He woke up at 6:30. I tried to get him back to sleep. He lay in bed about ten minutes, then went downstairs to Carly. I slept until 7:30. He had used his iPad before I was up. We had breakfast tougher, then did a Brother game where he was playing with Baby Sister’s play kitchen and arguing. August had a pretty full story about how Bar lifted the whole house with a tornado and flung it into space “And then it was just a piece of space junk, flying through space.”
We read My Little Pony, then the Discover Magazine article about the sun. He then talked to me about the sun for a long time: “The sun was formed by a big storm of asteroids hitting a big star and the big balls of magma made the sun…” walked in circles and told me about an asteroid storm. We played Blue Apprentice, learning about photosynthesis, and ‘endurance’ was a word of the day.
Carly gave August a big envelope from Vivian. It included a card she had made for him, a page of handwritten instructions, and a bunch of little gems and foil things for him to decorate with. We went upstairs to do a Brother game. I took my coffee up, and he made fun of how I let my coffee get cold: “Because you like cold coffee?” We did the Tigey game where they get the baby tiger for the first time, after doing a game with the gems.
Downstairs he did some alone time, playing with the Legos, then doing art on the whiteboard. He told me “Its swirly stuff in your nightmares…actually, fungus language.” He did 15 minutes, so we played 15 minutes of Minecraft together. We ate crackers and meat and read more My Little Pony, finishing volume 11.
He did some math with Carly after she came down. She was fine this morning, but then wasn’t feeling well, and had been resting upstairs for quite a while. She was now feeling well enough to take him to the pool, but he was really reluctant to go. Finally, I talked him into it just before 3.
It was a good thing that they went, as he had fun, and there were a good amount of people there, including Omri and her family, and Cassie with Taya and Kai. They decided to come over to the house for a visit, Nd so they call got here just before 5. I had been working.
Kai did some crying, and August said “Now I know what it sounded like when I was a baby and I cried.” He also helped Cassie when she changed Kai, and when she said something a little teasing to Kai he was concerned it might make him upset.
He and Taya played pretty separately for a while, with Taya playing with the water balloons outside, but then she got the doll, Baby Q. She asked if it was a boy or girl, and insisted it was a girl because the doll had a pink bottle and pink on the outfit. We never gave the doll a gender, and August stuck to that, looking at it and telling Taya that no one knows. Then, when Taya found the My Little Pony set he sat down with her. He told Taya “You’re a good hair fixer.” And said of Rarity “She’s SO picky about her hair…I hate Rarity in the show. I LOVE Rainbow Dash.”
Carly made a mango lassi for everyone, then got a bunch of snacks out, and made schnitzel for the kids. They grazed and played. When Cassie said they would leave soon, August at one point said that was good because he could play Minecraft sooner. Carly told him something that would be politer to say, and he said something along the lines of “But then I’d be sadder that my friend is leaving.”
When they left, Taya insisted he walk her to the car. He wasn’t having any of that, but then did come out with us, and was interested in how Cassie had to close her door before Taya would finally get in the car. Taya was talking about doing a sleepover again, and August likes the idea. Also, at one point he was trying to give something to Taya to take home, and Cassie reminded him of her rule about no presents. August was insistent she could take it, until Carly talked to him and explained why, and reminded him of how Taya had gotten upset about the giving of the rings last time.
After they left August did have his Minecraft time. We then read My Little Pony. Accord and discord were words of the day. He had oatmeal, then we went upstairs and finished reading the story. I got him in the bathroom, and while he went to the bathroom and played Carly took over. I went for a run, right at 9, and was then able to say good night to him right around 9:20.
Getting the glove:
Whiteboard art and humming:
My Little Pony with Taya:
