He got up at 6:50. I worked late and was still sleeping, and didn’t hear him until he called “Mama!” from down on the stairs. I got up, but he was already down with her. I went back to bed and hoped he’d fall asleep with her again, but he didn’t, as Carly came a bit later to get his iPad. When I got up after 7:30 they were talking about science experiments, but ended up hanging up a string from the kitchen door to the oven. They ended up upstairs for a while.
He came down and we finished reading volume two of My Little Pony. ‘facade’ was a word of the day. We had some banana bread, and would later finish off the loaf. Carly and I worked on a shopping list. He wanted to mine for green rock so I took him outside and he dug in the dirt and found several pieces of green rock and tile and a glob of something that he said was a bone but looked like a fossilized piece of chewing gum.
Back inside, August found a shekel and 10 agorot under the rug. Carly is reluctant to just let him have any money he finds, because sometimes we leave bigger coins sitting out and she doesn’t want him to just claim them, but I later decided they were probably his from when we had played with his calculator in that area in the spring. he was also figuring out how to shoot a rubber band, hooking it on the comb thing he found months ago.
Carly headed to the store. We went upstairs for a Brother game, but he wanted the beds made first, so I worked on that. His spray bottle was now an invisibility spray that Bar had invented. Brother and Bar turned things invisible. We ate Hummus and crackers. He asked, “What’s a shockwave?” More vocab picked up from the videos. She had also invented ‘supertape’ that wouldn’t come off of whatever it was stuck to.
We went downstairs and were using the mister for him to run through. We were saying lots of egg and mist puns and he said “Do you want me to mine for more treasures? You wouldn’t mine-d? Get it? Mine pun.”
Carly got home as we realized the floor was getting slippery and were drying it off. I put groceries away. He watched videos with the time he had earned digging on his own earlier. He showed me the Super Tony camping video (https://youtu.be/4f8HVkQsZj8). He wants to make the stove and AC system. He really wanted to do the AC system right away, but we would need parts. We instead got all the ice from the freezer and put it on a plate and found his hand crank fan and I blew it over the ice. It worked, and he relaxed on the couch with the cool breeze. He said “This is AC system 1.” And said that the next one would be AC system 2.
He went to the bathroom, then had a good phrase for getting us wet with his hands afterwards. Something like wet-inifier.
They left at 12:25. It went well with Gabi. August doesn’t want to play with him alone yet, but Carly said she tried to be as boring as possible, without just pulling out her phone. When they were back at 2:15 he told me they had played two games, and that he had played equally with Carly and Gabi. He wouldn’t tell me the games, but it was his Monopoly imagining game and some sort of charades thing. He also really liked some pretend phone thing that had a metal marble in it. He really wanted us to make one.
We discussed our AC plans and played with the tray of ice again. He had some of the lemonade, then we made a lemonade and a vanilla soymilk popsicle. Carly was making mango sticky rice and mango ice cream. He had some whipped cream, which was a little disappointing at first as he expected it to be sweeter, but then he had more. He asked about the dark web, another thing he had learned about. We ate the delicious mango sticky rice.
Then went upstairs for a Brother game. He was now the baby sister and Brother was cuddling with her. It became a competition of Brother and Sister competing for her affection. They started started fighting and were grounded by the dad, who didn’t know math and was giving outrageous lengths of punishments. August also had me putting my hand into the caves or the sheets and it was getting bitten by things. Finally, Brother was making inventions and Sister was seeing them when he didn’t want her to.
We were done at 5. August had had a couple crackers and was still hungry so I took him downstairs. I got ready for a run, and saw the structure that Shmuel is building out back. A two story addition? A garage? Really not clear what is going on back there. Carly and August came up to look.
I went for a run. They were out in the yard when I got back. I went up and took a shower. He asked Carly about hypothermia. When I went back down I read My Little Pony and he made the hot dog in a dough thing that Carly had made. I made broccoli. He asked what ‘numerous’ means. A word of the day.
We did some more reading. At some point he made a joke, based on a joke in Bodie Troll where a blacksmith keeps his dairy fresh above his fire because he likes his milk chunky. August talked about a”Fire to keep my milk fresh…anti-fire…” But his was cold.
Carly gave him a bath. We got him ready for bed and I finished reading volume 3 of My Little Pony. He then asked for stories from when I was a kid. I told him about playing with another kid when we were camping on the beach (Ocean Shores?), my parents sitting up through a storm to keep the tent up, how the water would run down the alley like a little river after a rain storm, and how we would sometimes have rainy day recesses in elementary school and I remember reading the stories in Ranger Rick magazines in 3rd grade.
He was asleep by 9:40, but had a big coughing fit right as I was about to leave. He sat against the pillow, then lay down the wrong way, with his head facing the end of the bed.
Digging and humming:
Abstract duck:
Number with hands to do the math for him:
What the antifire needs:
Watching the soap race:
Slo-mo bed roll:
Tired from the bed rolls:
