I woke him up at 7:35. We read a lot of Bone, then he wanted to do Minecraft with me. We did Minecraft and I exercised. He had oatmeal for breakfast. We watched a couple of videos about zombie insects (https://youtu.be/9-QsT-U2d4k) and a Minecraft video. We then did a Baby Sister games where Brother and Sister argue over saying happy birthday to her first (she was turning 2) only for the dad to do it. Then he had Bar inventing a cyborg beetle that they controlled. This somehow led to Baby Sister stealing Brother and Sister’s embarrassing memories.
We then looked at our agenda and read My Little Pony. I made egg salad and we had that for lunch and he had a popsicle. He invented a scenario where Brohter is really bad at bowling. We ran with that, and everyone else was really good, but he always managed gutter balls. It turned into things exploding, of course.
He did Legos by himself as I started to make the quiche. He made a car thing. He earned one video, and watched a Minecraft video. He asked what ‘shears’ are, so a word of the day. He then was asking how you can make a completely empty world in Minecraft. We watched a video of how someone does that. That led to a Brother game with Brother dreaming of a scary world. That turned out to be a nightmare, and when he woke up he got in trouble because he was caught staying up late plying video games. ‘Spawn’ became another word of the day, from ‘spawning’ in Minecraft.
He also asked “What’s contamination?” Not sure what that word was from.
We left at 2:30. As we went out, the kids across the street were walking home, and Nomi said hi to us. She’s one of the twins, maybe 8 or so.
We went to the toy store by the train station to look at swim stuff. Found a cheap set of snorkel and mask and tried on the few flippers they had, but all too small to him. We walked around the store, with August saying “What’s this?” many, many times. He really liked the big robot statue made out of parts and electronics pieces. A very random thing to be standing in such a toy store. We got the red snorkel set and I let him get a water balloon pumping thing with balloons.
We parked at the school and before we got out he said “A quiz…one question…which is grosser? Eating a slug or eating this thing on my shoe?” Great delivery on the whole thing.
We met Taya and Cassie as we went in. They were headed to the pool as well. Took a while to get there as Cassie kept talking to or getting talked to by other teachers, much to Taya’s chagrin. Omri and family were also there.
In the pool we tried out the snorkel and mask. Unfortunately, the mask is too big for him. He ended up sharing the snorkel really well, as Omri, Taya, and Jonathan all wanted to use it.
Carly showed up as well, and we swam until 4:30 or so, then headed home so Carly could eat and stuff before she had to come back for the back-to-school night.
We had the quiche for dinner and read My Little Pony. Carly headed back to school. We had some special Minecraft time, then I made popcorn and put on the first episode of My Little Pony. He hasn’t wanted to watch it, as he didn’t like that the voices would be different. But once I had it on he found it hilarious.
We then read part of volume 9, then went upstairs for a bath. He played in the sink, and started taking the hair off of Carly’s brush, getting it wet, and hanging it over the faucet in a sort of sculpture. He said he was doing her a favor by cleaning her brush.
We washed him, then he caught a tiny cockroach out on the floor. We were in bed when Carly got home. She came in and said good night. He tried to convince me things don’t wear out in real life because you could fix them. I told him two stories from my life. One was when the foam soccer ball burned. Can’t remember the other one. He was asleep by 9:55.
Being a zombie:
Coughing up some water:
Balloon pumper:
Hair sculpture:
