I shared the big bed with him. He woke up at 6:30 and I told him to go back to sleep. He lay next to me and fell asleep until 7, when I felt him climb over me and down to carly. He fell back asleep again until we all got up at 7:40. He was full energy right away, wanting to play the tea game with her. He was silly and lay on top of her and said in a funny voice “I aaam yoouuurr funny blanket.”
He spotted a fly on the door and tried hitting it with his hand. Missed it once, then it landed again and he claimed he killed it with his hand. Carly didn’t believe him at first, but then he produced the body. He then carried it to the garbage on the fly swatter.
Downstairs, he played with Medly on his iPad, making picture songs. I dealt with a small work thing, then he traced things using my iPad as a light source as I made scrambled eggs for breakfast. We ate, then he found his magazine and at first filed it on shelf. He then wanted me to read it, but didn’t like that I couldn’t translate the French for him. They were then being seals cuddling together.
We then started Nimona from the beginning. ‘inanimate’ was the word of the day. Midway of chapter 4 he got up and got a plastic container from the drawer. Didn’t say anything to me. He was at the door with his shoes on, unlocking it, when Carly came down and asked what he was doing. He said, “Harvesting leaves…harvesting greens.” He came back in with a fair amount of leaves and announced we would use it for cooking, so he was putting it in the refrigerator.
Carly headed to the store at 10:40. He played Montessori Preschool on the bed while I took a shower. He, of course, came in right as I was getting done, asking if I was done, and letting in all the cold air. I asked what is was doing in the app, and he said counting, but it was easy. Downstairs I encouraged him to try TodoMath, but he didn’t want to stick with the stuff he didn’t know yet, and he got bored of the easy stuff. Instead, he went and covered my mug with a plastic bag and rubber band and said he could now carry it around. He then wanted to make a drink.
He got the plastic bag that had held the squishy sand and asked me to wash it out. He then put it inside the empty mug (so the mug wouldn’t get dirty), put in cold water, lots of honey, and three pieces of mango, then put it in the freezer for exactly a minute, then added two pieces of pineapple. Carly got home at this point, about noon. He was very excited and told her all about it. He got out three straws and made us all sit down and drink it together.
I then headed upstairs to do some work. I was up there for awhile when Carly came up and said they were heading to school. No door, so they played/worked in the office. They got back and he had done fine, but he told me he should have chosen to stay home. And that he’ll never have fun in the rain. It sounded like the office wasn’t as fun as her classroom.
I did some account stuff, mainly figuring out that our toll road bills actually are being paid automatically. August helped grate cheese. But then he got hungry and was having trouble waiting for the mac and cheese to be ready. I heated up the rest of the eggs from this morning for him and he ate those. He then ate mac and cheese when it was ready. The wait was worth it, as he said, “Best. Sauce. Ever.”
Carly headed upstairs to work. He had the idea of me doing origami for him. Not sure how that started. He requested a flamingo (from Sarah and Duck, where John folds origami flamingos that run away) so I watched a YouTube video and made one. He colored it with crayon before and during the folding. He was impressed with the outcome, so then of course requested a second. A sloth. That was a bit more difficult, but I managed it.
He then started a game where he hid the origami animals and I was a boy trying to find them. But he didn’t like it when I actually found them. He used a word from Berenstain Bears when I did, calling me “smug.” I was supposed to pretend to not be able to find them. He hid them in the fridge and I pretended I couldn’t find them. Instead, I was looking under all the pillows and tossing them on him as I looked. He thought it was really funny.
He also took dried macaroni, which he had painted earlier, and put it in a bowl and added water and other seasonings and we covered it with plastic. It was an experiment and he wants to see if it gets moldy. I told him we’d transfer it to a plastic bin tomorrow so it doesn’t ruin his good bowl.
With the pillows he made a house on the couch. I was another kid through all this. The house had things like a jail cell. We sat down to do some reading. We read a little of Wildwood, but be wasn’t into that. We read more of Ramona the pest instead. Ramona uses a worm as an engagement ring. He said, “Engaged…word of the day!”
I asked if he was hungry, and he requested oatmeal and date syrup. I made a small bowl and he ate it and requested seconds. I made another small bowl and he ate a bite or two. It was then time for a bath. We negotiated, and he wanted half of a story that I made up in my head before we took a bath. I told him half of the Adventurer I’d planned involving the map, then we headed upstairs. On the toilet he talked about how he pees eggs. Lots of powerplant talk – pee goes to a powerplant and makes air. The eggs produce “a tiny amount of fresh air.”
We went into the bedroom and started a new Storytelling Dice story. Carly was getting ready and was faster than I expected. So I just gave him a teaser of the story and said goodnight to them at 8:50. I then went for an evening walk in the damp but not raining night, listening to Forward the Foundation.
His drink recipe:
Painted macaroni experiment:
His tracksy dance:
Pine cone Carly decorated
His drink in a bag
His armor
Origami
A piece of art
Our house
Drums