I went and woke him up at 7:55. He cuddled with Carly, and eventually he said, “Hey, tushie.” Carly asked if he got that from the archives. He asked, “What’s archives?” She explained. A word of the day. They played together for iPad time. She started Minecraft with him, then I finished. When they started, Carly and I were going to switch. However, that didn’t happen, so then he only got 5 minutes with me and he was upset when he didn’t get more with me.
I had made a fried egg for breakfast, and he eventually ate that. He got up and went and got a yogurt on his own, and he came back with the berries and yogurt thing he had picked out. He then told me, “As good as the drink we had in Korea…remember? In the subway station…with the chunks of coconut in it…I have a picture in my head.” “mango and coconut…cardboardy container like milk comes in.” It seemed to be a pretty genuine memory, although I couldn’t remember a drink exactly like that. There was one in a can, but there were also a couple of coconut and fruit thinks in other containers.
He then started a funny “I’m thinking what you’re thinking” argument with me. With the Legos we added another floor to our building, then he was finding all of the little “jewel” pieces. As August took pieces off of my finished cars for his jewel collection, I talked about a flashback to playing with Paul and how he probably did that to me as well. August asked, “What’s flashback?” I explained, as in a book, then Carly pointed out I had just used it in a different context.
He sang a “Mama’s comfiest clothes” song. I told him it sounded like “grumpiest” clothes, which he thought was funny. He had something to eat, and wanted me to tell the Brother story where everyone drinks all of his milk. He said, “It’s the funniest story ever.”
Carly decided she wanted to go to the pool with him, so they got going. Unfortunately, as they were leaving he fell on the walkway and slightly scraped his knees. They went to the pool, but no one else was there, and it hurt his knees. He played on the side and let Carly swim for a few minutes, then they came home.
I came down and got lunch, and she she made shrimp and corn for him. We read My Little Pony #69. I then took him to Mr. Gabi’s. That went just fine. We were a little early, so I read part of My Little Pony #70 to August as we waited. Suddenly, there were people coming and going in what is usually a pretty empty office area, so I felt a little self-conscious doing all the voices.
August had been snacking on his Bamba snack (the puffed peanut butter snack—we had gotten a couple bags to share as snacks at the pool, then forgotten to take it. August remembered it when he was hungry before we left), and it was the one thing that he wanted to show Mr. Gabi. I think just because he liked the picture of the baby on it.
So he took that in with him, and I didn’t hear from them for 50 minutes. August went to the bathroom before we left, and he decided to stand up for it. He said, “I should do magic on mama so she has a penis.” I asked him what he did with Gabi and he said, “A lot of stuff…everything with the army.” “I gave him one (bamba) even though he didn’t ask…” He liked the toilet paper, which had flowers on it, and asked to get it. But then he remembered wanting the toilet paper with hearts on it “because that’s what we had when we moved here.”
In the car, headed home, he told me how he had “Recorded a candy eruption” on video, which was very rare. Then it turned out that he had been the one that had put the candy in the pipes, then he described how it exploded; he was taking inspiration from hearing out steam pipe explosions happen. I think we had seen a video of that. We listened to StoryBots songs and he particularly picked up on a song about inventions.
As we got home he talked about inventions like his “sound panels,” which were like solar panels, but for sound. Inside, He wanted Carly to change so he could cuddle with her clothes for alone time. Instead, he started alone time by looking at the next Bone book by himself, but he saw a funny picture in Bone and wanted me to read. We read for several minutes, then he got back to alone time, looking at a yearbook. He found a cheerleaders photo; he had been asking about cheerleaders and why they are called cheer-leader earlier. Not sure where he heard about cheerleaders.
He played Minecraft for 15 minutes with Carly. He got upset at the end again. He tried to cheer her up by playing the Prepositions Game with her. He said, “When I grow up I want to be a miner.” I made a shopping list, but then we decided August and I would just go tomorrow. Today, Carly would just take August to Younes Restaurant to get food.
I got a few minutes of work in while they were gone. They got back, and he did 15 minutes of iPad. We then read the rest of My Little Pony #70 and started #71. He then had a short Brother game where he met a changling, which he was convinced was Millie playing a joke. Then we had dinner; he had pasta With butter and carrots and meat, while Carly and I had the food from Younes.
He played Minecraft with me. We explored the haunted mansion world. He had his third yogurt of the day. I put another sheet of cookies in the oven. August wanted a fresh one, but wanted to test himself by starting at the ‘old’ cookie still in a container until they were ready. Instead, we watched a Brainchild episode, all about motivation. He then had a cookie and milk. Motivation was another good word of the day. He really liked the whole bit at the end, which involved hypnotism. When he ate the cookie he said he let a chunk get really soggy, then used a mind trick to like it. He asked, “Do you want to know the trick I used in my head?” He then had a Brother game with Bar hypnotizing him to think carrot was cake.
We needed to go upstairs, but he wanted a “Preview…prologue” of the next Brother and Sister one. In it, Brother and Sister would find themselves stuck in a mineshaft with Baby Sister. I asked what kind of carrier, and he said like the maroon one that Mama had, but he also said it was the one that had been over by the bathroom, and that was only ever the big Osprey backpack.
I got him upstairs, and we were listening to some Dr. Seuss songs, including a funny math one. But then he discovered a pack of bars in Carly’s backpack from the trip. He wanted it, right now. I said after his bath he could have Cheerios. He went downstairs to talk to Carly, and wasn’t coming back anytime soon, so I folded laundry. I then went down and found him curled on the couch next to Carly, upset.
He was being stubborn, and wanted the full bar, now, before his bath. We eventually got him upstairs, and he went in and lay on the bed. I went in and talked to him about how he wasn’t compromising, and how that doesn’t work for anyone. He gave a quiet “I guess I can try.” He went in and Carly started to give him a bath. I said good night to them and went for a run. It was quiet when I got back at 9:30.
Piston sculpture in Minecraft:
Wind-up Legos:
Light transfer panels:
Making your nerves not feel hurt:
