He was up just before 7. After a few minutes on the couch I read several poems from the I’m Just No Good at Rhyming book. He laughed a lot, and said his favorite, so far, was the one about the baby dragon wanting his knight with the shell off. I finished with the infinity poem, after which August walked circles and told me about an infinity story at a science center, then one with wiggling worms.
We played Minecraft, then had french toast and mango for breakfast. He had a Brother and Bar game with them surviving on another world, which turned out to be a Minecraft world. They built a whole world. We started reading Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl.
We then went outside and he went inside the Zinnie house to take care of the vines that were growing into it. I started redirecting vines outside to wrap around the fence. He was startled when he moved a pillow and a lizard went running. He got a container so we could try to catch it, but it was gone by the time I went in to find it. Everything was really dusty, so I decided to vacuum. As I pulled the pillows out we found a little spider nest with a spider tucked inside. It came out and jumped away before August could see it, but he liked the spider silk and scraped it off with a stick.
I vacuumed off all of the pillows, then we built with the new Legos. He wanted to practice with bubble gum so we got out the bubble tape. I then went out and redirected more vines. We watched episode 3 of My Little Pony, then discussed our agenda. We read about plate techtonics and steam power in the Discover Magazine. He was grumpy about having to earn more iPad time, but eventually he came around and built with Legos for 22 minutes and I exercised. We did 15 minutes of Minecraft and had crackers and meat. He would later do 8 more minutes of alone time and earn the other 15 minutes.
I mentioned something about robot battles and he wanted to watch a one, so we watched one as he had a juice popsicle. He was also talking to Siri. He asked, “What’s mercy?” Not sure where that came from. He then had a Brother game, with Brother and Sister doing robot battles, but Sister being much faster Nd better in building them.
We got walking at 1. He talked about making predictions for the future of humans and the earth in his lab. We stopped at the coffee shop to look at coffee. We need to find a new source, as iHerb has stopped their 10 percent rebates, making ordering from them less desirable. So I figure we should find a local source. They have them, but it was crazy, being a Friday, and so we didn’t wait.
We went to Kravitz to look for a new pair of headphones for Carly. Again, too crazy and they didn’t have much. I figured we’d go to the iCell store. August was hungry, so we went to the Druze place. We each got a lafa today, and one for Carly, and a container of cabbage dolma.
We went out and sat on the bench and ate. Across from us was the record shop, and August had noticed the Nirvana Nevermind album cover with the baby underwater on it. We had talked bout it on the way in.
He moved to the airplane and ate more of his lafa. He ate more of his than I did of mine. We went back inside and got headphones for Carly.
We then went to Tiv Taam and did some grocery shopping. He got a pineapple jello that he then ate as soon as we got out of the store. He was quite an eater today.
We walked home, put groceries away, and headed to school at 3:15. He asked “What’s embroidered silk?” It’s from the very first My Little Pony.
When we got out of the car he really needed to use the bathroom. He was a bit stressed, but made it to the bathroom by the theatre. After going he joked “Let’s just pretend this never happened.” Another phrase he learned from My Little Pony (the “Reflections” story—volume 5, I think).
We went to the pool. Omri’s family was there. Omri commented on him needing to put on his vest. I think that made him a bit self-conscious, as he told me he didn’t need it, and he spent the first 30 minutes or so without it.
Natalie and the girls showed up, then Carly did. August let me carry him around in the pool a bit, then did put on the vest at some point. He needed the bathroom again and I took him, then we spent the rest of our time in the small pool. He put 4 of the chairs in it and was playing with them with Jonathan, then made a fort of the them. He had them at an angle to the edge, like a giant shark mouth, at one point. When they were leaving Jonathan said, “Bye, August!”
We stayed until it closed and walked out with Natalie and the girls. We were home at 5:15.
For dinner he ate a bunch of the cabbage dolmas, until he said he was sick of cabbage, and more of his lafa. We looked up a few things about Minecraft, then did his 30 minutes. He did Legos with Carly and impact was a word of the day.
He then worked with Carly and me to earn an ice cream sandwich: he watered plants and made the beds and did some alone time with her, and did some reading to her, reading a couple books in the Khan Academy book. He cleaned the toilets with me.
He ate the ice cream sandwich, then was asking me for parenting tricks as he cuddles with me on the couch. Back at the pool I had joked about giving away my parenting tricks to him. Don’t remember what that was.
I gave him a bath. Before he got in he put on the shower cap and tried it out, and played with it in the sink. Washed him, then went down and he had oatmeal.
In bed we read the rest of Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl. Battering ram was another word of the day. I left them 9:45. I didn’t make it out for a run.
Chairs in the pool 1:
Chairs in the pool 2:
Silly on the couch:
Showing how he dances to the music:
