He slept until 7:50. I brought him down and he lay on the couch for a few minutes. He then went outside and found Carly. They did math on the floor with their papers, then up on the couch they did “ugly goose” story problems. ‘Ugly goose’ came from the song that I made up for him yesterday and he found really funny. She tried reading How to Train a Dragon to him. He still wasn’t convinced. She made him a chocolate pancake for breakfast. He played a little Toca world, then watched a spider episode of Wild Kratts. He did a lot of talking about spiderweb silk and how strong it is and how he is making it into thread for doctors. He wanted to head upstairs for a Brother and Sister game, and spent several more minutes on the subject before we did the Brother and Sister story where they find the lynx.
Then, I got the Suspend Junior game that my parents had bought him for Christmas. We had never really played it, but now we really got into it and spent a good hour with it. We were playing cooperatively, although when he first asked if it was a winning game and I had said yes he had said, “Oh, good.” When it was my turn he would say, “Hope you do well!”
We went downstairs when hungry. I got us crackers and cheese and meat and cherries and strawberries nd veggies and hummus and we all went and ate outside at the table. August and I played Polytopia. He really liked the cherries, and when he ran out of ones I had cut he started nibbling on them himself, and was eventually eating the whole things and spitting out the pits. A first!
Back inside, they took apart an old laptop Carly had gotten at school. She guessed it was 10 years old. August said 15. He was closer as I found multiple labels that said 2003. I went upstairs to work. They were at home for awhile longer, then went to school. The plan was to play with Eve and Zoe, then go swimming. They did the first part. August told me they played at both playgrounds. They then went and changed to go to the pool, but it turned out it had closed early today, at 4, because of the holiday. Carly was more disappointed than August though.
They were back at 4:40. I finished working, but had a headache for awhile. He did his turn on his watch game, then Carly gave him potato and carrots. He ate those, eating pieces of carrots before every serving of potatoes. I came over and read several chapters ofBen Braver.
He asked how far around the earth was. We looked it up and it is 40075 km at the equator and 40008 at the poles. ‘Circumference’ was the word of the day. He was still hungry and ate pita and hummus.
We went inside and played with the chess set. He was asking me to try different things, like check mating a bishop and then a rook and seeing how many piecesit would take. Carly told us there were worms in the compost and that she could see them moving. We went outside to look. I didn’t see any worms. August stayed outside for quite awhile with her. I think they went and did something across the street. He was also playing on the slide for quite a bit.
He came back inside and we checked on Green Planet, then played chess on the iPad together. I took him up and we both took showers. I had found his poop spinner earlier, and he now played with it, pretending he had to go to the bathroom. On the bed I read all ofThe Sneetches and Other Stories. Carly was ready for sleep and he was cuddling with her, so I said good night and left them. August realized he had not brushed his teeth though and came out and called down to me, saying he had to brush them. I came up and helped him with that. He was asking about names in Dr. Seuss, like doubt trout and Roover River, and the names of the weapons inThe Butter Battle Book, all of which he remembers quite well, and asking if they were made up by Dr. Seuss.
I left them at 9:15. Carly told him the story of him being born, and mentioned that he nursed for a long time. August got really sad and upset that he doesn’t get to nurse anymore. She said it was really sad.
Ugly goose math:
Spider silk power:
Hanging sticks game:
Crash slo-mo:
Inspecting the compost:
