August was sleeping right next to me. I thought he’d wake up if I moved. At 7:15 he opened his eyes but went back to sleep. So I read my book, and was almost finished when he finally did wake up after 7:50. He went to the bathroom and then we went downstairs. He found Carly outside and went to her. I finished my book, then made the last of the pancakes.
They came in and we ate. August said he couldn’t taste the allergy medicine in his water. “But I can if I put my super mouth on!” He then talked about how his super mouth could taste they dust in water.
They read some of Where the Sidewalk Ends. Boa constrictor, sardines, etc. They went back outside and Carly was watering plants. August caught another one of the cockroach-beetles. He said he knew it could fly because he saw wings, and he also observed the hook things on the ends of its legs. He played with it inside and gave it a 10 agorot coin and the metal tube piece from the mechanical pencil. The beetle was trying to get into the metal tube, so I asked if August could figure out a different way to give it some darkness.
He then did some Dragonbox Big Numbers. He left it with me to get some bees for him, then when he came back and did a math problem I saw that he was now drawing his 8s figure eight style, as opposed to two circles. Totally an influence of the game, as I’ve not pushed it at all.
We played Robot Factory. We figured out the test track better than before, and he was now into designing a robot that would do better on it. After awhile Carly took over. They then played outside.
I went up to work. Carly brought up smoothie for me after he came up and asked if I wanted some. I came down and he was telling me about his communication system: “820 billion people on it” He could communicate with everyone on his planet.
I started hot dogs. Upstairs he had found Carly’s 2 dollar bill, and wanted her to give it to him and got a bit upset that he couldn’t have it. I think she took him upstairs for a minute. He came back down and played a few minutes of the PBS Science game then he and I ate hot dogs and milk. He ate it, but told me he wanted it long and skinny next time and not side-by-side. I tried to get him out for a bug or flower walk.
He was looking at his coins and found his old 10 agorot coin, that has a different design on it. He questioned whether he could actually spend it, and we talked about how it was still “in circulation”. We then read and almost finished Amulet #8. He next had me play chess because of ‘pawn’ in the book. I played a game, then we went back to the book and finished it. The end tells us that the story will be ‘concluded’ in volume 9, so that was another word of the day.
He was running around so Carly took him out to touch imaginary giraffes.
Gabby got here at 3 and watched him until 4:50. They painted rocks for Carly and delivered them to her. Gabby had brought a puzzle of the Earth. August wouldn’t help, but would set timers for her to do it. I heard him telling her how he would live for millions of years. They played some soccer, and she shared Mentos with him. There was a lot of playing with the hose. Later, he told us he had gone to the bathroom when Gabby was here, and not only done everything on his own, but she didn’t have to come close to the scary bathroom with him.
I paid Gabby, then went back up to work a bit more. Carly made him oatmeal. I came down, and he picked up tree things. He got a little upset again when he found out he couldn’t make the beds because Carly had already done it when she put on new sheets.
We wrestled on the bed, Robot Factory style. When he went to the bathroom he asked what a ‘cockpit’ is and about ‘sound barrier’. Carly skyped with her parents, and when he was talking to them he randomly said, “I’m at full capacity now, bub.”
He and Carly did math for a long time. Carly went to the shower. He read Ten Men to me and we figured out the last bits of his watch, including the toe-to-toe challenges. He had me do a toe-to-toe challenge, holding his watch, which involves seeing how many steps you can get in two minutes. He then did one. We then got the Mother’s day card out and added to it. He told me what to write inside and he signed his name, and he also decided we should trace coins on the front.
Carly give him a bath, then they had toast. I read Monster Party and “Too Many Daves”. I left them at 9:30 as she read “What Was I Afraid of?”
Picking up tree things:
Store game:
Step challenge on his watch:
YouTube https://youtu.be/F_fLlGb3gP8
Dance walking:
