I went to wake him up at 7:45. I patted his shoulder, then lay down next to him. He initially popped up and asked “Where’s mama?” But then he lay back down, using my stomach as a pillow. Cuddliest thing ever. He started to get up again, but then stretched out on the other side of the bed for a few minutes. He was enjoying waking up slowly. He lay in bed, upside down, his feet pressed between my arm and body for warmth, his hands under his back to keep warm. I think he was sort of looking out the window. Finally, about 8:05 he got up and gave me a funny look and pointed downstairs. We walked down and he declared he was going to watch something. I asked what, and he said, “It starts with a ‘yuh’.” I guessed YouTube and was correct. He wanted to watch marble races.
He then changed his mind and we switched to Minecraft. I made oatmeal. He told me he had a scratchy voice and asked for milk. He said that was better than water for his scratchy throat. The scratchy throat would last throughout the day. He then had an idea for a Brother game: Brother got revenge for Sister sewing up his shirt into a quilt by taking her favorite shirt (from Space Camp) and sewing it up. They ended up arguing, then Bar put them both in jail. He eventually just had her putting Sister in jail. I didn’t quite understand his logic on that. Bar also made a hoverboard for him, and he ran into things. Finally, there was a Door of Chaos. Brother had to choose the correct code to type into it. When asked something bout it, he replied, “Who knows‽” He then gave a preview of the next part of the story: “Preview: Aack. Dead.”
We switched and read My Little Pony: Friends Forever Volume 8. We read the Rarity story and reread the Fluttershy story. Brawl was a word of the day. He then watched some SciShow kids videos and I got us ready to go.
We drove up into town and got to Stop City before 11:30. We bought ingredients for an apple pie and a few other things. August saw something that looked good, and told me where it was “For future reference.” On the way home he told me he had made a “Gum treatment plant” (he had chewed some gum while we were in the store) that collects chewed gum from all the garbage cans and processes it and then sends it “to art supply stores” so it can be used it art projects.
We got back just after 12. I took a photo of the digger and the dump truck across the street for Colin. August told me of his super fast jet, which makes tornadoes. He did alone time, then 15 minutes of Minecraft as I started the apple pie. He then helped me with the pie after I’d chopped up the apples, then did his next fifteen minutes of Minecraft. Got the pie in the oven, then he had a peanut butter and honey sandwich.
He had a Brother game with a purple death ray fish that Brother found while swimming. Brother would end up in a coma for 3 million days, then wake up to find that everyone was now cyborgs, etc. He then read books to me in Rivet: Twins, Our Big Pool of Slime Fun, and These Are the Sounds of Animals. He then had a Brother game where he finds a huge spider that puts him in a coma for a billion years. All of his animals were also still there as well when he woke up.
The pie was done about 3. At first he didn’t believe me when I said it needed to cool for a few hours. But he accepted it when I said it was true, and he later told Carly how it had to cool and we had to wait until after dinner.
We got to school around 3:30 and changed and went to the pool. At first he didn’t want to go to the pool, as there were no kids there. He agreed to go when I said we could do Brother games. Carly showed up as we were finishing getting changed, and we all went in together. It was starting to feel pretty cold getting in. He played by the stairs for quite a while on his own. He then remembered the Brother games and we did variations on the hide and seek games. This time, Brother was doing things like running away so she wouldn’t find him. I got out after a while and he and Carly played with the kickboard. She was trying to get points and he said she got zero, and something about “I’m being very critical this time.”
When the one person that had been swimming laps left, August was surprised, thinking she was coming to the pool, not leaving, and said he hadn’t even realized she was there.
We headed home. He asked, “What’s somewhat mean?” At home he wanted to skip to the pie, but knew he needed dinner first. He agreed to eat a carrot. As he ate his carrot he told us about “The amazing world of Noteblock.” It is a website where he has music games based on Minecraft. He wouldn’t eat the last chunk of carrot and when I insisted on him eating it (I’d already cut off part that he didn’t need to eat) he asked, “Can’t you give me a choice? A parenting trick?” He also said, “Dada. You should learn some new parenting tricks. I’ll teach you.” He ended up eating some raw tofu instead, and spent some time reading fridge magnets.
We then had some pie, which he said was amazing. We played Minecraft, then checked out and read the My Little Pony: Spike Micro issue. He wanted to watch videos of floods, and levy was a word of the day. We played with Legos, adding to our latest structure, and listened to new 808 State and he liked it. He walked around and told me about “BrainBlock…you make a world by thinking about it.” Other games like ScreamBlock and ScratchBlock. He got grumpy when Carly talked about going upstairs. He had some oatmeal, and asked, “What’s eliminated mean?” That was from a My Little Pony story, I think. He also read a Rivet book to me.
They did spelling time, which was really cool. Lots of science and Minecraft words. He came up with games they could do. He was telling her about “whithers” in Minecraft, which sounds like “rivers”—combines his difficulties with the w and r sounds and the th versus v sounds.
I folded laundry and she took him up for a bath. We got him ready for bed, and Carly put him to sleep again. I went for a run.
Describing his scavenger hunt:
Pool game – I’m very critical this time:
Reading about frogs:
