The smoke detector in the kitchen went off a little after 6. Carly and I ran down, but there was no smoke. And it hadn’t woken up August. He then was up at 6:30. He watched Magic School Bus and one story of Llama Llama. When I came down he told me “Mama’s sick.” He smiled and I asked what was going on. “I’m making a lie at you.”
He had some bread, then talked about having digital math problems coming out of his head. It became a preschool game, with this happening during math time. He was then whiney about Carly wanting to be outside, as he wanted her to come in. He asked me, “Will you do Lunch Robot when I’m in kindergarten?…I want you to do Lunch Robot every day I’m in school.” We made a squirrel nest, but he instead decided to be a silkworm. Not sure how that was chosen. We listened to the new Steve Kilbey as he produced silk and I made clothes from it and gathered leaves for him. The game kept going, and he would switch, to be a new silkworm that I discovered or that showed up. My business grew, and I bought a shop, then hired a shopkeeper, planted my own fields, built a fence, etc. By the end of the day there were six silkworms.
We took little pauses from the silkworm game to do other things: I brought down the underwater puzzle and he helped with that, and a few times we looked at pages of the Children’s Illustrated Dictionary. He surprised me by reading drink, droop, drought, and drum.
I went and took a shower. He’s been regressing in the bathroom, wanting us to accompany him and watch him, and then was his hands for him. I had to convince him to turn on the water himself to wash his hands. I pointed out that he was acting grumpy this morning and asked him about it. He said, “That’s because you left me on grumpy mode.”
There was a piece of mail left at our gate. Our address, but not for us, once I translated it. Carly left for the store at 11:20. We discussed endangered species and overpopulation: “I know how to solve that… I’ll go back in time.” “I’m making better ways…like a hand generator. You turn a handle…” That transitioned to a game of stopping aliens from destroying Earth. We looked at the dictionary again, then told some stories. Earlier we had done storytelling dice and told “The Snakes of Smorf and Dr. Fiegelmeister”. Now we did “liens from Planet 9” and played a preschool game where it was music class and he taught them a new way to make music. He then sang an “I am Sleepy and I want to go to Sleep” song.
Carly got home at 12:25. She had bought an eggplant. We mentioned baba ganoush and he chanted, “Baba ganoush, baba ganoush! I love baba ganoush!” Getting pretty hyper. We had been about to head out the door on a Dada Zinnie adventure when Carly got home. Took some time now. Almost left, then he needed to use the bathroom.
Finally left at 12:45. Carly wanted us to pick some kumquats, so did that at a couple trees along the block. Got to our playground and didn’t get any farther for the next two hours. He went on the swing and used the binoculars. He then wanted to do a new game/story, and said: “The sad games is fun. The nice games is not fun.” The scenario would be that he was an animal running away from a war. He decided on a beaver, and we played this game for much of the next hour. I would find it, take care of it, then eventually it would live in my yard, or it would go back to the wild when the fighting stopped. We paused to go exercise, and he wore my watch. He was excited to find he could just lift the leg lift thing using his toes now. Couldn’t do that last year. He also ran circles and counted them.
He was the beaver again, and the pirate ship was my house, with a stream running by underneath that was where he would live. Finally, we went and did recycling. He found some treasures (there were letter magnets strewn around) and found a metal handle, like for a broom, and peeled the color off of it and used it to stab at the recycling. Then, he found a printer. No cord for it, so he was confused about how it worked. He put paper and cardboard in it, and decided it changed the color of them.
We got home after 3, after walking around the Holly block. He had asked for the ice cream in the freezer. It was the last of the vanilla. I put strawberries on it. He called adding the strawberries the “Baddest compromise ever” but promptly ate it all.
We went back to the silkworm game. He was #6. He decided that ‘microorganism’ was the word of the day. We read some 91-Story Treehouse. He then played some Magnus’s Kingdom but started from the beginning as the character from his other game was literally stuck inside a mountain as part of a weird glitch. He then moved to Human Body and was recording himself singing.
Carly had made vegetable soup, and he had some for dinner. He then found Berenstain Bears on YouTube, which I didn’t know existed, and he watch an episode where they take care of a squirrel baby. Carly made him a smoothie with mango and pineapple, and we read more 91-Story Treehouse. Looked at the dictionary again.
Carly went up to shower and he made banana bread with me. He likes using the electric mixer. More 91-Story, then they had popcorn and we watched super slo-mo videos (The Slo-Mo Guys), starting with popcorn popping (Carly had popped it on the stove), then hitting jello with a tennis racket, then paint on a speaker.
I gave him a quick bath at the sink, which he complained about, then we went down and had some bread fresh out of the oven.
As we headed upstairs we did a preschool game about the strict school again, His change was that he came out of a Tortuga ship (which is from Wild Kratts). He really wanted to fall asleep with me, but I reminded him we had done all sorts of stories today. I left them at 8:45. He was hyper and loud for awhile, but then went to the the bathroom and fell immediately to sleep when back on the bed, about 9.
Beaver resting on me:
New exercise equipment for him:
Running laps:
Stick in recycling:
Figuring out the printer:
Singing in Human Anatomy:
