Carly woke him up at 7:45. She didn’t have work as there is another Israeli election. Hurray for deadlock! I read some of the Hilda book to him, then he ate a banana and had a cookie, talking more about savoring it. He was insisting on one of us playing Minecraft with him, and we explained he had to have alone time two. Carly agreed after he told her he really liked what she had built last time. He sneezed, and counted his sneezes himself and looked at me and said, “three sneezes.” I was supposed to have counted them. I apologized and said I was slacking. He asked “What’s slacking?” A word of the day.
They played together, then went outside to water plants. I made his oatmeal and mango breakfast. He had an idea for a Brother game: “It’s where you meet a girl who can’t move. She can’t move because she’s a plant girl.” He was then earning time and playing Minecraft. He kept talking about “hints” and finally I realized he meant the boxes of TNT. TNT sort of looks like hint. Figured out how to ignite the TNT and was blasting a huge hole and destroyed part of the really cool house that he and Carly had made. For one of the really big blasts he said, “This will be subconsciously cool!”
I made egg salad and he ate a whole sandwich for lunch. He had also eaten some carrots. He thought up a Brother game where he got poop on a shovel. I then had Brother throw the shovel and he accidentally threw it through the garage window. He blamed it on elves and the dad believed him. August thought that was pretty funny. August had talked about how elves are real the other day, after stating categorically that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and God don’t exist. The elves in our house come up a time or two each week. It goes back to the Hilda books and how she’s the only one that can see them.
At one point he said, “Dada, significantly. What’s significantly?” Another word of the day. Carly got them ready for the pool and they left by 12:40. He played with Maya at the school. They then went to the store so Carly could get snacks for her trip tomorrow. When they got home at 3 he found scented pieces of wood out on the sidewalk. He showed them to me, along with a piece of paper with Hebrew writing on it, then put one of them in each of the bathrooms.
He had earned some iPad time, so they played Minecraft again. He and I then finished reading Hilda and the Mountain King. A great finish to the story started in the previous book, and the longer story arch involving the trolls, which goes back to the first book.
He had an issue with the stick, not wanting to keep it outside, but we got through that. He then spent a lot of time making a creation on the couch. He explained that it was a sort of preschool with tents so that kids could get used to being separated from their parents. A person at the camp would dress up like your parent so they are more familiar. He then knocked over a Lego creation he had made earlier. He then wanted me to take a blurry photo of him.
Carly then gave me the plant instructions for while she is gone. August came out with us to listen. Back inside he used his LEGO machine on her symptoms. She mentioned something about feeling like she’d been run over by horses. I coined the phrase “stampedicitis.”
August got a metal pot lid as a shield, then took the long stick outside and showed off his sword fighting moves.
Earlier, in the morning, I had made the salmon, bok choy, curry, cashew dish that I make with none of those (substituting tofu, cauliflower and mushrooms, extra ginger, and peanuts). We ate that for dinner, although August didn’t eat much, claiming he didn’t like the mushrooms.
He spent more time playing with Legos and sang about how he was doing alone time. He earned 15 more minutes of Minecraft, and this time he wanted me to play with him.
We got him upstairs earlier today, and I left them at 8:30 as she was getting him in the bath. I went for a run, and they were asleep by the time I was back.
Digging in lava:
Couch sculpture:
Explaining the school on the couch:
Sword and shield:
Building with Legos:
