He was up at 7:25. He came down and sat next to me on the couch for several minutes. The first thing he said was that he needed to use the bathroom, then proceeded to tell me how you could make a practical joke in Minecraft to make someone fall in a hole.
We read the Cutie Mark Crusaders issue of My Little Pony: Micro-Series then started Minecraft. He asked “What’s mimicking?” A word of the day. We played Minecraft. He turned it off at the end of his time but was huffy about it. He ate a plum, then was reciting the “Avocado! Avocado!” poem, so I read the book. Should I Share My Ice Cream? book we had checked out at the library, then had me read I’m a Frog! When he threw his squishy ball up the stairs he said, “I throwed the ball up the corridor.” And he told me, “Dots are the beat shape…they can form ANYTHING!…Lines have limits…”
Upstairs we went did a Brother game where they all fight over a window seat on a plane and cause chaos. He ended up wearing my watch, even though he says he still hates the band, and went downstairs to get some exercise. We ended up doing Legos instead, after he destroyed what he and Carly made together. He talked about getting more Legos and said, “I don’t want to run out of Legos like Mama doesn’t like to run out of coffee…and milk.”
He then did alone time on the couch, looking at the world records. He found the largest commercially-available pizza and wanted to show it to both of us. He then played Minecraft, and wanted Carly to play with him, but she was able to stop playing after a minutes, but the played when he changed worlds and asked her to.
After they were done he demanded I read, so I went upstairs to do something instead. When I came back down he was more polite and we read the Rainbow Dash issue again.
Carly then took him to the Hockey Marathon. He quite liked watching, and she thinks we should take him to other sporting events. He said he was most interested in the goalies and watched them the most. They stopped by the house and I ran her glasses out to her. They then drove down to the southern end of the boardwalk in Netanya to ride his bike. That was fun, and they stopped at the ice cream place. He got half Smurf and half bubble gum ice cream, but it melted too fast. Like, insanely fast, apparently.
When they got back they started washing the car. August helped a bit, then came in and did alone time. When Carly came in I went out and vacuumed it. When I came in he was finishing up a Bright Side video about a disappearing train urban legend. He called it “The goodest train video I’ve ever seen.” He wanted to watch it again, this time with me, so we did. “We should give Bright Side a like cuz it’s so good.” We researched the urban legend a bit and talked about what that meant.
He then wanted to act out the story as a Brother game, with Brother and Sister being the ones that jumped off the train. He would later do a lot of speculating on possible explanations for why a train would disappear.
He had a potato from the meat place, then asked for another one. I read him part of Ramona Quimby, Age 8 at his request, then did his Minecraft time. Carly skyped with her parents and took a shower.
He had a pasta dinner, then the last of his frozen chocolate thing. Carly told me about the ice cream from earlier. A mistake, apparently, as August was quite sore about the melting thing. He did Legos with her, then was grumpy about alone time. We next read the Apple issue of My Little Pony: Micro-Series and ate crackers and turkey before watching Joseph’s Machines videos.
He next had oatmeal; he’s been saving most of his evening for late in the day. He talked about his idea for a contraction: “Starts shooting oranges! It’s a funny contraption cuz it has no use.” He had yet more oatmeal. We started the Pinkie Pie story, then switched and read ten pages of Luna’s. He was grumpy about stopping, and had been in a grumpy mood all evening.
He channeled the grumpiness into ripping up a coupe pieces of paper and putting the pieces in a pot. He had plans for what to do with it. I went for a run while Carly gave him a bath. They finished The Witch’s Warning, a Minecraft book. He said good night to Carly, then I finished reading him the Luna story. He talked about a machine that would write and print an unlimited amount of Hilda books. I sang to him and he was asleep by 10:20.
Improving one of Joseph’s Machines:
Ripping paper:
