August woke me up at 5am. I got in bed with him. He complained he wanted mama, but immediately fell back to sleep. Then Carly did come in the room. A few minutes later he was really laughing in his sleep about something. I was up about 7:20 and they both slept for another half hour past that. Downstairs she started reading Matilda to him. Only got a page in though before he rejected it as too many words. So Carly headed out to water the plants. He looked at Night Sky on his iPad. He asked where the Earth was, and we talked about how he was on it. He asked what ‘horizon’ meant when I said it, so that was a word of the day.
We then designed games in Infinite Arcade. When I was playing one he wanted me to get more points as he said, “I don’t like things that end in 9.” We made a shopping list and Carly headed to the store. August and I went upstairs for a Brother and Sister game. We went back to where they found a tiger and cheetah for the first time (the tiger alone and hungry, the cheetah in a trap). August was also walking on the tiles of the floor and said “I can only move in L shapes” like a knight in chess. He wanted Brother to play Green Planet with the tiger, so we did a few minutes of that then we went downstairs.
We were going to do an art project but didn’t get to it. He did a Skype call with me while I went out and looked for bugs under the rocks. Carly was on the way home, so he then called her.
She got home and I started putting groceries away. August was making up his own ideas for Bob Books: “Ten men went in a vent…ten men drank a cup of tea…ten men went to a benefit.” He read Before and After to her, and I think they may have read or worked on a second. Carly prepared them a snack plate for lunch: watermelon, strawberries, grapes, cherries, carrots, and crackers and meet.
They left for a 1:00 appointment with Gabi. They played Monopoly and the color matching game, with Gabi joining in for at least parts.
When they were back I went to the bank to figure out a money transfer to Gabi through the ATM. Got that to work. When I came back they were looking at the time in poster. He pretended I was a tiger and they were rabbits and I was trying to eat them. We then started reading Over the Garden Wall on Hoopla, as I realized we can check them out through our Sno-Isle library system.
They then headed to the pool. I worked, and they were back around 5:45. I came down a few minutes later and Carly was skyping with her parents. I played Magnus Chess with him, which he was already doing. Carly went up to take a shower. August had a slow meltdown after turning off the iPad that lasted until after Carly came down. He hadn’t eaten dinner, and that seems to be part of it. He had some cereal and milk and more watermelon juice. I made a schnitzel and carrots for him and he ate most of that as well.
We got going for our follow-up meeting with Gabi. We read Monsters Beware in the car. He watched the Curious George Christmas while we met. Checked on us once and blew us a kiss as he went back out to keep watching. When we were done he told me exactly how long it had been, based on how much of the show he had watched. Back in the car we finishedMonsters Beware, then read more ofOver the Garden Wall.
We were home at 9:15. Quite late, and he started to get upset about something—maybe touching a slug—as we entered the gate. He realized he had 52 active minutes, so he and I went out in the yard and he was chasing invisible animals. He then finished off 60 by being a tiger or cheetah chasing me around inside. I gave him a quick wash and he brushed his teeth. I readWhere the Wild Things Are. He mentioned animals with lots of teeth and I looked up animals that had the most and we read about catfish and snails. He told me about his “marathon” animal and that it has “76000 septicles” Carly came in and I left them before 10:10.
More numbers in Mooka Mook:
His Bob Book ideas:
Cutting open the frog toy:
Playing in the yard to get his goal:
