He yelled for Carly about 8:50. He fell back to sleep, head facing the foot of the bed, and slept for another hour. Carly and I had gotten up around 8. I was catching up on journaling, being 4 full days behind due to our busy schedule and my cold. I didn’t see them for a while, and then they came out looking for supplies for his sorry note for Vivian. They got a bottle and taped a piece of paper on it and he wrote ‘sorry’, then hid it for her to find when she woke up.
I made myself tea, and ended up using the two-week old half and half. Luckily, it wasn’t too bad. August walked out and said “Uncle Jeff was walking by and didn’t even notice me…I was invisible.” He was hungry so I got him multigrain Cheerios and soymilk. He’s been on a soymilk kick the last few days, having it in his cereal.
August then looked through the toybox. Cassie took a couple toys up to Colin’s room that might be difficult for him to share, and August suggested a firetruck that might be difficult. He then played with the air rocket. One got stuck up on top of the refrigerator area and Cassie used the ladder to get it down later. Colin was down first and they took turns with the rocket. Vivian came down about 11. They took the rocket outside, and Vivian found a ripe tomato.
Back inside they negotiated turns on the rocket. August really likes that thing. He sat in one of the butter chairs and called them the “twin chairs” since there are two of them.
They went on August’s iPad to play Minecraft, then switched to PBS Science at some point. They were doing a great job sharing, but Vivian was ending up doing most of the playing; I was a little concerned that would be an issue later when time ran out and August realized he hadn’t played much. August had some apple, then I made him fake chicken nuggets. I cut up carrots for everyone, but don’t know if he ate any.
I had taken a shower in there, and Cassie went shopping. Jeff mowed the lawn. Carly cleaned out the blow up pool and refilled it.
They got off the iPad and went back to the rocket, mainly. There was also a spider in a cup at one point, and then they convinced Cassie to move the couch so they could make a fort. August randomly ran up to me and said “Did you know dance helps everything?…Dance solves everything.” I don’t know where that came from.
He asked to go to the bathroom and explained he didn’t have to really go at the moment, but he wanted to do it early. I mentioned pausing my work timer because Omar doesn’t need to pay me for watching him go to the bathroom. August said “I know what Omar should pay you for: writing a book.” I said that was basically what I was doing, then he said “After you’re done with the book for Omar you should write a book for me.”
They made their fort, then were pulling Colin around on a sheet and pillow. They would do that a couple times in the day before getting bored of it, then I would pull him around later.
They went out in the pool for a few minutes with Cassie, then were over picking all the peas. Colin is fascinated by a neighbor boy, Jason, who rides by doing wheelies on his bicycle. So when Jason rode by with two friends, going up and down the street, Colin started yelling to them. August got into it a little as well, yelling “Hey! Three boys!”
Cassie got some of the smoking sort of fireworks and lighted those for the kids. They ended with the red, white, and blue smoke one that they dance/run through the smoke.
Vivian had said she was really interested in rolling sushi, so they then went inside and Vivian helped with that. August just ate it. Both he and Colin would have coughing up sushi moments. There was more pulling around of Colin. Vivian had gotten down her magic set and shown August some of the tricks and let him do them. The most popular was the broken magi wand that gets fixed when you flick it. August and Colin kept playing with it. When Colin wanted it this time August let him have it and set a five minute timer. He then decided that Colin could have it as long as he wanted.
It was kind of a grazing dinner, with people eating at different times. Got August back to eat more and he said “I’m so full of sushi there’s sushi coming out of my eyeballs.” Vivian asked about Colin’s fortune from last night. I knew where the paper was so got it: “An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time.” August said “But an ounce of gold can buy an ounce of blueberries.”
There was more fort making. August said “Did you know that time doesn’t count as a thing?” I very roughly told him about how that is true in a physics sense. I pulled Colin around on the sheet. When I was getting tired and said two more minutes August set a timer on his watch.
August then played some Minecraft. Carly, August, and Vivian then disappeared. They had gone on a little walk around the end of the lake. Not sure how far they got, but they walked in some mud.
It was getting late, and it kind of started going downhill. Luckily, Carly was there and averted anything. She took them in the pool. I was out with them, but stepped back inside to get wi-fi signal for a moment. August got upset because he was being splashed by Vivian and Colin when they were splashing Carly. She grabbed him and brought him inside.
They had ice cream for dessert, or maybe that had been pre-pool. Earlier, August and Vivian got popsicles while Colin was off somewhere else. Colin got a tootsie roll when he had a bath though, so it was fair.
Carly read some books to them. I think it was Vivian’s turn to get a little upset as she felt she hadn’t gotten to choose books. Eventually they all went outside to catch fireflies. August started to get upset with Vivian again, so Carly grabbed him and brought him in. It was getting close to 9:30, anyway, and we had said 10 was going to be our bedtime. I came in and read the new Hildre Cracks the Case book to him, then the start of Ben Braver. August randomly asked “What’s a chronometer?” So a word of the day. Carly got his teeth brushed, and I said good night and left them right after 10. She read Harry Potter, then was doing a relaxing thing with him where he tightens all his muscles. He said “need a special machine to take all my energy out.”
I switched with her and ended up putting him to sleep. The first time in quite a while. I sang the usual songs to him, then the big numbers song. He said “I love you a million Qs.” He curled up against me and fell asleep at 11:20.
Air rocket slo-mo:
Magic tricks:
Pea opening:
Discussing fireworks:
Smoke firework:
Pulling Colin on a sheet:
Trampoline:
