He slept through the night in the garage quite well, but was up at 6:35. He went to the bathroom but ws then back in bed and lay there for several minutes, singing to himself. He read the sign on the wall and asked, “Why does Smokey say ‘Only you’?” He watched an episode of Wild Kratts. When construction trucks rolled by they seriously shook the garage. Really felt like an earthquake at first. August didn’t say anything, so it is nice to know that his fear of tornadoes, rain, and hurricanes doesn’t extend to earthquakes.
We headed in at 7:25. He randomly asked “What’s ‘trash talking’?” I think it is from Ben Braver. He had an English muffin and banana, which I made into a smiley face on his plate. He managed to steal the remote from Dad and was flipping channels, ending up watching the end of one show on PBS Kids, then watching Nature Cats. Both were about going to the moon. He then watched Magic School Bus (about an exoplanet) as he ate frozen mango, perched on the back of the couch. I typed and watched a show about the Electron rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(rocket)?wprov=sfti1 and the ELaNa mission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Launch_of_Nanosatellites?wprov=sfti1
We went out to the garage for Brother game. He met a new student from Kepler Academy. Gramma had just made a joke about having extra arms, and he incorporated it into the story, as this girl had hundreds of arms. He asked, “What’s’incorporate’ mean?” We tried out the new Harry Potter game, Wizards Unite, and was intrigued, but didn’t like the idea that we had to travel around town to play.
We went back in at 10:20. He pretending to be a kitten with Mom, then played Polytopia while I took a shower. For lunch I got him fish sticks, a bowl of fruit, and corn. He talked about chess, the pain scale, and math, and I taught him how to use the memory function on the calculator.
We went and checked on Carly, who basically slept all day, taking medicine and getting through a fever. We played a little Brother game there in the room, with Brother finding a Magic School Bus and pinching himself to see if he was dreaming. I then readPirates Don’t Change Diapers. More Brother game, with him roller skating in the house. I then readFive Stinky Socks, twice.
More Brother and Blanka, with them stuck in a real void. Sister appears. at one point he said, “Brother has a hypothesis about Blanka when she’s tiny.” He went to the bathroom. He asked, “What’s 364 plus 364. 728?” Then surprised me with, “728+728…So it’s 1456?”
He’s been intrigued by the solitaire game my parents play, so we played that together on their computer. He asked for four kinds of cereal mixed together. His favorites were the Golden Grahams. Finally, he pretended to be a cat named Cindy, who was frightened when the grandparents were coming over (rather the opposite of what happens with my parent’s cat Cindy hiding when we are around).
Mom, August, and I then got in the car and drove to Safeway. August climbed and hung on the cart a lot, but did a good job helping with the grocery shopping and steered us around a bit. We then drove (the parking lot was full, so we left a spot for someone else) over to the Vogue. I found wine and cider there to take to my book group meeting. I got a macchiato, and Mom and August shared a slice of chocolate bread. We sat outside and played Civilization Revolution. We then walked to the post office and back.
Back at home we checked on Carly, then he watched Nature Cat on TV (no avoiding it while we are here, but hurray for PBS). He then found an old basketball game on, and we watched the overtime and double overtime of an Arizona State game. He asked a lot of questions about the rules. So he now knows a lot more about both soccer and basketball than he did before we got here. We then watched a really funny Gumball episode.
We went out to the garage at 4:45. We listened to the new Ocean Blue album. We worked on converting kilograms into pounds. Then played a Brother game, with a new girl tht glows. Then back to Bar, and getting caught in her superspit at the park. He was then standing on the ends of the bed, and doing his funny dancing. He played Polytopia on my phone, seeing how quickly he could lose (I think he managed to lose in 4 turns once). I rearranged some of the furniture and stuff in the garage, reclaiming some space, and opening up space in front of one of the windows to put the old sewing machine as a desk.
We went back inside at 6:20. We started taking apart the laptop from Paul. It is his old laptop which had been to Afghanistan etc. August asked, “What’s ‘sabotage’ mean?” Don’t know where from. He asked, “How do divide 11 in half? 5.5!” He then divided 13, 15, 21, etc. Got the halves down.
We went to dinner. August wanted to do math at the table and asked, “Where’s another calculator that doesn’t need as much lightness to do its stuff?” He ate 2 bananas, a little chili, and some tortilla. Carly was feeling much better and had joined us for dinner.
She read him Bartholomew and the Oobleck and I gave him a bath. When I took him downstairs he was asking Paul questions. I then took him out to the garage, and he was asleep pretty quickly, by 8:20.
Humming and singing in the garage:
Being a kitty 1:
Being a kitty 2:
Leading the cart in the grocery store:
Laughing at Gumball:
Making mama nervous in the garage:
Asking Uncle Paul questions:
