He came out at 6 and got me and went right back in and went back to sleep. He was then up at 8:15. He went downstairs to Carly and I was upstairs doing stuff. They went outside and Carly emptied a pot that Eve had used for a potion. Not knowing there was soap in it she poured it on one of the nicest plants. Hopefully it will be okay. He did some graphing, then we read The Last Kids on Earth. Close to finishing.
We played Minecraft, and my account wasn’t connecting to the marketplace so it gave me the default skin that is a girl. August said, “Great. I love girls. I have a sister who’s a girl. Well, a cousin. I don’t have a sister, thankfully.” We listened to the But Why? Episode “Why do people have nightmares?” He was then talking about arguing about something and sang a “What is your argument? Cuz I’ve got some tough arguments…argument…arguments…arguments….” song.
On his iPad he was doing math and making more and more complicated expressions that equalled 4. We read more Last Kids and Carly went to the store. We then watched Grian’s episode 1 of Hermitcraft VII, which is a Minecraft show. It was really funny, and that got August’s creativity going and he talked about building things for Brother in Minecraft. We got clothes on him and we went out in the yard.
I got him outside for a while, and August said he wanted to take down the old lady’s barbed wire. That is, the ribbon that Eve wrapped everywhere. We worked together to take it down and wind it back up. He told me, “I invented a holiday called Hexafestival to celebrate when scientists discovered hexadecimal.”
Back inside he did some graphing and we listened to the rest of the Space Programme episode 2 and then the Fun Kids Science Weekly episode “A Robot Expert & the Gigantoraptor”. He played a little piano and Carly got home. We then started working through Swift Playgrounds, the programming app, and composition was a word of the day. August took his clothes off under the blanket, then did naked math time. He made tons of different equations that all equaled ½. They got more complicated, until he was wonder why log(6)/log(6*2) didn’t equal ½. We figured out that it was because it was a logarithmic problem, and that it needed to be log(6^2) on the bottom. “I did a billion different equations to equal .5! Some even involved trigonometry!” He showed several to Carly and she asked how he figured them all out: “A little experimenting and a tiny bit of POOP.”
I went up to work. They went for a little walk or something, but then wouldn’t tell me what they had done. He also did alone time and they played Minecraft, then they were talking to Chuck and Cherie. He was playing cool music on the piano for him, and showed them how he was burning the mansion in Minecraft. Cherie taught him the word tutor, so a word of the day.
I made a quiche. When he was hungry he ate some broccoli and had a yogurt. He really wanted another Hermitcraft video, so we watched StressMonster’s episode 1. We worked a little more on the Python course on Brilliant and learned about Caesar ciphers. He did some 3D graphing, then we read Last Kids. He realized that adding a 0 in base two doubles and adding a 0 in base ten multiplied by ten. And he said he likes how adding to a numerator of a fraction makes the number bigger, while adding to the denominator makes it smaller.
We ate quiche when it was ready. It rained, and August went and checked on what the weather was doing. He did more graphing, then had more dinner and we did some reading of Last Kids. There was a mention of comic books being valuable, and August didn’t understand why, so we discussed it and ended up reading https://wealthygorilla.com/most-expensive-comic-books/
We went upstairs and Carly gave him a bath and washed his hair. I was in his room, expecting him to come in soon, when suddenly he came in, saying he had put Mama to sleep at 9:36. He was still working on his lollipop. He said it would be a good kidding trick: “If you don’t want your mom to bother you, simply put her to sleep.” And, “I know mama’s weakness: she’s tired at bath time.” We finished The Last Kids on Earth and brushed his teeth. We listened to two Stories Podcast episodes: “Phoenix Feathers” and “The Song of Knockgrafton”, then the Bedtime Explorers episode “Koala”. He was finally asleep sometime around 11.
His improved blues song:
Song with a bass line:
