I had my book group meeting, a 3 hour drive away, on the calendar for today. It would turn out to be tomorrow, so I did a lot of pointless driving. I at least finished listening to the book, however. I got up and called Carly into the garage. August woke up as I was heading downstairs. About 6:45.
I got driving by 7:15. Carly was really tired today, and it sounds like they had some issues over amount of screen time. I was back by 2. Carly was tired and went to rest.
He and I finished the end of a Gumball episode. Yesterday, when we had gotten mail, the mailman, Tony, had handed us 3 pieces of candy. He had eaten two yesterday, and now remembered the remaining Tootsie Roll, so he had that. We went out and played in the garage for while, but soon came back in to get his water bottle, and the strawberry Altoids, which he loves. He asked, “What’s ‘prototype’ mean?”
He was a girl with superhearing, and there was a robber that kept trying to steal Brother’s iPad but she would catch them. He was then a girl that was a snake. He also asked, “What’s ‘pacifist’?” From Polytopia.
We went inside and he requested frozen strawberries, then some cereal mix. We read some Ben Braver and he asked, “What’s ‘manifested’?” Carly took over, and I went to rest for a bit.
When I came back up he was outside with Grampa. They were setting up a tub and pump outside as a water feature. He talked to Gramma about the TV remote (he had hidden it behind the couch earlier) then talked to Grampa about lake level (he remembered the Sea-Tac altitude) and power plants. I had grabbed some paper books (Borrowers and Lightning Thief) from downstairs and from the pack that Cherie had left. He rejected them all. We read a little Ben Braver instead. He was distracted by the calculator, then did the moves on his watch game when he remembered he’d gotten his goal.
He was getting hungry for dinner. Dad got the pump working for the fountain again and he played with that. He asked Paul more questions, like “What’s a capacitor?… Tricky, isn’t it?” I may have told him to keep asking Paul that question.
We ate dinner outside. He was hyper and running around, but refused to run on the grass. Paul brought him an electrical engineering textbook. And Carly picked the dead flowers off the flowers in the middle of the deck. August tried it out: “Is that really satisfying?…oh yeah.”
When we went in I took him in for his bath. He played for a bit. Carly said good night and headed to bed. When I had him say good night to everyone he gave Mom a hug now. We played a little Brother and Millie game, and he was asleep at 9:15. I got a little work done after he fell asleep.
Working on the fountain with grampa:
Power of talking to animals:
Opening the fireplace:
