challenges, like seeing how wide of an object we could make with just a small base. Carly made a coconut curry. I asked August does when he wrestles with Carly. He said, “I just roll around and do sneaky stuff.” There’s something too about a fake hug wrestling move, but he wouldn’t tell me about it.
We watched a video about what your appendix is for after August asked. He asked because of the book Madeline. We went upstairs and poured out his treasures on the bed and talked about/played with them.
Cherie called on Skype. August thanked her for the necklace. Carly talked to her upstairs and August and I finished reading Magic Tree House #24.
Carly had initially made the curry spice, but managed to fix it. We ate some, then I went up to rest for awhile. I never had a fever, but think I was also affected by whatever August had. When I came down he asked “What does “well matched” mean?” It is from the Sarah and Duck episode where she gets a musical instrument. He hasn’t watched that in several days.
We got ready to go and left at 4:40 to go to Poleg Beach. We were out on the beach by 5:15. I sat and read, and they played in the sand, doing some digging. I went out in the water for a little while, then came back in with them. Carly took a turn out in the water. August sat on my lap and told me, “Dada, I love you but I don’t like that you’re not letting me read Captain Underpants.” He then spent a lot of time being a “wave weather machine”.
It was hard to judge the tide as it wasn’t changing much, but was slowly coming in. The entire time we were there there was a group of older kids who had made a pretty substantial round castle on the beach. They protected it from the incoming tide, but as we left at 6:50 it was finally crumbling beyond repair.
August and I had talked about tsunamis, and I’d assured them there wasn’t much likelihood of one, especially on the Mediterranean. He was continuing to be a wave detector and predictor and told me “In a thousand years there’ll be a tsunami in Israel. But we’ll be dead, right?”
We got home. I went for a walk and Carly gave him a bath. He was asleep when I returned around 8:30.