He was up at 6:50. He watched a little of the French Grand Prix (a rather boring race) with me before going upstairs. He ate banana and English muffin and Smurfs. Carly watched him for awhile and they went in the bedroom and were reading. She went for a walk and he played with solitaire on the computer for a bit. He went in and was talking to Dad about his sudoku puzzle and the crossword for while. He watched a little Paw Patrol, then Carly got back.
We went out to the garage. On the way he asked, “What’s ‘identify’ mean?” Lots of different Brother games. The first series were a series of disaster dreams, starting with what he had seen in Paw Patrol and a tsunami. Brother would wake up from a bad dream just to find another disaster, then wake up from that, etc. Then there was climbing a mountain to find a magic rock that would only answer one question, but then it would answer the wrong question. Then there was one where he had Bar turn into a crocodile egg and he put it in the cold so it would turn into a girl (he learned that from Wild Kratts). He then took it to school and it hatched and he ended up with 46 years of detention, which he had to serve until he was an adult.
We went back in at 10:15. At one point he said, “What did I want to do? Oh yeah, bring my iPad. My memory is sooo short.” I took a shower and he and Carly did math. I then went out to do some work in the garage. They played outside.
Back inside, he didn’t want to go get ice cream now. Primarily, it seemed, because he didn’t want to walk, or even take the stroller to town. We read The 104-Story Treehouse instead. And he and Carly finished off a bag of popcorn. We played a short Brother game, where he was causing a power surge after power outage and frying dad’s computer.
We got going to ice cream after 2. August chose moose tracks, which he really liked, Carly got bubble gum, and Paul got huckleberry cheesecake. Carly didn’t specify a kid size, so August got quite a bit of ice cream. He let me have a couple bites. We walked by the new Mexican restaurant to make sure it was open, and August went in the post office with Paul to check the mail.
At home he found the crank on the boat trailer and wound it all the way down. He worked on putting it back up, but got Mom to do that. While we were gone they had hidden 6 plastic eggs for him, and now he searched the yard for them, Mom giving him hints. The first one he found had a note for 2 Hershey kisses. Dad threw an empty egg out on the grass and Iris played with it, batting it all around the yard. At one point she batted at it, then dove over a log and hid in the bushes. When I pointed to where she was August said “She’s like a geocache.”
I went up to work until we were ready to head to dinner. Before we left we did a short Brother game. We walked to the restaurant, which is where the sushi place used to be. We ordered tamales, rice and beans, and taquitos. I got an horchata. August tried it, and loved it, and pushed his water away as he said he was drinking that instead. It hit the seam between the tables and spilled everywhere. Luckily, I only got a little wet. August and I tried to play Wizards Unite, but we’re having issues with data not working right in town on our phones.
We got there at the right time as it got busy as we were finishing up. As we got walking home, August was asking about what a horse would think or say if it saw a cheetah running by. We managed to walk down under the bridge and home via the baseball fields. August wasn’t fond of any route that was longer than the bare minimum. At the river Carly kept going with August, while the rest of us stopped to take a look.
When we got home we found them working with the circuits set. It is the green energy set, and comes with things like a rechargeable battery that they were recharging with a solar panel. They finished a circuit and took it outside. I gave him a bath. He spent some time looking in the mirror and kissing his muscles and talking about them. He then played with all the toys, although he mainly did it from standing outside the bath.
As we were getting him ready for bed he then decided that he wanted to sleep out in the garage. When Carly and I were reluctant and initially said no he responded really well, running to us and giving us hugs. He handled it so well I had to say yes. But once we got his teeth brush and were saying good night to Carly in the bedroom he changed his mind again, and decided to sleep inside. I left them at 8:50.
Solitaire and humming:
Ice cream:
Lowering the trailer:
Egg hunt:
Iris and egg:
