He came out before 7:45. I was awake but still in bed and he climbed in. He really cuddled up next to me and stayed there until almost 8. He went downstairs to Carly and I got our stuff. Downstairs I read the “How to Play Football” chapter of How To and part of “How to Predict the Weather”. We then played Minecraft in the flat world. He randomly said, “I underestimated the coefficient.” We played one the flat world, which he finally renamed after we had a scare and couldn’t find it in his ever-growing list of worlds after having added several yesterday.
He did graphing and explained the sech function to her and how it goes from 0 to 1. Something he had noticed earlier and we’d discussed. Listened to the Ear Snacks episode about the census. I need to remember to fill that out when it is available. Census was a word of the day. Carly headed to the store at 9:40. He played Blocks and Toca Band and I took a shower. We listened to the Kid Nuz podcast episode and it was about coronavirus. He had Siri play a song called “Coronavirus”. And yes, it turns out someone has already written a song with that name.
They went to school as Carly needed to print a few things. He played in the classroom. I stayed home and worked. He was a little grumpy about something. At one point Carly let him use hand sanitizer. He asked, “Why does hand sanitizer feel cold when it isn’t?” I had made a tuna sandwich for him but he didn’t want to eat it yet so we took it with us. I took him to Mr. Gabi’s. There was an accident on 4 that slowed things a good 12 minutes. We listened to We were a couple minutes late walking in but I had let Gabi know.
At Gabi’s we played with the armies the whole time. Actually, first August ran in and grabbed one of the foam swords and killed Gabi, then we played with the armies. Nothing too exciting. Some moments of silliness, such as when August kept getting rid of the General, eventually trapping her under the desk. He ended up with all of the soldiers, doll furniture, and cars out, so at the end there was a lot to clean up and he was a little grumpy and didn’t do a whole lot. Think he was hungry though as he didn’t eat any of the sandwich on the way down. And he had asked if it was a cookie day there but he doesn’t get one of the little cookies until next week.
From there we went to Ra’anana Park. We started walking around the lake, then remembered he needed a bathroom. We went back for that, then walked to where they’re installing stuff at the music area. The cover part is up and now they’re working on putting in bricks. We kept walking and ended up at the covered playground. Along the way he found an ant nest, we played Ms. Safe and Ms. Danger games involving Minecraft. And he had a story about going back in time to stop Ms. Danger from knocking over her sister’s blocks. I’d forgotten about that story about why Ms. Nice doesn’t like her sister, Ms. Danger.
It had been nice and sunny out, but as we were in the covered playground it clouded over. August suddenly declared it was time to head to the car. As we were walking I jokingly used the word “Maths” as Marc had used it with him on Friday and August had found it an odd word. August responded now by adding ’S’ to the end of every singular noun, so as we walked to the car we said things like “Look at the trees over there” and “I almost stepped on an ants.” August’s timing was perfect, as he started to feel drops of rain just as we got across the street and he ran the last few feet to the car.
In the car he wanted to sit and watch the rain, and he asked, “What’s a broken record?” We sat in the car and listened to Story Pirates and watched the rain. He said, “I see-d a truck! Colin would love it!” August kept climbing around in the car and opening the door to check and feel the rain. We finally headed but when we got here he wanted to sit in the car and listen to the rest of the slow elevator story, which is very funny, on Story Pirates.
We went in the house after 4:30. He did alone time on the piano, then went outside with Carly to play Minecraft. I heard him say, “My super power is not going outside with shoes.”
They came in and we all ate quiche for dinner. He asked Carly to read Clemetine and she read some before he got on the piano and did some playing. MVP was a word of the day from the book. There was a lot of talk about derivative equations. They tried playing piano together but he kept taking over. He was asking for food, and when discussing quantities he said, “A few is a couple minus one, so four to you.” Riffing on his joke/insistence that a couple is five. We watched the start of the Formula E race in Marrakesh. He liked the graphics at the beginning and said, “ It’s augmented reality.”
We worked on “Skip to My Lou” together. He’s almost got the melody down. Then he did alone time and then played Minecraft and listened to the Pants on Fire episode about soap. It was our first Pants on Fire episode and he liked it and requested another, but mainly ended up having Brother guess two truths and a lie things from Bar.
Carly gave him a bath. He was talking and thinking about derivatives and didn’t realize he had a bath, as a few minutes after they were out of the bathroom he thought he hadn’t taken a bath yet. She tried to read to him but he was distracted. They came down and I took him up to bed. He was singing the “Mr. Banana face Guy” song from Story Pirates. We listened to the Stories Podcast’s “The Spirit Moves You”. We discussed raccoons and foxes as he went to bathroom.
Back in bed he noticed how order matters in division but not multiplication. He was talking wildly about math. Got lights off at 9:45 and listened to the Bedtime Explorers “Ants” episode and he was asleep around 10:10.
On the spinny thing:
https://youtu.be/qwhdy2r_nls
Spinning time lapse:
https://youtu.be/wI0RSuwvlWs
Checking on the rain:
https://youtu.be/s0aY574lxew
Cats Sits On You song:
https://youtu.be/Rs59P_TcsmA
