He was up at 7:55. He had me carry him down the stairs. I asked how sleeping without a shirt had been. He said, “Pretty good.” It had been an adventuresome night. He had been down in the crack before I went to sleep and I pulled him out. Later in the night he had turned perpendicular, shoving his feet into my side. Finally, he had been pressed right up against me through the morning, sharing my pillow. I thought that might be for warmth.
At one point he started to go out to Carly, but came back to the couch and cuddled next to me for several minutes more. Minecraft about 8:15. Ate some mango, but spit out a bad piece. He drank from his water bottle, then wanted the tip cleaned to remove any possible contamination from the bad mango. I made us scrambled eggs and cheese. He then had a Brother game where he had an animal that was only awake 2 minutes a day and had to be fed precisely. It would then go back to sleep for 23 hours and 40 minutes.
We ate, and he asked about cats being nocturnal. I couldn’t remember the word, so I looked it up and taught him crepuscular. He next wanted some oatmeal. While he ate that we read the My Little Pony: Micro-Series, finishing the Pinkie Pie story.
Carly opened a pomegranate and they were eating that. he wanted to dye clothes with it, so she found an old pair of his pants and he rubbed seeds on it. He wanted something to squish them with and I suggested the juicer thing. That worked pretty well. Carly was doing a lot of cleaning this morning. August did 15 minutes of alone time then we did 15 minutes of Minecraft, focusing on learning redstone stuff.
We got him ready to go, and they left at 12:30 and went to Gabi’s first. Last time Carly took him August had wanted her in the room and she had been in for ten minutes before she could leave. This time, she negotiated and got it down to 5.
They then went to the beach. They spent a long time there, and didn’t get back until 5:30. He played with the water coming from the shower/foot rinsing area and just kept playing and playing. She stopped to take a photo to send me, and he told her “Mama! A major amount of water is coming! This isn’t the time for a picture!”
For his evening time we did more redstone in Minecraft. We then watched two My Little Pony episodes. He ate some of the pasta, then ate a carrot. He asked if there were really killer bunnies in Minecraft. I looked it up and we watched a short video about rabbits in general in the game.
We built with Legos. He added “Mr. Legs” to it: Lego legs and then a slanted piece as the body/head. Carly called us up to see a lizard upstairs. He was talking a lot about that ghost train video, and wanted my help in coming up with possible explanations for if it really had happened. One idea he had led to: “A magical surge…When an unimaginable amount of magic collides with physics…”
He also randomly asked, “Can I meet Harry Potter?” We pretty quickly figured out that he had confused names: Potter and Picasso. There’s a photo of Picasso at the end of Picasso’s Trousers.
He had some oatmeal, then we read the Twilight Sparkle issue of My Little Pony: Micro-Series. We went up to his bath. Carly took over and I went for a run after saying good night. He was still awake in there after I took a shower and was out a little past 10.
Using pomegranate as a dye:
His emergency flood path:
Laughing at My Little Pony:
Rules during Legos:
