He woke up twice early in the morning, saying “Mama.” I got in bed with him the first time. Later, my alarm went off and I got back up in the big bed. He said “Mama” again and when I looked down I couldn’t see him. I went down and found him completely covered with the sheet. I uncovered his head. He then slept until I tried to wake him up at 8:45. No doing. But once I had gotten coffee, settled down with a book, and read about two sentences he was up just before 9. I picked him up and he directed me upstairs and had me set him on the back of the green chair. I started getting him a banana and English muffin. He asked where Mama was, and ended up outside with her.
When he came in he told me, “I have a brother and sister game coming up. Here’s the scenario: brother meets a girl from Kepler Academy that has two extra eyes…and two eyes here (top of her head).” “360 degree vision…globe vision…up, and down too.”
We spent some time taking apart the DVD drive. We went downstairs and heard Carly in the bedroom, using packing tape to prepare some returns. We pretended she was the tape monster, and I tried to get him to go in saying “Booga booga booga” to scare her away. He was too scared to do it, but was laughing a lot.
I took a shower and he was watching Smurfs. Carly made him a slice of french toast, then she headed to the post office. We went down and did a Brother and new student game. He said the new student had a lot of powers, so we made a list:
- seeing through ground
- making electricity
- going 500 times the speed of light
- 360 degree vision
At about 11:30 August and I walked into town with Dad to go to the hardware store. August was ‘counting’ all of the screws, etc. He had me do a multiplication problem, then he added 16,500,000 plus 16,500,000 in his head when he said the main floor (we were downstairs) had the same number. We then spent time weighing things, looked at all of the options for multimeters, and then he started declaring which items he was buying for his lab.
We left there and went to Kelly’s plumbing. He continued to shop for items for his lab. We were home by 12:20. As we walked up, the timer on my phone went off. He had had me set a 78 minute timer earlier, but didn’t tell me what it was for. He now told me that it had been for a magic spell: “making a toy seal for Johnny’s birthday”
We hung out at home for a bit, then got ready to go to Orondo for milkshakes. On our way out to the garage he saved a moth that had fallen in the bucket. We left at 1:15.
On the drive, he asked what hashtags were, then was singing about them. We got to Lone Pine Fruit and he was impatient to get inside. They only had banana for fresh fruit, so we went with a strawberry one and a chocolate one. Mom and Dad got ice cream. While we waited for them he ran back and for in the shop before I got him outside with Carly.
We sat at a table and ate them. August said, “I got a milkshake just for saving that moth.” And “These are really good milkshakes…you should be impressed.” We then sat on a bench and started readingThe 52-Story Treehouse.
Mom and Dad bought cherries and blueberries, then we got going. We stopped at Beebe Bridge Park. At first August agreed to just ten minutes, and set a series of 2 minute timers. The others sat down, and August and I went to the beach and were throwing rocks. It turned more into making holes in the sand at the edge of the water and putting rocks around them. August got his feet fairly wet. When he needed the bathroom he walked all the way over to it with me, then he ran most of the way back to Gramma and Grampa.
We left at 3:25. Carly noticed he had sand all over his shoes and was getting it in the car, so got him out and brushed it off. He said, “I played in the sand so much. My ears are clogged up.”
When we got home we had some trouble as he really wanted Mom to hide more of the eggs, but she was saying she could only do it if he left the house for a walk or something. He got frustrated and tried to hit her. Carly and I stayed with him for a few minutes in the car, then when we got him inside and calmed down he was playing with me and ‘trapping’ me on the couch. At one point, out of nowhere, he said, “Okay, I’ll say sorry to Gramma.” But a minute later he hit his knee on the coffee table when he was running to jump on the couch and was still recovering from that when they walked by to go out to the car to head to the store and he couldn’t say it right now.
Carly got August some corn, and I went downstairs and was working on installing the new iPadOS on my iPad. August came down and asked me “What’s ‘approximately’?”
I went out to the garage to make the bed for Peter and Micah, while he and Carly played with the squirt guns. He came upstairs so Mom could hide eggs. He sat in the chair that he and Dad had finished and approved of it. He got upset about the bed though. I had already made it, and at first he wanted me to fully make it, by putting the blanket on. When I said it was fine how it was he suddenly wanted to mess up the bed. Got him calmed down, and he was able to go out and hunt for the eggs.
She had hidden six again, and he found them faster this time. Paul got home, and we ate dinner inside. And then, the real excitement. Rain rolled in, along with some thunder and lightning. August watched all of this from the back porch, often stepping far enough down the stairs to be in the rain, but retreating to cover when it would get heavier. He really, really enjoyed it, and was doing a lot of singing and talking about it, particularly how it was good that we were under cover and how he “KNEW it would rain!”
I stayed outside for quite awhile with him, until after it had poured once. I then went downstairs and did some work. Carly gave him a bath, then I was with him, doing a small Brother game, until I got a message that Peter was 5 minutes away. Carly came in and I left them about 9:15.
Peter and Micah showed up a few minutes later. Took them out to the garage to get settled, then they cme in and we chatted with them for awhile. Heard August still awake several minutes later, too. Chatted until around 10, then called it a night.
Taking apart:
Shopping for his lab supplies:
At Beebe Bridge Park 1:
At Beebe Bridge Park 2:
At Beebe Bridge Park 3:
At Beebe Bridge Park 4:
Running to Gramma and Grampa:
Watching the rain 1:
Watching the rain 2:
Watching the rain 3:
