He got up at 7:35. Downstairs, we spent over a half hour reading and laughing about I’m Just No Good at Rhyming. He was then making up poems of his own:
“I’ll kick you I’ll kick you, that’s what I’ll do
I’ll kick you I’ll kick you Ms. fartingmatoo.”
“Turn on the air conditioner
Turn it on fast…
I will go past.”
He went and played with Legos, and I heated French toast for breakfast. He sang a “Children is better than kids…” song, inspired by poems in the book. He ate the French toast and mangoes. He did over 20 minutes of alone time. For most of tht time he looked at one of the Bone books, then one of the Plant Vs. Zombie books. I exercised. He had a cookie and milk, then we did art on paper, doing abstract shapes and elf houses together.
For science we watched the “Thinking” episode of Brainchild. He then had a Brother and Bar game where Bar had secret weapons. August asked, “If a war happens do the police come?” We talked about the difference between police and military. A word of the day. He decided that Bar is part of the military and has secret weapons in her lab.
We looked at our agenda, and he chose music time. He had me get the electric guitar, but he mainly made music and rhythms in an app on his iPad. We then read isue #74 of My Little Pony, but he reacted really dramatically when, after reading the preview story at the end of it, I said I needed to get some lunch.
He sulked on the couch, and I made tuna sandwiches. We ate that—he had half of his—then did a Brother game where Brother makes a rover out of Legos. He also talked about the start of the story idea he had yesterday where Brother returned home and his parents were gone, but we didn’t go anywhere with that one. So I made the rover, and he helped.
We then went outside and checked on plants, and he helped direct the vines through the fence, and pulled them away from the gardening tools. Then back to music and reading. His idea was that he would make music and I would write a song and write down the words, and he would read them. We did that, and he had read some words, but we were then distracted by a call from Shmuel. He needed to take a photo of the electrical boxes. We had just found out that the water for the lower yard is attached to ours, and Shmuel has never paid part of the water bill, like he had told Ada he would. Now he told me that electricity for the new unit goes through our power box, but there is a separate meter for the unit, so he’ll be able to divide the bill. Just another thing we’ll have to keep track of.
August kept playing with the sounds on his iPad, and made sounds that he thought sounded like emergency sounds, and had Brother games where he was being woken in the middle of the night because of a war or volcano or earthquake. Bar would teleport them away, but her choice of location was usually pretty bad: the desert or South Pole, etc.
At 2:30 we got ready to go and headed to school. A quick trip to the library to returned volumes 1 and 2 of Bone and check out 3 and 4. We then went and picked up Eve, then Corinne at 1st grade. We were watching Corinne and Elise until Grace could come and get them at 4, as Natalie is out of town. We had to wait a few minutes for Elise, as she was late getting back from art.
We all went to the big playground for about 20 minutes. The kids played there, on the spinny thing, etc. and raided the snack bag, although there wasn’t much in their. There were exactly 5 pieces of watermelon gum, so that was perfect as there were 5 of us.
They then agreed on the library. There was a staff meeting going on in there, so I hadn’t wanted to spend too long there. There was some jockeying to be first to the elevator, but we made it, and they were quiet enough going through the library. Elise watched some crafts stuff on the computer. Eve and Corinne looked at books at first, but were sucked into the computer as well. I offered to read to August, but he said, “I just want to play with the stuffed animals. They’re my favorite part of the library.” He snuggled with them, then built an elf home out of those, his shoes, my hat, and the book markers.
Taya and Cassie also tracked us down in the library, so we had quite the group. Grace arrived and picked up the two girls just before 4, then August, Eve, and I headed to the house.
Here, they had popsicles and some crackers and meat, then spent pretty much the whole time making a green concoction by the sink. Heather got her at 5. Carly got home, and I got him the peanut sauce and noodles for dinner. He barely touched it, claiming it was too spicy. I then got him the last of the meat and potatoes, but he didn’t touch that much either.
He and Carly played Minecraft and I went up to work. He eventually ate a full carrot, then he had oatmeal. As I came down I heard him saying, “Too bad my planet is destroyed by the dragon that came out of Minecraft…” We then read My Little Pony #75. He taped up his magnet stick, calling the tape “obsidian tape.” He skied more about obsidian, and also the strongest metal, so we learned about tungsten. He said, “I’m starting to make armor with obsidian.” He was Bar, and said he was making armor for Brother for the war tomorrow. He asked to just be teleported away.
Upstairs he made a chemical in the sink he called “Subtosis” He washed himself. He talked about going back to Greece again, as he liked it so much: “If I saw the mayor of Greece I’d say ‘Greece is the best.’” In the bedroom I brushed his teeth. He found a little feather, and told Carly his feather had the same power as you… It has a love generator.” I left them about 9:40 and went for a run.
I am way better song:
Making music and dancing:
Making the world’s best super computer:
Making a song about me:
Being a crazy unicorn:
Big playdate 1:
Big playdate 2 – shadow of the leaf:
Stuffed animals in the library:
Working on a potion in the kitchen:
