He came down the stairs at 7:25. Cuddled with Carly for awhile, then he and I read Monster on the Hill. Very funny. Carly made french toast. We ate, then I went upstairs to work. August was playing Dragonbox Big Numbers, but then I heard him singing loudly for a long time. Carly later said that it was a really cool song, but neither of them could remember what it was about. They then spent a long time outside. He was doing a lot of hammering. He was breaking rocks for the succulents garden.
I came down and they were taking the printer about. Carly Sid she had broken one of the new tools and he had handled it well, but he said he didn’t want to talk about it now. I continued to take things apart with him. I spent a lot of time exchanging messages and phone messages with Shmuel trying to figure out the air conditioner in the bedroom. No luck. We’ll have to have the technician out.
Carly baked a pizza and August ate a ton. He also ate a sort of lunchable lunch outside. And he found a big beetle in our yard and caught it. He let me let it go in the evening.
I gave up on the air conditioner and came downstairs. He went to the bathroom. He built a drinks machine for us, then it expanded to be able to make any food you want as well. He’s really into charging us subscriptions now, which I later realized was because of our discussion of how Apple Music works, after our discussion of how it worked versus a record player. He was talking and talking, and when I told him “Wash your hands” he said, “I was having so much fun.” I started using Siri to remind me to put lotion on his lip every hour.
He went outside with Carly and was squeezing the hose when Carly was trying to water. I went back to work. They walked up to town and went to the coffee shop. He had a small hot chocolate. They came back and I came down t 5:30. He was taking the printer apart on his own. He started singing a “could you please find me some fun?” song. We managed to figure out how to get the motors out and made them working using the 9V battery and wires. When we got one going he said, “Now we have some action.”
Carly made sushi for dinner. We ate a lot, but he didn’t, probably because of all the pizza earlier. We all went outside, and he was using the long stick to knock down the tree things from the lower branches. Carly had helped him extend the length of his stick by taping two together. I did dishes, then Carly went up to take a shower.
He played Khan Academy. When it came time to stop he had a hard time giving up the iPad, but reacted well when we took it from him. We all worked together to do some clean up. He then ran to the bathroom as he really needed to go. He now made a magic chair for Carly. The subscription model again. I talked about going for a quick ‘power walk’ while she gave him a bath. He said, “that word is disturbing.” He was doing something and used a very Eeyore-like voice to tell me, “Just go away. I have work to do.”
Carly and I were discussing summer dates. Upstairs, he found one of the sticky tags from one of our backpacks, and then a ticket-sort of thing. The sticky thing he put on my wrist as a bracelet, while Carly got the ticket. He had us write our names and birthdays and phone numbers on them. They gave us chess to his lab.
I went for a short walk while she gave him a bath. When I got back though I found they had been distracted by looking at coins. I ended up giving him a bath. He wanted points, so I said he got 6532 for the bath.
Downstairs he ate a bunch of strawberries. Carly talked to him mom, so August talked to her a bit. We read Captain Underpants #10. ‘Booby trap’ was another word of the day. They time travel in the book, then August said he time traveled back in time 55 years. I said he could meet Gramma and Grampa when they were 17 years old. We brushed his teeth, and I left them at 9:30.
We found out that Israel Cassie’s niece, who is a year old or something, has an aggressive form of cancer.
Rolling the printer part:
Squeezing the hose:
Spinning hose:
End of the find me some fun song:
Using the motor from the printer:
