He was up at 7:20. Carried him down to the couch. There for a couple minutes, then went to the bathroom. He started in with the math: “How many times does 10 go into a million?” “Isn’t it cool how on the calculator on your phone it carries the 1 for you?”
He played our few minutes of Green Planet, then watched the Wild Kratts episode about raccoons. He remembered Dragonbox Algebra and we started figuring that out. ‘Variable’ was a word of the day. He changed his summer countdown to 3 in Mooka Mook, and we spent a few minutes taking things apart. I put up a new phrase for him to figure out: moose cheese. He got cheese before I finished it, but had to work for ‘moose’.
We went upstairs to play a Brother and Millie. He wanted to have Millie hurt Dada for Brother when Brother was upset. We played up there for a long time. He also had one where Millie would divide when she got wet (from Ben Braver) then the teacher, etc. would run around trying to catch all of them. Or when she got warm she would get bigger. We played backgammon, then I let him try a puzzle game where you draw lines to get water to flow into cups.
We went downstairs to get ready to walk to town. But when it came time to go he insisted we drive. When I gave him a choice between going and staying he got upset. Finally, he said we could walk around once in town. So we drove up. On the way out we realized there was a strong manure/fertilizer smell. August said it was the ‘supergrow’ that he had made.
They were open at VIPizza but wouldn’t have pizza for 20 minutes or so. We sat and played Polytopia and August had a juice pouch. We got three slices and shared them pretty equally. We were both still hungry, so we got two more. I ended up eating a little more than him, as he didn’t finish that full slice, but he’s definitely eating more for a lunch now. I also had a cappuccino.
We walked over to the park after August headed that direction. He said we should go to that library sometime. But he didn’t want to play at the park at all. Too bad, as it was nice and breezy and shaded. We walked back towards the car and went to the hardware store. I got a roll of masking tape and we went back to the car and were home at 12:40.
There was an ad hanging on the gate. August took it, saying, “I can use anything in my lab…I can turn dust into a computer.” We did a Brother and Millie game. He wanted Brother to go to a new school. I had him really laughing with a crazy teacher monologue.
We went downstairs and read Bob Books. He read much ofThe King, I let him play some of the line drawing game, then we readThe Game. I read it first, then we read it together. We did some Duck Duck Moose Reading, then made snickerdoodle cookie dough. I worked on the angles of a circle thing on the floor while the dough cooled. He got his calculator and had me asking him funny math problems: “If I have 7 chickens and a wolf eats 12, how many chickens do I have?…Aargh! How do I have negative chickens!” He asked what a ‘square root’ was. Another word of the day.
We finished the cookies, and when they were done we each had one. We were listening to a lot of Spaceman 3 today.
When the cookies were done he wanted another Brother and Millie game: “You start to get really jealous so you put on animal dresses but i isn’t enough. Millie looks like an animal more.” We went downstairs for something, and he kept up games with Millie being a mole that was hibernating. Upstairs he had taken over Brother’s bed for the winter by hibernating in the middle of it. He was hibernating on my lap now, and Brother couldn’t make it to the bathroom when he needed to go.
Carly was home at 4:45. He went and gave her a hug, and then locked her out. He said it was private. I convinced him to let her in, and we went upstairs to keep playing. There was a lot more of Millie hibernating on him, with her getting hurt when he ran to the bathroom.
We went downstairs for dinner. Had crackers and meat and carrots and Carly made a smoothie. He ate a bunch of carrots to earn a second cookie. Carly had a headache, but they went up to start some packing and laundry. I did dishes.
Downstairs he showed her his new mechanical pencil. He got a piece of paper and asked her, “Do you want to write on this with my mechanical pencil?” He was then listening to the voice memo app on his phone. ITunes had labeled some random songs as voice memos, and he was listening to that. He brought it over to me, and wanted to listen to older voice memos. At the suggestion I didn’t want to listen to older voice memos of us singing songs or whatever and I wanted to look at it first he had a complete meltdown, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a long time. I did eventually end up getting to look at it, and also made sure everything was backed up that I wanted to save. I good thing, as the one thing that wasn’t was a 45 minute file of Steve telling Carly stories in Centralia 3 or 4 years ago.
When I came down they were using FaceTime with Vivian and Colin. Colin could apparently climb out the window onto the trampoline. When they were done Carly went up for a shower. He had me acting out Brother watching television and trying to figure out the passcode to watch more. It went on and on, with him getting caught every time he did it, and getting grounded for longer and longer.
He was hungry, so had more frozen mango and then oatmeal. He asked about degrees of partial circles and we discussed musical notes as well, since we were discussing fractions (quarter notes, eighth notes, etc.). When I got to thirty-second notes he found it funny: “I think ‘thirty-seconds’ is hilarious.” I think because it sounds like 30 seconds, or half a minute.
Carly took him up for a bath, we got him ready for bed, and I left them a bit after 9.
Mooka Mook 3:
Silly head stand and fact:
Rolling snickerdoodles:
Skyping with Vivian and Colin:
