I had my book group meeting at 12:30am. It’s usually an hour later, but since the U.S. has made the time shift and we haven’t, it was a bit nicer for me, and I stayed up until it started, watching the new Netflix series Love, Death, and Robots.
Around 6 it started pouring. August was up at 6:30. I heard him yell “Mama!” I got up because I thought he was scared by the storm. It turned out he was just surprising her when he came down the stairs. I went back to bed until 8. They had done Makey Makey and he was watching marble videos. He chose the Learn Engineering video about how a clutch works and we watched that together. He asked, “What’s ‘logical’ mean?”
The shelves had gotten wet during the storm, and I now moved the shelves just before another storm hit. They read some Pippi Longstocking. We then did two rounds of him playing by himself, rewarded with Oreos, while he worked on his toilet paper holder sculpture. We then played a round of Guess Who. He won for real this time, having guessed my person had blue eyes right away.
He did the game where he runs across the floor to Carly and she picks him up. He was getting too hyper though and I took him for a short timeout. Carly headed to the store. He added some paint to his ‘Welcome’ sign.
We read part of Magic Pickle and then part of The 104-Story Treehouse. We were going to go outside but we missed our window and another thunderstorm. He was a bit grumpy about it, but then we went upstairs. We told a story called “The Queen of the Jewel.”
Carly got home at 12:30. As she unpacked the groceries he found the seaweed snacks, and as he opened a packet he was telling a story to himself. I caught, “… That’s what happens when you take over the world…You get sausages.”
I took him out for a walk up to do recycling. As I did the plastic recycling, with him not helping, there were dark clouds coming over. He said it was going to rain, and wanted us to go right away. When I did finish and we started walking home, the rain hit as we were halfway down the block. We just got a few drops by the time we got back, but he was saying mean things about me as we came in so Carly took him upstairs.
They discussed his costume for Purim and I helped him collect parts from the art kitchen and the other places he has little electronic and metal bits. He explained his toilet paper holder machine to me, and told me he could drink bleach, etc. because, “I put them in a special machine that turns them into water.”
The two of them left at 1:20 to go down to Ace to get supplies for the robot costume. They came back with a hot glue gun and other things. They were back at 2:40 and started making the robot costume. Carly cut the box and cut the neck and arm holes. Carly said I could do the hot glue. He agreed: “Yeah, you’ll do that part dada. Mama’s too wimpy and nervous.” I went upstairs and they made progress on the costume, covering it in foil and starting on the hot glue.
Carly left at 4 to go to the store. He found a coin and said, “This is for my account.” When I asked what he needed money for he said, “Let me buy whatever I want that we don’t have.”
We went out for a walk now, as the weather had cleared. He asked about how fast signals travel, and we paused at the park to watch a video about how fiber optic cables work. As we continued on up towards town he sang a song about a crane fly, then we caught a bee. In the nature-y area we looked for other bugs, and he had me pick him up when someone had a dog. We then found a big dead lizard. We looked at that, and he claimed we had seen a dead bird in Korea. I don’t remember that. We headed home and got here at 5:25.
They started doing hot glue on the costume, and August really liked doing that. Carly was letting him do the glue gun.
We had dinner, and Carly gave him a bath. I put him to sleep. We discussed the word ‘hate’ and he said he didn’t realize what it meant and wouldn’t say it anymore. I told him something about when I was in kindergarten. And he volunteered a story, saying that Eve told him that she cries when she hears a beautiful piece of music. He called it “good crying” and said he understands what she meant. He was asleep just before 8:20.
Tying rubber bands and adding to his creation:
Painting the ‘welcome’ sign:
A little silliness:
Fitting the robot box 1:
The robot box:
Crane Fly song:
Hot gluing and explaining the robot costume:
