He was up at 5:50. Too early. They came out a few minutes later, and August found me out on the couch. I started to take him upstairs, then he said, “Wait, can we go downstairs? This would be a good time to do our Brother and Sister game.” In the room he said, “But now Blanka can bring things back to the real world from dreams…so Brother asks her for a jar of honey.” Yesterday, as they went through dreams, the most common were ones where they were in a void, then whatever Brother thought about, good and bad, came to life. So in the first dream he had Blanka take real money into a dream and buy a jar of honey. We did several dreams. He usually had Blanka be tiny, and the dreams would be scary ones. They were chased by lava once, a t-rex another, and a triceratops for a third. I finally got him upstairs. Carly made an English muffin for him, and he gave me, as Brother, half of it.
I got tea and some cereal. He snacked on my Wheaties, then ate most of a banana when I gave him one. Back in the living room he played Earth app on his iPad, sitting on the back of the green chair. He did the pollution and the erosion a lot.
I went and too a shower. They did story problem. When I cme back up he was on the Lego app. I then did a story problem with him. We had planned to go over to Chuck and Cherie’s and go in the hot tub while August played with Cherie. But Carly was feeling worse and worse, so eventually we decided to just have them come over here.
They got here at 9:15. August gave them an excited welcome, and hugged Cherie, or at least her arm, which was a first for the trip. She talked to him about consonant blends and digraphs. He took her into the living room and he sat on the back of the green chair behind her and showed her the cup app with the line drawing. At one point he said to her, “Okay. You like silly? We can do some silly stuff.” They also played that cat app on her tablet.
He wanted to play Brother and Sister with me, and we went out to the garage for a few minutes and played there while Cherie made sandwiches for them. Inside we had pita chips and cheese. Chuck went to the store and got medicine for Carly. August asked Cherie, “Could you tell me the story of when Uncle DD wanted everything Mama and Tia Cassie had?” She told him about them roller skating.
Chuck and Cherie left. August was getting tired and we went down to see Carly. He was getting a little grumpy. He ate an English muffin, then was counting things on the calculator. He next had some frozen fruit. He noticed when the time on the clock in the living room was 12:12:12.
We went out to the garage again. He was reluctant to keep playing out there, as he said the bed wasn’t bouncy enough. So we made the bed, and he liked that a bit better. He asked, “What’s excruciatingly mean?” Think maybe it is from Ben Braver or Wild Kratts. We played more Brother and Blanka and listened to Chemical Brothers.
I got him out in the car, in the car seat this time, and drove towards Manson. He fell asleep at 1:07 and I drove back. I read and worked, then my parents and I got ready to go out to Ann and Randy’s house to pick up some firewood. We were in the car and Mom ran bck in for something and found that Carly and August were both awake. So he slept about exactly 2 hours, as it was after 3.
We drove out and picked up the firewood. Ann and Randy used to have a solar power business, and now have a Tesla and an electric ATV. We chatted with them for quite awhile, then stopped at Walmart for a few things on the way back.
August was on the bed next to Carly, watching something. He and I went out to do Brother and Bar games in the garage. Bar was the third student he’s met from Kepler Academy. We went inside after 6 when we were starting to get hungry. Paul got home and gave him an old laptop to take apart, and a set of tools to use. We spent some time on the laptop. August asked, “What’s remarkable mean?” Another word of the day. He also said “You’re so great I’ll faint.” Then, “Do faint and pass out mean the same thing?”
He hurt his finger somehow, and we took him downstairs and ran it in the water. He never told me what was wrong. For dinner we had baked beans, hot dogs, olives. He went and got the calculator while he ate, and we did some calculator story problems.
In the living room he was acting like a cat and Mom named him Kermit the kitten. He had me and him do a little Dada and Brother game where Dad wants to get rid of Cindy, the cat, for some reason.
We all watched some Jeopardy and he was interested in that. He was also watching the minutes change on the clock below the TV. We did more calculator math.
He went to the bathroom, and asked what 81 times 81 is. We made up a little rhyme for it:
81 and 81
Look at what they have done
Multiplied one by one
Then 65, 61
I got pillows and a couple other things, and August said good night to everyone. I had mentioned a couple times sleeping in the garage tonight to give Carly her own room, but I hadn’t pushed it. August accepted it though, and at some point said we were sleeping in the garage.
It had started raining, but luckily had stopped for a bit when we went out at 9:15. He had me turn all of the lights on and we listened to Brian Eno and read Ben Braver. I was able to turn some of the lights off, and we eventually drifted off to sleep. He asked me for a story, and I told him a couple things about how the yard had changed and that we were sleeping where the compost used to be. Sang one or two songs, and he was asleep by 10:10.
Laughing:
Soft kitty, warm kitty song:
Fast punching:
Punching slo-mo:
Songs in the bathroom:
