The day got off to a bad start with August waking up 4 or 5 times during the night. Also got him right back down, but it didn’t help. At 6 he woke up and asked if it was morning and I convinced him it was still too early and he fell back to sleep again until 7:15. I took him downstairs to Carly, then went back to bed. It took quite a while before I fell asleep, but then I didn’t get back up until close to 10.
I read part of Bone #6 to him, and got him beets and carrots when he wanted a Halloween treat. He then chose Milk Duds. Carly was talking to me about her concerns for Get to Know You Day. August got involved, trying to get her to not worry about it by flipping over the kitchen rug to show her how it was dirty: “Now you have something else to think about…kill the creepy crawlies…that’s what I call them.” He helped her vacuum under the rug and I went back upstairs to rest and took a shower.
When I came back down he was doing alone time, then watched something with headphones. I went up and folded laundry and listened to The Overstory. I came back down and Carly was doing more cleaning. August was eating quesadilla and carrot and some fruit. We opened the sand timers from Max and found they were encased (a 1, 2, and 3 minute timer) in block together, which he initially didn’t like. His idea for the timers had been to time me doing art (like Picasso doing fast art) Nd he and he ended up timing Carly doing art. I heard him encouraging her with things like, “Youre a champion…I love it.”
I heard him explain to Carly that when he grows up he’s going to have a weapons factory, but it seemed like it was to make weapons for your body to fight germs. I was upstairs resting and sleeping again. They eventually, around 3 or so, left to go to Tiv Taam and get dinner at Sushi Ishimoto. I slept.
They didn’t get back until after 6. Sushi Ishimoto had taken a long time again, to the point that Carly went and inquired about their order. August did fine though, and they did a lot of math along the way. Carly would say a story problem, and August would distill the math problem from it, although he wouldn’t necessarily then do the math problem. She talked about one that was something like 12 boxes with 10 things in them and he said 12×10. She then said 12 boxes and 20 things. He surprised her by explaining it would be the previous answer times 2.
They got back and we ate. He got the same sushi as before, but this time veggie combo came with the seaweed on the outside. He found it harder to eat this way. He also thought the middle of the crunchy roll looked different and wouldn’t eat that. He was saying, “I regret my order.” I called him exasperating and that was a word of the day.
He watched more video for his evening time and he ended that okay. We then switched to educational videos, which had been his deal with Carly. We started on on The end of War? but he didn’t like that, so we switched to SciShow Kids and watched “The Tallest Tree.” He really liked that, but said it was too short and insisted on another one and got upset.
Eventually, I read Creepy Carrots then we started Bone #7. He was hungry so had the lemon pie yogurt he had picked out at the store. He told me about his coal currency for his underwater city. And how they use nuclear waste to fish. He told me about making a nuclear bomb in Minecraft and traps he made. He then talked about add-ons for Minecraft.
Carly gave him a bath. As he was drying off he spotted cockroach antennas poking out of a little hole at the base of the doorway to the bedroom. Carly got the roach poison and we squirted a bunch in there.
He had been wanting to hang up Carly’s art in the stairwell, so they went and did that, then she said good night. I put him to sleep again. We read The Monster at the End of This Book, which he thought was absolutely hilarious, and the first few chapters of Olga and the Smelly Thing.
He had started to repeat the phrase “I’m gonna wring your scrawny neck” today, mostly just in fun. It was from Bone #6. Had to explain that that was not an okay phrase to use.
He explained one of his jobs to me: “I search for anything that could lead to disaster and I fix it…” “solderen it together…” Think this idea came from the My Little Pony episode where Twilight meets herself from the future.
For his bedtime story I told him about some of my best friends as a kid: Steven, Tim, Tristan, etc. I put on a rather ambient album as we turned out the lights. I asked him if he preferred that or a string quartet and he chose a string quartet. So I put on Haydn’s string quartet #2 and he fell asleep to that at 9:40.
Timing Carly doing art:
Crafting a nuclear bomb:
Laughing at Grover:
