He slept through the night and woke up, quite alert, at 7:20. He went downstairs and played Minecraft with Carly and she read to him a bit before entering into negotiations about food and treats. They ended up eating some orange together. I had slept a bit later then folded laundry. I read him a few poems from Something BIG Has Been Here.
He then went over to his microscope and started looking at things, then told me he has a silly poem:
1 plus 1 is 2
2 plus 1 is 3
Don’t blame the bee,
She always likes to pee
He was also coming up with crazy riddles, and somehow eradicate became a word of the day after that. He then had some soup and milk, then we read a few more poems. Inaudible was another word of the day. He then had a Brother game where Baby Sister eats crayons. That led to craziness and void. And that involved talking ants and ugly goose. He asked, “Brother and Sister: do you like this mixtape of Brother and Sister stories I’m doing?”
I then remembered the NASA app and channel. We looked at that and watched the launch and landing of the latest Boeing rocket flight. He then wanted to play SimpleRockets. We played that and it turned funny with a “When are we getting back to Earth?” game. The people launching and operating the rockets were incompetent.
He ate some broccoli. He really stretched it out. We finished reading the Prelusky book. He then ate the second half of his chocolate Santa. We then played Apples to Apples, Carly versus me, with him as the judge. I lost, horribly. I think it was 8 to 2, although Carly and I both agreed that I should have had the last point.
I made a grilled cheese and turkey sandwich for lunch and we had that with soup. We then went outside in the rain. We kicked a pine cone around and looked at plants. Back in the house he did alone time and earned iPad time and played Minecraft. I then realized that Kanopy is available for Sno-Isle users as well, so I dowloaded that and we watched the short video “The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?”
I then went for a run. I got back and took a shower. They were playing Apples to Apples. Carly was playing two different people. I joined in as one of them for the last round. We then did Brother games, with August doing lots of laughing. At one point he had Bar making a movie of all of his funny moments from his life.
We then started reading Bone volume 8. He then painted with Carly. He did his second stint of alone time after entering into some crazy negotiations (he initially wanted 15 one-minute timers to get him through it). He got on his iPad and asked, “Could you change the passcode tomorrow?” He played Polytopia for 15 minutes, then we did TNT in Minecraft for the rest of the time.
He had more soup. And at some point Carly had hung up the periodic table and solar system posters where the months poem had been. We listened to “Always” on repeat and were playing it the melodica, etc. and figuring out more of it. He wanted to see the video for it again, so we watched that, then the animated video of “Take On Me”.
Carly got him upstairs and I gave him a bath. He had a game where Baby Sister was going in Bar’s spaceship. He was pretty crazy. He ate his Cheerios and then we brushed his teeth and we said good night. He saw the cover of the Ladytron album we were listening to and said, “It’s like the two cells between neurons…there should be signaling molecules.” We listened to “One Speckled Hen” on Circle Round, he went to the bathroom, and was then asleep by 10:10.
Presiding as judge over Apples to Apples:
Kicking the pine cone back and forth:
Working on a new melodica tune:
The new melodica tune:
