He was up a little before 7, just after I had gotten downstairs. I carried him down and he lay on the couch for a few minutes, then went out to find Carly. They came in after a few minutes, then he curled on the couch next to her and just rested for several minutes. He finally started to do some singing, about “wiggly worm” and “Minecraft.”
We played Minecraft and had a mine disaster where he got buried in a mine collapse. He was fine with it though. In talking bout the game biome became a word of the day. He had oatmeal and mango for breakfast, and we listened to the new Pixies album. It is a good week for music, with a lot of albums released: Belle & Sebastian, Dan Bern, etc.
August had a brother game where he wants to go back in space, but without the danger. Bar gets him to space with a tornado. Carly made fresh mango. He talked about how beautiful it was as he te it. We read about algae in Discover Magazine’s “20 Things You Didn’t About Algae” Helenite was a word of the day from a jewelry ad in the magazine. We looked it up, and that led to a discussion of Mt. St. Helen and we watchedhttps://youtu.be/AYla6q3is6w
and another video of eruptions. August ended up playing with Street View.
Carly and August played with Legos and I made a shopping list. He told me he wants a bow and arrow, and we looked at photos of real ones. I got him ready to go, and Carly took him to the big Tiv Taam with her and I worked. She accidentally bumped the shifter while driving and put it in manual. August liked the “Spooky noises.” Before she figured out the problem she told him how it wasn’t a big deal and we’d get it fixed. But August said, “The best case scenario is that this is a dream.”
They got back at 12:30. August came up with a container of pastry treats to share with me. He said Carly couldn’t have them because there were nuts. He went back downstairs, and did Legos and earned more iPad time. He came up to show me that he had found a Japanese coin amongst the new Legos.
I came down at 1:30. Carly was cooking cauliflower. August showed me a root thing that Carly dug up in the garden. He had put it in the blue bottle of the balloon sprayer. He ended up calling it his “baby scum.” He told me about ice eruptions on his planet: “shoots the icebergs and frost up to the atmosphere…it’s like a beacon.” There was then a Brother game with Baby Scum and energy potions and sleep potions. Basically, the energy potions would affect Brother all at once and then he’d crash, or Bar would give him a sleep potion to calm him down.
He ate the cauliflower when it was done, saying, “It’s too bad Baby Scum is missing out on this.” He did more Legos, then we played Minecraft. Carly made schnitzel. I was feeling a bit tired/off and headed upstairs to rest. August, afraid I was sick, tried to make a fence of stuff to keep me from coming back downstairs and infecting him.
I came back down, feeling better, and he asked, “Can you do a brother and sister game by yourself where Bar has a lab and she gets upset and it’s an epic battle between science and magic…And just so you know, science wins.” He showed me one thing in Minecraft and we left for the beach at 4:15.
We drove to Beit Yanai Beach, where we’ve been before. August fell asleep just before we got there and I carried him down to the beach. When he woke up he was at first pessimistic about it. It was kind of cloudy and windy, which reminded him of our last really windy time at the beach and made him think it was going to rain.
But he settled into digging in the sand. I went wading in the water for a bit, but it was really rough. August was drawing train tracks in the sand and they were digging mine shafts in the mountain they had built. I joined in with another tunnel. When Carly was about to finish a tunnel through part of it he said, “I’m ready for the impact.” “I just used the word impact.” He also asked, “What’s diplomacy?” From My Little Pony, I think. Carly took him to the bathroom, but soon after getting back he started saying his foot hurt. He had developed a bit of a blister from the green Crocs and sand, and soon it was really stinging, and he was cuddled in Carly lap, screeching. We washed it off with fresh water and put a band aid on it.
I carried him up to the car and we headed home. I made him laugh on the way by talking about making him feel better with watching My Little Pony and having hot chocolate, which we would pour on his foot. I was then giving him corn crackers, and he liked me sprinkling love on top of them. I tried to get him to eat some grapes, but he rejected them. I said they were actually alien eggs, but he said they were poisonous. He pointed out the sunset and a plane and one of those glider things. He asked if fog was just clouds and said, “I want to move to a foggy place.” Carly asked, “You want to move to Centralia then?” To which he replied, “If it doesn’t have hurricanes and tornadoes, then yes.”
At home we watched episode 4 of My Little Pony. Then we played in Minecraft, working on our treasure hunt. No luck. He had a Brother game about his “skin flaps” on his feet, and brother getting really hurt going to the beach. He then walked around in circles, talking about creating a scavenger hunt in Minecraft after Carly was looking for one for a school thing. We thought maybe we could make one for Thatcher sometime and he could play it.
We then skyped with my parents. We talked about my dad’s reunion, the lightning storm they saw, and visiting with Hallie. They were about to go on a drive with the British Car Club, driving the XK140 for the second time since getting it back together. August did a good job talking to them, then was getting tired and done skyping. Carly took him up and gave him a bath and I kept talking.
I went up and helped get him in bed and left them at 9:30. I did a 5K run, watched two episodes of Undone, and did some work.
Delicious mango:
Treats from the store:
Making tracks at the beach:
