He was up at 7:20. We watched part of the Grand Prix together. He played on his iPad, trying out the Coding Karts game. He watched some Wild Kratts. We had french toast for breakfast and discussed our week. We then started with fast fuse beads. He wanted to make the castle, which was a really big one, and we probably spent an hour doing it. We would take turns getting beads of the correct color out for each other, and occasionally he’d take a break, but he was really into it the whole time. He changed the countdown for the day we leave for the summer. He wrote a beautiful 4 in chalk.
We played a little Toca Plants. We were listening to OMD through the morning. He did some dancing to a remix of “Dresden” so I added it to his playlist. He then had some oatmeal with mango, then some nutty noodles. He was discussing the number of days there are on Pluto, so we looked up the length of the day and year on Pluto and were converting them to earth days and seconds. He then had some insanely long length of his year on My Planet and we converted it to Earth seconds.
He played a little of that logic puzzles game with the knight on his iPad while I glued the bead thing. It had mostly melted together except for one of the flags, so I was trying to find a glue that held it.
We went up and made the beds. He then read both Ten Men and Bump! He did alone time with Duplos and made a big structure for elves. He got an Oreo at the end. He was then telling me how I could earn millions of shekels by getting him parts for his machine, but it was a crazy quest like in Timepocalypse: “… go to the 1960s and get an antelope…buy 10 pounds of shaving cream…then get me 160000 clams…”
We got ready to go and headed to Poleg beach at 2:40. Along the way he asked me “What’s ‘deploy’ mean?” A word of the day.
We parked up at the top of Poleg Beach so we could get some walking and not have to pay. August wasn’t happy with this at first but then agreed. As we walked down we took the dirt road shortcut, which worked pretty well, but involved taking his bike apart and putting it back together on the other side of a divider.
The beach was nice, but windy. We found a spot under one of the shade things and played for about a half hour. Mainly we were burying his feet and he was breaking out. He decided it was too windy, and we started to get ready to go. He let me go down and wade in the water. Still rather cold.
So we made the walk back up, taking the bike apart again, and then headed to VIPizza. We ordered a large pizza, half corn and half mushrooms and olives. We each got a drink and ate a slice there before taking the rest home. We played Polytopia while we waited.
We were home at 4:40. We did building challenges with the Duplos, then Carly was home at 5:15. He was giving her challenges. We were giving him ‘points’ for his creations. He blamed my building for something, and I said something in return. He said, “I’ll take off points if you say that!” We went out side and he ran around, touching invisible animals, etc.
I went up to work at 6 and was down at 7. Carly went out to run some errands. I was giving him Duplo challenges now “tallest with 10” “widest with 12”. We also played chess on the iPad. He was having fun making it lose, and we also worked on some games together.
Carly came home, and took him up for his bath. As they went up he was telling her “Did you know I made a nuclear bomb that can explode ten more times intense than a supernova…that’s just the low setting…” She was tired so put him to sleep. I left them about 9:30.
Fast fuse beads:
Parts for his machine:
Burying his feet:
Slow gears:
