He woke me up at 2:45: “Dada!” I went in and he was sitting up, talking very clearly, and said a couple things about blankets: “It’s got its own shape.” In the morning when I asked him about it he wasn’t quite sure why he said it, but he talked about blankets having a different shape tucked in around his body. Which made me think I was right, in that he had been trying to pull the covers back over himself but was getting the ‘wrong’ blanket.
He then got up at 7:25, as I was getting up. He climbed right in bed with me and cuddled up. Stayed about ten minutes before getting up and going downstairs. He and Carly used a calculator, I think on her phone, and discussed math for quite a while, then she was preparing a needle for him to sew with when I came down. He said, “I want to be a sew-er when I grow up.” He did that a while, and I got him banana bread. When he finally went to log on to Minecraft though it wouldn’t work, even after restarting, etc. I looked into it and it turns out it is a global problem. He got quite upset and was rolling around on the couch. Carly said he could watch videos instead, and he somehow found the Minecraft stickman videos, which I thought I had set so they wouldn’t show up in YouTube. Aagh. One was pretty hilarious though, where the command blocks go crazy and they end up in a sort of void.
He was frustrated that Minecraft still wasn’t working. They ended up playing Apples to Apples together. Carly tried to argue that boomerangs are friendly and hamsters are not, using an evil hamster they once had as evidence.
We discussed the term ‘wog’, realizing it is also a racist Australian term. We were trying to find an alternative. Carly then went for a walk. We opened and played Mastermind (which he got for Christmas) and he had strawberry yogurt. Then a lot of piano playing and scales and chords. I found some mode charts to make or print out. He was making new sounds in the synth. One was called “weird” but then he changed it a bit and called it “Multicellular.”
He was hungry, so I made a small regular quesadilla. I then made a turkey and avocado sandwich on toasted sourdough. He mentioned sunspots, so we looked at them on the Space app and read about them on Wikipedia. Carly broke my glass water bottle upstairs, knocking it off the cursed table in the office where I also broke one of the glass containers for the science set and tipped over a full glass of tea when I was working and set it down on part of some thing already on the table.
We played at the table for a while. The bread was getting a bit dry though so it was hard to eat. He nibbled at it for quite a while, so I asked if he wanted it in quesadilla form and he said yes, so I made a turkey and avocado quesadilla, which turned out really good. Carly and I were talking about meal ideas and joked about doing equal work. August loved this, and contribute and equitable were words of the day.
I read a few questions in What If? to him, and we learned about Chernobyl. He made more sounds in the synth and was then trying to “push our buttons” and was doing lots of laughing (saying “contribution” to Carly, watermelon to me). But he was getting kind of frantic between each activity.
He played the chromatic scale for carly.
We were all going to walk over, to the mall and go to the grocery store. They changed the plans, and he and I were going to bike, but he was concerned about rain and didn’t want to go. I had gotten the bike all ready so brought it back in. Eventually, they went by car and I stayed home and worked.
They got something at the coffee shop, did grocery shopping, and read a Magic School Bus book. They stopped for strawberries on the way back. He had another meltdown over Minecraft when they got home when it still wasn’t working. I talked to him and he cleaned up the markers he had knocked over. He played piano and did alone time. I think he watched videos for his time.
I went for a run and came back and took a shower. He had watched a lot of educational videos. Carly had tried to make a rice dish, but there were bugs in the new bag of rice. I made a strawberry smoothie and he played more piano. He talked about a laser machine that Bar made, then we built with Legos.
August said to Carly, “Remember that terrific apple I got? Hmm, I think that’s the first time I’ve said terrific.” As she went to get him one he said, “The chance of the inside being moldy when we cut it open is slim.”
He watched a couple more educational videos, then Carly gave bath and I did dishes. Carly said good night at 9. He had some Cheerios and we did pretend Apples to Apples. We listened to Circle Round’s “Sweet Corn and Clever Rabbit” and “The Cousins”. August said, “I think we did telephone at preschool one time.” We had the lights off and listened to a Charles Ives album. He was asleep at ten.
Sewing:
New synthesizer sound:
Zinnie cam: shopping in Tiv Taam:
A toy piano song:
Zinnie cam: writing an equation:
