He came out about 7:50. Carly was upstairs. she brought him down and he was sleepy and smiley again. They went and started working more on the card for Mikaela. I went up to take a shower. While I was up there one of his strings came apart into curly threads and Carly said it could be spider web in a haunted house. So August wanted to build a haunted house out of paper. They were doing that when I came down. August said he had invented special rebar for paper, but it is only sold in “art stores. Crafts stores” so we don’t have any. He spent a good amount of time painting it.
I was preparing ingredients, then he helped me make the gingersnap dough. Carly made him oatmeal and mango (eaten separately) for breakfast. He went outside with Carly for awhile while I worked on the fresh ginger. He was shocked that I was using fresh ginger. I think because he’s seen me use ginger in savory things, so he doesn’t think it should taste good in a sweet thing. He also kept calling it garlic.
He came back in and we finished and made one tray. We read Nick and Tesla and had a cookie when the first tray was done. From the book, ‘silver dollar’ and ‘ransom’ were words of the day. We forgot to put sugar on the top of the first batch, but remembered for the rest. Carly had gone to the store, and now got back. August was most excited by the half of a watermelon. While she cut it, he used a straw to suck up the pools of juice. Carly said, “Its a good day for watermelon.” I replied, “Unless you’re the watermelon.” She said, “That’s an oh dada.” August initially said “Oh, dada” but then sided with me for once: “But he’s right. If you were the watermelon you’re getting eating.Well, that’s some good thinking.” Or something of the sort.
I finally changed him into clothes. I put shorts and short-sleeved shirt on him. He put on a sweatshirt. He then took his shorts off and then the sweatshirt and shirt. He ended up in pants and a long-sleeved shirt. He tied a bag shut with his shoes and Carly’s sandals. He and Carly then watched the rest of Up. It was the suspenseful, scary part at the end. August had a styrofoam tray that he was thinking about using for an art project, and was nervously nibbling at the edge of it. Carly kept asking if he was okay, and he kept telling her to keep the movie going. I actually watched the very end with him when she got up to make food.
We finished the movie, then he talked me into opening the rocks and tile things that we had bought at Max. We had initially planned on going swimming today, but then checked the pool schedule and it was only open until 2pm. So Carly was going to take him to the beach and I was going to work. I was working on writing the calendar signs. They took quite awhile to go, as August kept playing with things. He set up a string across the living room and into the hall and taped a chair and objects to it. He sat and played with his Lego spaceship for a few minutes and flew it around the house.
They finally left at 2:40. I spent a lot of time working on the calendar and homeschooling stuff, then spent an hour on work. They were back at 5:30. They had gone to Poleg Beach, the closest one, and been close to the stream. He told me, “There was a huge muck place.” He gave muck to Carly to build with and it hardened in the sun. He ended up wading in the water and walking across the stream and wasn’t bothered by one of his pant legs getting wet.
He played a little Dragonbox Big Numbers. The bigger math is really taking hold. I think he had 11-5 memorized now. We then worked on the calendar together, discussing it and starting to put things on it. Carly made sushi, and we all sat at the table and ate. When he was done eating he started playing with the box of metal connectors from Max, bending them into different shapes: “It’s like metal origami.” He had me superglue a bird one made out of three of them. We did a little more with the calendar, and Carly blended watermelon juice for him. He drank more, and was saying she should get a full watermelon next time.
He was hyper, so I took him up and we wrestled and did the car game on the bed. He wanted to do an imagining game, and it was the one where I help a baby tiger, but this time I get eaten by the mother. He tied clothes together and onto the door knob again as a sort of lock or something, then I gave him bath.
We skyped with my parents. He was quite hyper, but did a good job of showing them things, including how he does his metal origami. And he joked about dad saying “handy.” Upstairs, he was looking out the bedroom window several times, and he looked out as he brushed his teeth. I left him and Carly at 8:40.
Making gingersnaps:
His string creation:
Playing with his spaceship:
Metal origami:
