He woke up at 7:37. I had come back in a few minutes earlier. He stayed in bed for several minutes more then I went out with him. He sat on the couch for a couple of minutes until Carly came out of the bathroom.
He came in the bedroom, then didn’t want Colin in the bedroom. He found a pack of fruit snacks so I let him have those. I started joking that there were worse things he could eat. Turned into a Brother game with his body trying to process all the sugar molecules, turning them into fat. Brother drank two bottles of soda and got sick.
We went out at 8:05. We weren’t out long until Thatcher came up. He had a blanket with him. August stood on it and Thatcher didn’t want him to so he pulled it out from under August, making him fall. August didn’t like that, so he shoved Thatcher. Carly took him into the room.
After he calmed down they ended up doing math together. They were starting to work on circle math: circumferences and areas. When he went out he apologized to Thatcher and Thatcher to him. He then played downstairs with Thatcher and Kayla and Vivian a lot. Colin was happy in the upstairs fort.
I took a shower. Carly got him cereal. She then went to take a shower. As soon as I was sitting down across from him his cereal slipped off the edge and went everywhere. I got his shorts off and saved the shirt by wiping it just a bit. He stayed in the bedroom until she ws out, and I cleaned the floor. By this time the other kids were having cereal, and August wanted more: a mix of Kix and Rice Crispies.
They went back downstairs. August asked me to go with him. Colin was in the fort, under the bed, and said “I don’t like this place.” He came out and August went in.
They went upstairs after a few minutes when Carly called down about going to the beach. They all got going about 11:10, and Andrea and I stayed behind as we were both working.
They saw a cool starfish and I think they played in the stream area most of the time. They started coming back in phases, and when most of them were here I moved into the bedroom. August and Carly were back by 12:40. He had a veggie hotdog and some other food. He had a hard time when Vivian didn’t want him playing with her camera. Didn’t hit or anything, but just grumpy. So they came into the bedroom. He watched something and did math. We then got ready to go to the pool. He was talking about “Nine times ten to the one billionth power.”
We left after 2:20. I was down by the cars for several minutes with August and Vivian, waiting for Carly and Cassie. August and I were discussing decimal numbers and I taught him ‘repetend’. He understood the part that sounded like ‘repeat’, but said it was called “repifor” on his planet. ‘For’ means forever.
Found goggles for him. We saw the four old (WWII?) planes that had been flying overhead all day, and I found swim goggles in the bottom of a tub in the garage. August started talking about how the planes were connected by a rope. Vivian quickly told him that wasn’t true. When she walked away he got my attention and had me lean over. He whispered in my ear “They’re carrying a bad guy up to space and they’re airplane rocket ships.”
We went to the pool. Wasn’t as busy as we feared it was going to be. I sat by the pool today and worked. Surprisingly able to focus despite the noise, etc. August wore Colin’s goggles again since Colin didn’t use them. A little frustration when the strict pool monitor (she had also made everyone shower, and wouldn’t let the smaller kids in the hot tub) told August he couldn’t have the squirt gun, but we got past that.
As we got in the car to come back August sang “strong and yummy window” and talked of turning things into chocolate. Apparently he’d been doing this in the pool. We were back at 4:45.
Played outside for a little while, then inside he wanted to get the old suitcase open. We figured out the trick, and there were toy trucks in it. He told Vivian the secret. There was pot roast for dinner. I had curry from yesterday. August liked the meat. Thatcher was playing with a loud wind up car, and August joined him with it.
The kids really wanted dessert, and August was buttering up Cherie for ice cream: “I’d really appreciate it.” And described exactly how he wanted rocky road in a bowl with a cone on it. He asked Carly to go downstairs with him, then said “I’d be happy to go with you.”
I switched with her, then the kids were Planning against the evil wizard (me) while in their fort. I was sitting on the stairs. They went out the door and up the stairs and came around to ‘surprise’ me from behind. August had the real surprise, as he pulled out his second tooth in the process.
He showed it off to everyone. He said “It’s like a tiny straight screwdriver.” And he said “This will solve all our problems.” That’s quoting the Treehouse book where Andy gets a tooth out.
They went back downstairs and there was a new game where Kayla was giving birth to twins. Thatcher and Vivian claimed she had to be asleep, as it was a caesarean birth.
Andrea put on the Bewitched movie. The kids came up and started watching. August asked “Are they criminals?” as they walked around a store at the beginning. Cherie explained it was just two people shopping, and August responded “This is boring.” But the kids watched all of it.
We got them ready for bed. Carly downloaded a calculator for Vivian. August talked about how “The middle of something is always zero.” He was talking about in a coordinate sense, and it goes back to our discussion at Seattle Center of the layout of the city. I left them just before 10.
The downstairs fort:
–CJv8
Spraying water in the pool:
Getting into the trucks:
Blown away by the fan:
His second lost tooth:
The baby game 1:
The baby game 2:
The baby game 3:
