He was up after 7:30. Yelled as we weren’t downstairs. I went in, but then Carly went in. He was up though and came and sat in the green chair next to me. We petted Iris and I picked her up for a minute. The car show ended and August saw the clock change to 8:00. Then a show on Atlantis came on. At first he thought that Plato was a god, then decided that “Plato was named after Poseidon.”
He had his usual smiley face breakfast for the last time, and in the bathroom he told me, “I’ve been talking to the government and 4 shekels always exactly equals a dollar.” It rained pretty well, and August watched from the back porch. His rain collector was working quiet well and he told Mom she should always leave it there so she could tell when it was raining.
Carly measured him and he’s 43 inches tall. That’s two inches too tall for the car seat. So we left that in Chelan and he’ll just use the vest. We might try to buy a booster seat instead at some point, but maybe it will wait until next summer.
As we packed and got ready to go, Mom helped him put away the circuit set. We said our goodbyes (and to Paul before he left for work) but we’ll be seeing them in a few days. We did our photos out front like always. August had funny making funny faces. And we were driving at 9:33.
Carly drove the whole way. August was pretty excited, and was really singing at the beginning. He was first singing a “Bee betix, Jaguar genetics” line over and over, changing the tune. Then he had a full chant/song that went (with him repeating the ‘I’m not in the mood line’ before each line):
“I’m not in the mood
To play with you
To get a timeout
To get a penalty
To get locked up
To get locked up in the living room…”
We readThe 78 Story Treehouse. One of the chapters is called “Cowduggery”, so I taught him the word ‘skullduggery’.
We stopped in Cle Elum at Boone’s Cafe, which was a great find. We ordered a marionberry scone, which August sat at a table and ate most of and I got a metal coffee cup that says ‘Get Lost’ for only 8 dollars. And the walls were decorated with old doors and window frames.
We kept going. August watched some Inspector Gadget and discovered he could both open and close the window with his foot. I think that makes him like Paul’s car a little more. He also talked about how the whole mechanism works, and when I asked him to describe what he thought the pieces looked like, he surprised me by describing a rod with teeth in it, then a gear that is turned by the handle that moves it up and down. That’s as good as my understanding of it, and I’ve actually seen the inside of a door before. He also described how an electric one would have a motor to turn the gear instead. And earlier, when watching the show with Dad, he seemed to know at least what a carburetor is. (Yesterday, he also knew about how a rock had fallen on their car, because mom or dad had shown him the photo of the broken car in the garage.)
We finished reading The 78 Story Treehouse and then watched the first episode of Craig of the Creek. I finished reading Vanished along the way. Traffic had looked fine until sometime after Cle Elum, then it started to get bad with multiple accidents in Tacoma. Google Maps kept having us get off the highways earlier and earlier, and we eventually got off at 164, and took 167 down and took backroads to Olympia. We at least were moving most of the way, hitting bumper to bumper just a couple times for a few minutes.
I asked him if any of his other teeth were feeling loose, and he said yes, and at first thought it was one of his top teeth. It is only slightly wiggly, and can only be wiggled with his teeth, not hand. But then he realized it was the bottom right tooth that was loose. He remembered which was his left and right from when I told him about the gas tank arrows.
We stopped for gas by the airport before getting to the motor home at 3:30. Chuck was still out golfing. August saw Cherie’s weights and asked about them. They were 5lbs each, and he told her she should measure in kilograms instead. She gave him a bracelet she got him in Mexico and he wore it the rest of the day. She also gave him a little from figure. Later, when we were in the car, I think, Carly said something about it and he totally gave her an “Okay” and kept talking about what he wanted to talk about.
Chuck got back, and I went to the clubhouse to work for an hour. Mostly done with the family unification entry. While I was gone they had all basically just chatted, August included. Right before I got back he started playing with his calculator apps.
We got over to Claremay’s at 5:35. He remembered the house, telling us about two kinds of jellybeans, and also getting a sliver. The sliver was two years ago. When we went to the backyard he said it was “super familiar” and he remembered all the rocks. He started running around the deck and Chuck or Cherie said something about it being cute. He started being even cuter, and asked “Is this cute running? Like baby running?”
I was getting allergic out back so went in but was fine the rest of the day. We had pot roast that Cherie had made, along with cabbage and salad. August asked where Steve was, and they had a good conversation about how he had died and what had happened to him. August asked where he body was, and he asked “Did he say ‘Oh darn’ when he died?” August took it all in stride and we continued after dinner. August ate a ton. He hadn’t eaten much on the way over, although he had that scone. But then at the motor home he had eaten his sandwich and also a bunch of almonds. Now, he had serving after serving of pot roast and milk. He kept on talking about how big his muscles were getting (earlier at the motor home he had been lifting the weights and showing off his muscles).
Claremay took August up to see the toys. It was cool that August went with her and didn’t insist on us coming along. He came back with a robot toy that he played with for the next couple hours. Claremay also made snickerdoodles, so August had a cookie and robot to play with; I don’t think it could get much better for him.
When he went to the bathroom he told me bout how he has August clones locked in his lab in case he needs them. It is really secure, and to get in requires things like “DNA test, blood test, eye, hair…a very angry duck, a reinforced celery door.” Influenced by the Treehouse books.
Chuck and Cherie left, and August and I played with the robot downstairs while Carly talked to Claremay. August had us doing Brother stories on and off since dinner. August had had two cookies and wanted a third and entered into negotiations with Carly about having grapes first. He had some, and got about a third of a cookie.
In the playroom/guest room we looked at all the photos and Carly and I discussed the levels of cousins and I figured it out better (once removed and all that) so that all the other kids are August’s second cousins. August had us do the Brother game where he meets a girl who can drink acid. He also told me “I make movies where the bad guys always win and the good guys always lose.”
Carly came in and we got him ready for bed. We skipped a bath. I left them about 9:15. August got up and went to the bathroom one more time at 9:30, then I heard it get quiet about 9:50.
I studied a little Arabic and started watching the first episode of Good Omens.
Hauling stuff to the car:
Bee betix jaguar genetics song:
I want to go song:
Getting strong in the motor home:
Robot toy:
Robot toy 2:
