He was up right at 7:30. We read the rest of the 117-Story Treehouse. I heated up French toast and we had breakfast. He wanted to ride his bike. He tried to ride it inside, but decided he wanted to go to the park. He randomly asked “Would you rather die by being boiled or in a vat of acid?” He then wanted to look at the periodic table, so looked at it on his iPad. We changed to get going to the park, and left about 9:05.
He rode to and around the park. He talked about making a cat trap. Then matter-of-factly said, “Then you would roast them on top of a fire.” He wanted Brother and Sister to be arguing over whether the story police exist. Then the argument police. I based it off of the Monty Python skit. Then another about the building police when he builds a fighting robot. I exercised for a few minutes as per his instructions and he went on the teeter totter thing by himself.
We headed home after 9:45. He stood under the air conditioner back at home. He then said he wanted to do the reading app (Rivet). He first saw an app about neurons though (Neuronify) so we played with that and discussed how neurons work Inhibit was a word of the day from that. He then had a Brother game where they were going on a field trip to learn about the brain. Don’t think we really did it at this point though, as he wanted to watch My Little Pony. We watched one episode, then watched a couple of videos about neurons, then one Minecraft video about ideas for cave houses.
He wanted to play Minecraft but didn’t like the idea of earning time and got upset. He lightly threw one of his elbow pads and then clammed on the couch for a few minutes. He eventually said he wants reminders of what’s coming next so it is easier for him to stop what he’s doing; basically my idea that I had suggested to him a couple days ago.
When he went to the bathroom he got his hands all foamy washing them and called himself “soap dispenser boy.” We then did the Brother and Bar brain field trip game. Bar had actual dead bodies and brains. The teacher was fainting and ended up quitting. There were the story police, and it turned into chaos. He laughed a lot.
We finally did reading in the Rivet app. He read Dancing around the world and What is a Narwhal? and Floods Are Cool! and Ocean Animals: Coral. Back to Brother again. They were looking for stuff in the ocean. Bar made robot costumes for them. “so made oxygen for you. And it is literally made out of oxygen!” But she made a poop costume for Brother.
I made egg salad sandwiches for lunch. We ate and went out to check the vines. He did alone time, playing with Legos and looking at books. We then played Minecraft. We then were going to do music time, but finding all the stuff was a scavenger hunt. The xylophone sticks were in the Lego container. He drummed a lot, played with the keyboard, and then the guitar.
He said he wanted an app to learn more about the sun. I didn’t find anything specifically about the sun, but found an app that lets you create stars and planets and stuff and see how they interact. The free version only allows up to three objects, but he had a lot of fun with that for a while.
We had planned, earlier when we looked at our day, on going to town to get more pistachios and other things at the bulk foods store and going to the weight room at school. Now he decided he wanted to go to the pool too; if there were kids. As we got ready to go he Asked what the body needs water for. I was able to give him a pretty full explanation of what the body uses water for and how it loses water. He later repeated part of it to Carly. After that, he told me how without water the earth would get really hot. I think he might have been thinking of air, but argued: “Surprisingly, if there was no water…90 percent of the coldness on Earth is from the sea…”
We left at 3:20. We could smell smoke, but he said it was getting better. Last night, verified by Carly, there was a bunch of smoke coming from someplace quite close.
At the school we ran into a few people we know, including Matt and Mandy Kern. We went to the weight room and were there for about 15 minutes. We exercised with a couple of the machines, and he was really interested in how you change the weights using the pins and how they work. We had to leave when I was informed I couldn’t be in there with open-toed shoes.
He didn’t want to go to the pool as there were no kids in it. I didn’t push going with Mama, thinking we could go in the next couple of days. But then Carly informed me the pool was closed both days. We went over to see Carly in her classroom. We played with the new desks. We walked out with Carly so she could put her backpack in the car, then she walked home. Right outside the gate we saw Gabby, who had a tiny kitten with her that they found in a tree. August was initially confused by it or something, but I picked him up so he could get a look. It made an impression though, as he then wanted Brother games where he finds a new kitten.
We were home about 5. He wanted to ride his bike. We talked to Shmuel. He had yet more plants for us. One was actually a pretty decent bush though. He told Carly how he likes to reuse stuff so it isn’t wasted. Saving the Earth for the grandkids (I think he said he has 19 or so) and ll of that. August told me he wants to put plants outside our gate. I think he’s seen the couple of plants that Shmuel has outside the other gate. And he also wants to hang plants from the top of the fence.
August had to wait a minute for something and he talked about how he’s really good at waiting because he’s had so much practice. I think he might overinflate his waiting skills, but at least he’s positive about it.
Carly took him to the park to ride his bike for a while. I made a schnitzel sandwich for myself, but neither of them was hungry. August showed her the galaxy app. They then played Minecraft. He was doing my lots of rhyming. Carly looked up if you can build up a tolerance to poison. Not sure how that came up. He was then walking in circles talking about something; got just the very end on video. We all went outside for a few minutes.
Back inside we read My Little Pony: Friends Forever Volume 5. He was then walking in circles telling me about a huge crafting table and what you can do with it. He drew a picture of it for me. He was then asking my ideas for things to add to Minecraft. He then asked Carly. She said, “Compost.” He informed her, “That’s in vanilla Minecraft.”
I went for a run. They were doing a blog video when I got back. Carly was saying he should have his own vlog where he talks about homeschooling. Based on something she’s been reading/watching.
After my shower I took over. He had a Brother game where Brother found a kitten that had been hurt by some bullies using a weapon with cactus spikes. Brother finds the kitten and saves it. It is named Speech Blubs (Blubs for short) after the app. I sang some songs and he was asleep by 10:10.
Riding his bike 5:
Hi, Petunia song:
Drumming:
