He was up at 7:15. He went outside with Carly for a few minutes. Inside, we read several of the I’m Just No Good at Rhyming poems, then started playing Minecraft before I remembered skyping with my dad, so we called them for a few minutes to say happy birthday. They had eaten at the Italian place in town. We then went back to Minecraft. I got banana bread. August took a bite that was too big and ended up spitting it out. He then had a Brother game where Brother had pneumonia, then choked on pizza, then had an allergic reaction to cashews and Bar saved him every time. Bar ws then making things using the periodic table.
We read a bunch of Bone 3. Carly was getting them ready to go to the pool, but he was really wondering whether we had all the things in our version of Minecraft to make the computers. So I agreed to look it up and check. Then when we found out that there were chemistry-related items that we could use he insisted that he try them now. He ended up hitting me, although not too hard. Carly talked to him and they eventually got ready to go and went swimming.
At the pool were Sharna and Maya and family and Jonathan and his family. They came back and he watched part of Monster U. I went up to keep working, after watching the first few minutes. He was hungry before I went up, so I made him a tuna sandwich. I heard them outside at one point.I came down, and we did a video of August’s “Goo goo, gaa, gaa” routine, which I generally found a bit annoying.
Carly went to Younes to get some dinner. He and I played with the chemistry stuff in Minecraft. When Carly came back we convinced him to try the falafel (which he hasn’t touched in a couple years) and hummus and he said it was amazing: “I’m going to have falafel and hummus everyday! Is it me or is my brain freaking out?” He was then talking about Minecraft; he made a machine to put real things into Minecraft. Including books. He then talked about how you could put a computer to play Minecraft inside of Minecraft itself: “You can play Minecraft in the Minecraft world!”
We read Bone 4, and out of the woods was a new phrase for him. Carly had gotten a little honey dish and dipper as a gift at school, so I sliced up an apple and August and we had honey and apples. August and I looked up honey dippers to learn more about them. Carly walked to the store to get a few things. August was repeating phrases like “Well, well, well, what do we have here?” and “I’ve made a monster!”
August went up to recycling with me. On the way out he placed tree things on the wooden chair to make it comfier. He didn’t have a shirt on, and his shorts were on backwards. He looked kind of funny on the walk there and back. Up at recycling he found a stiff black tube that he took home. He put a leaf in it and held it up like a flag pole as we started back. He also decided it was good for exercise, and demonstrated how to use it.
Carly was home when we got back. He wanted to watch an educational video, and we watched a couple of short National Geographic videos about the sinking and discovery of the Titanic. At the store Carly had received a free bag of these cooked red beans and we tried them. Not too bad. They are sugary, and very much like the red beans that were used in a lot of sweet stuff in Korea.
August wanted a Brother game with Brother drowning, but I wouldn’t really do that one. We went upstairs, and he did a lot of talking about everything as I made the beds and folded laundry. Carly made raviolis for him and eat them. There were a couple of the beans left in the bag, and I said someone should eat them. August repeated it: “Dada says eat the sugary beans before bed. Dada makes all the rules in this family.” Carly said that was the worst thing he could say. And he said, “Next to ‘stupid.’” August and I were then making funny rules.
I went for a run while Carly gave him a bath. He then had oatmeal. They had been reading Dogman, and he wanted to read more, so she read more before bed, and he was so into it that he had trouble stopping. They were able to negotiate a number of pages. I left them at 9:15.
Goo goo gaa gaa:https://youtu.be/hHh03c61iPg
Apples and honey:https://youtu.be/8oBDotd0ZJE
Exercise tube:https://youtu.be/01ITQ8RHhfI
