He woke up at 7:08. He’d already started to wake up once awhile before but saw me and went back to sleep. I went up and turned off the air conditioner, then had him go tell Carly that coffee was ready.
He watched the Animusic and marble race videos on YouTube, which he hasn’t watched in a long time. I took a shower, then went to work. They dyed eggs, but only the red and yellow paints were working, as the others had dried up. His two eggs turned out well though. I came down to see the eggs and I hung out with him for a few minutes, then went back up to work.
They then went to the big Tiv Taam. He did a great job. He got to choose one of the Russian candies but turned out to not like it, so he had a little chocolate when he got home instead. And he was able to point out the correct crackers for her to get. When they got back at 11:40 he came up to show me and have me taste his raspberry jello.
I went down a bit later. They were making the stacking shape cards. The ones that my parents had given us when we were in Korea, and that he played with a lot last year. He had found the boxes for them when Eve was here but I couldn’t find the cards. They had found the cards, and he was choosing designs for Carly to make. He then had me do a couple.
We went upstairs to play Brother chaos game. He then got his iPad to do math on it, and was teaching Brother how to use the graphing calculator. He wanted to blow a bubble with gum, so we went downstairs to practice. We each had a piece of bubble gum, and we watched a couple of videos about blowing bubbles. He was getting closer, but wasn’t quite there. He had schnitzel and mango for lunch. Didn’t eat much of it. He asked “What’s ‘embarrassing’?” A word of the day.
We had talked about going to the beach this evening, but he decided he just wanted to go to the pool. We left at 2:45. He came up with the line “You drive me crazy, super Daisy!” Not sure where from. When he pointed out something in the car and Carly said something bout it he told her “Just focus on driving.”
We got in the pool. Somewhat busy today, but no one we knew. He saw a vest on the side that he looked like his, but then when he got closer realized it was quite different. I taught him the phrase ‘at first glance’. Carly did a lot of swimming wearing his pink goggles, and eventually they were playing with some diving rings and rockets. They belonged to someone who worked there, and she let them keep them, then we put them in her mailbox when we left.
Right as we were about to get out, a mother came charging by and dove in the pool. Her son had tried to swim across the pool and apparently was struggling. She got him and he was fine, but it was dramatic.
On the walk out to the car, August talked about wanting an AIS shirt for homeschool kindergarten. I think he had seen Eve’s the other day. Carly said she could get him one.
We were home after 4. He accidentally knocked one of his bowls off the dining table and the corner broke. Should be able to super glue it. He had some frozen mango. I ate a carrot, and he ate one piece of it. He asked, “What’s semistructure mean?” But I wasn’t sure what he was referring to. He had a vanilla popsicle, then did some math with Carly to earn iPad time.
Carly made a quiche-like zucchini and bacon dish. He said he really liked it when she gave him a taste, but then decided he didn’t like it when she actually gave him a dish of it. We read My Little Pony. He ate a full carrot, then had crackers and meat. They went to do more math.
We tried the new little microscope thing that attaches to my phone. It had finally come in the mail. Works decent and will be fun. I then went for a run and he got his evening iPad time.
When I got home he was still playing in the shower. I took over. I took a shower first while he played in the sink instead, then I washed him. He had gotten play dough on his hand fan the other day, and we now went down and he used the tweezers from his tools to get bits of it out of the charging port. His first electronics repair!
We read some My Little Pony. He asked me “Dada? Do you ever feel relief when you’ve been inside for days and you go outside? I do.” I don’t know if he thought of that himself or what.
We got him ready for bed and Carly left us around 9. He was asleep by 9:30, but I fell asleep with him for a while. I told him stories about going to the Museum of Flight and to the Pacific Science Center around the time of Halley’s Comet.
Working on blowing bubbles:
Singing in the pool:
Suction cup in the sink:
