He popped right up at 7:05. I was awake but still in bed but he didn’t see me. He was downstairs with Carly for a minute, then when I brought down his iPad she read him the Minecraft Zombie diary book. Offended was a word of the day. He then agreed to play Minecraft by himself for 15 minutes. He went to the bathroom, and when he came back said, “If I was on Saturn right now I’d be screaming.” I don’t know where that came from.
Carly was making a swimming pool and he was rather critical of it. I made a couple puns and Carly wasn’t amused. August defended me and said, “I would kill for Dada.” Don’t know where he learned that usage. I taught him the more lighthearted use of it, such as “I’d kill for a sandwich.” Carly pointed out it is hyperbole.
We played a Brother game where he found a huge millipede and took it home, then another one where they were stranded on an island and this time a blob protects them from the tigers by eating the tigers.
We went out and did some bike riding together. A good amount of riding around. When he wouldn’t go up to the traffic circle Crly went for a walk again and we rode home, this time going down the street back to our house. Back at the house he did a good amount of the Speech Blubs app. I’m not liking that it doesn’t narrow in on the sounds he needs, but he likes copying the other kids, and it is good pronunciation practice for him. We then watched two episodes of My Little Pony, the first two of season 2, as they went together.
He had a Brother game where he finds a stick bug with faces of all the people/animals he knows. We didn’t really play it, but it was a pretty creepy idea. Carly suggested the bike trailer and also stop motion. We did a Brother game where Bar was flying super fast and he was jealous. She destroyed the earth with her speed. It turned into a game where August was “the spirit of chaos…I am God. God. God. God…” Lots more chaos. All influenced by Discord in My Little Pony. She turned Brother into a statue at one point. He said, “Preview of the next episode: Crying with Horror.” Although there wasn’t a follow up to that.
For lunch he ate a strawberry yogurt and egg salad sandwich. He made up a rhyme during lunch: “Giraffe, math, laugh. Which is the path?”
He then wanted to go out in the yard and try his balance bike again. He was actually getting the hang of that as well, picking his feet up. He then agreed to try the trailer to my bike. We started slowly, with me just pushing us along, then he let me pick my feet up and pedal. We ended up going around the Holly block a couple times.
I talked about having Mama come out to see us, but he said he wanted it to be a secret for now, for some reason. Back at the house he saw part of a documentary she was watching. There was someone drumming and He said he wants a drum kit. Carly remembered that the band teacher said we could come play the instruments at school sometime.
I went up to work for a couple hours. They built stuff and worked on a couple stop motion videos, finishing one that involved him in a bat costume. I came down before 3:30. He was listening to A Tribe Called Quest. Literally what I had just been listening to upstairs, but a random song that he had had Siri play.
He did his iPad time with Carly. He was being very grumpy about what she was building (the pool wasn’t deep enough etc.) and he was upset when the time ran out.
At the end of the last time we had left the bike and trailer locked to the light pole outside, intending to ride again. Now he didn’t want to go back out on the trailer again, so we used blatant reverse psychology to get him to ride it. Carly came outside of take a video this time. At the end Naomi, the girl from across the street said hi again.
August was casting spells on us: “Strength spell 1092…” He asked Carly, “What’s it feel like to be you?” He started to tell the story from The 117-Story Treehouse: “Once there was a dot…a tiny little dot that started to form more dots…” Formed squares and bigger squares. Really confused her as she didn’t know what it was. And he told us, “Do you know what I do when you’re asleep? I go out on your bike and cast spells…balancing spells, speed spells, stopping spells, shrinking spells…”
They went back out to ride his pink bike at 5:10. I studied Hebrew while they were out. When he was back we finished volume 6 and started 7 of My Little Pony: Friends Forever. Carly came back from a walk. August asked to do his evening time with her and she thought he was joking at first and that he’d already used it, as it was now past 6. But we had actually been reading that whole time.
We played Minecraft and were working on our cave basement. He had frozen mango. And Carly made him a pancake. She had made a batch of the veggie chocolate pancakes earlier when I was working. I got ready for a run and they watched a video about the atmosphere and tilt of Mars. He then wanted a small oatmeal.
I went for a run. He was doing Legos when I got back. Carly working on the Velcro for our homeschool calendar. I took a shower, and he wanted a Brother game. After my shower we played it on the bed. Carly says his new phrases of the day are astronomical event and take offense. He had Bar going so fast she removes the atmosphere. She then goes to the moon to practice her flying, but tht destroys the moon, causing asteroids to hit Earth. Luckily, she is able to put everything back.
Carly gave him a bath. We then read the Pinkie Pie and Granny Smith story from volume 7. I had planned to put him to sleep, but they changed, and I left them at 9:20.
Riding on the street again:
Leading the way home:
Leading the way home:
Bar breaking the Earth:
Bar making more chaos:
Balance bike in the yard:
Never make mis-taks:
Trying out the bike trailer:
Getting going on the trailer:
Riding the bike trailer:
